Snyder County News

After two decades presiding on the bench in Snyder County Court, President Judge Harold F. Woelfel Jr.

A Freeburg woman suffered serious injuries Friday night when her car was struck by two vehicles on Route 35 in Washington Township, Snyder County.

In Snyder County police are investigating a series of suspicious fires and need help to find those responsible.

After more than eight years of waiting, Selinsgrove borough officials want to know when they will receive a more than $100,000 grant to establish an emergency access ramp on the Isle of Que.

The September unemployment rates in Central Pennsylvania continue to climb, with the largest spikes in the Mifflin and Snyder county areas, according to data released by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

A teenager was struck by a shotgun blast in Snyder County. Now police are investigating the shooting.

Earlier this month a math teacher from Ohio took home first prize and set a world record at the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers with her 1,725-pound pumpkin.

October was one of the Valley's wettest months in recent history, a meteorologist said Friday, and it's not over yet.

A man who identified himself only as the father of a 14-year-old boy who accidentally shot another in the arm Thursday night with a 20-gauge, double-barrel shotgun said the two had been filming a YouTube video on gun safety.

Police in Snyder County are invsetigating what is being called an accidental shooting.

Unopposed in Tuesday's election to become a Union-Snyder county judge, Snyder County District Attorney Michael H. Sholley has been able to take it easy as far as campaigning is concerned, but there really is no rest for the challenge that lies before him.

One of Snyder County's largest employers announced more layoffs on Monday. Wood-Mode Inc.

By the end of the year, a local transportation organization should know whether it will have the funds to be the first business to unearth ground in the Pawling Station Business Park.

A 31-year-old Snyder County man was jailed Monday on charges he stalked and threatened to kill a former girlfriend.

Attorney Irvin Graybill Jr. does not gloss over his failings - he asked that his story be told "warts and all." From his Market street law office in Middleburg, Graybill recalled working at a Baltimore shipyard before quitting in 1943 to join the Army when he was 19.

A convicted sex offender in Snyder County is facing new charges. State police said John Shirk of Middleburg took five-year-old girls on tractor rides between 2007 and 2008 and touched them inappropriately.

A convicted sex offender on Pennsylvania's Megan's Law list has been accused of molesting four girls, ages 5-10, over a two-year-period. John Garman Shirk, 61, of 25 Pine Ridge Lane, Center Township, told police he took two 5-year-old girls on a tractor ride in a field at 6 p.m. Sept.

State police who approached a rural Snyder County home to serve a warrant on a summary violation discovered two marijuana growing operations in neighboring houses.

More than 1,000 of Snyder County's 38,000 people are on probation or parole, or in prison.

David F. Bone, 64, of Mechanicsburg, Pa., died of hypothermia after getting lost in Bald Eagle State Forest in western Snyder County this week, Snyder County Coroner Bruce N. Hummel said.