Mount Carmel News

Police say a woman has been struck by a vehicle and killed while trying to warn traffic about a car fire in Mount Carmel Township.

Jeremy Yacobacci's two triples led Shamokin-Mount Carmel to a 10-7 victory over West Snyder on Tuesday night.

Legion Post 321 plans picnic American Legion Post 321 in Littlestown will hold a picnic 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, at the post home.

Patrolman Matt Dillman has cited Ronald Wayne Cole, 38, of 338 S. Beech St., Mount Carmel, for harassment and disorderly conduct relating to a disturbance at 2:45 p.m. June 4 in the 300 block of South Beech Street.

Dean Lee Wolfe Jr., 28, of 1594 Hallowing Run Road, Sunbury, has been charged by Cpl.

Attorney General Tom Corbett announced that over the past week agents from the Child Predator Unit have made arrests in Northumberland, Berks and Montgomery counties involving men accused of using the Internet to sexually proposition what they believed were 13 or 14-year old girls.

Northumberland County officials are upset and seeking answers to why their application for $4.45 million in state funds to refurbish abandoned properties in Shamokin, Mount Carmel and Coal Township has been denied.

Angelo Cardinal Sodano, the dean of the College of Cardinals, came from Vatican City with a special blessing from Pope Benedict XVI for the people of Pittston and the Diocese of Scranton.

One of the 11 Northumberland County residents arrested last year in a state drug sweep has been sentenced to the mandatory minimum of five years in federal prison.

During his 17 years with the Shamokin Police Department, John Brown has faced many challenges involving drug and alcohol abusers, street gang members and irate residents.

Revival MAY 20 - Green's Temple Church COGIC, 1925 Bedford Ave., Hill District, will host a Revival at 7 p.m. The theme is "Be Healed, Be Delivered, Be Set Free!" The guest speaker will be Evangelist Roberta Watkins of Aliquippa.

Since 1962, the once booming coal mining town of Centralia in northeastern Pennsylvania has been on fire.

Women's day MAY 15 - Solid Rock Church of God Inc., 1400 Buena Vista St., North Side, will host their Women's Day Weekend at 7 p.m. The theme is "Seeking All Things Divine in 2009." The celebration will run through May 17.

The power is on again in part of Northumberland County. PPL said 5,000 homes and businesses were without service in the Mount Carmel area all morning.

Mother's Day will be particularly poignant for Jennifer Smith, of Kulpmont. Her 9-year-old daughter, Amanda, who was critically injured by a bullmastiff April 19, is home from Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, after two operations to repair some of the facial damage done by the dog.

An 81-year-old Marion Heights woman with a history of harassing neighbors told a Northumberland County judge she's not guilty of trying to run down a man in her neighborhood last summer, while suggesting that her civil rights had been violated by the county judicial process.

The woman whose bullmastiff attacked and seriously injured a 9-year old borough girl has agreed to have her dog euthanized.

Fourteen people were left homeless after a two-alarm fire destroyed a three-story apartment building late Friday night.

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Diehl, Dorothy I., 88, of Mount Carmel. Private service Monday at Jerre Wirt Blank Funeral Home, 295 State St., Sunbury.