Northumberland County News

A borough woman, who allegedly stabbed her live-in boyfriend in the shoulder and back, is behind bars after being arraigned on multiple charges, including two felony counts of aggravated assault.

The following hearings took place Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III.

Northumberland County commissioners agreed Tuesday to research a recommendation to help revitalize deteriorated properties by developing a Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance program that would grant a tax incentive to improve properties within an area designated for revitalization.

Fire investigators were busy in Northumberland County Thursday after a fire ripped through two houses in Coal Township before dawn.

The following hearings took place May 15 before Magisterial District Judge Hugh Jones.

Traffic was backed up on Route 147 east-bound near the Interstate 80 interchange this morning.

A revised lineup has been released for Friday's Anthracite Heritage Festival Parade, set to kick off the eighth annual Anthracite Heritage Festival of the Arts this weekend.

A political newcomer secured his spot on November's ballot as the Democratic nominee for mayor, and, barring a Republican write-in winner, is likely the borough's next mayor.

The low voter turnout was expected in an election with mostly municipal races, noted Alisha Herb, director of the board of elections office.

In addition to the Northumberland County prothonotary's race, two other county row offices will be contested in the November general election.

Point Township supervisor Justin Dunkelberger earned the Republican nomination for prothonotary in Northumberland County's only contested primary race Tuesday.

Authorities in Northumberland County tell Newswatch 16 people are being allowed back into their homes along Carr Avenue in Milton after an apparent natural gas leak Wednesday morning.

At least seven children died in the tornado in Oklahoma and even more are unaccounted for after two elementary schools were destroyed.

Voters, participating this year in an election that is strictly "local," will head to their neighborhood polls Tuesday to nominate candidates for Northumberland County row, municipal and school board offices.

When Republican voters in Kulpmont head to the polls for Tuesday's primary election, they'll have to do some extra typing on the touch-screen voting machine if they want to cast a vote for a candidate.

Atlas, Northumberland County- Several suspicious fires have plagued a Northumberland County neighborhood.

It is a sad week for a family that ran a golf course for four decades in Northumberland County.

A 37-year-old Harrisburg man pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to four counts of delivering crack cocaine in Shamokin and Coal Township and will be sentenced in the near future.

She's the right-back with the striking good looks, and now Toon women's footballer Stephanie Loraine is bidding to the bag the Miss England trophy.

By Mark Gilger AND ANDY HEINTZELMAN Confident the mineral rights matter is settled, Molesevich says he's already doing preliminary test mining on the 419-acre property in hopes of full-out strip mining sometime soon.