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Fire kills Cambria eatery owner

March 10, 2010

A northern Cambria County businessman died in a fire Tues­day at his home, Cambria County Coroner Dennis Kwiatkowski said. James Paul Tirpak, 55, of 2221 St. Lawrence Road, Patton, was found dead after firefighters got the blaze under control, Kwiat­kowski said. Tirpak and his wife owned Hubcaps Grill, located near Cambria Heights High School. About 2:25 p.m., a caller to the Cambria County 911 Center reported that flames were through the roof, and he wasn’t sure whether anyone was inside the residence, Chief Patrick Wood of Patton Fire Company No. 1 said. The home was fully in­volved in fire when the first Patton units arrived. Tirpak was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:20 p.m., Kwiat­kow­ski said. He was found in a rear bedroom of the one-story house. Tirpak’s wife wasn’t home at the time of the fire. The cause of Tirpak’s death is undetermined, pending an autopsy that is scheduled for today at Mem­orial Medical Center, Johns­town, Kwiatkowski said.

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Hold the tomato

March 10, 2010

If you want a tomato on your hamburger at Wendy’s, you’ll have to ask for it.

A record freeze in mid-January wiped out nearly 80 percent of Florida’s tomato crop, and local businesses are now feeling the impact.

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Hollidaysburg girls coach Hurd resigns after loss

March 10, 2010

The Hollidaysburg Area High School girls basketball team returns its entire roster for next season.

Except its head coach.

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Jury: Man at fault for taking money

March 10, 2010

HOLLIDAYSBURG — The defense styled the case of Herbert A. Starbird, charged with taking $280,000 mistakenly deposited in his bank account in 2007, as “The Little People versus Bank Power.

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Trauma surgeon talks about war experiences

March 10, 2010

Dr. Christopher Coppola came out a better man and surgeon from his deployments to a war-torn country.

“I came back 10 times the surgeon,” he said of the calm attitude he earned in a military trauma hospital in Iraq in 2005 and 2007.

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Mayors push for more tax power

March 9, 2010

HARRISBURG — Altoona is in better shape than other Penn­sylvania municipalities but still needs help from Harrisburg to prevent financial disaster, the city’s No. 2 elected official said Monday.

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