LEWISBURG - Bryan A. Bledsoe has retired as warden at United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg after a 29-year career.
Bledsoe, who spent the last four years at the Lewisburg facility, will be replaced next month by Jeff Thomas, a warden at a federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon.
Thomas began his career at USP Lewisburg in the 1980s, prison spokesman Andrew Cioli said.
MILTON — More details have emerged about the incident in which a Sunbury man was charged with pointing a handgun at and threatening to shoot the father of a 3-year-old girl, whom he subsequently kidnapped from their home on Timberhaven Drive in Kelly Township, Union County, according to authorities.
SELINSGROVE — Up to 100 pilots from Pennsylvania and Canada will be flying into the Penn Valley Airport on Saturday to test their skills in a barnstorming event.
LEWISBURG — Motorists traveling on Route 15 in Union County are advised to be alert for lane closures in both the northbound and southbound directions at the scene of a water main break near North Armory Boulevard, south of Lewisburg.
BREAKING NEWS: Missing teen found safe
UPDATE: Mackenzie Greco has been found safe in Mount Carmel Township.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
FREEBURG — Motorists traveling along Route 35 in Snyder County are advised that the road is closed about one-half mile west of Freeburg where a large tree fell, bringing down utility wires and a pole.
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Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
MINEOLA, N.Y. — Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet. The New York-to-Paris flight crashed July 17, 1996, just minutes after the jetliner took off from John F. Kennedy Airport, killing all 230 people aboard, including 16 students and five chaperones traveling to Europe from the Montoursville Area High School.
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority today approved a grant of more than $114,000 to Northumberland County to assist in the project to convert the County Courthouse to a natural gas heating system.
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SUNBURY — The Greater Susquehanna Valley United Way board voted Tuesday to withhold $11,000 in discretionary funding to the Susquehanna Council of Boy Scouts of America after the national Scouting organization voted last month to allow openly gay youths as members, but not openly gay adults.
The Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator.
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LEWISBURG — Seniors and people with disabilities will soon have to dig deeper into their pockets as the Union-Snyder Transportation Alliance seeks approval to raise rates up to 50 cents per trip.
MILTON — A Sunbury man was charged by police with kidnapping after he allegedly took a 3-year-old girl at gunpoint Monday night from her home in Union County.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has built a website that compares competing plans to spend billions of dollars in new transportation money, but it’s refusing to release similar information to the public, which will pay for chosen projects.
Reputed Mafioso tip triggers new Hoffa body search
The FBI saw enough merit in a reputed Mafia captain’s tip to once again break out the digging equipment to search for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, last seen alive before a lunch meeting with two mobsters nearly 40 years ago.
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