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Fire breaks out in historical district

A tenant was treated at UPMC Williamsport for smoke inhalation after a fire erupted in his kitchen at the rear of this four-unit three-story apartment building, 420 W. Fourth St., in Williamsport’s Historical District, about 12:45 p.m. Saturday, according to Platoon Chief Sherman ...

Tractor trailer fire delays traffic on Route 220

A passerby snapped this photo of a tractor-trailer truck — loaded with dairy products — that caught fire on Route 220 South, just west of the Reach Road interchange, in the city about 2:40 p.m. Thursday. “In 24 years of truck driving, this is the first fire I’ve ever had,” Harold ...

Drugs seized from Williamsport home result in felony charges

While executing a search warrant at Tyrone Riley’s home at 827 Park Place on the morning of April 1, detectives with the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit seized undisclosed amounts of marijuana and ecstasy, it was alleged in court documents The amounts were large enough to charge the ...

Pre-release center inmate faces escape charge

While serving a prison sentence at the county’s pre-release center following a felony drug-delivery conviction in mid-January, inmate Donald Lee Baker was allowed to participate in a program that permitted him to work at a job site in the city’s Newberry neighborhood, according to a county ...

Montgomery area woman charged with hit-run

When Alyssa Anne Frey’s 2018 Hyundai Elantra rear-ended another woman’s Subaru Outback in the 1900 block of East Third Street in Loyalsock Township on the night of Jan. 23, the 34-year-old woman hit the vehicle with such force that the front grille of her car was “lodged in the Subaru’s ...