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Suspected drunk driving crash in South Williamsport Sunday night

No one was hurt when fire and police responded to a crash in the 1700 block of Riverside Drive in South Williamsport around 8:30 p.m. Sunday night. An illegally parked GMC Yukon was clipped by a Dodge Ram traveling westbound, according to South Williamsport police Sergeant Jacob Summer. The ...

Several face variety of charges in district courts in Lycoming County

Bail denied for alleged child sex offender Although bail stipulations last year barred accused child sex offender Matthew S. Daugherty from having any contact whatsoever with the juvenile victim in his two criminal cases, that did not stop the 38-year-old man from going to the victim’s home ...

Tenants safely escape apartment building fire in Sullivan County

DUSHORE - A handful of tenants safely escaped the large Victorian four-unit apartment building at 201 Bernice Road (Route 487) when a two-alarm fire broke out Tuesday afternoon in one of the apartments, according to Fire Chief John Yonkin. When the fire was dispatched about 12:15 p.m., Ted ...

Montoursville woman faces charges in two separate cases

Six weeks after she was arrested for DUI on East Third Street in Loyalsock Township, Miah Marie Waltz conspired with 50-year-old habitual shoplifter Sean Todd in stealing a 43-inch television set from the Montoursville Walmart on North Loyalsock Avenue, it was alleged in court papers filed at ...

South Williamsport woman jailed on charges of assaulting a police officer

South Williamsport resident Megan Butler wanted her neighbors arrested, but it was she who was taken away in handcuffs last week following a confrontation with officers that occurred at her home, according to an affidavit. Butler, 36, of 440 Hastings St., apartment 2, has been charged with ...

Variety of drug-related charges lodged in courts

Eight charged in separate drug cases When city police stopped a woman driving a pickup truck near Walnut Street and Memorial Avenue about 9:30 p.m. on February 26, Kyiem R. Bradshaw, a passenger in the vehicle, quickly handed over five bundles of heroin-fentanyl to the driver and told her to, ...