Bloomsburg News

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A Bloomsburg man who state police said led troopers on a low-speed chase April 3 was released from a mental health ward and apprehended Tuesday.

A Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to selling thousands of counterfeit goods, including military-grade integrated circuits, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison.

The Title IX complaints by the Women's Law Project were submitted late Wednesday to the U.S. Department of Education.

State police in Snyder County said they arrested a man who they believe led authorities on a high-speed chase earlier in April.

Town police issued in excess of 200 non-traffic citations and 17 traffic citations during Block Party Weekend this past weekend.

For most Americans, the only significance of Labor Day is that it concludes a three day weekend.

Tomorrow is the annual Bloomsburg Block Party for university students. It has gained a reputation of creating all kinds of trouble.

At 95, she occasionally can be seen sweeping the street in front of her house. That's something Washingtonville Mayor Esther Cotner has been doing for many years.

The case against a Bloomsburg man accused of choking his girlfriend in December to the point where the victim's 13-year-old son pointed a shotgun at him to get him to stop was sent to county court.

A Bloomsburg wine store will move to Riverside near the end of April. Shade Mountain Winery will open a satellite store in the old train station along D&H Avenue, the former site of the English Garden store.

Sure, that's a crass question. Any liberal arts professor worth his or her office key should be able to give you 10 minutes on how a well-rounded education gives you the tools to confront and embrace life, in order to yadda yadda yadda, and so on and so forth.

The Danville-Riverside Bridge will be closed to all truck and non-local traffic for three days in June to facilitate the replacement of a railroad crossing here.

Work began on Tuesday to clean up the Moose Exchange in Bloomsburg after fire damaged the building at the end of January.

As the Rutgers quarterback competition took shape over the weekend, three quarterbacks emerged as contenders for the starting job.

For most Americans, the only significance of Labor Day is that it concludes a three day weekend.

Houston-based Windsor Foods announced closure of the Bloomsburg plant last fall, and a company spokeswoman told The Press Enterprise that the last day of production was March 14. Sue Snyder, an administrator with PA CareerLink, said some other companies tried to hire workers before the closure.

Authorities searched the rubble of a burned-out farm house over the weekend for the cause of a fire that took the lives of three young brothers left home alone while their widowed mother worked the overnight shift at a direct mail company.

Christine Dissinger stood in front of locker E-99 at Danville Middle School, its opened purple door surrounded by hand-written cards, and broke down in tears.

For most Americans, the only significance of Labor Day is that it concludes a three day weekend.