Loyalsock Township School District has asked a federal judge to vacate a verdict and order a new trial or reduce the $2.8 million award to a woman who was sexually abused by a coach when she was in middle school. The district believes the award was “excessive and irrational” and asked in ...
911 call for help leads to charges filed against Old Lycoming Township man It was about 8 a.m. on July 4 when the county’s 911 received a call on an open line, meaning that even though no one is talking directly to a dispatcher, the dispatcher can hear background noises. In this case, the dispatcher heard a woman crying, asking for help and “repeatedly requesting that someone respond to the residence,” it was stated in a Lycoming Regional police affidavit. Upon arriving at the apartment at 2021 Misner Road in Old Lycoming Township, officers spoke with a woman, the suspected ...
Williamsport City Council voted to again table a resolution authorizing bids for the solicitation of the sale of City Hall. The narrow 4-3 vote Thursday night came with a discussion that led to the majority wanting to revisit this at the next meeting. Those voting against tabling the ...
A mother and her two children safely escaped their Grove Street home on Wednesday morning when flames engulfed their attached garage and spread to their house. The family’s two dogs safely got out as well; one of them was reportedly carried out of the house by a firefighter. Soon ...
Two Williamsport teens entered pleas, in separate hearings, Wednesday morning to being present when shots were fired at a residence in the 1500 block of Randall Circle at the Penn Vale Apartments on March 3, 2024. Prosecutors contend the shooting was in retaliation for the March 2, 2024, shooting death of 15-year-old Ahmeen Palmer in the parking lot of TGI Fridays on East Third Street in Loyalsock Township. Appearing before Lycoming County Judge William Carlucci for a 9 a.m. hearing, Tykir Jihad Smith, 18, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of criminal attempt - recklessly ...
State troopers forced to use tasers three times during assault After exposing himself to a neighbor along Beaver Lake Road in Penn Township during the early morning hours of July 3, Nathan Allen Minier fought with three state troopers, “tackling one Into a brick wall” and then striking ...
