http://www.dailyitem.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:06:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310202036.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310202036.html Managers of mid- to large-size businesses shopped their options for electricity suppliers here Friday, but “choice” remained largely a phantom for private homeowners.About 16 suppliers and brokers set up information tables and courted big users at a SEDA-COG sponsored seminar. The closest one could get to hope that competition pressure would force prices down for home users served by PPL Electric Utilities was with Direct Energy of Pittsburgh. Senior Business Development Manager Thomas Lynskey, said his firm, which supplies the third highest amount of electricity across North America, doesn’t disdain private customers.“We serve seven million home owners in Canada and Texas,” he said. “We’re coming,” he said.Where and how long that will take, depends on profit potential, of course. Mike Beck, Direct Energy’s vice president for residential business, confirmed in a phone call that the firm is actively looking at PPL territory, but insisted no decision has been made. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:57:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310220331.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310220331.html The economic effect of Penn State football games can be felt 40 miles away from Beaver Stadium, where a western Union County teenager capitalizes on sweet-toothed Route 45 motorists heading to University Park on Saturdays. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:37:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310201328.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310201328.html In a 911 call and police statement recorded early Sept. 28, 2008, soon after Charity Spickler was gunned down in a Lewisburg apartment, Roderick Sims admitted shooting her in the head because he was angry at her for lying to him. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:09:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310220629.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310220629.html When Selinsgrove native Amie Longacre received a call from her husband Thursday, she was unaware that a massacre had just taken place only 10 miles away, on the military base where Robert Longacre was stationed. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:53:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310233429.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310233429.html A Freeburg woman suffered serious injuries Friday night when her car was struck by two vehicles on Route 35 in Washington Township, Snyder County. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:51:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310151247.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310151247.html Geisinger Medical Center has confirmed their first H1N1, or swine flu, death. The death is the first known in the valley. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:57:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_309231543.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_309231543.html City police have filed more charges against the man they allege helped lead a burglary ring that robbed homeowners of up to $200,000 worth of possessions. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:56:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310002445.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310002445.html People are choosing where they want to receive their health care and Evangelical Community Hospital knows it has to compete. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:30:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310103042.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310103042.html PHILADELPHIA — The city's largest transit union on Friday was reviewing a new contract proposal that Gov. Ed Rendell hoped could end a four-day-old strike that has idled subways, trolleys and buses and snarled the commutes for thousands of people. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:27:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310102828.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310102828.html LANCASTER — A central Pennsylvania school district says a bus driver has been fired after a 6-year-old autistic boy was left on a bus. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:42:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310000701.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310000701.html As she watched her old refrigerator being taken away to be recycled, Mary Anne Smeltz had mixed feelings. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:01:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310080235.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_310080235.html A woman and her baby escaped injury after a fire broke out Thursday in her kitchen as she was preparing dinner. Desrae Holden, of 435 Second St., said she was boiling oil on her stove at about 6:15 p.m. when she paused and momentarily went upstairs. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:33:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_309232103.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_309232103.html A converted ambulance, affectionately termed the “Lunch Box,” has been used for the last 10 years to provide nourishment to Richfield area firefighters while they battle blazes. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:31:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_309232438.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_309232438.html Heather Shnyder has been working with Susquehanna Valley Women in Transition for 10 years and serves as the education outreach coordinator and crisis counselor. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:28:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_309234647.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_309234647.html A 16-year-old Danville girl was seriously injured when she was thrown from a sport utility vehicle after it crashed into a fence and a telephone pole and rolled multiple times before coming to rest on its roof at 4:35 p.m. Thursday on Liberty Valley Road in Valley Township, Montour County, state police at Milton said.