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BERWICK — A baking supply store that’s served candy makers and cake decorators for 40 years was on the verge of closing last winter.

Joan Shaffer, who had run Shaffer’s Cake and Candy...

BERWICK — Court records show that bill collector Midland Funding is seeking payments for unpaid credit balances from the following credit holders:

• Cecilia...

BERWICK — If reports of a hatchet attack near a convenience store Saturday afternoon are confirmed, Berwick Police are nearing a record number of assaults in the borough this year, according to...

BERWICK — A lucky player bought a Cash Five lottery ticket worth $600,000 at a gas station here.

Fresh-N Quik sold the $1 ticket for Thursday evening’s drawing.

The jackpot-...

BERWICK —Democratic executive committee members appointed Sandra Slavick as their fourth nominee for the Berwick school board, much to the dismay of Ronald Robsock, the runner-up in the party...

BERWICK — An attorney says a local hog farm couldn’t be the cause of the bacteria polluting the waterway running behind Berwick high school and middle school.

Will-O-Bett Farm hasn’t...

BERWICK — The rough corner of a piece of sheet metal caught a worker in the wrist, slicing through an artery Friday afternoon, a rescuer said.

“It was a little more than a nick” just...

BERWICK — Borough Manager Debra Force has resigned.

Scott Bower, vice president of council, said she turned in her notice Tuesday. Her last official day will be Sept. 18, but she may...

BERWICK — A woman called police to report an intoxicated man allegedly assaulting three women — including the man’s mother — at a LaSalle Street home.

When officers arrived at 331...

BERWICK — Berwick Area United Way is taking its 2017 campaign kickoff to the streets.

The charity is hosting a farm-to-table dinner on Fifth Street between McBride Memorial Library and...

BERWICK — The CEO of Berwick Hospital Center, Diane Ljungquist, retired as of Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed.

Ljungquist’s retirement comes in the midst of rumors the...

BERWICK — The Berwick Bulldogs are coming back to the airwaves starting tonight, WHLM announced Thursday.

Jim Doyle, the long-time voice of Bulldogs football, and Andy Ulicny, his color...

BERWICK — School officials had the air and water around the district tested after a candidate for Salem Township supervisor reported high levels of coliform bacteria in Thompsons Run.

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BERWICK — A 26-year-old Berwick woman died Monday, and investigators have reason to suspect a drug overdose, officials say.

If those suspicions prove true, Chelsea Rybak’s death would...

BERWICK — A man hit his wife and then began pulling his children from their beds and shoving them out into the cold early Saturday, arrest papers say.

But borough police intervened,...

BERWICK — School directors here decided to hold off a year before suspending athletes who don’t meet stricter new academic standards.

Instead, they decided, they want to make sure the...

BERWICK — A Bloomsburg-area man allegedly told a witness to a hit-and-run crash he would “slit the witnesses throat” if anyone contacted police, court papers say.

Berwick Police and...

BERWICK — A woman whose dog killed her neighbor’s pet chickens and a duck was cited with violating the state dog law.

Sandra Grassley, of 806 Pine St., Berwick, was charged with...

BERWICK — A man accused of sending teenage girls nude photos of himself and trying to convince them to reciprocate hugged his tearful mother after agreeing to send his charges to county court...

BERWICK — A Berwick couple is suing a mechanic for $12,000, alleging his garage ruined the engine in their 2009 Pontiac G6.

Steve Paden of Paden Automotive in Berwick counters that he...