Coal Township News

The fate of a city bar investigated after numerous community and police complaints may rest on whether the Northumberland County district attorney asks a judge to sanction Maggie Maloney's. Sgt.

After enticing two people outside the White House Cafe during an argument in 2006, Marc Smith pulled a gun and fired multiple shots as the victims tried to flee, one of the victims testified Tuesday.

A 25-year veteran of the state prison system will become the new warden of the Northumberland County Prison next month, following his appointment by the Northumberland County Prison Board on Tuesday.

Northumberland County officials are upset and seeking answers to why their application for $4.45 million in state funds to refurbish abandoned properties in Shamokin, Mount Carmel and Coal Township has been denied.

Two Philadelphia narcotics officers taken off street duty because of an ongoing probe have been sued by a Southwest Philadelphia couple who contend police planted drugs seized during their June 2007 arrests.

Funeral at 2 p.m. today at Brookside Ministries, Shamokin Dam. Burial in Fairview Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Mills.

Jun. 1--The annual reunion of the 557th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, which had more soldiers from Shamokin than any other town, was held for the 60th time on May 15 and 16.

A program that allows people to buy groceries at a half-off price is drawing more and more people to Valley churches.

For Bob and Gloria Swinehart, of Trevorton, life dramatically changed on Oct. 14, 2008.

Visitation from 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Brady Funeral Home, 320 Church St., Danville, followed by funeral at 11.

Shamokin Area High School's prom king and queen are Kory Kramer, 18, son of Mark and Michelle Kramer, of Stonington, and Shaelyn Murphy, 18, daughter of Crystal Pickering, of Coal Township.

A Montour County woman who was paroled from Northumberland County Prison in February following the beating death of her 4-year-old son, allegedly at the hands of her own mother, is fighting a court's proposal to resentence her as a Megan's Law offender.

Police Captured 16 year old Arnold Jenty at the Bridge Street Apartments at about eleven-thirty Thursday morning.

The juvenile facility that lost custody of Arnold Jeanty during transport to a Monroe County hearing is used extensively by the Monroe County Juvenile Probation Department.

It took police about half an hour to clear every room in the apartment where the teen was hiding.

Police are investigating a fire on top of a mountain that involved crosses near the city of Shamokin.

BIDDING, JACK A., 86, of Landisville. Visitation from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 85 Brandt Blvd., Landisville, followed by funeral at 10:30. Private burial.

The woman whose bullmastiff attacked and seriously injured a 9-year old borough girl has agreed to have her dog euthanized.

Fourteen people were left homeless after a two-alarm fire destroyed a three-story apartment building late Friday night.

We have a fascinating story of a long lost class ring returned home. The high school ring has been on a 60 year odyssey across half the country and back.