News from Berwick

BERWICK — A woman’s boyfriend clubbed the father of her son with a pipe recently when the man came to her home, police said.

Jeffrey Wagner told officers he arrived at...

BERWICK — The Bulldogs will have a new leader roaming the sidelines next fall — Frank Sheptock, the district’s athletic director and the former football coach for Wilkes University.

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BERWICK — The Berwick Anti-Drug Alliance is looking for ideas from residents for its 2016 programs.

The group is holding its organizational meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at McBride Memorial...

BERWICK — A heavy box fell off a high shelf and struck a Kmart shopper in the head, a lawsuit claims.

Patricia Strzelecki of South Centre Township says she suffered a concussion, “...

BERWICK — A Briar Creek couple must pay $3,941 in penalties plus give up their dogs after authorities allegedly found two dogs and a puppy starving and in filth.

But James Foust and...

BERWICK — A mother of three caught peddling heroin with her boyfriend will now stand trial in county court.

Rose M. Stokes, 26, has been jailed since her arrest Nov....

BERWICK —Kathleen Bower got to hold her two smallest children for the first time in months during a recent court appearance.

Bower, 24 and the mother of five, managed to give her 3-...

BERWICK — Commonwealth Health Berwick Hospital Center has been recognized as a 2014 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures by The Joint Commission, leading accreditor of health care...

BERWICK — Tumbling prices for recycled plastics and metal have brought an end to drop-offs at Team Green in Berwick.

The business is no longer accepting plastics, metal, glass,...

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to these calls from Nov. 29 to Dec. 5:

Nov. 29

•1:32 a.m. — 1000 block Fifth Avenue, PFA violation

•6:13 a.m. — 200...

BERWICK — Doors to the former Berwick Armory unexpectedly swung open to youth wrestlers Friday night even though the building had been condemned by borough officials due to alleged safety and...

BERWICK — A heroin-addicted father was running a methamphetamine lab on East Ninth Street here with the help of a roommate and the mother of one of his children, police say.

Aaron Paul...

BERWICK — A Berwick man jailed for allegedly stealing a car from a friend saw the charges dropped Thursday when neither the victim nor a witness showed up for court.

But Randy Allen...

BERWICK — Officers answering a 9-1-1 call for domestic violence Thursday morning said they discovered a meth lab inside a house. Late Thursday night, two men arrested at 519 E. Ninth St....

BERWICK — Police were putting together a warrant to search the home of a suspected heroin dealer Thursday afternoon when the man was seen leaving the building.

Officers arrested him on...

BERWICK — Berwick is looking to hire a new head football coach by the time students leave for Christmas break, superintendent Wayne Brookhart said.

Whoever is hired has big shoes to...

BERWICK — Over 200 youth wrestlers, cheerleaders and soccer players may see their entire winter indoor seasons wiped out after borough code officials shut down the former Berwick Armory...

BERWICK — There will be therapy donkeys at the Salvation Army from noon to 4 this Saturday to support the Salvation Army, says Neil Young of Young’s Funny Farm.

BERWICK — When David Zimmerman Jr.’s family members watched him get handcuffed and hauled away by police last month, they expected he might be admitted to a psychiatric ward for some time....

BERWICK — A teen punched a girl in the mouth at Berwick High School at 11:45 a.m. Dec. 2, police say.

Sean P. McCole, 18, of 554 W. Front St., Berwick, was cited with...