Shamokin News

Architectural splendor is abundant throughout the Susquehanna Valley landscape in the many houses of worship.

A major street repaving project will get underway in the fall, Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed announced today.

Two borough women will face trial in Montour County on charges related to vandalizing cemeteries and road signs that caused almost $2,000 in damage last spring.

A Shamokin man who was one of more than 20 involved in a regional drug organization has been placed on probation with a warning if he violates it he will go to jail.

Zack McCauslin, 18, of Dillsburg, has gun powder residue rubbed onto him by Dennis DeA walt of Shamokin as part of an initiation into Battery B group.

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.

A preliminary hearing was postponed today for two women charged with vandalizing area cemeteries and other vandalism in Montour County.

BENDAS, HELEN L., 91, of Bloomsburg. Visitation from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. today at Stephen A. Chowka Funeral Home, 114 N. Shamokin St., Shamokin, followed by Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m. at Transfiguration Ukrainian Catholic Church, Shamokin.

As part of a sustainability initiative, Luzerne County Community College, in Shamokin, will be unveiling a new one-year certificate program this week geared to address green-collar workforce needs for the area's renewable energy market.

A former Northumberland County Prison inmate who was released by a county judge after claiming he was assaulted by four correction officers inflicted his own injuries, an independent investigator said Friday.

Todd Aungst, the owner of Penn Selin Air Center, the new tenant at Northumberland County Airport, has a plan that could land a charter service in the region, possibly within six months.

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.

One of the 11 Northumberland County residents arrested last year in a state drug sweep has been sentenced to the mandatory minimum of five years in federal prison.

City police arrested a 22-year-old Shamokin man for allegedly assaulting a woman in front of her 2-year-old daughter.

More than 20,000 books, ranging from $1 hardbacks to 50-cent paperbacks, will highlight the first-ever book sale this weekend in Lewisburg, benefitting The Daily Item's Newspapers in Education.

Police say they have found a sport utility vehicle belonging to a woman who apparently was abducted, with her 9-year-old daughter, in suburban Philadelphia.

During his 17 years with the Shamokin Police Department, John Brown has faced many challenges involving drug and alcohol abusers, street gang members and irate residents.

The Northumberland County commissioners Tuesday terminated a one-year lease and plans for an Elizabethville firm to provide adult day care services after its vice president was charged with stealing money from residents of a nursing home in Selinsgrove.

A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty in Douglas County to sex crimes involving someone he thought was a child.

Pennsylvanians age 65-75 living in Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Union and Columbia counties are needed to participate in a Penn State College of Medicine research study that is assessing health and vitamin D. Researchers are studying how sunlight exposure - and specifically vitamin D, which the body produces after sunlight exposure - may affect ...