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FOUR local charities have received a total of more than £250,000 in funding from the lottery’s awards for all and improving lives grant schemes. Mind Your Head has been awarded two grants, £135,000 for funding its “holistic to well-being” which complements existing...

BOSTON (AP) — It may officially be spring, but New England is battling a wintry weather combination across the region Saturday with more than a foot of snow expected in ski country, and rain, wind and possible flooding in southern areas and along the coast.In Maine the National Weather Service warned of a treacherous travel day with an increase in ice forming inland from the

A TRIAL date has been set for a Lerwick woman who denies behaving in a threatening manner on the town’s public bus service last week. Sarah Irvine, of the town’s Hillgrind, appeared from custody at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Monday afternoon. Following lengthy deliberations...

SALEM TWP. — State Police are asking the public for help finding a missing woman they say is endangered, even as they and firefighters searched the Susquehanna Riverlands trails and the nearby river for her.Linda Carmella Shaw, 63, of Cope Road, Shickshinny, has been missing since 11:30 a.m. Monday, said Tpr. Jeffrey Miller in a report released late Monday night.

A MAN who failed to keep a proper look-out on the road behind as he went to overtake a car and caused a collision has been fined hundreds of pounds and given four penalty points. Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Thursday how Ethan Tulloch, of Whiteness, began to overtake another...

A MAN who was charged with being concerned in the supply of drugs after police discovered heroin, mobile phones and more than £1,000 in cash in a search has had his sentence deferred. Alexander Chalmers, of Tingwall, pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of...

A STERN warning has been sounded about being truthful at court after two witnesses were remanded in custody overnight following a trial. The witnesses were kept overnight in the Lerwick Police Station cells to allow consideration of possible contempt of court amid concern they...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Kateryna Dmytryk had been waiting for this moment for almost two years — nearly all of her son’s life.Side by side, they ran, 2-year-old Timur leading the way as snow crunched beneath their feet. A slender, pale man made his way to the pair from the military hospital. Artem Dmytryk hadn’t seen his family for about 24 months, almost all of which he spent in

CATAWISSA — A vacant house trailer went up in flames here early Thursday, with fire crews needing to call in help from five surrounding companies to douse the fire in a small trailer court on the edge of Pfahler Street.Volunteer firefighters from six companies around Columbia County rushed to the scene with tankers lining up to haul water to the fire from nearby Catawissa

A thirty nine year old man charged with murder was fully committed for trial when he appeared in private at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday. Aren Pearson, whose address was given as Shetland, made no plea and was remanded in custody. Pearson was arrested eleven days ago...