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BLOOMSBURG – Thunderstorms bringing high winds and heavy rain downed trees across Columbia and Montour counties Thursday, leading to road closures, causing power outages, and knocking the 911 phone system out of service.Jeremy Brown, Director at East Central Emergency Network, said a fiber optic line was cut somewhere compromising service for Verizon customers in several

A JURY trial due to take place in Lerwick later this month has had to be postponed because of a lack of accommodation for the accused and a defence agent. Steven Hazel, 40, of Fallin, and Craig Donaldson, 40, of Glasgow, were due go on trial on 25 September, which is during the...

A MAN from Scalloway who severed another man’s finger with a filleting knife and a hammer while drunk has been sent to jail for two years and eight months. John Johnson, of East Voe, had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of assault to severe injury and permanent...

ONE OF Shetland’s top triathletes had a lucky escape with no serious injuries after colliding with a car on Lerwick’s Sound Brae on 16 May this year. In court on Wednesday, Michael Batty, of the town’s Greenfield Square, pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving by...

BERWICK — A kitchen fire, started by accident Saturday morning when cardboard boxes were left on an electric stove, forced about a dozen people to evacuate a large multi-unit apartment building.Fire alarms went off shortly before 8 a.m. in the four-story building that once housed the old Berwick Hospital at 1599 N.

SERCO NorthLink Ferries’ crew members have raised over £5,000 for their charity of the year - MND (Motor Neurone Disease) Scotland - following a sponsored walk across Shetland. Kathryn Fullerton, passenger service supervisor on board the Hjaltland, and Leigha Finnegin, who...

LERWICK Sheriff Court was stunned in disbelief on Wednesday morning when procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie narrated the facts of one of the most disturbing child abuse cases that has come before the court in recent memory. The fiscal addressed the court after 23-year-old Ross...

SENTENCE has been deferred on a man from Gott after he pleaded guilty to two charges of threatening or abusive behaviour. Appearing at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday, 50-year-old Brian Carr admitted sending abusive and threatening messages on 26 June this year. He also...

TWO drink drivers were fined and disqualified when their cases called at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday. Nils Smith, of Stakkafletts, Fetlar was more than five times the legal limit when he collided with a fence on the A968 road near the Gunnister junction in Unst at around...

A SHETLAND sovereignty campaigner has been ordered to pay Lerwick Sheriff Court a £500 security which will be held against her future good behaviour. Following a 90-minute trial on Tuesday morning Sandra Irvine, of Boddam, was found guilty of an amended charge of shouting and...