News from Berwick

BERWICK — When police responded to a report of a young child unattended outside a home here, officers found a passed out man who later told police he had smoked synthetic marijuana.

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BERWICK — An 8-year-old girl is so anxious to see the entire Jackson Mansion, she is paying for some of the restoration herself.

Jayde Bafile is the youngest antique sponsor for the...

BERWICK — A woman who used counterfeit $100 bills at several Scott Township stores didn’t know the money was fake, according to her mother.

Sara Elizabeth Rimmer, 20, got the money from...

BERWICK — After a Nescopeck-area woman crashed into a parked truck early Sept. 5, she went to a home to alert the truck’s owner, police say.

But when officers arrived, they suspected...

BERWICK — A man found passed out in a pickup outside the Burger King here registered an intoxication level nearly triple the driving limit, plus told police he had taken anxiety pills that...

BERWICK — Berwick Offray is selling a lace ribbon with a pattern identical to a design created by a longtime supplier, a copyright lawsuit says.

Offray’s Lucy ribbon bears a pattern...

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to these calls from Sept. 6-12:

Sept. 6

•3:11 a.m. — 500 block West Second Street, disturbance

•11:19 a.m. — 1600...

BERWICK — The owners of a popular Chinese restaurant finally got “peace of mind” when the man accused of burglarizing their home agreed to pay $10,000 in restitution, plus provide information...

BERWICK — A man accused of pulling a gun on motorcyclists who annoyed him with the noise from their bikes saw several counts dismissed recently after his alleged victims agreed to a plea...

BERWICK — A change in Berwick’s football schedule, and a proposed change to the structure of the PIAA football system, could give area football fans a game they’ve wanted for nearly 20 years —...

BERWICK — A Bulldog “super fan” who was banned from attending home football games over his involvement in a recruiting effort earlier this year still won’t be allowed in the stands this season...

BERWICK — A crew collecting trash in the borough had to stop its route recently because a laptop battery caught fire after it apparently cracked during compacting.

The man riding on the...

BERWICK — Clayton Drasher Jr. is back in jail on new assault charges a week after pleading guilty to severely beating a woman in Salem Township.

Drasher, 42, of 217 W...

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to these calls from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5:

Aug. 30

•7:31 a.m. — 1100 block First Avenue, theft

•9:54 a.m. — 300 block...

BERWICK — The Columbia County Coroner’s Office is looking for any relatives of the late Howard Gearhart, 73, of Lark Drive, Lot 12, Berlin’s Trailer Court.

Gearhart...

BERWICK — A man accused of stealing a dry-erase marker from the South Centre Township Police station, then using it to vandalize the building and sidewalk, saw most of the charges dropped in a...

BERWICK — Five days after pleading guilty to violently beating one woman, Clayton Drasher Jr. is wanted for allegedly attacking another.

It was the latest in a string of domestic...

BERWICK — The day after he shot his girlfriend’s estranged husband in the back and dumped the body in the woods,Eleazar “Quest” Yisrael drove the dead man’s car to Berwick, police say.

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BERWICK — A district judge dismissed most of the charges against a man accused of attacking his girlfriend after the alleged victims told very different stories than police say they told the...

BERWICK — Tonight’s free concert in Berwick has been moved indoors to Reliance Fire Co., 501 W. Third St., said Councilman Jay Jarrett.

The show starts at 7; chairs...