Crime and Courts
Published on May 3, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- Someone started a fire inside a park pavilion overnight Friday, damaging a bench and frustrating town workers who'd already spent part...
Published on May 3, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- After being talked out of a condemned house by police, a man tried walking away from the scene, then resisted when officers tried to...
Published on May 3, 2025 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- The Bloomsburg Police Department responded to the following incidents from March 16-March 22.
Sunday, March 16
* 1:21 a.m., 100 block...
Published on May 2, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A man who stabbed his father in the abdomen with a folding knife during a family fight here in 2022 will spend a month in jail,...
Published on May 2, 2025 - Page 5
BLOOMSBURG -- Five people charged with driving drunk and two others arrested for thefts were accepted Thursday into a special Columbia County...
Published on May 2, 2025 - Page 5
BLOOMSBURG -- Three men were cited for disorderly conduct because they were found with a small amount of marijuana in the blue parking lot on the...
Published on May 2, 2025 - Page 18
The Bloomsburg Police Department responded to the following calls from March 9-15.
Sunday, March 9
* 12:17 a.m., 700 block East 10th Street, water...
Published on May 1, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- Two men have been charged after using a retractable tape measure to repeatedly steal money from a 24-hour arcade on Main Street, police...
Published on May 1, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- For the second time in two weeks, someone trashed a men's bathroom in Town Park.
Town crews discovered damaged paper towel holders,...
Published on May 1, 2025 - Page 6
(EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story inaccurately described a section of Scott Township Police's coverage area. The Apollo Point...
Published on May 1, 2025 - Page 6
BLOOMSBURG -- State Police cited a rural Danville man for fighting here Saturday night during Block Party weekend, district court papers say. Max...
Published on April 30, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- The Bloomsburg Police chief informed the town he will resign from his post May 23.
"His wife was offered an opportunity in Delaware,"...
Published on April 30, 2025 - Page 1
MILLVILLE -- An Amish defendant accused of raping a year-old child last year sat quietly Tuesday morning during a somber hearing about his alleged...
Published on April 30, 2025 - Page 4
BLOOMSBURG -- A judge denied summary appeals from the owners of Mystic Kennels of a nearly $31,000 judgment against them stemming from multiple...
Published on April 30, 2025 - Page 4
BLOOMSBURG -- A woman was charged after police found her in a car containing two bags of marijuana and a joint in the ash tray, court papers show.
On...
Published on April 30, 2025 - Page 4
CATAWISSA -- A Mifflinville man has been charged after police caught him driving with a suspended license in a truck with no valid inspection,...
Published on April 29, 2025 - Page 1
BRIAR CREEK TWP. -- A 79-year-old Berwick man has been charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend at her home, her friend's house and in public for...
Published on April 29, 2025 - Page 1
BRIAR CREEK -- A Berwick man has been charged after he crashed his car on Park Road while intoxicated, State Police say.
On Oct. 5 around 3:15 p.m.,...
Published on April 29, 2025 - Page 4
HEMLOCK TWP. -- A driver was arrested for driving while impaired by marijuana when he lost control of his car on Interstate 80 about a mile east of...
Published on April 28, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- A chronic offender with a long history of crimes in Columbia County has been sentenced to state prison for up to 16 years.
Leslie E....
Published on April 27, 2025 - Page 1
NUMIDIA -- A man has been barred from owning any type of domesticated animal for the next year after pleading guilty to four counts of animal abuse...
Published on April 27, 2025 - Page 1
CATAWISSA -- A woman here has been charged with a felony after failing to report a new source of income to the Columbia County Assistance Office to...
Published on April 27, 2025 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- A former Berwick resident scheduled for a bench trial Thursday on his second arrest for driving drunk instead pleaded guilty in...
Published on April 26, 2025 - Page 1
BLOOMSBURG -- Someone wrapped a tiny dog inside the leg of a pair of pants and threw it out of a truck window early Thursday, town police say....
Published on April 26, 2025 - Page 6
RIVERSIDE -- Riverside Borough Police here say from now until May 31 they plan to have an amnesty on enforcement of outstanding warrants to give...
Published on April 25, 2025 - Page 1
BERWICK -- A man who ran from police after allegedly attacking his ex-girlfriend has been named in additional charges for breaking into an apartment...
Published on April 25, 2025 - Page 1
MIFFLINVILLE -- A man is charged after drunkenly pushing a woman and slapping a glass out of her hand, resisting arrest, putting an officer in a leg...
Published on April 25, 2025 - Page 3
BLOOMSBURG -- A woman who drove at night without headlights was charged with being intoxicated when stopped by police on West Main Street here,...
Published on April 25, 2025 - Page 4
ESPY -- A dozen police cars converged on the parking lot of the strip mall at Route 11 and Central Road Thursday after a Scott Township officer...
Published on April 25, 2025 - Page 4
BLOOMSBURG -- Six people charged with driving drunk were accepted recently into Columbia County's ARD probation as first offenders.
All have a chance...