Berwick News

Police and dispatchers in two counties fruitlessly searched for a child calling the Luzerne County 9-1-1 center on a cell phone Tuesday night, highlighting one of the limitations of the devices in emergencies.

Kevin "Satch" Eckroth tried on his Santa beard, "Kiss Me" mistletoe hat, red-and-green socks and black-and-green Speedo at home Saturday morning.

JAMIE PESOTINE / times-shamrock Emergency crews respond to a two-vehicle head-on collision outside 1766 Route 940 in Hazle Township on Sunday night.

Malcolm Plevyak has had permission from the state and federal governments for more than a year to fly his helicopter off his property here.

BARRE A Berwick man was sentenced Wednesday to nine to 18 months in county prison on charges he stole more than $12,000 worth of jewelry and other items from a Salem Township house in May.

A man charged with three drinking offenses in less than 24 hours was released from prison Tuesday, but he was ordered to go straight to rehab.

A Senate panel has dismissed an ethics complaint challenging Sen. Robert Mellow's membership on the board of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania and a subsidiary as a conflict of interest, the activist who filed the complaint said Monday.

Forty Fort attorney Joseph Cosgrove won a unanimous vote of recommendation Tuesday from a Senate committee for his nomination to join the troubled Luzerne County bench.

State Rep. Russ Fairchild and Rep. Merle Phillips, along with Sen. John Gordner and 10 other members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly were joined Thursday by three congressmen as they met with the Federal Highway Administration to express strong opposition to the proposal to enact tolls on Interstate 80.

Share + Dec 17, 2009 8:53 pm US/Eastern SUSAN SCHWARTZ, Press Enterprise BERWICK, Pa.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this A Hazleton man who police say entered a stranger's home in Berwick in a drunken stupor and then fought with officers waived criminal charges to Columbia County Court this week.

Just a few hours after police arrested a man who reeked of alcohol when he crashed his car into a sign and utility pole, he was spotted behind the wheel again - still driving erratically, authorities say.

A water-meter reader saw smoke coming from one end of the wooden structure and alerted bartender Linda Hess in the VFW, Hess said.

The AMA announced today the 2010 schedule for the AMA Racing East Hare Scrambles Championship Series.

BERWICK>->Before pagers and cell phones, firefighters were called to emergencies by a tug of a lever and a telegraph system.

Ned Henry Markle, 82, of 1909 Bloom Road, Danville, ended his journey through this life on Monday, Dec.

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.