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No mail delivery Friday; Flash flooding reported in Lycoming County
FLASH FLOODING AND OTHER PROBLEMS ALREADY REPORTED IN LYCOMING COUNTY – West Southern Avenue from the split at Riverside Drive to Bayard Street in South Williamsport was flooded about 7:30 a.m. today, according to dispatches from Lycoming County Department of Public Safety. Postal Service employees confirmed to a Sun-Gazette...
Homes evacuated due to flash flooding
LYCOMING COUNTY PLACED UNDER FLOOD WARNING AT 9:40 A.M. AS SOME HOMES IN REGION ARE EVACUATED DUE TO FLASH FLOODING – Nearly a dozen people have been reportedly forced from their residences in the Cogan Station area of Pleasant Valley and Cresent Hill roads, where streams and runs have overshot their banks.
Multi-Year Study Tries to Understand Support for Fracking in PA
This is fascinating. A leftist researcher rented an apartment and lived in Williamsport for eight months in 2013. He interviewed over 100 residents of Greater Williamsport (Lycoming County), PA, to learn their views on fracking. He followed up with the participants and made return visits to the region for the next eight years until 2021. The researcher was looking for any wedge issues that he (and the left) could use to convince PA’s salt-of-the-earth, very conservative landowners/voters to turn against the shale industry. Did he find anything he could use? The results of his research were published yesterday as a study in the journal Nature Climate Action.
Merchants of death: Lycoming County District Attorney Tom Marino will pursue first degree murder charges for drug dealers in fatal overdose cases
Lycoming County District Attorney Tom Marino said that he will push first degree murder charges against anyone distributing deadly fentanyl and other illegal drugs that result in an overdose death. At a press conference Thursday, Marino held up the mug shots of two individuals who recently were arrested by law...
DA speaks on recent drug busts in Lycoming County
WILLIAMSPORT, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Local law enforcement hoping to crack down on the area’s growing drug problem. On Thursday, they displayed plenty of evidence thanks in part to help from the post office and drug-sniffing dogs. At a news conference Thursday afternoon in Williamsport, law enforcement officials announced the arrest of two dangerous drug […]
Reward offered for information on suspect in fatal shooting outside Pa. restaurant
WILLIAMSPORT — A $5,000 reward has been offered through the Lycoming County district attorney’s office for information leading to the apprehension of the suspect in a fatal shooting outside a suburban Williamsport restaurant in March. The reward is being offered because attempts to locate Ja’hsir Legare, 17, have...
Fentanyl suppliers who cause a death in Pa. county will face murder charge: prosecutor
WILLIAMSPORT — Anyone caught dealing fentanyl in Lycoming County that results in a death will be charged with first-degree murder and could be subject to the death penalty. That was the warning issued Thursday by District Attorney Thomas A. Marino. “We’re not going to mess around anymore,” he said.
Lycoming County authorities talk on recent drug busts
WILLIAMSPORT, LYCOMING CO. (WOLF) — Thursday afternoon – Lycoming County law enforcement laid out evidence found in a recent drug search with the help of K-9 units. “This was a major sweep based on information we received, and we acted on it extremely quickly,” says District Attorney Tom Marino.
Milk mess in Lycoming County
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A tractor-trailer tanker carrying milk went down an embankment on Route 15 Wednesday morning. The crash happened in the southbound lanes of Rt. 15 near the intersection of Rt. 220 in Williamsport. The road is closed while crews clean up the mess in Lycoming County. There...
Motorcycle crash kills man, leaves woman injured
CLINTON TWP., LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A man has died and a woman is in the ICU after a motorcycle crash that occurred in Lycoming County. The Lycoming County Coroner’s Office states 57-year-old James Engel died Tuesday in the ICU at UPMC Susquehanna after being transported from a crash the day before. Investigators stated that, […]
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