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Police take wanted man into custody after tipoff

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A city man wanted on an active felony warrant through the Blair County Sheriff’s Office was taken into custody Wednesday after police were tipped off to his whereabouts. Police set up surveillance on a residence on the 1100 block of Sixth Avenue and spotted Jean Taft Kelley Gray, 44. A ...

OOT honors fundraising efforts

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Operation Our Town on Thursday presented its top award — the Community Partnership Award — to the Operation Our Town Golf Committee. The award, presented annually to Blair County law enforcement individuals who have demonstrated their commitment toward making the community a safe place to ...

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Dinner orders due by Sunday Homers Gap Civic Association, 135 Preston Lane, Altoona, will hold a ham, green beans and potato soup dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, for eat in or take out. The cost is $10, which includes ham, green beans and potato soup, kaiser roll, applesauce ...

More information released, new charges filed in standoff

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Additional information has been released and new charges have been filed against a city man accused in an eight-hour standoff on March 2. According to court documents, Tershar Lamonte Miller, 28, barricaded himself in a Rosehill Drive home, displayed a handgun and made comments about a ...

Court upholds dismissal of inmates’ complaints

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A federal appeals court last week upheld a decision by a district judge to dismiss complaints about living conditions at the Huntingdon State Correctional Institution filed in 2019 by two inmates. Shariff Butler, 46, and Jeremy Melvin, 37, filed a civil rights lawsuit in December of that year ...

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TYRONE InspectionGo expanding InspectionGo, founded in 2019 in Tyrone, plans to hire 25 new sales associates as the business continues to thrive. A hiring event will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, March 18, at the InspectionGo headquarters, 1014 Pennsylvania Ave., Tyrone. John Russell, ...