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Driver receives only minor injuries in early morning Crawford Township Crash

The driver of a Subaru Forester received only minor injuries as the result of an early morning crash in the 2600 block of Rauchtown Road in Crawford Township Saturday morning. The operator stated that he lost control after hitting an icy stretch of road and struck a small embankment before ...

13 recently charged with drug offenses in Lycoming County

Thirteen people have been charged with drug offenses, according to court records that were recently made public: Those charged were: Sara Lynn Hittinger, 45, of 152 Boak Ave., lot 72, Hughesville; the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit (NEU); possession with intent to deliver 1,500 bags ...

Montoursville teen jailed following police pursuit

After striking a woman’s house on Warrensville Road in Warrensville with a 2014 Jeep Patriot about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, motorist Wyatt James Johnston fled south, driving into Montoursville, where a state trooper, alerted to the hit-run crash, spotted him near Broad and Mill streets, according to an affidavit. The trooper noticed “heavy front-end damage” to the Jeep and activated his cruiser’s emergency lights in an effort to get the 18-year-old Johnston to stop. However, the teen accelerated, did a U-turn and traveled north a short distance before going off the road, striking ...

Three men arrested in separate domestic assaults

Upon investigating a domestic disturbance in Lewis Township on the afternoon of Feb. 28, state troopers saw that the female victim was “covered in mud with thorns stuck in her clothing,” and there were “fresh bruises on her left hand knuckles,” it was stated in an affidavit. The ...

Charge filed after subpoenaed witness failed to show for homicide trial

Although a subpoena was delivered to her on Sept. 9 for the upcoming homicide trial of Dawud Rogers in Lycoming County court, Britney Marie Taylor, whose last known address was of the 400 block of Cemetery Street, failed to appear for the trial and has now been charged with absconding ...