News from SHAMOKIN

Published on March 5, 2022 - Page 1
SHAMOKIN — Police used surveillance video and the paint marks left by a crowbar, among other clues, to connect a Sunbury man to a string of...
Published on January 15, 2022 - Page 7
SHAMOKIN — Here are the participants in the 2022 PMEA District 8 Festival Orchestra. • Violin I — Kyra Binney, Lewisburg, Maria Blas, Loyalsock,...
Published on May 3, 2021 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — The Pennsylvania SPCA, with the assistance of Shamokin Police, removed 12 animals from a property here Wednesday over concerns for their...
Published on July 8, 2020 - Page 8
SHAMOKIN — State Police have released the identity of a dead man found near here Saturday morning. Troopers say Joshua Phillippy, 22, was discovered...
Published on April 20, 2020 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A coroner has identified the victim in a fatal strangulation on South Market Street here last week. The Tuesday death of Dawn M. Latsha...
Published on November 27, 2019 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A 75-year-old woman died in a fire on East Dewart Street here early Tuesday. Patricia Schminkey died from breathing in carbon monoxide,...
Published on August 3, 2019 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — State and local fire investigators say the blaze that killed a 23-year-old woman here Tuesday was sparked by an electrical malfunction....
Published on July 31, 2019 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A 23-year-old woman died in a fire Tuesday in a rowhome on North Franklin Street here. Brea Scandle was pronounced dead at the house by...
Published on July 5, 2019 - Page 16
SHAMOKIN — Eric Sees, Andrew Haupt and Jacob Petro all went 2-for-3 at the plate for Danville in a 5-3 win over Shamokin in American Legion baseball...
Published on December 5, 2018 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A high-school English teacher at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School here was fired after she told the school she is having a child out of...
Published on September 29, 2018 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — Thomas A. Swartz, 42, of 223 W. Valley Ave., Elysburg, was charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, disorderly...
Published on September 27, 2018 - Page 26
SHAMOKIN — Lauren Bull and Grace Klingerman each had a goal and an assist for Central Columbia in a 5-1 win over Shamokin in high school girls...
Published on September 21, 2018 - Page 4
SHAMOKIN — A Bloomsburg man had more than 80 bags of heroin on him when State Police stopped a vehicle he was in, according to a published report....
Published on September 5, 2018 - Page 5
SHAMOKIN — The Northumberland County Coroner’s Office wants the public’s help locating living blood relatives of Joseph A. Nyeste, a 61-year-old...
Published on July 15, 2018 - Page 26
SHAMOKIN — Matt Champ and Austin Horsefield belted home runs, and Berwick’s American Legion baseball team beat Shamokin/Mount Carmel, 12-4, to...
Published on May 3, 2018 - Page 5
SHAMOKIN — Ryan Allen Wagner, 39, of 149 N. Market St., Elysburg, was charged with two misdemeanors for driving under the influence of alcohol and...
Published on April 14, 2018 - Page 20
SHAMOKIN — Insects, including cockroaches, found inside Wendy’s Restaurant have led to its closure and subsequent renovation, but owners Leakas...
Published on February 28, 2018 - Page 5
SHAMOKIN — A man exchanged gunfire with police Tuesday morning while barricaded inside an apartment for hours. The standoff ended when the 41-year-...
Published on December 19, 2017 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A serial rapist, who has been kidnapping women from various spots around Northumberland County and raping them, was a prison guard at SCI-...
Published on December 10, 2017 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — Two days after being re-elected vice president of Shamokin Area School Board, Ronald Patrick McElwee was charged with beating and using a...
Published on October 9, 2017 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — For working with prison counselors and inmates to organize last week’s Day of Responsibility at SCI Coal Township, Superintendent Thomas...
Published on October 8, 2017 - Page 1
SHAMOKIN — Walt Everett walked into the state prison near here last Wednesday alongside his son’s murderer. He and Mike Carlucci, who did prison...
Published on August 20, 2017 - Page 27
SHAMOKIN — Central Columbia coach Scott Dennis and the rest of the Blue Jays got their first look at what to expect from starting quarterback Trae...
Published on July 7, 2017 - Page 4
SHAMOKIN — Aqua Pennsylvania will spend $18.3 million on infrastructure improvements this year in its Roaring Creek Division, which covers parts of...
Published on May 6, 2017 - Page 6
SHAMOKIN — A district judge in Northumberland County plans to sue a Geisinger Health System doctor because District Judge John Gembic alleges the...
Published on April 30, 2017 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — The mayor of Shamokin, William Milbrand, has filed a federal lawsuit against the two police officers who were in on Milbrand’s brief...
Published on April 19, 2017 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — Former Northumberland County judge and district attorney Tony Rosini was driving drunk at nearly three times the legal limit when a State...
Published on February 15, 2017 - Page 1
SHAMOKIN — A bail bondsman accused of bigamy and illegally possessing firearms spent Valentine’s Day in handcuffs at the magistrate’s office with...
Published on February 15, 2017 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A cooking grease fire quickly became a residential fire late Saturday night in an apartment building here owned by a Catawissa landlord,...
Published on February 8, 2017 - Page 10
SHAMOKIN — Nicholas Yule picked up a pin for Berwick at 132 pounds, and the Bulldogs’ wrestling team outlasted Shamokin, 33-30, on Tuesday. The...
Published on February 1, 2017 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — Shamokin’s mayor was handcuffed and arrested Tuesday over allegations that 14 burial sites at the Shamokin Cemetery were illegally covered...
Published on January 13, 2017 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A man who allegedly helped Elysburg bank robber Richard Snyder during previous Coal Region bank heists has been charged after trying to...
Published on January 1, 2017 - Page 4
SHAMOKIN — A woman here was jumping and screaming on top of a vehicle wearing only her underwear Christmas Eve because her husband drank the last of...
Published on November 27, 2016 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — An Elysburg woman was arrested after police said she fought with officers, kicked the window in a police cruiser and broke the tooth of a...
Published on November 19, 2016 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A Shamokin man who bragged on television in July about meeting his attorneys inside a city Dunkin’ Donuts is now facing a variety of legal...
Published on September 28, 2016 - Page 12
SHAMOKIN — A Catawissa man was charged with driving under the influence after a traffic stop here, according to the Shamokin newspaper. State Police...
Published on September 7, 2016 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A Catawissa woman is suing in district court to collect money from two Shamokin-area residents. Stephanie A. Gembic recently filed a...
Published on May 21, 2016 - Page 4
SHAMOKIN — A Northumberland County inmate said he was naked when he used his food tray to smash his cell window after becoming drunk on wine he made...
Published on May 4, 2016 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A Jerseytown man is accused of hitting a man with a car and pulling a plastic gun during the same incident, according to the Shamokin...
Published on April 15, 2016 - Page 6
SHAMOKIN — Aqua Pennsylvania says $16.4 million in capital improvements for its Roaring Creek Division are under way and $11.3 million of that work...
Published on March 5, 2016 - Page 13
SHAMOKIN — In regulation, Mount Carmel’s Maura Fiamoncini was 0-for-4 at the foul line. With under a minute left in overtime, Fiamoncini was sent to...
Published on November 9, 2015 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A scammer used the lure of a Publishers Clearing House jackpot to talk a woman into giving up her credit card information over the phone,...
Published on July 24, 2015 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A homemade Wi-Fi antenna caused a scare that closed of a three-block radius here Wednesday morning, according to a news story. Police...
Published on July 19, 2015 - Page 24
SHAMOKIN — Surgical Specialists of Evangelical plans to open an office Tuesday at 125 W. Commerce St. here. Surgical services being offered include...
Published on July 17, 2015 - Page 5
SHAMOKIN — Teachers here warn they will go on strike Sept. 8 if their union doesn’t get a new contract to replace the one they’ve been working under...
Published on June 11, 2015 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A Bloomsburg man is facing multiple felony charges after allegedly entering homes here over the weekend, according to published reports...
Published on February 20, 2015 - Page 3
SHAMOKIN — A 66-year-old woman died of hypothermia here Monday, reports Northumberland County Coroner James Kelley. Ellen Jackson of Spurzheim...
Published on February 13, 2015 - Page 13
SHAMOKIN — Mount Carmel had trouble taming Southern Columbia in the first half of their Heartland Conference semifinal. But with a big second half...
Published on August 28, 2014 - Page 5
SHAMOKIN — Two Berwick men are jailed in Northumberland County, accused of selling heroin to a confidential informant in the presence of a 4-year-old...
Published on June 17, 2014 - Page 1
SHAMOKIN — A dentist here failed to keep his tools clean, and his patients may be at risk of infection, the state says. Licensing officials gave Dr...