Shamokin News

MIKE STAUGAITIS/Staff Photos Shawn McGugan, left, and Mike Zielinskie stand in front of the new billboard after they unveiled it Saturday morning in Shamokin.

Lamar and Fietta Schlemmer were watching television at about noon Friday when they saw smoke pouring from their basement door.

While most of Columbia County's prisoners spend the night locked in their cells, Chas Britton is free to roam around the basement cell block and watch TV into the wee hours.

A Montour County jury has cleared Geisinger Medical Center and two physicians of negligence in a civil court case involving a Shamokin woman who died following surgery eight years ago.

Larry Deklinski/Staff Photo A woman runs on a treadmill Monday at Star Physical Therapy and Fitness, Marion Heights.

A lieutenant at Northumberland County Prison in Sunbury, who was charged twice with driving under the influence of alcohol relating to incidents that occurred within a year of each other, pleaded guilty Monday morning to two counts of DUI and will be sentenced within 60 days.

The former secretary-treasurer of the Pastime Club in Shamokin will have to wait until a pre-sentence investigation is completed to determine if a judge will accept his no-contest plea.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Northumberland County Tax Claims Bureau and Roy J. Troutman to James J. Bressi, property in Shamokin, $3,300. Northumberland County Tax Claims Bureau and Anthony Stadnicki and Kathryn Stadnicki to Northumberland Property Trust, property in Shamokin, $4,700. Northumberland County Tax Claims Bureau, Darwin Nicholson and Mary ...

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Police had not provided details on five of the 40 suspects charged Thursday in a countywide drug sweep coordinated by the Northumberland-Montour Drug Task Force.

An oversized load hauling a windmill base made it out of Danville after 16 days, but not before snarling traffic for one and a half hours Tuesday.

The close race between the candidates for the Mount Carmel Township Board of Supervisors resulted in no changes when the final vote was completed Monday, but the outcome for township tax collector was altered When all absentee votes were counted, James "Jim" Bush won over Jackie Dixon in the tax collector race, 375 votes to 373.

More than two dozen young adults paid tribute to local veterans Monday morning by raising new flags at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Lincoln Street and Spanish-American War Monument at Market and Lincoln streets.

Shamokin City Council is requesting bids for work to be done on the Lawton W. Shroyer Memorial Swimming Pool.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] - Geisinger Medical Center announced a $2.5 million expansion program, the largest of its type ever undertaken by any medical facility in central Pennsylvania.

Excavations along Penns Creek have revealed cooking and flint-napping sites, as well as flints, pottery, triangle points and paleo-scrapers, indicating the area was inhabited at least 13,000 years ago and into the Colonial period.

Two Geisinger doctors are on trial in Montour County for allegedly failing to do enough to prevent a Shamokin woman's death following surgery to remove a cancerous breast.

Although the Susquehanna River Valley has no Thanksgiving story equal to the pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock, area residents should be grateful for the successful relationship between Shikellamy, who attended to the affairs and interests of the Six Nations of Iroquois, and Conrad Weiser, negotiator and interpreter for the Provincial Council of ...

The "Octoberfest" luncheon held on Oct. 28 at Masser's Banquet Hall brought to a close the Coal Crackers Club final event for 2009.

A Point Township man attacked a police officer and caused $912 in damage at the police station when he went berserk while awaiting his arraignment on a domestic assault charge, authorities said.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this MIKE STAUGAITIS/Staff Photo The occupational child-care class at the Northumberland Career and Technology Center once again conducted a Halloween parade for pre-school children on Thursday.