New Berlin News

It was barely 25 degrees outside and almost as cold inside Joseph Priestley's laboratory Sunday, but about 40 people sat in the frigid air to watch the discovery of oxygen.

A winter coat and a haircut are all that Crystal, 16, hopes to get for Christmas.

The Baker family faces a bleak Christmas, and without the help of the Needy Family Fund, they would have no Christmas to speak of, according to William Baker.

An employee at the Manor at Penn Village, a nursing home in Selinsgrove, was caught with a jar of marijuana in her car, after a co-worker heard of the stash and turned her in, according to state police at Selinsgrove.

A 22-year-old Stillwater man was killed Thursday afternoon when he was partially ejected from his truck, which crashed and rolled over after being chased by state police, Bloomsburg.

To Vice President Joe Biden, a Middleburg-grown Fraser fir will be the perfect Christmas tree for his home this holiday season.

To Vice President Joe Biden, a Middleburg-grown Fraser Fir will be the perfect Christmas tree for his home this holiday season.

Rebecca Mapes is a little like "Sound of Music's" Maria Von Trapp. This wave isn't going to stay upon the sand.

Borough residents are being offered free expertise on cutting their energy bills as part of a pilot program unique among 11 counties in central Pennsylvania.

A child is dead and several other people are injured after a pickup truck crashed into a horse and buggy near New Berlin.

The woman injured in a buggy accident that claimed the life of her son has been discharged from the hospital, and the condition of a second child, also injured in the crash, has improved, authorities said.

A 7-year-old Winfield boy was killed Saturday and his mother seriously injured when the horse-drawn buggy in which they were riding was struck from behind by a sport utility vehicle on Route 304 in Union County.

BETTLEYON, KENNETH G. "BEETLE," 78, of Westport. Visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, and noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Joseph W. Epler Funeral Home, 210 King St., Northumberland, followed by funeral at 1. Burial with military honors in Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland.

After years of planning, the Red Bridge will be under renovation beginning this month.

Seated solemnly in the front row of the Snyder County courtroom on Tuesday, Fran Hummel said the guilty plea by the drunken driver who killed her fiance in April wasn't enough.

Hours before she was planning to leave to join her husband in Maine on vacation, the wife of Union Township Fire Chief David Allan Anderson escaped unharmed from an early-morning electrical fire that broke out in the downstairs living room, causing heavy damage to their Winfield home.

A 16-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he ran his bicycle into a car while descending a downhill curve on Wildwood Road, near Route 104, in Limestone Township, Union County, state police at Milton said.

A 26-year-old Middleburg man is facing a felony drug possession charge for allegedly selling suboxone to three people in the Selinsgrove and Middleburg area for five months.

Rebecca Hibbs has become better at hiding her emotions when it comes to suffering from alopecia universalis.

Lori Cover donned a red, white and blue outfit to attend the Independence Day celebration in New Berlin Saturday as a demonstration of the pride she feels for being a U.S. citizen.