News from Berwick

BERWICK — A 39-year-old man who started waving around a sawed-off shotgun and screaming caused alarmed bystanders to call 9-1-1, police said.

Dominick Adrian Mas was kneeling on the...

BERWICK — Rescuers prepared to evacuate part of the nursing home formerly known as Berwick Retirement Village on Wednesday after smoke filled a vacant wing.

In the end, firefighters...

BERWICK — Here are Berwick Middle School honor roll students for the fourth marking period:

Distinguished Honors

• Fifth grade — Nathan Allen...

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

Distinguished Honors

• Ninth grade — Rebecca...

BERWICK — Berwick scored 5 runs in the sixth, but it wasn’t enough to beat Jersey shore, as it lost, 7-5, in American Legion baseball.

Catcher Gabe Evensen had two...

BERWICK — A mother accused of having a large supply of drugs and packaging materials in the home where she lived with her three young children quietly agreed Monday to face the charges in...

BERWICK — Berwick’s Iaonnis Stout earned the win on the mound and provided the game-winning hit to lift Berwick’s Junior American Legion team to a 5-4 win over Danville in...

BERWICK — Teagan Shortldige scattered two hits and struck out 10 and Max Slusser drove in three runs to lead Berwick’s American Legion team to a 10-0 win...

BERWICK — A 19-year-old high school student accused of brandishing a knife at a seventh-grader at a school bus stop had the most serious charges against him withdrawn Monday.

Alex...

BERWICK — Supporters of a plan to plant fruit trees along Thompson Run and a native wildflower meadow by West Berwick Elementary brought a panel of experts to Monday’s school board meeting who...

BERWICK — Berwick council is considering barring firefighters who have medical marijuana cards from active service with the department.

Monday night’s discussion followed a...

BERWICK — Nonprofit organizations can send some of their employees to a program sponsored by the Columbia-Montour Chamber of Commerce through a scholarship offered by Danville’s Neighbors...

BERWICK — The mother of one of the students whose pictures were digitally removed from the new Berwick Area High School yearbook says she went out of her way to make sure she filled out...

BERWICK — A Berwick woman is facing assault charges after arguing with her boyfriend on the way home from a wedding, police said.

Madelin Garcia, 30, of 330 Oak St.,...

BERWICK — Jeff Taylor and Xander Shaffer pitched well enough to put Berwick’s American Legion in a position to win, which it did with help from Ryan...

BERWICK — A woman who stepped between two men to break up a fight was slammed to the ground and repeatedly tased by one of the combatants, court papers say.

Samantha Robinson was...

BERWICK — Braylon Edwards tripled, Grant Albertson drove in two runs and Berwick defeated Bloomsburg, 4-2, in Junior Legion baseball Thursday evening.

BERWICK — A Bloomsburg man accused of threatening to kill his estranged wife wept Wednesday as she testified against him at his preliminary hearing.

Salaam Jacobs, 39, of 3811 Bisset...

BERWICK — Greysen Kupsky had two hits and drove in two runs and Braylon Hawkins scored twice in Berwick’s 6-1 win over Swoyersville in Junior Legion baseball...

BERWICK — A Shickshinny man stopped for a broken vehicle light had marijuana in the car, police say.

Tyler William Palmer, 26, of 44 Sleepy Hollow Lane, was stopped...