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LONDON (AP) — When Camilla, Britain's queen consort, is crowned alongside her husband next week, the moment will mark the culmination of a remarkable - and painstakingly slow - transformation over five decades of a figure once reviled as the other woman and considered a huge liability to the British monarchy.With the coronation of King Charles III days away and his first seven

HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore on Wednesday executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists that he was convicted on weak evidence.Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was sentenced to death in 2018 for abetting the trafficking of 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cannabis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Geraldine Tyler, now 94, lost her one-bedroom condo in Minneapolis over $2,300 in unpaid taxes, plus interest and penalties. Hennepin County sold the apartment for $40,000 and kept every penny.Tyler's lawyers say the county violated constitutional protections against having property taken without “just compensation” and excessive fines.

DANVILLE — A bicyclist involved in a Nescopeck accident on Wednesday has been declared brain dead, and the Montour County Coroner's Office is seeking any information they can find on his identity, it said in a press release on Thursday.A witness had said the man suffered a serious head wound after a pickup truck hit his bicycle. The impact threw him to the pavement where he

DANVILLE — A California-based company plans to acquire Geisinger Health as part of a plan to launch a new system that it says will "expand access to value-based care in more communities across the country."Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Geisinger will launch a new group called Risant Health.A press release announcing the acquisition states that "Geisinger will maintain its

DANVILLE — Firefighters from eight different companies scrambled to douse the flames that engulfed a vacant house, endangering neighboring homes early Sunday morning.But they found their way blocked by electrical lines.The two-alarm blaze at 210 Bloom Street was reported shortly after 3 a.m.Ptlm. Devon St. Clair was one of the first at the scene.

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BLOOMSBURG — A Jeep Patriot heading out of town smashed into a parked pickup truck and flipped onto its roof early Sunday morning.County dispatchers said the accident on the 400 block of West Main Street happened just before 2:45 a.m.It appeared the Jeep Liberty had been traveling west when it hit a parked Ford F-150 on the right side of the road.The impact pushed the pickup

DANVILLE — The Downtown Danville Shoppers Shuttle program will be “on pause” beginning in May.The free transportation pilot program was created in May 2022 through the collaboration of Danville Borough, the Danville Business Alliance, Fishing Creek Transportation and Geisinger.Originally, the pilot program was to end in December, but due to the robust response of residents, it

A LERWICK man has been put on a curfew for three months after pleading guilty to assaulting another man in the town’s Thule bar in September last year. Concerns were raised in court over John Wright’s “deeply concerning conduct”. Wright, of the Observatory, admitted...