SALEM TWP. — Two pickup trucks collided at the intersection of East Front Street and Johnson Avenue here Thursday afternoon.
Police say the driver of one of the trucks died in the crash. The Luzerne County Coroner was called to the scene.
The crash, which happened around 2 p.m., brought police, fire and rescue crews from Salem Township, Berwick and beyond.
We have a reporter and photographer at the accident and will have more information as it's available.
MAHONING TWP. — A man and his passenger had to be cut from a car after it swerved off Route 11 near Steve Shannon Tire here, crashing into a culvert after it appeared the driver had a sudden health issue , township police said.
Larry R. Cover, 51, and his passenger, 46-year-old Donna L. Hine, both of Shamokin, were rescued by fire and emergency medical volunteers after the crash along Montour Boulevard about 10 a.m.
Both were taken by ambulamces to Geisinger Medical Center where they were being treated for injuries to the head, back and leg, according to police.
BLOOMSBURG — A former special education teacher who admitted having indecent sexual contact with a 15-year-old boy was taken from the courtroom in handcuffs Wednesday after being sentenced to 1 to 4 years in prison.
Dennis A. Delorso, 47, formerly of Bloomsburg but now living along Trevorton Road near Shamokin, told a judge that he was “sincerely sorry” for having “hurt so many people,” including the victim and his own family.
SCOTT TWP. — A Bloomsburg woman drove drunk at four times the legal limit with her young son in the vehicle, frightening the child as she struck guardrails along Route 11, police allege.
After Jennifer Lonsdale’s car had been pulled over near Central Road, her son, 5, told officers his mother had been taking him to Atlantic City for a vacation, but he begged her to turn around and return home because he was “scared.”
Lonsdale, 47, of 139 E. Eighth St., was charged with a felony count of child endangerment, along with DUI and other traffic offenses, arrest reports state.
BERWICK — A 116-year history ended in just over a minute Saturday, when the Defender Fire Co. building and lot was sold at auction.
SALEM TWP. — A woman hiking on the trail to Shickshinny Falls injured her ankle and had to be carried out by firefighters ahead of a thunderstorm.
The accident was reported around 2:15 p.m. Sandra Koffel, of the Berwick area, and two friends were hiking along the trail, located here off Shickshinny Valley Road on state game lands, when she fell on some rocks, said Ptlm. Phil Schlegel.
Salem Township firefighters were first on the scene, but were joined by volunteers from Mocanaqua and Berwick.
LIME RIDGE — A tractor trailer hauling a load of Brie cheese blew a tire, crashed into another vehicle, then tumbled down an embankment to the edge of a trailer park Friday night.
That accident caused a second accident on the highway when another truck slowed to avoid the debris from a ruined guardrail and was hit by another vehicle.
It also left smashed wheels of slippery cheese strewn along one of the trailer park roadways.
The first accident happened around 10:15 p.m.
SALEM TWP. — A 23-year-old woman fell asleep at the wheel and hit an oncoming car on Route 11 Wednesday morning, police said.
Shannon Marie Callahan also hit a guard rail and mailbox along the way. But neither she nor the driver of the car she hit was hurt, both said afterward.
The accident took place at about 7:23 a.m., said Police Chief Michael McNeal. Callahan, of 145 Hunlock-Harveyville Road, told him she had just finished driving her boyfriend to work and was returning home, headed north on Salem Boulevard, when she fell asleep.
BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg’s annual Fourth of July celebration at Town Park was set to have fireworks and a band, but no sound system, until a local law firm stepped in with a $2,000 donation Tuesday.
The tab for providing all three is $7,300, which includes $5,000 for fireworks, $2,000 for a sound-system rental, and another $300 for the Catawissa Military Band.
Councilman Toni Bell offered to foot the bill for the band, as she did last year, and a fundraising website by The Bloomsburg University Foundation netted another $4,091.
BLOOMSBURG — A landlord called being forced to mow a strip of grass between the street and his property “involuntary servitude” at a court hearing Monday.
But a judge found that Charles Shuman, 61, who had been cited three times for high weeds and grass at 401-409 W. Main St., still had to mow it.
Shuman had said that he had no problem mowing the yards around an unoccupied house he owns at 409 W. Main St. and Hot Water Inc. at 401 W. Main St. But he didn’t feel he should have to mow the corner lot’s grassy strip along Railroad Street.