http://www.altoonamirror.comTop Headlinesen-usTue, 16 Mar 2010 00:59:01 EDTTue, 16 Mar 2010 00:59:01 EDThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/527911.htmlStudents at Penn State Altoona got a firsthand lesson in drunken driving Monday. Through PennDOT and the Pennsylvania DUI Association, the university hosted the MADD DUI Memorial and a 30-foot driving simulator, complete with the dashboard of a real car, so students could find out for themselves just how much drinking impairs and the effects it has on people's lives.Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:08:16 EDThttp://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/527912.htmlHOLLIDAYSBURG - The judge presiding over the Nicholas A. Horner homicide trial has rejected defense arguments that the death penalty in Pennsylvania is unconstitutional. Horner's defense team, led by Blair County Assistant Public Defender John Siford, argued that death-qualified juries are inherently biased and the penalty itself represents "cruel and inhumane" treatment.Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:09:08 EDThttp://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/527930.htmlThe Altoona Area School District didn't waste any time finding its new girls varsity basketball coach. It didn't have to, because it didn't have to look very far.Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:26:30 EDThttp://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/527915.htmlGEESEYTOWN - Firefighters from Geeseytown and Duncans­ville rescued two men who attempted a midnight canoe ride early Sunday in the rain-swollen Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River. "In a situation like this, anything can go wrong. ... but this is one of the times it went right," Capt. Chuck White of the Geesey­town Volunteer Fire Department said Monday. Firefighters were summoned at 4:07 a.Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:10:04 EDThttp://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/527917.htmlThe unemployment rate dropped in two area counties in January, stayed the same in one and increased in three others, the state Department of Labor and Industry said. The jobless rate dropped two-tenths of a percentage point in both Clearfield and Huntingdon counties. Clearfield's rate dropped from 10.5 percent to 10.3 percent and Huntingdon's rate dropped from 11.3 percent to 11.1 percen.Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:10:38 EDT