Allenwood News

The U.S. Penitentiary at Lewisburg is far from alone in confronting safety concerns caused by inadequate funding.

Russia's criminal underworld buried one of its most notorious mafia godfathers today in a funeral attended by hundreds of mourners.

A plane carrying deadly snakes and other reptiles has delivered its creepy cargo to the Anniston Museum of Natural History .

A federal prison inmate in Pennsylvania has been sentenced to two dozen more years behind bars for killing his cellmate in what authorities say was a dispute over the death of a pet mouse.

McEWENSVILLE - Donna Bridge, far right, founder/director of Kingdom Kidz Inc., Milton, recently met with children during their summer reading session at the Montgomery House Warrior Run Area Public Library to demonstrate the art of puppetry.

Alyssa Williams, the daughter of Dale and Victoria Williams, of Milton, was named the 2009 Milton Harvest Festival Princess at the conclusion of the princess pageant at Milton High School Saturday night.

Retired Gen. Tommy Franks and others are praising the volunteerism that raised more than $1.1 million by selling stainless steel bracelets for the United Flight 93 memorial.

Rescue divers from Sunbury, Schuylkill Haven and Mahanoy City, searching Saturday night for a body, reportedly trapped in a vehicle underwater in a local stripping pit, instead recovered a submerged statue of Santa Claus wearing scuba gear.

An east Pennsylvania man has been hospitalized after his house exploded. According to the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the explosion occurred about 2 p.m. Saturday at a home in Exeter, leveling the residence and causing damage to a cinderblock garage.

A south-central Pennsylvania man shot dead in front of his girlfriend and her children filed a police report days earlier accusing his girlfriend's estranged husband of stalking him.

A Russian crime boss who has kept a low profile since his 2005 acquittal by the Russian Supreme Court over a 1992 murder has been wounded in a shooting in Moscow.

A man accused of killing his girlfriend and their 2-year-old son in their northeastern Pennsylvania home has been ordered to stand trial.

Former Pennsylvania state senator Vincent Fumo is headed to prison after being sentenced to 55 months on Tuesday .

Is former powerhouse state Sen. Vince Fumo a crook? Afraid so. Still, his 137 offenses are picayune compared to those of many in the Harrisburg power structure, in all three branches of state government.

The Susquehanna Emergency Health Services Council provided several pieces of life-saving equipment to services in the five-county region at their regular quarterly meeting Wednesday.

MULTIMEDIA See photos and video of Reptiland's new butterfly exhibit. themorningcall.com BUTTERFLIES EXHIBIT What: Exhibit of 26 species Where: Clyde Peeling's Reptiland, Route 15, Allenwood , about halfway between Lewisburg and Williamsport.

The upper Northumberland County town's fireworks display tonight is possible largely because its Borough Council closed the community swimming pool, freeing up funds for other recreational activities.

A Brimmer Avenue man riding his lawn mower Sunday afternoon got a surprise when another man in a pickup truck chased him through his yard.

The top Democrat and top Republican in Pennsylvania state government are taking the debate over the state budget before a statewide TV audience.

A prosecutor says a northeastern Pennsylvania man beat a 19-month-old girl so badly that she nearly died.