Selinsgrove News

When Selinsgrove native Amie Longacre received a call from her husband Thursday, she was unaware that a massacre had just taken place only 10 miles away, on the military base where Robert Longacre was stationed.

In Snyder County police are investigating a series of suspicious fires and need help to find those responsible.

Five vehicles and a shed were destroyed Tuesday night when a fire reported to be of suspicious origin broke out at 4 Sand Hill Road, Selinsgrove.

After more than eight years of waiting, Selinsgrove borough officials want to know when they will receive a more than $100,000 grant to establish an emergency access ramp on the Isle of Que.

Carl and Joan Sechrist's car sat outside all summer while Carl built a four-story, pine-sided house in their garage - a dollhouse, as a gift for their great-granddaughter. "I watched him make it, cut every little strip out that's on it," marveled the Selinsgrove couple's next-door neighbor, Betty Brouse.

Earlier this month a math teacher from Ohio took home first prize and set a world record at the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers with her 1,725-pound pumpkin.

A teenager was struck by a shotgun blast in Snyder County. Now police are investigating the shooting.

A man who identified himself only as the father of a 14-year-old boy who accidentally shot another in the arm Thursday night with a 20-gauge, double-barrel shotgun said the two had been filming a YouTube video on gun safety.

Police in Snyder County are invsetigating what is being called an accidental shooting.

Police will be keeping an eye out for your child's safety during trick-or-treat nights across the Valley this week, but parents also have a role to play.

A 31-year-old Snyder County man was jailed Monday on charges he stalked and threatened to kill a former girlfriend.

The construction of a science building across the street from Susquehanna University's main campus has led to fears of incidents between pedestrians and motorists.

A convicted Snyder County sex offender who surrendered to police earlier this month on new charges faces another jail term and lifetime registration on Pennsylvania's Megan's Law list if found guilty, probation officers say.

A convicted sex offender on Pennsylvania's Megan's Law list has been accused of molesting four girls, ages 5-10, over a two-year-period. John Garman Shirk, 61, of 25 Pine Ridge Lane, Center Township, told police he took two 5-year-old girls on a tractor ride in a field at 6 p.m. Sept.

A man accused of shooting two people to death inside a city apartment in January 2008 was so actively engaged in the proceedings at a pre-trial hearing that, at one point, Michael Harrell attempted to correct the district attorney.

State police who approached a rural Snyder County home to serve a warrant on a summary violation discovered two marijuana growing operations in neighboring houses.

A grease fire from an electric fryer shut down Arby's Restaurant in the Susquehanna Valley Mall late Monday afternoon.

Linda Herrold remembers walking around the playground with a transistor radio, listening to reports of John Glenn orbiting the earth.

Mifflinburg Area Senior High School on Friday night crowned Janelle Sheesley homecoming queen.

At their 25th wedding anniversary party, Wilford "Wimpy" Boyer said of his wife, Virginia "Ginny" Thrasher Boyer: "In life's lottery, I won the grand prize." On March 14, Ginny, the 2008 Selinsgrove Relay for Life honorary chairwoman, lost her courageous battle after four bouts of cancer.