News from Berwick

BERWICK — Timothy H. Babb, 56, of 222 E. 10th St., Berwick, was found guilty of carrying a loaded rifle in a vehicle March 16 and fined $323.

Other citations recently...

BERWICK — An ambulance was dispatched to Wise Foods snack food plant here Thursday morning on a report that a man in his 20s had been injured in an incident involving a forklift.

The...

BERWICK — When police saw a man walking the streets alone with a backpack after 2 a.m. Friday, they thought he looked suspicious, arrest papers say.

Before the end of their...

BERWICK — The first time playing any sport at the varsity level can be nerve-wracking.

Besides some jitters he had while warming up before the game, that wasn’t the case for Berwick’s...

BERWICK — The following civil complaints have been filed in the office of District Judge Richard W. Knecht.

Defendants in such cases sometimes settle claims soon after...

BERWICK — Police showed up to the Fresh ‘N’ Quick on North Market Street on March 14 thinking a wanted man might be there.

He wasn’t, but the man they had received a tip about did have...

BERWICK — Police are looking for a Berwick man they say repeatedly locked two children in closets as punishment.

The youngsters, ages 9 and 5, also told police they slept in the closets...

BERWICK — Police are still looking for a man accused of stabbing another man outside a bar March 8.

Officers have been looking for Bryan Oneill Arriaga-Soto, 24, 304 W...

BERWICK — A Danville man told police that a scale he was carrying in his pocket was for weighing pennies and nickels, charges state.

But officers say the scale had meth clinging to it,...

BERWICK — A woman with power of attorney over another woman’s financial affairs quietly agreed to forgo her preliminary hearing on charges that she stole more than $6,500 from the other woman’s...

BERWICK — Both Brooklyn and Kenzie Wright know what it’s like to grow up as foster kids.

So it was easy for them to decide to ask for donations for foster children instead of birthday...

BERWICK — A woman who was allegedly stalked electronically by her ex-husband told police that her new fiancé beat her, leaving her with two broken ribs.

Police said they were summoned...

BERWICK — A Bloomsburg man stopped for erratic driving just after 1 a.m. on March 17, had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, police said.

Thomas McCormick,...

BERWICK — Students here will be going to school the Thursday before Easter, while their teachers will have an additional training day at the end of the school year to make up for snow days,...

BERWICK — When police stopped a New York man for erratic driving on Feb. 15, they found he was dealing drugs out of the trunk of his car, court papers state.

Arthur Burk, 50, had...

BERWICK — A long-running feud between neighbors appears headed to court.

For months, Lori and Greg Clemens of East Sixth Street have asked borough council to enforce an...

BERWICK — A grandfather accused of leaving three young children alone in a house that reeked of raw marijuana and that had open containers of alcohol out in plain sight agreed to face the...

BERWICK — A driver escaped injury but was charged with speeding after a one-car crash early Sunday on North Market Street, Berwick Police report.

Thomas J. McCormick...

BERWICK — School directors here say they’d like to see the Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech School be expanded, though not to the level in the most expensive option presented by Vo-Tech officials....

BERWICK — Standing at a podium in a Slippery Rock University hoodie and a baseball cap, Luther Coleman Jr. didn’t look at all like a newly minted millionaire. And by his own admission, he was...