SHAMOKIN — Jeff May lay resting in a deep sleep in his bedroom as flames quickly spread through his South Market Street home overnight Saturday and says if it weren’t for his son, he may not have made it out alive.
DANVILLE — Sections of a 10.9-mile stretch of Interstate 80 in Liberty and Valley townships, Montour County, will be closed beginning Sunday, said David Thompson, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
NORTHUMBERLAND — Expect more construction work and detours in Northumberland Borough today, said Pennsylvania Department of Transportation spokesman David Thompson.
LEWISBURG — Bucknell University seeks local small businesses to participate in a pair of programs where engineering and management students assist in designing product prototypes and help in analyzing strategic management issues.
SUNBURY — Ax master Stephen Caruso's mobile ax throwing trailer might have offered to festival-goers the most unusual participatory event in the first full day of Sunbury's annual River Festival — 10 minutes of ax throwing competitions between players trying to hit a bullseye.
1. High school football enthusiasts can get an early look today at their favorite teams before their season openers next Friday. The scrimmages include Bloomsburg at Shikellamy (10 a.m.), Montoursville at Lewisburg (11 a.m.), Milton at Montgomery (10 a.m.), Danville at North Schuylkill (11 a…
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Children, parents and fans were taking in the excitement of the Little League World Series complex Friday, a sunny day that started with the series’ second no-hitter in as many days.
The medical marijuana dispensary that was coming to Shamokin relinquished its permit as part of a settlement with the Pennsylvania Department of Health, according to an announcement from the state agency this morning.
SELINSGROVE — A 57-year old man is in critical condition at Geisinger Medical Center, after being hit by a minivan Friday morning at the 2100 block of South Market Street, Union Township, Snyder County.
SELINSGROVE — The owner of CCR&S Trans LLC supports the loosening of truck driving regulations that negatively affect her Selinsgrove-based business.
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate rose slightly in July to 3.9 percent up one-tenth of a percentage point from the record low that was held from April through June according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.
SUNBURY — Several singers at Thursday night’s ninth annual Valley’s Got Talent competition displayed such mature singing ability that the four-judge panel of experts and an audience of more than 450 people at the Shikellamy High School auditorium were left breathless, before bursting into applause.
HARRISBURG — Counties buying voting machines that allow voters to fill out paper ballots are paying half what counties buying tablet-based voting technology are paying, according to an analysis released Thursday by the University of Pittsburgh.
HUMMEL'S WHARF —Pennsylvania House Rep. Lynda Schlegel Culver, R-108, Sunbury, is opening a new satellite district office in the Susquehanna Valley Mall.
DANVILLE — The next yard waste pickup for Mahoning Township residents is Tuesday, the township supervisors announced this week.
Valley Township officials have paid $3,600 after failing to submit a state application on time for a sewer work permit.
LEWISBURG — The latest motions filed in the ongoing lawsuit between Lewisburg and East Buffalo Township show both sides entrenched in their stated positions concerning the funding of the Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department.
SUNBURY — Northumberland County Commissioners are searching for an election board assistant director.
A scheduled meeting between People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Union County Sportsmen Club never took place Wednesday leaving the national organization wondering why.
MAHONING TWP. — A woman's ex-boyfriend threatened a man by saying he would have to have his jaw wired shut and that his dad will shoot him Aug. 6, Mahoning Township police said.
LEWISBURG — The Nanticoke man charged with two carjackings last week stole his first car in Wilkes-Barre the day before he arrived in Union and Northumberland counties, according to court documents filed in Union County on Thursday.
The Bloomsburg Police Department announces new parking regulations on the north side of East 2nd Street from Elm Street to Chestnut Street pending an ordinance adoption on Aug. 26. Bloomsburg University permits will no longer be valid in this area.
DANVILLE — Matthew Hunter is the new Danville Area School District police officer for the 2019-2020 school year.
A Shamokin resident impersonated a federal agent and disrupted an Aug. 12 Shamokin City Council meeting by threatening to arrest members of the board, according to Northumberland County Detective Degg Stark.
LEWISBURG — Assault charges are pending in Union County Court against two inmates accused of fighting inside the county jail.
DANVILLE — The double home destroyed by a fire from a methamphetamine lab explosion has been demolished along Chamber Street.
SUNBURY — A Sunbury man who claimed he viewed child pornography because he was retaliating against an outer being controlling his body is mentally competent to stand trial two years after he was charged.
SELINSGROVE — Susquehanna University has been named one of the "Best Northeastern Schools,” by the Princeton Review, which chooses colleges based on data it annually collects from thousands of college administrators about their institutions’ academic offerings. Susquehanna was also recogniz…
Over the past four decades, Greg Burgess has been honing his craft, becoming one of the Central Susquehanna Valley's premier pianists.
A Sunbury man was arrested for selling cocaine, according to a report from Selinsgrove Police.
Geisinger, which has been collecting DNA information for years from patients who volunteer to provide it, is among health systems that have sold genetic profiles of patients to pharmaceutical manufacturers, The Wall Street Journal reported.
SUNBURY — A city man is wanted on felony forgery charges after police said he stole checks from a Sunbury home and cashed them totaling $635.
MOUNT CARMEL — Misty Dunbar and Michelle Rhoads told a friend they wanted to assault a woman early Tuesday at her home but when they couldn’t get inside, police said they lit the house on fire and could have killed their target.
SELINSGROVE — Families by the hundreds poured into East Snyder Park, near Selinsgrove, late Wednesday afternoon for the start of the seventh annual Snyder County Night Out, sponsored by the Snyder County Coalition 4 Kids.
Over the past four decades, Greg Burgess has been honing his craft, becoming one of the Central Susquehanna Valley's premier pianists.
SUNBURY — Northumberland County Commissioners Rick Shoch and Sam Schiccatano extended the contract of a medical marijuana company looking to purchase county land to build a growing facility. It's the third time an extension to purchase the land has been approved.
LEWISBURG — The ballot replacement chosen to represent the Republican Party in the fall election for a seat on the East Buffalo Township Board of Supervisors doesn’t see his late addition as a disadvantage.
WILLIAMSPORT — A federal judge for the seventh time granted a delay in the trial of Raymond Kraynak, the suspended Northumberland County doctor accused of criminal prescribing practices resulting in the deaths of five patients.
HARRISBURG – The state will close Polk and White Haven state centers, two of the four state centers providing care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
WILLIAMSPORT — A federal judge for the seventh time granted a delay in the trial of Raymond Kraynak, the suspended Northumberland County doctor accused of criminal prescribing practices resulting in the deaths of five patients.
DANVILLE — Mahoning Township firefighters responded to 21 calls in July, 14 of them in the township, Fire Chief Leslie Young reported.
DANVILLE — The Montour County Board of Commissioners were "very receptive" to financially supporting the incoming Luzerne County Community College in Watsontown, according to Greater Susquehanna Chamber of Commerce Relationship Director Chris Berleth.
LEWISBURG — A food drive is underway to replenish supplies for the Snack Pack program at Lewisburg Area schools.
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Maddy Freking's left foot points back toward home plate as she assumes her stance inside a mesh batting cage on the grounds of Little League headquarters. The bat head swivels slightly as she stands tall, with that angled left foot helping her stay square to th…
DANVILLE — Montour County's commissioners approved Community Development Block Grant projects Tuesday for fiscal year 2019 for the Danville Area Community Center and Washingtonville.
Fifty years ago this week, a Valley teenager hitchhiked his way from Sunbury to the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival near Bethel, N.Y., not realizing at the time, how significant a cultural event it would turn out to be.
SUNBURY — A Sunbury man who claimed he viewed child pornography because he was retaliating against an outer being controlling his body is mentally competent to stand trial two years after he was charged.
MILTON — Haven to Home Canine Rescue plans to close its Milton holding kennel on Aug. 31 to focus on foster-based rescue, the organization announced on Tuesday.
SUNBURY — A Coal Township woman avoided a lottery scam earlier this week, according to the Northumberland County District Attorney's office.
COWAN — A Union County woman admitted to stabbing a person during an argument in her Buffalo Township home July 30, according to state police.
