News from Berwick

BERWICK — A woman who was pulled over with an active meth pot brewing in her car while eight months pregnant now says that traffic stop saved her life.

Lyndsey Kramer, 24, had been...

BERWICK — One of the men arrested in Thursday night’s meth raid in Berwick says his half-brother is to blame for the entire meth-cooking operation at their 325 E. Fourth St. home.

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BERWICK — Danny Koch and Devon Sanders combined for a no-hitter to lead Bloomsburg to a 5-0 win over Berwick in American Legion baseball action on Friday....

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to these calls from May 17-23:

May 17

•12:08 a.m. — 1500 block West Front Street, assist EMS

•12:53 a.m. — 1500...

BERWICK — Wise Foods workers rejected another contract offer in a split vote Wednesday, just days before their health insurance benefits are scheduled to be cut, the union leader said.

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BERWICK — Officers serving a search warrant Thursday at a suspected methamphetamine lab found five people and a bubbling pot of the toxic and highly flammable drug, police say.

Four men...

BERWICK — One of the reactors at the nuclear plant here is back up and running after a planned maintenance outage.

Unit 2 was back online Monday after workers replaced approximately 40...

BERWICK — A 19-year-old who predicted charges against him would be dropped in a stolen bank-card case and subsequent police chase did indeed see several counts withdrawn Wednesday.

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BERWICK — Timothy O’Dell asked family friend Kalin Long to pick him up some soda, then fell asleep.

When O’Dell awoke, the soda was by the bedside, but a safe and a new Sony...

BERWICK — DeLuxe Building Systems will lay off many of its 180 workers temporarily this summer while the plant is between jobs. But employees are expected to be back on the production lines in...

BERWICK — A teenager accused of breaking into the Berwick baseball field clubhouse last year, then leading police on a foot chase through Nescopeck last month quietly agreed to send charges to...

BERWICK — Longtime Berwick football coach George Curry submitted a letter of resignation Tuesday saying he would leave the program after the 2015 season, according to Berwick Area...

BERWICK — More than a dozen firefighters suited up only to stand by as a Chevrolet Cavalier was fully engulfed in flames Memorial Day afternoon.

A downed power line had missed the house...

BERWICK — Work is under way on a new Family Dollar store on Front Street. The store will replace the existing Family Dollar in the Kmart shopping center on West Front Street, borough code...

BERWICK — Cinda L. Hartman of Hartman & Lally Insurers Inc. recently attended a Leadership Summit in Fort Lauderdale for the Society of Property & Casualty...

BERWICK — With the new $1.2 billion Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line finally connected to the Berwick area earlier this month, New Jersey residents will be able to crank up their air...

BERWICK — Terrell Slaughter’s girlfriend rushed to wake her family at 2:30 a.m. after he overdosed on a potent mix of Fentanyl and heroin, her sister testified in court.

“She was...

BERWICK — A Berwick woman accused of leaving her three children to fend for themselves at home while she took a fourth to school waived her right to a hearing and will now face endangerment...

BERWICK — Borough Police responded to these calls from May 10-16:

May 10

• 12:17 a.m. — 1100 block Pine Street, erratic driver

• 1:28 a.m. — 100 block...

BERWICK — For the eighth year in a row, it appears Berwick Area School District will not be raising taxes.

School directors passed a $44.18 million preliminary budget earlier this month...