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Police Fire and Court

Lycoming Township field fire consumes eight acres

A swath of burned brush clearly reveals the damage left by a field fire Sunday afternoon that consumed nearly eight acres that spanned two properties in the 700 block of Paulhamus Hill Road in Lycoming Township. Brush trucks from more than half a dozen communities were needed to extinguish the ...

Linden area man jailed on charges of allegedly assaulting paramedic

After allegedly assaulting a paramedic who had been dispatched to city police headquarters to treat his breathing difficulty, defendant Nyreece Speck pulled “free from one of his restrains” and therefore had to be sedated, it was stated in an affidavit. Speck, 25, of 210 Smith Court ...

3 charged with drug offenses

Rasheed Bond, 37, of 647 Beeber St., was taken into custody late Wednesday afternoon on three felony counts of delivery of a controlled for his alleged involvement in three drug sales that occurred in 400 block of Freedom Road, near the city-Loyalsock Township line, between Feb. 13 and Feb. 24, ...

Two charged in separate domestic-disturbance cases

During an argument with a woman inside his home on the night of Feb. 24, Robert James Harer grabbed her and dragged her to a nearby bedroom as he continued to kick her multiple times, city police alleged in a court document. “I’m going to kill you tonight. I’m going to kill you ...