Bloomsburg News

This story is from the Sunday, November 8, 2009 edition of the Press Enterprise.

Thieves stole a 200-pound dog statue a Bloomsburg woman had specially painted to memorialize her pet after it died.

Metal fencing and lampposts are missing at Bloomsburg University, and campus police are investigating, officials say.

The owners of three buildings destroyed by fire downtown say their hope is to rebuild.

A suspected drunken driver slammed his Jeep into the side of a Town Police cruiser early Monday, sending an officer to the hospital, police said.

District Judge Richard Cashman, who spent 22 years on the bench in Berwick, is retiring Dec.

A Nescopeck woman driving a Lexus sheared a utility pole, hit a parked car and flipped twice in the air Sunday along Route 11 near Park Road, witnesses said.

A civil liberties group says a central Pennsylvania college town's plan to hold party hosts responsible for any illegal activities of guests would be unconstitutional.

David C. Keller and wife Pamela have been getting calls and letters about run-down homes for the past two years.

Supervisor candidate Cary "Bud" Breech has concerns about the high cost of police coverage and other spending in the township.

Kelby Taylor, the bouncer accused of trying to send anabolic steroids to a friend in Florida, raised red flags at Mail Room Etc.

The fire that gutted three buildings Sunday ranks as one of the largest blazes in Bloomsburg's history, but the town has seen worse losses of both property and lives.

A Reading development company wants to tear down the entire Bloomsburg Mills complex and use its 12.5 acres of land to construct a complex of buildings.

Judge Thomas James hopes in his next 10-year term to oversee a share of criminal cases in Montour County in addition to the civil cases he already handles.

Fire officials say the value of property lost in Sunday morning's downtown blaze could reach $750,000. Bloomsburg Fire Chief Hugh Gross said all three fire-ravaged buildings - tax records show they date to the early 1900s - will have to be demolished.

A Bloomsburg University student from Sunbury was among four firefighters who pulled a man from a burning downtown building Sunday morning.

Investigators are searching for the cause of a major fire in Bloomsburg. More than 20 people are homeless and 5 businesses were destroyed after a Sunday morning fire.

Fire that gutted three West Main Street buildings Sunday began in the kitchen of a second-floor apartment above a beauty salon, the fire chief said.

Bloomsburg Carpet has shortened its workweek to four days this month after being outbid for a state job that will now be done overseas, officials say.

An early morning blaze damaged several buildings in Bloomsburg. Officials say the two alarm fire started at 148 West Main Street.