ANTES FORT — Two Lycoming Regional police officers worked together early Sunday morning to locate the source of lingering smoke on Route 44 that turned out to be coming from a smoldering fire inside a garage, according to Lycoming Regional Police Chief Christopher Kriner. Patrolman Jared ...
HUGHESVILLE — A 19-year-old Montoursville man was recovering from a gunshot wound that state police have ruled as “an accidental shooting” and was self-inflicted, according to Trooper Lauren Lesher, the public information officer at the Montoursville barracks. While attempting to remove a firearm from his waistband inside a home in the 100 block of East Water Street about 1:30 a.m. Monday, the gun went off, resulting in the bullet striking his left leg, Lesher said. The teen was treated at UPMC Williamsport, she said, adding that troopers seized the gun as the investigation ...
While towing a junked car to a scrapyard about 1:20 p.m. Monday, the driver suddenly noticed that the car was on fire as he was traveling east on I-180 in Faifield Township, according to Montoursville Fire Capt. Jeff Kukuchka. The tow truck operator pulled over, quickly unloaded the burning ...
HUGHESVILLE - Residents in the B Wing at the Wolf Run Village Senior Living Community on Route 220 were forced to evacuate their rooms for about 40 minutes about 12:10 a.m. Tuesday when black smoke began coming out of a heating unit in one of the rooms, according to borough Fire Chief Dan ...
A elderly woman’s cellphone may have very well saved her life on Sunday afternoon when her car skidded off ice-covered Sulphur Springs Road in Armstrong Township and went down a 600-foot embankment, according to South Williamsport fire officials. The car caught fire, but the driver was able to get out of the vehicle on her own without getting burned. The crash-detection system on her cellphone automatically alerted 911 to the accident about 3 p.m., and dispatchers at the county’s Department of Public Safety were able to pinpoint the exact location of the incident, according to ...
South Williamsport man charged with interfering with arrest As city police officers were taking two women into custody during a large disturbance at Fourth and Memorial avenues about 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 20, 19-year-old Jumauhryi Drummond suddenly placed himself between an officer and one of the women being arrested, it was alleged in an affidavit. Drummond, of 1247 Brion Place, South Williamsport, was ordered multiple times to get out of the way, but when he refused to do so, another officer placed him under arrest for obstructing the administration of law, a misdemeanor. “Drummond ...
