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DANVILLE — Montour County officials report a body was discovered in Valley Township on Sunday.

Accompanied by Alex Morgan, commander of Danville VFW Post 298, Danville Middle School teacher Ashley Reidinger and 20 eighth grade student volunteers placed flags on veterans’ gravesites Monday morning at 18 cemeteries, beginning at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, in Danville.

NORTHUMBERLAND — A Sunbury man is jailed on $150,000 bail and faces felony aggravated assault charges after police say he fired a gun at another person Sunday during a dispute near Queen Street.

There is reason for this year’s college graduates to be cautiously optimistic about the job market.

SUNBURY — A 36-year-old Brooklyn man accused of helping an organization scam a Kulpmont man out of $5,000, who was scheduled for a pre-trial hearing Monday, was granted a continuance in Northumberland County Court because he needs a Chinese interpreter.

MIFFLINBURG — The Buffalo Valley Produce Auction in Mifflinburg will be partnering with the Clinic for Special Children in hopes of raising more than half a million dollars to support work in providing affordable medical care for individuals with rare genetic disorders.

MAZEPPA — Mazeppa will honor longtime parade organizer, the late Clarence Roush, during Sunday’s annual Memorial Day observance.

When Dr. Scott Purinton, gynecologic oncologist at Geisinger, gives lectures on ovarian cancer, he runs through the symptoms, then asks women in the audience who have had any of the symptoms to raise their hands.

Polycystic ovarian syndrome can present with a number of symptoms. But the one that usually brings women to seek medical help? Irregular periods.

LEWISBURG — When Ken Freeman sat on the quad at Bucknell University in 1972 waiting to receive his degree, he had no idea what lay ahead. But as the years went by, he realized just how much of an impact Bucknell had on his life.