News from Berwick

BERWICK — A convicted killer tried to murder a prison guard from the Berwick area last weekend in his cell, slashing the man’s throat with a razor-tipped shank from ear to Adam’s apple and...

BERWICK — The annual parade of rail cars from Northumberland to here and back to collect toys and cash donations for the Toys for Tots campaign will take place Saturday, Dec. 5.

The...

BERWICK — The following civil lawsuits have been filed in the office of District Judge Richard Knecht. The defendants in such cases sometimes settle claims soon after they have...

BERWICK — The Run for the Diamonds pasta dinner will take place Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at the Elks Lodge in Berwick.

The dinner will have a guest speaker, author and motivational...

BERWICK — An intoxicated man found bleeding in the road attacked an ambulance worker, stabbing the EMT in the thigh twice with his own trauma scissors, authorities say.

Wayne Allen...

BERWICK — A Bloomsburg University student tried to pull an officer’s gun out of his holster during a scuffle, police say.

Akilah Eliza Cunningham, 18, Philadelphia, was part of a group...

BERWICK — Berwick unveiled two memorials Saturday — one honoring the rescuers killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, and the other saluting all veterans.

A World Trade Center replica now...

BERWICK — A landlord who has tangled with the borough over whether people in rent-to-own agreements are tenants has been cited five times by the codes office.

Fred Berlin failed to pay...

BERWICK — When Bridgett Coolbaugh heard Life Flight being dispatched to Berwick Nov. 4, she didn’t give it much thought.

As the wife of the fire chief and a volunteer herself, the radio...

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to the following calls from Nov. 8-14.

Nov. 8

•12:18 p.m. — 1800 block North Market Street, road rage

•5 p.m. — 700...

BERWICK — Berwick football coach George Curry, whose health has been in obvious decline for months, has confirmed that he has a “neurological disorder.”

At last week’s playoff game...

BERWICK — One of the two young men accused of the armed robbery of Sneidman’s Jewelry in Bloomsburg earlier this year had a history of charges stemming from when he was a minor, police said....

BERWICK — A drug raid Thursday netted one of the largest amounts of heroin — about 20 bricks worth about $8,000 on the street — ever found in a single bust here, police say.

Jess T....

BERWICK — Here are Berwick Area High School honor roll students for the first marking period:

Distinguished Honors

• Ninth grade — Jacob B....

BERWICK — At her arraignment Tuesday night on charges she illegally stored and dumped meth waste at a Berwick trailer, Kathleen Bower told a judge she didn’t know where her five children were...

BERWICK — A drunken and belligerent Nescopeck man beat up his girlfriend and her 7-year-old son after the boy had a bathroom accident, police say.

Gary Allen Slusser, 43, was drunk when...

BERWICK — Registration for the 106th annual Run for the Diamonds is now open to all runners.

Registration forms can be picked up at the Berwick and Bloomsburg YMCAs, and Harry’s...

BERWICK — State Police will conduct free child safety-seat checks 3 to 7 p.m. today at Bethany Blessings Christian Preschool, 116 Summerhill Ave., Berwick.

All parents and caregivers...

BERWICK — Jennifer Nevel walked down Fifth Avenue until she got to the police tape.

“I just want to see if it was Michael’s house,” she said.

It was.

Michael...

BERWICK — A Berwick woman accused of pocketing the money from her daughter’s doughnut fundraiser sales was released after spending 18 days in jail.

Julie May Vargo, 1503 Chestnut St.,...