NORRISTOWN (AP) — His Hollywood career and good-guy image in ruins, Bill Cosby was led away to prison in handcuffs Tuesday at age 81 for perhaps the rest of his days, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his gated estate. The ...
The Lycoming County commissioners will formally accept a $1 million grant Thursday for work on the levee relief wells, as announced by Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Loyalsock Township, earlier this month. The grant, from the state’s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, covers 50 percent of the $2 ...
The Lycoming County commissioners will take action Thursday to accept an $800,000 revolving loan fund grant to help clean up and make useable abandoned or otherwise underutilized buildings and properties, known as brownfields. The grant, from the federal Environmental Protection Agency, will ...
Covering pensions for police, firefighters and office employees in Williamsport now is a lot more expensive. The estimated minimum municipal pension obligation figures were released Tuesday by the city finance department at the City Council finance committee meeting. “We are facing a ...
City Council’s public works committee held off Tuesday on giving a recommendation on a proposed agreement between the city and Loyalsock Township for a joint Chesapeake Bay Pollution Reduction Plan. “I think we need to speak to Larson Design Group,” said Councilman Don ...
A mold problem discovered at the Loyalsock Valley Elementary School not only forced the building to close for several days, but also left a hefty bill for the Montoursville Area School District. School board members learned Tuesday night that the cost for replacing ceiling and tiles and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump denounced Democratic efforts to block Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation as a cynical “con job” on Tuesday and launched a dismissive attack on a second woman accusing the nominee of sexual misconduct in the 1980s, asserting she “has ...
An 8-mile stretch of Route 220 between Williamsport and Jersey Shore requires an infusion of $400 million over the next 20 years to improve safety for motorists. That’s what officials at the Williamsport Area Transportation Study technical committee learned Monday. But instead of ...
The city recently was notified that it will receive a $600,000 state grant to go into structural improvements at Bowman Field. The improvements at the BB&T Ballpark at Bowman Field should be the last at the historic ballpark, according to Mayor Gabriel J. Campana. The state ...
JERSEY SHORE — In her report to the board, Jill Wenrich, superintendent of the Jersey Shore Area School District, said the state Department of Education has not yet responded to the district’s request to be excused for the days missed at the beginning of the school year due to a mold ...
NORRISTOWN (AP) — Declaring Bill Cosby doesn’t deserve a free pass because of his advanced age, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence the comedian to five to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, while the defense argued that he is too old and helpless ...
YAUHANNAH, S.C. (AP) — More than a week ago, pastor Willie Lowrimore and some of his congregants stacked sandbags around their South Carolina church to protect it from the fury of Hurricane Florence. They moved the pews to higher ground and watched anxiously for days as the nearly black, ...
About eight people gathered Saturday afternoon with one goal in mind—to learn more about the Alternatives to Violence Project’s philosophy and how it could impact their lives by attending a mini-workshop at the Recovery Community Connection. The focus of the workshop was to empower the ...
A string of wet, cooler weather is continuing into this week, but an incoming cold front is expected to bring drier weather by Wednesday. Sunshine this morning will turn into showers by the end of the night, according to Craig Evanego, of the National Weather Service in State College, and ...
Voters asked questions about immigration, health care, the environment and other topics Saturday night at Susquehanna State Park, and Airneezer Page, Democratic nominee for state House of Representatives, was prepared to answer them. Page, a health care professional with UPMC Susquehanna ...
Locally elected and appointed officials voted on the following matters in the past week: State • The Senate and House will return to session today. County • The Lycoming County commissioners voted to apply for a $255,998 grant to pay the salaries and benefits of two victim and ...
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is poised to redouble his commitment to “America First” on the most global of stages this week. In the sequel to his stormy U.N. debut, Trump will stress his dedication to the primacy of U.S. interests while competing with Western allies ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president on Sunday accused an unnamed U.S.-allied country in the Persian Gulf of being behind a terror attack on a military parade that killed 25 people and wounded 60, further raising regional tensions. Hassan Rouhani’s comments came as Iran’s Foreign ...
John Betz can recall the U.S. flag being raised at Iwo Jima. It was near the end of World War II, and he was on a boat with his fellow shipmates, watching the historic event. The Battle of Iwo Jima involved U.S. Marines and Japanese forces in early 1945. The island, located about 750 ...
Wild brook trout in the Loyalsock Creek watershed show few genes from hatchery fish, despite many years of the introduction of the stocked trout into those streams, according to a Penn State University study. Shannon White, a doctoral student and the lead researcher in the study, said the ...