HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania prison officials are planning to close another prison, as the inmate population continues to decline and prison costs rise.

A state lawmaker, Sen. John Yudichak, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that prison officials had just briefed him and Retreat state prison staff in northeastern Pennsylvania about its plans to close it.

Gov. Tom Wolf's office isn't commenting.

Retreat, located north of Shickshinny across the Susquehanna River from Route 11, has about 400 employees and is at full capacity with almost 1,100 inmates.

BLOOMSBURG — A self-employed heating and air conditioning contractor got up for work Friday only to look outside and discover someone had stolen his work van with all his tools inside, town police said.

Scott Knudsen, 50, routinely locks up his 2008 Ford Econoline van “wherever I go,” he said. And he did so Thursday evening when he parked it outside his residence in the 400 block of West Pine Avenue around 7 p.m.

But when he left his home for his first job about 7:30 a.m. Friday, the van was missing. 

BERWICK — A torrential downpour broke over the eastern half of Columbia County on Thursday afternoon, putting some borough streets under feet of water, downing trees and generally wreaking havoc.

The borough had to shut down Spring Garden Avenue from Mercer to Eaton Street. A reporter there around 3 p.m. saw water up to car bumpers. On Facebook, others posted video of water overflowing an intersection at Monroe and Park streets on Berwick's west end. Rittenhouse Mill Road was also shut down for a time.

BRIAR CREEK — A homeless teen with a knife attacked another homeless person living inside a tent here Friday morning, resulting in a wild melee that left both hospitalized with injuries, arrest papers say.

Now Austin Lee Kerns, 18, faces charges of aggravated assault and related crimes after police say he attacked Dakota Whitmire, 27, as Whitmire and his brother, Robert Boston, were staying in a tent set up in a wooded area just north of Giant Food Store.