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SIXTEEN vessels from eight different nations have already signed up to participate in next summer’s Tall Ships Races. Lerwick is one of the host ports for the 2023 event. It is hoped that around 50 ships will ultimately take part. Two popular visitors to Lerwick Harbour, the...

A MAN from Glasgow has been remanded in custody after appearing at Lerwick Sheriff Court accused of attempted murder. Stephen Savage, 48, made no plea and was committed for further examination. He appeared in private from custody on Tuesday. He is also accused of assault to...

After a dominant opening day at wrestling's Senior World Championships, Zain Retherford's run in the 70kg division ended Friday with a silver medal.He fell, 10-0, to Japan's Taishi Narikuni.The Benton graduate became the first area wrestler to win a senior-level world medal, and the first from Pennsylvania to do so since 2012. For Retherford, it's his first World Championship

BERWICK — The state Department of Health has ordered Berwick Hospital to shut down its emergency room as of 7 a.m. Saturday because of a lack of staff, according to the department.In a letter sent out to local government entities, the department wrote that while Berwick Hospital remains open, the emergency department has been ordered to suspend its services as of tomorrow

DANVILLE — Motorists are advised that both lanes for Interstate 80 eastbound and the left (passing) lane of Interstate 80 westbound are closed at mile marker 227 due to a multi-vehicle crash.Eastbound traffic is being detoured using Routes 54, 11 and 42. The eastbound lanes are expected to be closed for several hours. Updates will follow. Motorists should be alert, watch for

This east coast. showers out west should fade, could see the odd fog badge in northern ireland. towns and cities around 4 degrees. some places in the countryside dropping to freezing with a touch of frost tomorrow morning. through tomorrow there will be a lot of dry weather. spells of sunshine, but more cloud into northern ireland and scotland, still some showers into the east coast, especially norfolk, some rain at times in the north of scotland. top temperatures 13 for stornoway, just ten in l...

BLOOMSBURG — A man who police say shot a store owner during a brawl on Main Street early Sunday turned himself in on Wednesday and was sent to jail.Kenneth Bruce Meeker, 21, of 214 Pennsylvania Ave., Sunbury, walked into the police station around 11 a.m. Wednesday, police said..His attorney, Michael J. Rudinski of Williamsport, had called officer David Bowman earlier in the

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BLOOMSBURG — Police are looking for a man they say shot someone in the leg after a fight broke out between two men banned from a town bar and a nearby business owner early this morning.Police say they are still attempting to sort out what happened, but say two men were threatening to “shoot up” The Capitol after they were turned away Saturday night.The men — identified by

The area of low pressure driving this lot will continue to bring showery weather across all parts of the uk through friday. again, some hefty downpours, but notice there is that zone of heavier, more persistent rain affecting some central and eastern areas of scotland, with a heightened risk of seeing some localised flooding as those rainfall totals continue to build up during the course of the next couple of days. beyond that, well take a look at the weather pattern into the weekend. that area ...