News from Danville

 | By Gary Pang
Saturday, July 1, 2017

DANVILLE — A 19-year-old man punched and choked his mother after she screamed at him and his girlfriend in a dispute over money, charges say.

The mother threw a toy at her son and...


Friday, June 30, 2017

DANVILLE — Geisinger Health System plans to consolidate its home health and hospice services into one entity called Geisinger Home Health & Hospice.

But it also will keep all the...


Friday, June 30, 2017

DANVILLE — July is nigh and with it will come typical July weather.

Steamy air that has been suppressed near the Gulf of Mexico coast will spread northward into this weekend.

“...


 | By Chris Krepich
Friday, June 30, 2017

DANVILLE — A wheel came off a truck trailer that was carrying a piece of a modular home Thursday morning and struck a house, police say.

The wheel did little damage, but police say the...


 | By Chris Krepich
Thursday, June 29, 2017

DANVILLE — At an open house this summer, the public will get a chance to check out the new home of a medical marijuana-growing facility that’s slated to come to Danville.

Commissioners...


 | By Chris Krepich
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

DANVILLE — Concerned with travel expenses, Montour County commissioners want to appoint a “watchdog” to its housing authority board to keep an eye on spending.

A vacancy opened after...


Wednesday, June 28, 2017

DANVILLE — Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health is leaving government for a leadership position at Geisinger, the health system announced Tuesday.

Karen Murphy, RN, PhD...


 | By Chris Krepich
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

DANVILLE — Plans to renovate BJ’s Steak and Rib House in Danville seem to be proceeding.

Owner Bob Kirkpatrick still intends to rebuild the restaurant destroyed by fire in 2014 at the...


 | By Leon Bogdan
Sunday, June 25, 2017

DANVILLE — A lost flip phone that opened to a picture of a naked child triggered the arrest Friday of a 74-year-old Danville man, who is now jailed on charges he repeatedly raped the 12-year-...


 | By Gary Pang
Saturday, June 24, 2017

DANVILLE — A federal judge dismissed a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by two ex-Geisinger doctors against their former employer, records show.

Dr. Neelkamal Soares and his wife, Dr...