Kulpmont News

A late-night fire badly damaged a duplex in Northumberland County. Neighbors said it was actually a pet dog that alerted everyone to the fire.

One person was hurt when fire broke out in a double home in Kulpmont Wednesday night.

A 28-year-old Northumberland County woman died Saturday when her car collided head-on with a pickup truck just after 2 p.m. in Rush Township.

Participants head through Northumberland after the start of the 5th Annual Marlee Reed Memorial Ride Sunday morning from the American Legion Post 44 in Northumberland.

Daily Item file photoThe Marlee Reed Memorial Ride raises about $2,000 a year to benefit the Marlee Reed Memorial Fund, the Child Advocacy Center and the Susquehanna Valley Chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse.

A police investigation into the April 19 bullmastiff attack that injured 9-year-old Amanda Smith, of 1039 Chestnut St., cleared another dog of charges made by neighbors that it was running loose and provoked the bullmastiff into a rage.

A community stunned by the mauling of a 9-year-old girl by a bullmastiff has opened its heart and now its pocketbook to aid the victim and her family.

Robert Inglis/The Daily ItemNine-year-old Amanda Smith, left, of Kulpmont, sits at home Thursday with her friend, Jessica Milewski, 11 days after being critically injured by a bullmastiff.

The nine-year-old girl attacked by a dog in Northumberland County last week is home from the hospital and shared the story of her ordeal.

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

The bullmastiff that attacked and seriously injured a 9-year-old Kulpmont girl will be euthanized.

A dog that attacked two girls in Northumberland County will be put down and its owner ticketed.

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

This is the section of Maple Street in Kulpmont, Northumberland County, where a bullmastiff mauled 9-year-old Amanda Smith.

Tressa Reiner said all she wants from a fundraiser she and her co-worker are planning is success to help the family of Amanda Smith.

No one knows why a bullmastiff horribly mauled little Amanda Smith on Sunday. If the history of man's relationship with canines means anything, it is likely that a human is at least indirectly to blame.

One day after being horribly mauled by a bullmastiff in an alley off Chestnut Street on Sunday afternoon, 9-year-old Amanda Smith was in critical, but stable condition, in a medically induced coma at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

Handmade get-well cards from Kelly Elementary School third-graders highlighted an outpouring of support Tuesday for a 9-year-old Kulpmont girl who was mauled Sunday by a dog.

No one knows why a bullmastiff horribly mauled little Amanda Smith on Sunday. If the history of man's relationship with canines means anything, it is likely that a human is at least indirectly to blame.

The family of a nine-year-old girl is keeping vigil for her recovery after she and another girl were attacked by the dog they were walking in Northumberland County.