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Driving lesson

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Jes Walls and her daughter, Cynthia Masucci, 1, both of Altoona, play in their toy SUV at Fairview Park on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Sheetz lawsuit moved to federal court

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A lawsuit filed by Sheetz Inc. of Altoona against the city council of Centerville, Ohio, a Lutheran Church and a church-related residential senior retirement community known as Bethany Village, has been moved from the Montgomery County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas to the federal court in ...

HASB denies union claim

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HOLLIDAYSBURG — A grievance claim filed by the teachers union and denied by the Hollidaysburg Area School District board Wednesday night will be hashed out in Blair County Court. In a unanimous vote, the board denied Hollidaysburg Area Education Association’s claim that the district had ...

State Rep. promotes solar projects through school visit

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EBENSBURG — Money saved through solar projects could be used for extracurricular activities or to add more support staff to the district, said State Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler, D-Philadelphia, during a visit Wednesday to the Central Cambria School District. Fiedler was on hand to tour the ...

Two men sentenced to jail for fight outside bar

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HOLLIDAYSBURG — Two Altoona men were sentenced to jail and a third was sentenced to probation for a June 4, 2022, early morning fight outside a city bar that left a man and woman with broken noses and related injuries. Blair County Judge Jackie Bernard on Wednesday sentenced 21-year-old ...

$2M theft case moves to court

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A city man accused of stealing his grandfather-in-law’s life savings of an estimated $2 million in a staged home invasion waived his right to a preliminary hearing in Blair County court on Wednesday, sending all charges against him to the court of common pleas. Andrew Tyler Booker, 29, is ...