News from Danville

Sunday, April 2, 2017

DANVILLE — Sandeep Khurana, M.D., has joined Geisinger Health System as medical director of Liver Transplantation, GHS has announced.

Dr. Khurana has clinical interests...


 | By Leon Bogdan
Saturday, April 1, 2017

DANVILLE — Montour County will split nearly $8,000 seized during a drug arrest with the state Attorney General, a judge ordered Friday.

It comes from an arrest May 21, 2016, when State...


Saturday, April 1, 2017

DANVILLE — Two men who pleaded guilty to driving drunk in separate arrests in Montour County were sentenced to jail on Friday.

William Fisher, 30, of Shamokin, was...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

DANVILLE — A cargo van driver who pulled out in front of an oncoming tractor trailer Monday night managed to free herself from the wreckage, rescuers said.

“God was with her,” said John...


Friday, March 24, 2017

DANVILLE — A Danville man who had an open can of beer in his truck and drove down a one-way street the wrong way was driving drunk, police say.

Jovon Frazier, 35, of...


 | By Gary Pang
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

DANVILLE — A Geisinger doctor from Egypt may be forced to leave America without his family because U.S. officials rejected his request to stay.

The U.S. Department of State made its...


 | By Leon Bogdan
Monday, March 20, 2017

DANVILLE — A woman caught stealing a sandwich and tobacco from a store slipped free of her handcuffs and fled out the back door of the Danville Police station as officers typed up a warrant,...


 | By Chris Krepich
Sunday, March 19, 2017

DANVILLE — Prison officials in Montour County will not detain a person scheduled for release from jail, even if asked to do so by federal immigration officials.

“We’re not a sanctuary...


 | By Susan Schwartz
Saturday, March 18, 2017

DANVILLE — A concessionaire wanted for three years on charges of violating a protection from abuse order here was arrested in Florida and brought back to Pennsylvania in handcuffs March 6....


 | By Kristin Baver
Friday, March 17, 2017

DANVILLE — Seven inches of snow had already blanketed the Poconos when Nicole Gingerlowski woke around midnight to hear her toddler coughing as if he were choking, she said.

She flipped...