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Sunbury's police dog - Brecken - has died
SUNBURY — Flags are at half-staff in the city today to honor fallen officers during National Police Week. On Monday the flag served two purposes as Sunbury Police Chief Steve Mazzeo announced the untimely death of Brecken, the 2-year-old German shepherd who was the department’s K-9 dog.
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Mom who hired beater fights jail time
SUNBURY - A Millmont woman is appealing her jail sentence on the grounds that the three-to-23-month sentence didn’t take into account her prior record, which would have made her a candidate for probation if she was sentenced in the standard range for the crime.
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Union County gun threats trial gets under way
LEWISBURG - A trial started Monday for a Lewisburg man accused of flashing a gun at a state Department of Transportation worker and driving past a road-closed barrier on River Road following local flooding in September 2011.
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New Jersey roller coaster to be removed from the Atlantic Ocean
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — This time next week, perhaps the most famous symbol of Superstorm Sandy's devastation at the Jersey shore will be gone.
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Philadelphia abortion doctor guilty in deaths of three babies
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty today of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over abortion.
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New Elm Street manager joins Lewisburg Neighborhoods Corporation
LEWISBURG — The Lewisburg Neighborhoods Corporation (LNC) announced today that Samantha Pearson will become its next executive director and manager in charge of Elm Street Programs.
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Tuesday is last day to apply for absentee ballot
LEWISBURG -- Registered voters looking to cast their choices via absentee ballot in next week's primary election have until close of business Tuesday to get in their applications. Votes must be cast by close of business Friday.
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Ohio suspect's brothers say they hope he 'rots in jail'
CLEVELAND — The two brothers of the Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive for about a decade say they have no sympathy for him. One called him a "monster" who he hopes "rots in jail."
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Police vow to solve shootings of 19 in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police vowed to swiftly track down the gunmen who wounded 19 people at a neighborhood Mother's Day parade, the latest case of violence flaring up around a celebration in the city this year.
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Susquehanna University graduates confident about job prospects
SELINSGROVE - While the job market may still be in recovery, Susquehanna University’s newest graduates feel ready to take on the world.
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Union County coroner: Job full of surprises
There is no “CSI: Union County,” Coroner Wanda Walters said with a laugh. The fancy gadgets and high-tech devices on the TV show about forensics “aren’t for little counties like us.”
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Campaign vows limited for coroners
MIFFLINBURG — Being coroner is more about the living than it is about the dead, said Tod Steese and Dominick Adamo, Republicans vying for the Union County position in the May 21 primary election.
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Northumberland County explores reductions in row officers' pay
SUNBURY — Research conducted by Northumberland County Commissioner Steve Bridy, who with colleague Vinny Clausi seek to drastically cut salaries of row officers in 2016, has shown that annual earnings could be lowered beyond the $18,000 previously thought.
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Three tablets could become six
Eighth-grader Alex Satteson loves being outdoors with his Boy Scout troop, New Columbia’s Troop 600.
He also loves technology and being able to use it in his schoolwork.
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Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion
Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.
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State schools review gun bans after complaints
All 14 state-owned universities in Pennsylvania were asked to review their weapons policies after students complained they weren’t allowed to carry firearms on campus.
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Boston bomb suspect buried in Virginia cemetery
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in Virginia, infuriating some members of the area’s Islamic community who say they weren’t consulted and flooring at least one neighbor who said she didn’t even know she lived near a burial ground.
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Farmers market reopening
DANVILLE – The Danville Ferry Street Growers Market will reopen May 18.
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Sunbury's police dog - Brecken - has died
