MUNCY TOWNSHIP DATA CENTER CLAIMS AUTOMATIC APPROVAL A developer is claiming automatic approval for a proposed data center in Muncy Township, saying supervisors failed to hold a required hearing within 60 days or obtain an extension. According to the Sun Gazette, Danko Holdings and Fishlips filed the conditional-use ap...

KNOEBEL LEADER PASSES AWAY The longtime leader of one of Pennsylvania's most beloved amusement parks has died. Knoebels Amusement Resort announced Richard "Dick" Knoebel, President Emeritus and the longtime president of the family-owned park in Elysburg, has passed away at the age of 87. Dick Knoebel led the...

NEWS 071626 MAN SENTENCED FOR CASM CHARGES A Nisbet man previously convicted of stealing from the annual 9/11 Memorial Ride has been sentenced in a child sexual abuse material case. According to the Sun-Gazette, thirty-eight-year-old Michael Ritter was sentenced yesterday to five to ten months in the Lycoming County P...

VERDICT COULD NOT BE REACHED A mistrial has been declared in the case of a man accused of unintentionally shooting a Williamsport mother during an alleged drive-by shooting in 2021.After hours of deliberation Tuesday, a jury convicted 24-year-old Douglas Robinson Jr of illegally possessing a firearm, but could not rea...

CHARGES CHANGE FOR ALLEGED SHOOTER Testimony resumes this morning in the trial of a Williamsport man accused of firing the stray bullet that seriously wounded a young mother in her Maple Street home nearly five years ago. Prosecutors say 24-year-old Douglas Robinson Jr. fired several shots during a dispute in October ...