DANVILLE — For the second day in a row, a bomb threat disrupted classes at Danville Area High School.
But on Tuesday, instead of sending students home early, school officials instead gathered them all in the auditorium, locked down the school, and had police do a three-hour sweep of the building to clear it of any potential risks.
Then school started again.
DANVILLE —A bomb threat emptied out Danville Area High School on Monday and led to an early dismissal.
Students were led out of the building to the athletic fields around 12:15 p.m., school officials said. They waited in the fields for about a half hour while officers searched the school, until district officials decided to have school buses pick up students, said Acting Superintendent Ricki Boyle.
BERWICK — A Berwick officer fired his gun at a man trying to speed away from police Thursday after the suspect struck another officer with his car, officials say.
The man then led police on a chase through Berwick and Salem Township before Berwick officers forced him off the road near the Berwick Hospital Center, police say.
Borough police were serving a felony warrant around 11:40 a.m. Thursday when it turned violent, said State Police Cpl. Jason Rasmus of the Shickshinny barracks. State Police are investigating the gunshots, chase and wreck.
UPDATE (1:35 p.m.) — Berwick Police are requesting anyone who may have seen people in the area of East 13th and Walnut streets between 4 and 5 a.m. Tuesday contact the East Central Emergency Network at 570-784-6300 and request a return call from Berwick detectives.
BLOOMSBURG — Kevin Seabrook was dismissed as head coach of the Bloomsburg High School football team Tuesday morning.
The reason for his firing is not known.
When asked by the Press Enterprise if he resigned or was let go, Seabrook said, “The school board decided to make the change.”
Seabrook becomes the second football coach forced out mid-season by an area high school. Danville Ironmen coach Jim Keiser resigned last month under pressure from the school board.
Officials from the Heartland Athletic Conference approved a battle of unbeaten, state-ranked high school football teams Monday morning, allowing Southern Columbia to travel to Wyoming Area on Friday night.
The schools' original opponents — Shikellamy and Holy Redeemer — will play on Friday night at Crispin Field in Berwick.
DANVILLE — A waterborne bacteria has infected eight infants in Geisinger Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit, officials say.
Three infants have died, "which may have been a result of the infection complicating their already vulnerable state due to extreme prematurity," the hospital said in a statement.
Four others have received treatment and are doing well, while the fifth continues to receive treatment, the statement said.
CATAWISSA TWP. — A 69-year-old cancer patient decided Saturday to cross ziplining off her bucket list — and convinced her 92-year-old friend to join her.
Shirr Keithan, 69, of Numidia, and Helen Lindenmuth, 92, of the Numidia area, became instant celebrities when they showed up at the Zip-n-Play Day fundraiser for CysticFibrosis.com.
The crowd cheered when they landed. A photographer took their picture. The women running the food counter gave them free lunch.
“Who would have thought this would make us famous?” Keithan marveled afterward.
MONTOUR TWP.— A Briar Creek couple was listed in critical condition after a two-car crash on Route 11 here Thursday afternoon.
Police Chief Terry Eckart said Kevin Deer, 58, of 65 Sparrow Drive, Briar Creek, was driving east toward Bloomsburg on Montour Boulevard around 2:30 p.m. in a 2008 Dodge Caliber with his wife, Elizabeth, 50, as a passenger when they spotted something they wanted to give a closer look.
So Mr. Deer pulled into a driveway at 550 Montour Boulevard, made a U-turn, and tried to pull back out onto the highway, Eckart said.
SOUTH CENTRE TWP. — A father fell asleep at the wheel Thursday and drifted off Old Berwick Road Thursday morning, smashing into an electrical pole and knocking out power to 34 customers, officials said.
Corey Hutchinson, 36, of Fourth Street, Nescopeck, managed to climb out of his upside-down Toyota Camry, but he was lucky he didn’t get electrocuted, said Police Chief Bill Richendrfer. Police and Lime Ridge firefighters kept a safe distance back until PPL workers could shut off power.
The accident happened at 8:40 a.m.