DEWEY AVENUE POLICE ACTIVITY LINKED TO ARSON Police activity on Dewey Avenue in Williamsport Thursday stemmed from an arson investigation in Montoursville. State Police say 37-year-old Alisha Marie Hart allegedly set fire to a couch inside an occupied Spruce Street home following an argument, then fled to her Newberry ...

SUV PLUNGES DOWN EMBANKMENT NEAR TROUT RUN A woman was injured Tuesday morning when her SUV crashed off Route 15 South near Trout Run and plunged more than 100 feet down an embankment. State police say the vehicle went over a guardrail and rolled several times. Firefighters used rescue ropes to pull the woman up the em...

SIX-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED IN MIFFLINBURG TRAFFIC ACCIDENT A six-year-old boy was struck and killed by a vehicle near Mifflinburg Elementary School Monday evening. Police say the Warrior Run first-grader was attending a youth soccer game when he crossed Shipton Street and was struck by a vehicle driven by a 71-year-old Mu...

FIRE BREAKS OUT INSIDE HOUSING UNIT AT ALLENWOOD FEDERAL PRISON A fire inside a housing unit at the Allenwood Federal Prison complex brought firefighters from several departments to Gregg Township Monday night. The fire was reported around 8:50, prompting a response from Warrior Run, Montgomery, Milton and other area f...

WILLIAMSPORT MAN WANTED ON FELONY DRUG CHARGES Authorities are looking for a Williamsport man accused of selling crack cocaine to a confidential informant. Sixty-one-year-old Freddie Lamont Green allegedly arranged the sale March 23rd at a home in the 600 block of Campbell Street. Lycoming County narcotics detectives s...