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Fire hits Union County warehouse on Old Route 15

NEW COLUMBIA - An investigation is underway to try to determine the cause of a fire that erupted Thursday night and burned out of control for several hours inside the large warehouse at NGC Industries on Old Route 15, according to Brian Heckman, deputy fire chief of the White Deer Township ...

Muncy area man charged with terroristic threats

Upset after seeing another man embrace his girlfriend at a restaurant in Woodward Township on Aug. 10, James Michael Campbell, who was “highly intoxicated,” started a brief argument with the man before Campbell and his girlfriend left the establishment, got in their vehicle and headed ...

Hughesville area man 26 counts of illegally taking or possessing wildlife

While executing an arrest warrant on Raymond Edward Poust Jr. at his Wolf Township home at 56 Orchard Avenue on the morning of Jan. 28, state troopers seized a .22 caliber rifle that had an obliterated serial number, according to an affidavit. The owner of the home had permitted ...

Tonya-Sue Chambers, 43, of 49 N. Main St., apartment 2, Hughesville, was jailed on charges of strangulation, simple assault, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment after putting her hands around a family member’s neck, “causing him not to breathe,” during a disturbance in her apartment on Dec. 27, it was alleged in a state police affidavit. The victim, a minor, managed to flee to a neighbor’s to get help, police said. Chambers, who also was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, was arraigned before District Judge Gary Whiteman and committed to the Lycoming ...

Habitual shoplifter again faces charges

Sean Laronn Todd, 52, of 2137 W. Third St., has been arrested yet again on a felony charge of shoplifting after it was alleged he stole a $3 20-ounce soda from Sheetz at 105 Maynard St. on Jan. 23, according to city police. Following his arraignment Friday before Solomon, Todd was released ...