Charges filed in city crash
SHAMOKIN - An 18-year-old Valley View man, who fled the scene of a two-vehicle accident at Market and Chestnut streets Friday night following a high-speed chase, has been charged with 11 offenses,...
View ArticleMen wanted for theft of rifles, pistol
SHAMOKIN - Police are continuing their search for two area men charged with stealing six guns from a home at 115 S. First St. Saturday afternoon. Warrants have been issued for the arrests of Ronald A....
View ArticleEx-Northwestern employee files discrimination complaint
COAL TOWNSHIP - A former Northwestern Academy employee has filed a "forced resignation complaint" against the facility and its parent company, Northwestern Human Services (NHS), alleging she was...
View ArticlePolice: Motorcycle crossed line, hit car
TREVORTON - One person remains in serious condition following a three-vehicle crash on Gap Road (Route 2044) at a section known as "dead man's curve" in Zerbe Township Sunday afternoon. Salvatore J....
View ArticleMan charged with sex assault waives hearing
SHAMOKIN - A 34-year-old Shamokin man charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl was recommitted to Northumberland County Prison on Tuesday morning after waiving to court felonies of...
View ArticleShank suspect waives charges
SHAMOKIN - An inmate at SCI-Coal Township charged with stabbing another inmate in the neck with a six-inch metal shank in December was ordered Tuesday morning to appear for a pre-trial conference Oct....
View ArticleRetired teacher killed on bike
CATAWISSA TOWNSHIP - A former art teacher at Southern Columbia Area Middle School was killed Monday morning after his bicycle went out of control and slammed into a pickup truck. Ed Rhoades, 65, of...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 08-01-12
Items stolen UPPER AUGUSTA TOWNSHIP - Jeremy R. Good, 34, of Park Drive, Sunbury, reported to state police at Stonington that sometime between 5 p.m. Sunday and 11:30 p.m. Monday, someone removed...
View ArticlePolice blotter 8/2/12
Simple assaultSHAMOKIN - Sylvia Tinley, 21, of 224 E. Sunbury St., Apt. 2, Shamokin, was charged by Patrolman Jarrod Scandle with simple assault and harassment for allegedly striking her live-in...
View ArticleMan pleads no contest to violating parole for arrest
SUNBURY - A Coal Township man charged two years ago with assaulting the operator of a local oil company pleaded no contest Thursday afternoon to violating his parole after being arrested in...
View ArticlePolice blotter 8/3/12
BurglaryDORNSIFE - A floor safe with money and documents was stolen from Vinnie Klock, of Hillcrest Drive, in Little Mahanoy Township, between July 27 and Aug. 1, according to state police at...
View ArticleLandlord's pickets result in libel lawsuit
SHAMOKIN - Picket signs that landlord Barry Getchey has used to express criticism of Shamokin Housing Authority officials have resulted in a libel suit. Raymond G. "Jerry" Splane, authority chairman,...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 8/4/12
Disorderly conductKULPMONT - Three Kulpmont adults and one juvenile were charged for disorderly conduct relating to a fight that occurred at approximately 6 p.m. July 25, according to Kulpmont Police...
View ArticlePolice Blotter 08-06-12
Criminal mischiefMONROE TOWNSHIP - State police at Selinsgrove reported a vehicle owned by Nicole Heintzelman, of Mount Pleasant Mills, was struck by a white paintball along Route 11 at the...
View ArticleFamily's pop-up struck after leaving Knoebels
BEAR GAP - A family who witnessed a tree destroy a pop-up camper and injure a teenage girl Sunday at the Knoebels Amusement Resort campground had their own pop-up camper destroyed Monday in a...
View ArticleEx-substitute to appear for pre-trial conference
SUNBURY - A former substitute teacher for Shamokin Area School District is scheduled to appear for a pre-trial conference next month after deciding not to enter a guilty plea in the case Friday....
View ArticleAtlas woman caught with drugs in her bra
BLOOMSBURG - An Atlas women being brought back to prison on a probation violation had a dozen heroin-soaked cotton balls hidden inside her bra, police told a local newspaper. Police said Kylee Wargo,...
View ArticleMan bites roommate, hits officer
SHAMOKIN - A 42-year-old Shamokin man who told police he's killed 16 people is in Northumberland County Prison today after allegedly biting his roommate in the neck, resisting arrest and spitting in...
View ArticlePolice blotter 8/7/12
Teen in crashSHAMOKIN TOWNSHIP - A Paxinos teen was uninjured in a crash at 4:38 p.m. on Irish Valley Road.State police at Stonington report the 16-year-old Paxinos female was traveling west on Irish...
View ArticleRV slides off road; couple, grandkids OK
CLEVELAND TOWNSHIP - A Massachusetts couple and their four grandchildren were safe and smiling as they stood along Hemlock Road Monday morning near Lake Glory Campground, happy to have escaped without...
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