SUNBURY — The 18-year-old defendant accused of playing a part in the killing of Richard Leroy Jameson II will be released from incarceration as he awaits sentencing on two misdemeanor criminal charges.
WASHINGTON — The federal government filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern over environmental damage caused by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that spilled hazardous chemicals into nearby creeks and rivers.
Trout season begins statewide at 8 a.m. Saturday, and area waterways are stocked and ready for eager anglers.
Children’s author Mackenzie Wertman is back with another book.
HARRISBURG — State legislators questioned corrections officials about mental health services available to inmates as well as staff vacancies during a budget hearing Thursday in the Pennsylvania House.
SUNBURY — A Sunbury man who shot another man in the foot in 2020 will spend the next four to eight years in state prison.
PORT TREVORTON — The primitive roadside rest area on Routes 11-15 at McKees Half Falls reopens today in Snyder County.
MOUNT CARMEL — A Sunbury man is jailed on $10,000 bail after allegedly threatening another man with a gun.
WATSONTOWN — Ernest Reynolds III is in custody after a more than a month on the loose, according to Watsontown Police.
DANVILLE — Geisinger Medical Center in Danville and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center have been named to Newsweek’s list of World’s Best Hospitals 2023.
SUNBURY — Convicted killer and death row inmate Kevin Marinelli continues to fight to overturn his case in a fourth Post-Conviction Relief Act petition over the last 28 years.
HARRISBURG — Two Valley long-term facilities received a combined $158,500 in federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding to help sustain quality care as the commonwealth’s population ages and residents’ needs change.
SUNBURY — Five Northumberland County Commissioners will square off and answer questions during a debate hosted by The Daily Item at the Albright Center on Monday.
LEWISBURG — Union County Sheriff Ernie Ritter presented the county’s prison board with a recommendation to approve Beacon as the new jailhouse record-keeping system.
Trout season begins statewide at 8 a.m. Saturday, and area waterways are stocked and ready for eager anglers.
STATE COLLEGE — Friends of Mike Rhoades say although the newly-minted Penn State men’s basketball coach didn’t explicitly speak returning to his home state to coach the Nittany Lions into existence, coming back home to lead a program has long been one of his ambitions.
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ARLINGTON, Texas — Robbie Grossman and Brad Miller homered in a big comeback for Texas after prized acquisition Jacob deGrom struggled in his debut, and the Rangers beat the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies 11-7 in the season opener Thursday.
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — When Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Zambia on Friday for the final stop of her weeklong trip across Africa, she touched down at an airport that’s doubled in size and features glittering new terminals.
The president of Belarus says Russian strategic nuclear weapons might be deployed in his country along with part of Russia’s tactical nuclear arsenal. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this week that his country intended to deploy tactical, comparatively short-range and small-yield …
Meteorologists are urging people to be ready for dangerous weather in parts of the Midwest and South. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center warns that an outbreak of severe thunderstorms Friday could cause hail, damaging wind gusts and tornadoes that could be strong and move…
Russia has used it long-range arsenal to bombard anew several areas of Ukraine. The attacks killed at least two civilians and damaged homes. The bombardment Friday came as Ukrainians commemorated the anniversary of the liberation of Bucha. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that th…
Thirty-six bodies have been found inside a well at a Hindu temple in central India after dozens of people fell into the muddy water when the well's cover collapsed. Video of the collapse showed chaos afterward, with people rushing away. An excavator pulled down a wall of the decades-old temp…
Shares in Europe and Asia have followed Wall Street higher ahead of a United States inflation update that traders hope might prompt the Federal Reserve to ease plans for more interest rate hikes. Wall Street rose Thursday as worries about the global financial system eased. The European Union…
President Joe Biden will visit a Mississippi town ravaged by a deadly tornado, as a series of severe storms threatens again to rip across the Midwest and the South. Last week's twister destroyed 300 homes and businesses in Rolling Fork and nearby Silver City, leaving mounds of lumber, bricks…
Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers say, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year. The charges center on payments made during the 2016 presidential campai…
Gwyneth Paltrow has won her court battle over a 2016 ski collision at a posh Utah ski resort after a jury decided that the actor wasn’t at fault for the crash. The jury verdict comes Thursday in a packed court room in Park City, Utah. A jury dismissed the complaint of a retired optometrist w…
