Coal Township News

Authorities say a Coal Township, Pa. man spit at another man during a Texas Hold 'Em game at the casino.

The 31st annual veterans memorial service will be held Sunday at Clark's Grove United Methodist Church in Irish Valley.

Larry Deklinski/Staff Photo A closer view of an 8-by-18-foot hand-painted billboard that advertised Fuhrmann and Schmidt Brewing Company.

A state police fire marshal is unable to determine the cause of a three-alarm fire that gutted one West Arch Street home and caused severe damage to two others early Thursday morning.

Fire investigators were busy in Northumberland County Thursday after a fire ripped through two houses in Coal Township before dawn.

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Traffic was backed up on Route 147 east-bound near the Interstate 80 interchange this morning.

The fire started at 1237 West Arch Street in Coal Township around two a.m. There were reports of fire shooting through the roof of the building.

The following hearings took place Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III.

A revised lineup has been released for Friday's Anthracite Heritage Festival Parade, set to kick off the eighth annual Anthracite Heritage Festival of the Arts this weekend.

Coal Township Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 317 will collect worn American flags at its booth, No.

The male escort and pornographer from Virginia - who murdered his chief rival in the gay porn industry, Bryan Kocis, 44, of Dallas Township - is seeking Post Conviction Collateral Relief, a form of an appeal.

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The annual Memorial Day March, which will be held at 7 a.m. Monday, May 27, is being organized by the Joint Area Veterans Organizations, the Shamokin and Coal Township fire departments and the Shamokin and Coal Township police departments.

Voters, participating this year in an election that is strictly "local," will head to their neighborhood polls Tuesday to nominate candidates for Northumberland County row, municipal and school board offices.

Matthew Liendo, of 1432 W. State St., Coal Township, to Sara D. Coulbourn, of 422 Jasmine Road, Paxinos.

Louise Cuff doesn't drink, but she wanted to try the DUI simulator at Saturday's inaugural Police Day at town park.

Senior Erica Gammon and seventh-grade student Jennifer Kozlowski have been selected as students of the month for March at Shamokin Area Middle-High School.

A Hamburg law firm was hired Monday on a split vote of city council to negotiate a new contract with the police union.

A 37-year-old Harrisburg man pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to four counts of delivering crack cocaine in Shamokin and Coal Township and will be sentenced in the near future.