Sunbury News

Although the Susquehanna River Valley has no Thanksgiving story equal to the pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock, area residents should be grateful for the successful relationship between Shikellamy, who attended to the affairs and interests of the Six Nations of Iroquois, and Conrad Weiser, negotiator and interpreter for the Provincial Council of ...

City police have filed more charges against the man they allege helped lead a burglary ring that robbed homeowners of up to $200,000 worth of possessions.

Police are releasing few details about the execution of a search warrant at a second-floor residence at South Second and Walnut streets Monday evening.

City police searched a second-floor residence at South Second and Walnut streets Monday evening, in what one officer called an "ongoing drug investigation." Three patrol cars plus unmarked cars parked next to the house as police entered and took photos inside.

A Point Township man attacked a police officer and caused $912 in damage at the police station when he went berserk while awaiting his arraignment on a domestic assault charge, authorities said.

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.

A 20-year-old city man was sentenced to state prison for aggravated assault stemming from a January stabbing.

Twenty years after winning his first election as mayor and four years after losing his fifth re-election bid to Mayor Jesse C. Woodring, David L. Persing is throwing his hat back into the ring in pursuit of the city's top job.

A program planned for Nov. 5 aims to let residents know what services are available to them in the city to help improve their quality of life.

Well, all of a sudden it seems like there's a lot of music going on, at least this week.

A Bloomsburg University student from Sunbury was among four firefighters who pulled a man from a burning downtown building Sunday morning.

Mark Brumbach, the alleged leader of a burglary ring that robbed homeowners of up to $200,000 worth of possessions in Northumberland and Snyder counties, was heard for the first time in district court Thursday, but he didn't seem to remember much.

A 39-year-old city man was jailed Friday for allegedly drugging and raping a Northumberland man Wednesday.

A man accused of shooting two people to death inside a city apartment in January 2008 was so actively engaged in the proceedings at a pre-trial hearing that, at one point, Michael Harrell attempted to correct the district attorney.

A member of the city's Crime Watch will be forced to relinquish his fluorescent vest after being arrested in a drunken tussle with police earlier this month.

Motorists in Northumberland County are advised that a section of Route 147 is closed south of the intersection with Hallowing Run Road in Lower Augusta Township at this hour.

Valley libraries may buy fewer books, stop programs and reduce hours as they face the 20.1 percent funding cut in the state budget signed last Friday.

Attorney General Tom Corbett today announced that agents from the Attorney General's Public Corruption Unit have filed criminal charges against the former director of the Northumberland County Drug & Alcohol Department, who is accused of concealing his outside employment with businesses that had contracts with his department, billing private ...

The Milton Borough Council's planning commission on Tuesday night approved a $32 million plan to build the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi River in a portion of the Milton Industrial Park.

The Eastern Coca-Cola Bottling Co. has announced that it is closing its Sunbury sales center and moving operations to an already established facility in Harrisburg.