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Daily Item: Abrana Marie’s Business Owner Pleads Guilty Again
SUNBURY – The Daily Item reports a Northumberland woman has pleaded guilty to 63 counts of failure to make required deposit funds in Northumberland County Court. 65-year-old Doreen Hedricks was immediately sentenced to five years probation and must pay more than $48-thousand in restitution. Hedricks owned and operated Abrana Maries in Lewisburg and Taco Queen in Sunbury, which is now closed. Hedricks previously pleaded guilty in Union County earlier this month.
Cumberland Street repaving from 5th Avenue to 16th Street starts this week
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Bala Cynwyd Billionaire Jeff Yass is the Unlikely Champion of School Choice
Billionaire Jeff Yass uses his vast resources to support the future of school choice and has a unique model for its future. Bala Cynwyd resident Jeff Yass is Pennsylvania’s richest person, contributes to Republican campaigns, and is a champion of school choice, reports Robert Huber for Philadelphia Magazine. Yass’s...
Man With Drug Warrant Flees Police In Lycoming County
Michael Charles Devan had been stopped on Aug. 20 by Williamsport police near West Fourth and Campbell streets. During a traffic stop, Devan learned that he had an active felony drug warrant, police said. Devan accelerated away and fled from police for over a mile through residential areas of the...
Lendistry launches home loan division in six states
Lendistry, a non-bank lender for small businesses, has expanded into home mortgages. The Downtown Los Angeles-based lender has launched Lendistry Home Loans, a division to provide home loans to underserved communities in California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Texas, the Los Angeles Business Journal reported. Within the next year, it...
How one NPR station is trying to win conservative listeners – by listening
This spring, veteran National Public Radio editor Uri Berliner sent shock waves through the media industry with an essay titled “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.” Conservatives – more than a quarter of NPR’s audience in 2011 – had stopped listening, he noted. Moreover, according to a poll, only 3 in 10 people found NPR “trustworthy.”
Three central Pennsylvania counties named ‘best to retire’
(WTAJ) — Growing older doesn’t always mean packing up and finding a retirement community in Florida. In Pennsylvania, some counties are the best to retire in, according to a new report. SmartAsset.com took a look at retiring in the state of Pennsylvania with their retirement calculator. The company looked at tax burden — state and […]
Fall in Pennsylvania to be ‘cooler-than-average’ this year
August is pretty much over and done with, and with classes in some school districts officially underway, it’s hard not to think about fall, even if summer is still technically going on. And thinking about it begs the natural succeeding questions: What’s the weather going to be like this...
Sneaker drive aims to raise money to help stray cat population
BIRDSBORO, Pa. - A Berks County-based group is taking new steps in its mission to help stray cats. It takes one step at a time. "So let's, instead of throwing the old ones in the trash, hey, let's give them to the cats," said Jennifer Fry, owner and chief of staff at The Vet on Main in Birdsboro.
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