Williamsport News

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Friday was a big day for a handful of families in Lycoming County. Seven children were adopted into their new families.

Two high-ranking Pennsylvania House Republican aides who have been active in running political campaigns have announced they are leaving their state jobs, a caucus spokesman said Thursday.

After more than 30 years on the job, first as a paramedic, then ambulance manager, and most recently the patient safety and risk management co-ordinator for Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc., Grace Silander retired last week.

Although gray skies and a cold drizzle served as the backdrop for Williamsport Regional Medical Center's ground-breaking ceremony for a $140 million patient tower, the overall prognosis for the hospital is anything but cloudy.

Unemployment in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area rose in September, inching above 8 percent for the first time since September 1986, according to data released Tuesday by the state Department of Labor and Industry.

First Fee Increase since 1984 Affects All New, Non-Marcellus Shale Wells HARRISBURG- The Department of Environmental Protection has begun collecting higher permit application fees for all traditional vertical non-Marcellus Shale oil and natural gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania to cover the cost of the agency's permitting and enforcement work.

Williamsport, Lycoming County- Billtown's proud past has never been in doubt, but as for its promising future? That's a bit more of a question mark.

A Shamokin woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges she illegally obtained more than $17,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Aging Waiver Program.

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

W. Neil Barto's 180-acre Angus breeding farm reflects a man struggling with burdens.

The defeat of a plan by leaders of the state bar to jump-start the process of overhauling the Pennsylvania Constitution exposed sharp divisions about the role of lawyers in government reform and deep, internalized anxiety that the effort might unleash a torrent of anti-lawyer sentiment.

A Williamsport man charged in a drug-related home invasion in June is now accused of repeatedly threatening the victim in the county prison and while they were being held together while awaiting a court hearing.

A central Pennsylvania man apologized as he was sentenced to 17 to 52 years in the beating death of his girlfriend's young son last year.

A pedestrian was killed in a deadly crash in Lycoming County, according to state police.

Quarterly financial disclosure forms for two U.S. reps. indicate only one will spend to fight challenger.

Madrid October 17, 2009 Grant and Susan Curry Dennis, 3903 Ct. Rt. 14, Madrid, are celebrating their 39th wedding anniversary October 17, 2009, with a quiet dinner together.

If you want to see snow, you'll have to head to central and northern Pennsylvania this weekend.

Former Penn State tailback Austin Scott has filed a civil suit against prosecutors, police and the university two years after authorities dropped charges of rape and other counts against him.

Dog kennels across the state are now facing stricter regulations than ever before.