Mount Carmel News

Mount Carmel, Northumberland County- A Northumberland County teenager is missing and finding him has become a huge undertaking.

The following hearings took place Wednesday before Magisterial District Judge Hugh A. Jones.

The Mount Carmel Area School District is participating in the 2013 summer food service program which provides funds to provide meals for children from low-income families.

A Mount Carmel man suffered neck pain and was hospitalized as a result of a two-vehicle accident Wednesday night at Seventh and Chestnut streets.

On May 30, 1993, the five memorials erected on the lot of the Susquehanna Bank at Second and Oak streets were dedicated by VFW Post 2110.

The following hearings took place Wednesday before Magisterial District Judge Hugh Jones.

Commissioners and the county housing authority announced Monday they are moving ahead on partnering with "non-entitlement" municipalities to demolish or rehabilitate blighted properties through the Blighted Property Remediation Program.

Seniors at Mount Carmel Area High School received their diplomas Thursday and listened to words of wisdom from the guest speaker.

Joseph Clay Gaboff, 172 E. Coal St., Trevorton, to Codi Jane Heath, 1061 Lower Road, Shamokin.

A 30-year-old Carlisle man was allegedly under the influence of marijuana laced with a hallucinogenic drug when police say he intentionally drove a car through a fence and crashed into the back of a vehicle Friday in the area of Chestnut and Water streets.

Rachel Niglio, of Kulpmont, was named to the dean's list for academic achievement at Lock Haven University for the spring semester, earning a grade-point average of 4.0. Niglio is a health science major with a concentration in pre-physician's assistant.

Three Sunbury police officers involved in Wednesday's chase that ended with a police officer shooting a 17-year-old have been placed on administrative leave, Chief Stephen Mazzeo said.

The Wellsboro community is again inviting the public to join in the week-long Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival celebration beginning Saturday.

The Calvert County, Md., kindergartner who was suspended last week for brandishing an unloaded cap gun on a school bus returned to class Monday.

A 49-year-old Mount Carmel charged with injuring a pedestrian with a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and drugs had her guilty plea continued Monday because she has applied for treatment court.

Police in eastern Pennsylvania say the mother of three young children taken from a meth-lab trailer is now in prison facing drug charges.

A light bulb inside a rear bedroom closet of a West Girard Street home ignited papers and photographs on Sunday, causing a fire that rendered the home a total loss.

Charges are not expected to be filed against the brother of former policeman Anthony J. Galla, who was killed by a U.S. Marshals Task Force Tuesday night in a hotel room in Upper Darby after shooting a man in the foot in Mount Carmel earlier in the day.

Fugitive ex-cop Anthony James Galla first pointed his loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun at a U.S. marshal outside the window of his second-floor hotel room in Upper Darby Tuesday evening.

A former mid-state police officer turned fugitive from justice was killed by U.S. Marshals in Upper Darby Township Tuesday afternoon after he was cornered in a motel room.