Gary L. Hess, 84, of Apple Orchard Road, Benton, passed away early Thursday, May 8, 2025, at his home. Born on Sept. 16, 1940, in Bloomsburg, he was a son of the late LaRue M.

A golden spike was driven in a ceremony in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

Holy Annunciation Orthodox Church will be hosting its free monthly Community Meal on Monday at 5 p.m. Everyone is welcome to join in for fellowship and delicious homemade food.

I’m engaged to a delightful woman from a foreign country. She’s a divorcee, and her 19-year-old son is doing well in college. She essentially raised him herself.

Central Columbia pitcher Nate Klingerman strikes out 15 and takes a shutout into the seventh inning of a 7-1 Mid-Penn League victory over rival Bloomsburg.

A Pennsylvania lawmaker wants to ban fluoride from the commonwealth’s drinking water amid an intensifying debate over the mineral additive credited with preventi ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first US leader of the global Catholic Church, is a keen tennis player and a fan of AS Roma soccer club, according to a senior member of his relig ...

The Most Rev. Timothy C. Senior, Bishop of Harrisburg, has released the following message on the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, OSA, as the Holy Father.

From Reuters reports The NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee proposed the integration of coach challenges on Friday, giving teams one per game to review out-of-bounds calls, basket interference and ...

Several people were charged by police here with possessing small amounts of marijuana in separate arrests over Block Party weekend.

Grace Lutheran Church will be hosting an eat-in or take-out spaghetti and meatball dinner tonnight from 4-6 p.m. Meals include spaghetti, meatballs, salad and dessert and cost $12.

The town police officer investigating the case of a dog tossed from a truck in a “makeshift sack” found his suspect the next day when he spotted the vehicle parked at AutoZone in town.