Danville News

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a fiery crash Wednesday evening in Columbia County.

Nearly two weeks after a crash took the life of a 21-year-old Freeburg woman, no charges have been filed against the driver who rear-ended her and sent her vehicle spinning into the opposite lane, where she collided with an oncoming vehicle.

A man who lived with a couple allegedly assaulted the woman and raped her at gunpoint.

Geisinger Medical Center on Friday confirmed its second patient death from swine flu within a week.

Burglars took more than 100 cartons of cigarettes and about $200 in cash during an overnight break-in this weekend at Leighow's Food Shop and Subway restaurant on McCracken Road off Route 54 here.

David Yohey emptied five fire extinguishers on a blaze that broke out in a room at the Stone Castle Motel here Friday night, hustling from the fire to the canisters attached at stops along the exterior walls.

A Valley teenager and a woman involved in two separate crashes late last week both remain in critical condition at Geisinger Medical Center.

Danville, Montour County- An oversized load, stuck in Montour County the past couple weeks, got back on the road Tuesday.

Motorists in the Danville-Riverside area are advised that an oversized load broke down briefly on the Danville-Riverside Bridge this morning.

Ashley Rawlings, of Freeburg, has only lived in her home along Route 35 since July, but already she is seeing what many long-term resident have been frustrated by for years.

A Coal Township man was injured in a fiery motorcycle accident Sunday night south of Trevorton, according to the state police at Stonington.

DANVILLE, MONTOUR COUNTY Geisinger Medical Center is confirming its first death resulting from the H1N1 virus.

Three Danville cheerleaders were hurt, one critically, when an SUV hit a fence and utility pole here Thursday before rolling over multiple times, according to officials.

Geisinger Medical Center has confirmed their first H1N1, or swine flu, death. The death is the first known in the valley.

A 16-year-old Danville girl was seriously injured when she was thrown from a sport utility vehicle after it crashed into a fence and a telephone pole and rolled multiple times before coming to rest on its roof at 4:35 p.m. Thursday on Liberty Valley Road in Valley Township, Montour County, state police at Milton said.

Eric J. Smith of Philadelphia is shown in this 2008 file photo following his arrest for an armed robbery at Ryan's Jewelers in Danville.

While private-transportation officials determine the route taken by oversized loads, municipal officials can refuse access to local roads if there is a compelling reason.

Sunbury YMCA is hiring staff for the YMCA Youth Center, afternoon & evening hrs.

The Danville Area School District's results on Pennsylvania System of School Assessment tests are above state averages and continue to rise each year in the various grade levels.

Officials believe they have found an alligator that escaped from a wildlife officer who brought the animal to his daughter's school for show and tell.