Middleburg News

The position of special assistant to the warden of the Snyder County Jail was revived Thursday by the salary board, which set the annual wage at $35,000 to $40,000. Majority Commissioners Malcolm Derk and Joe Kantz and Treasurer Gale Jones were in favor of reviving the position and the salary.

A couple accused of using a dedit card they found in a lost wallet to buy cigarettes and medicine were arrested after dozens of people, including their parents, recognized them from a surveillance photo published in The Daily Item and called police.

Sterling Fisher, right, and Brandon Fisher stand at attention with other members of the American Legion Post 52 and Boy Scout Troop 415 after placing the first two flags on the fire at a flag disposal ceremony for the Middleburg community at Fireman's Field Sunday.

The Juniata County School Board met with architects Crabtree, Rohrbaugh and Associates to consider conducting a facility study of the school district's 12 buildings, many of which are overcrowded.

A security camera image shows a young couple -- later identified as Nicholas Lewis Keister, 19, of Penns Creek, and Dominica Marie McCarthy-Keister, 22, of Middleburg, -- entering the Giant grocery store in Monroe Township.

Justin Engle/The Daily ItemPete Carroll holds the winning ball Friday that gave him the nod in the tied Republican primary election race for Selinsgrove mayor.

A warrant has been issued for a man accused of beating a Middleburg man with a baseball bat on May 1. Two others have been charged as his accomplices.

A 42-year-old Middleburg man is being held at Snyder County Jail on $50,000 bail after allegedly accusing his wife of having an affair and pointing a loaded .25-caliber automatic pistol at her, their son and his wife's friend.

A 19-year-old Watsontown man set to go on trial Monday for felony rape and related charges avoided having a jury decide his fate and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor offense.

A program that allows people to buy groceries at a half-off price is drawing more and more people to Valley churches.

Q. Please cover the rights and privileges accorded to a vehicle displaying a blue light.

A Pennsylvania judge has rejected a plea bargain for a woman who fatally shot a New York City man in the back inside her home.

A Memorial Day parade in south-central Pennsylvania featured about 40 men wearing women's shoes.

MIDDLEBURG The Snyder County Conservation District now has a library of floodplain management materials available.

Whether the Senate's passing of budget Bill 850 is meant only to make a statement about the need to balance the state budget will be determined by the version of the bill the House passes, said James D. Wilson, executive director and Main Street manager for the Danville Business Alliance.

Snyder County District Attorney Michael H. Sholley garnered a majority of both Republican and Democratic votes Tuesday to snare both nominations for Union-Snyder county judge and effectively block any challenge in the fall election.

The wife of the president of a Selinsgrove nursing home is being charged with bilking $40,000 from three of the facility's residents.

Except for citing differences in their legal and administrative backgrounds, the three candidates vying for Union-Snyder judge in Tuesday's primary election answered similarly every question they heard from an audience Wednesday night at a candidates' forum.

Midd-West Superintendent Wesley Knapp, left, speaks to the student body on the athletic field behind the high school on Tuesday afternoon.

BIDDING, JACK A., 86, of Landisville. Visitation from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 85 Brandt Blvd., Landisville, followed by funeral at 10:30. Private burial.