Fall sports for teams playing in the Pennsylvania State Athletics Conference, which includes Bloomsburg University, have been suspended until Jan. 1, officials announced Wednesday morning.
A review is under way to decide if athletic events originally scheduled for the fall semester can be shifted to the spring, PSAC Commissioner Steven Murray said.
Nikki Foley and her children lost everything in a fast-moving fire that engulfed their home early Monday morning.
They most urgently need a car seat and stroller for 1-year-old Bastian, said Foley's mother, Michelle Alexander. But the family will also need new furniture, kitchenware and other household items.
Alexander can be reached at 570-233-4575. Foley and the children are staying at 491 S. River St., Wapwallopen PA 18660.
A GoFundMe site has been established on behalf of the family at https://tinyurl.com/NikkiFoley.
WAPWALLOPEN — A single mother raced up and down stairs to evacuate her five children from their burning house in the wee hours of the morning Monday.
Nikki Foley, 36, was able to save her entire family, and even the children's pet chickens and ducks. But flames engulfed all of their belongings — including the gifts 10-year-old Pippy received for her birthday Wednesday.
"You should say my mom's a hero," Cole, 12, told a reporter as the shaken family gathered across the street in a vacant house owned by Foley's mother, Michelle Alexander.
MONTOUR TWP. — A boat crew found the body of a Mount Carmel man in the Susquehanna River on Friday morning, about two days after he went missing during a kayaking trip with friends.
Two boats from Clinton Township Search and Rescue were doing a slow crawl of the river around 7:15 a.m. Friday when one of the rescuers spotted the 27-year-old man, said Montour Township Police Chief Terry Eckart.
SALEM TWP. — A man arrested on a charge of child rape fled from the township police station here as an officer adjusted the man’s handcuffs after a video court proceeding, police say.
He then injured the officer as the two wrestled in the parking lot, the chief said.
But within a few hours, police had caught up with Austin Richard Wample, 24, of Benton, after officers from Salem Township, Berwick borough, Nescopeck borough and the State Police joined in the search, said Chief Mike McNeal.
STILLWATER — Four medical helicopters and a coroner were called to a violent two-vehicle crash on Route 487 Monday just south of Zion Church Road.
A car with New York plates and a white SUV appeared to crash head-on just before noon, north of the Fishing Creek Township municipal building.
The impact of the collision sent the SUV tumbling over the guardrail along the northbound lane, where the SUV rested precariously on its driver’s side with at least two people trapped inside.
RIVERSIDE — Borough police here say they’re searching for Danny Hadidi, 4, and Dana Hadidi, 3 months old, who are missing from the borough.
Both children have dark brown hair and brown eyes.
They are reportedly with their mother Sawson Hadidi, 39, who was driving a purple 2012 Toyota Scion with a Virgina registration of UUA 4239.
Police say the children were last seen Thursday at 4 p.m. on 11th Street in Riverside, borough police there said.
State Police said in a release that the children may be at special risk of harm or injury.
Luzerne County will become the final area county to move to Pennsylvania’s “green” phase of coronavirus mitigation measures when it joins others entering that designation June 19, the state announced Friday.
Luzerne will be joined by Schuylkill, Monroe, Pike, Dauphin, Franklin, Huntingdon and Perry counties in the state’s least-restrictive measures,” it was announced on the state Health Department website Friday.
“Yes!” said Luzerne County Manager David Pedri. “I’m sure I echo the sentiments of many excited county residents who are thrilled to be going green.
NESCOPECK TWP. — All lanes of Interstate 80 are shut down this morning between the interchange for Route 93 at Conyngham/Nesopeck in Luzerne County and the interchange for Route 339 in Mifflinville, Columbia County, after two tractor trailers collided head on in the westbound lanes, according to information from PennDOT.
Traffic has been diverted onto Route 93 and Route 339.