Walmart evacuated in Buckhorn

BUCKHORN -- Police and dog teams found nothing inside the Walmart Supercenter here after a bomb threat more than six hours earlier, Hemlock Township Police Chief Mike VanDine said. Police ended their search at 10:19 p.m. Friday and released the store back to its management, the chief said. The store was evacuated shortly before 4 p.m., when announcements came over the loudspeakers to instruct shoppers to leave. Later, workers came through the busy store telling shoppers that they had to leave their carts where they were and exit immediately, some shoppers outside said.

Geisinger doc found drunk, passed out in vehicle, cops say

DANVILLE -- A Geisinger doctor was found drunk and passed out in a running Geisinger SUV outside his house, police said. Pediatric cardiologist John C. Ring, 62, of 33 Meadow Lane, staggered when he got out of the vehicle, police said. He refused to comply with coordination tests or to have his alcohol level tested, and he gave police a birthday of "DOT 51," police said.

Alleged Craigslist killers plead not guilty in Sunbury

SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) -- Newlyweds accused of luring a stranger through a Craigslist ad, stabbing him to death and dumping his body in an alley have been ordered to stand trial on charges including homicide, conspiracy and robbery. Eighteen-year-old Miranda Barbour and 22-year-old Elytte Barbour pleaded not guilty at separate hearings Friday in the central Pennsylvania city of Sunbury. They're being held without bail in the Nov. 11 death of 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara of Port Trevorton. Police say Elytte Barbour told investigators that they wanted to kill someone together.

Target: 40M card accounts may be breached

Target says about 40 million credit and debit card accounts may be affected by a data breach that occurred just as the holiday shopping season shifted into high gear. The chain said customers who made purchases by swiping their cards at terminals in its U.S. stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 may have had their accounts exposed. The stolen data includes customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the three-digit security codes located on the backs of cards. The data breach did not affect online purchases, the company said.

Accused rapist commits suicide, DA says

DANVILLE -- A Danville man accused of raping a sleeping woman at a party this summer killed himself earlier this month, officials said. Bryan Jeremiah Deibert, 25, of Bald Top Heights, was set for a hearing Wednesday, but instead, the case was dropped. District Attorney Rebecca Warren was informed of his death by police, she said. An obituary for Deibert, a welder by trade and father of a young girl, says he died Dec. 4 at home.

Arrest made in Mifflin robbery

CATAWISSA -- The teen robbed at her family's Mifflinville Market over the weekend identified a suspect in a police lineup within 10 seconds, police say. That's fast for a witness, an officer said, but Courtney Disidoro was sure of who it was who flashed a knife at her and took $600 from the register. Seated before District Judge Craig Long Tuesday, the suspect, Andrew Klingerman, 22, pleaded for mercy before starting to weep, looking at his father Richard Klingerman in disbelief as the judge set his bail at $100,000.

Police investigating Bloom robbery

BLOOMSBURG -- A masked man demanded money from a clerk at the Uni-Mart convenience store on Lightstreet Road Tuesday afternoon and made off with "a couple hundred dollars," police said. The man did not show a weapon during the 1:10 p.m. robbery, Bloomsburg Police Ptlm. Matthew Golla said. Golla and other officers were inspecting footprints, believed to be those of the robber, on a snowy sidewalk outside the store near Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital, minutes after the heist. Officers were also reviewing surveillance video from inside the store in an attempt to identify the thief.

Stillwater man sentenced in fatal crash

Kyle Shaffer was sentenced today to 3.5 to 8 years in prison for a crash that killed his friend exactly two years ago. Russell Hack was killed when a truck the two were in rolled over near Stillwater. Shaffer, 29, of Frosty Hollow Road, Stillwater, was convicted in November of vehicular homicide while driving drunk. He testified that Hack was the one driving that night, but a Columbia County jury decided otherwise. Read tomorrow's Press Enterprise for the whole story.

New Berwick AD is familiar face

BERWICK -- Berwick Area School District has a new athletic director, and he's a familiar name to area sports fans -- Frank Sheptock, head football coach for Wilkes University . Sheptock beat 14 applicants for the job, said Superintendent Wayne Brookhart. He'll be paid an annual salary of $54,000, to be pro-rated over the remainder of the school year. That's more than the $42,848 the district paid its last athletic director, Timothy Honeywell. Sheptock has coached 18 years at Wilkes, becoming the private university's all-time winningest coach, Brookhart said.

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