Category Archives: Local News

MAN STRANGLES WIFE, TELLS POLICE IT WAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE A man from Williamsport was arrested this week on charges that he attempted to kill his wife earlier this year by strangulation but tried to m...

POSSIBLE VANDALISM IN EMPTY LOYALSOCK RESIDENCE Authorities were called to a home in Loyalsock Township yesterday to investigate a potential fire, but instead found a destroyed home allegedly an inten...

CITY CARJACKING SUSPECT ARRESTED IN CARBON COUNTY The man seen on surveillance cameras carjacking a victim in Williamsport Sunday afternoon was arrested for another carjacking Monday September 23rd. A...

WILLIAMSPORT STUDENT FOUND WITH GUN IN BACKPACK A student at Williamsport area high school was taken into custody Wednesday by state police after school officials conducted a drug search based on reas...

WORK ON SNYDER COUNTY SEWER LINE TODAY Work for the replacement of the broken sewer pipe that broke Sunday near Selinsgrove, spilling raw sewage into Penns Creek, which flows on to the Susquehanna Riv...

TRAFFIC SNARLED IN LEWISBURG MONDAY Traffic was detoured Monday afternoon around an accident on Route 15 and AJK Boulevard near the Sheetz in Lewisburg just after 2pm. According to the Daily Item, one...

SEWAGE LINE RUPTURES NEAR SELINSGROVE SUNDAY A local emergency has been announced after a 20-inch sewage line ruptured near the East Snyder County Sewage Treatment Facility on the south end of Selinsg...

COUPLE ARRESTED FOR CHILD ENDANGERMENT Police responded to a 911 call from neighbors who said two people were drunk and arguing outside their home August 25th before they fled with a child in their ve...

POLICE SEEK WANTED MAN WHO GAVE FALSE ID TO POLICE Witnesses reported to police four individuals walking along Bloomingrove Road Wednesday morning around 5am wearing all black clothes. Lycoming Region...

MAN ARRESTED FOR EXTORTING DUBOISTOWN COUPLE A former Montgomery man was arrested for attempting to extort a Duboistown couple who tried to help him. According to the Sun Gazette, police say 66 year o...