Berwick News

CVS property buyers have been looking for new locations here in recent months, a borough official says.

Spectators at the Run for the Diamonds race tipped off police when a driver threw an envelope of marijuana under his car during a traffic stop, an officer said.

A 20-year-old from Berwick fled police and forced another driver onto the curb before officers were able to box him in and arrest him Friday morning, court papers said.

Local television station WYLN-TV 35 will eliminate its two weekday newscasts and furlough some members of the news department, a station official confirmed Friday.

District Judge Richard Cashman says he's retiring today largely in an effort to move on after the death of his wife more than three years ago.

An attorney and three police officers are interested in becoming Berwick's district judge now that Richard Cashman is retiring.

Heather Ashmore was standing in her backyard when she heard something she'd never heard before: the clicking of her dog's nails on the hardwood floor.

A reader recently noticed a flashing strobe light on the sign of Don Cleary's Locksmith on Front Street in Berwick and wondered if lights like that were legal.

Michael Coates says several other prisoners have threatened him because of the charges against him - raping a 2-year-old. "I wasn't really bothered with it," claims Coates, housed in the protective-custody quarters of the Columbia County Prison.

Authorities targeted 16 people in the sweep, using a battery of warrants stemming from sting operations throughout the year.

One of the two Bloomsburg University workers charged in carpet thefts on campus was allowed to enter a special probation program for first-time offenders on Friday.

A young employee accused of stealing more than $8,500 of goods and cash from Kmart saw the charges withdrawn after his parents showed up with a blank check for the store.

Two men who saw a suspect escorted away by police took advantage of his absence and broke into his trailer, troopers said.

Living in boxes for a couple hours allows dozens of King's students to understand more fully the life of the downtrodden.

Showing off the ultrasound for a daughter she'll name "Freedom," an eight-months-pregnant Kaci Francioni says this will be her last time in Columbia County Prison.

Each of the 101 investors in this year's Adopt-an-Acre program lost $3 due to a stressed tomato crop caused by blight and heavy amounts of rain.

The Northeast Pennsylvania Homeless Alliance , working with Agape, is sponsoring a public forum at 6:30 p.m., Thursday in the auditorium of Bloomsburg Area High School to call attention to the local problem of homelessness.

A family is mourning the loss of their loved one who died from H1N1, or swine, flu.

Still, she says, the borough keeps citing her. "No matter what I say, no matter what I do, I'm always going to be in the wrong," she says.

More money is coming to fund the project to fix up the LaSalle Street neighborhood.