Sunbury News

A 27-year-old Sunbury woman charged with physically abusing her former boyfriend's 2-year-old son in January has decided to take her case to trial.

The following hearings took place Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III.

A central Pennsylvania judge has delayed sentencing for a man convicted in a stabbing death last year while he considers a defense motion for a new trial.

The Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way is spreading the word about a free program that can save folks up to 70 percent on prescription drugs.

The state Fish and Boat Commission wants a sister agency to designate the mainstream of the Susquehanna River impaired so additional scientific studies can be done to determine the cause of a major decline in smallmouth bass.

The building was occupied by Pennsylvania Guardsmen until a transfer this winter to the Danville Armed Forces Reserve Center, a brand-new facility along Route 642 in Mausdale, near I-80. The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is now seeking to sell the building and the entire 9.5-acre complex.

It's a day set aside to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

The manager of a Turkey Hill Store was robbed as he was headed to make a deposit at the bank, according to Akron Borough police.

Two Shamokin police officers were treated at a hospital Thursday night after being injured in a disturbance that also involved the assault of an adult probation officer and another man on North Marshall Street.

MIKE STAUGAITIS/Staff Photo Parade Grand Marshall Tom Kutza leads off the parade Friday night aboard a horse drawn carriage driven by Mark Keller of Coal Creel Stables.

They said people are pretending to be from a chimney maintenance company and are trying to get residents to pay for unneeded services.

Two weeks after removing Rick Shoch as chairman of the Northumberland County Board of Commissioners, Vinny Clausi and Stephen Bridy are seeking to have Shoch resign his position as Point Township solicitor because they believe it constitutes a conflict of interest.

A Northumberland County judge sentenced Michael Wolfe Monday morning to three months of house arrest and two years probation for tossing a three-month-old puppy over an embankment in Shamokin, PA.

Pennsylvania State Constable Ed Quiggle, Jr., the elected Constable for the City of Sunbury's 9th Ward, will sign a resolution in opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, also known as the NDAA, on Saturday, May 26th, 2012 at 10 a.m., in Cameron Park directly across the street from the Northumberland County Courthouse in ... (more)

Larry Deklinski/Staff Photo A banner hanging from a lamppost along Market Street in Sunbury honors Ernest Atwood Klock, a World War II veteran from Trevorton.

A Shamokin fugitive who left a hospital in March, despite being in police custody at the time, is in custody again after he was caught by city police.

Task force members from Sunbury City Police, Point Township Police and the Pennsylvania State Police spent 48 hours in an investigation that led to drug seizures, multiple arrests and the gathering of street intelligence, said Sunbury City Police Chief Stephen Mazzeo Thursday.

A Snyder County man on a boat is alive today thanks to the efforts of river rescue emergency crews from Sunbury and Upper Augusta Township who reached him near a small island in the Susquehanna River near the Sunbury Generation plant on the Snyder County side of the river.

The following hearings took place Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III.

Larry Deklinski/Staff Photo Bob Zimmerman, center, owner of Zimmerman's Chrysler Dodge Jeep and Ram Truck, along Route 61 near Sunbury, cuts a ribbon, officially marking the reopening of a showroom and offices that were flooded in September.