Snyder County News

Police are looking for a man that held up a bank this morning in Snyder County. The bank heist took place shortly after nine this morning at the Mifflin County Savings Bank at One East Specht Street in the Borough of McClure.

PPL says a power outage in northern Dauphin County and parts of Northumberland and Snyder counties left about 10,000 customers without electricity Friday afternoon.

Prosecutors in western Pennsylvania say state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin will be charged in a campaign corruption case tied to the alleged misuse of her taxpayer-funded staff for campaigning.

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.

With a couple hundred people watching Monday, the Midd-West School Board voted to close West Beaver and Perry-West Perry elementary schools.

In the past few years, though, a small Orthodox congregation has been growing and gaining more recognition in the mainly Protestant community.

On Monday, the Midd-West School Board will have to make the final decision to either close two elementary schools or cut programs.

In Union County hazardous materials crews spent much of Monday at a trucking company cleaning up hydrofluoric acid which spilled when a heavy pipe fell and knocked over several barrels of the caustic fluid.

From mere babies to adults, younger to older, women to men -- people in Union County have something in common.

A high turnover rate and low number of applications have kept the number of correctional officers down, worrying the Northumberland County Prison warden.

If you take your dog for a walk in Snyder County, you better make sure you keep Fido off county property.

It has been almost a year since an EF-2 tornado left a path of destruction through Fayette and Monroe townships in Juniata County.

Around 30 senior citizens from Shamokin Dam attended the presentation on how to avoid scams.A Many said they have been targeted in the past, and after Tuesday's lesson they learned how to avoid becoming victims in the future.