There’s no place like home, or as P&J Productions likes to call it, the Benzel Stage at the Mishler Theatre, where “The Wizard of Oz” will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 17, and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 18. “It’s a beautiful theater, and it’s a relatively small theater so that ...
The former Bellwood-Antis High School student accused of setting the district’s middle school on fire in December 2024 was furloughed from prison Monday to participate in a community-based intensive treatment program. Elias Izaha Lynn Alley, 21, faces single felony counts of arson, ...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court, in an opinion issued Thursday, upheld the conviction and lengthy prison term imposed on a Nanty Glo man for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. The incidents charged to James G. Smith Jr., 40, who is presently incarcerated in the State Correctional ...
With Civil War stories at the front line of the conversation, novelist Jeffery Shaara is slated to visit the Mishler Theatre at 7 p.m. Oct. 20 for the Altoona Area Public Library’s second Storytellers on Stage event. Son of “Killer Angels” author and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara, New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Shaara is best known for his books, “Gods and Generals,” the prequel to “Killer Angels,” and “The Last Full Measure,” the sequel to “Killer Angels.” “He does extensive research on moments in American history and tells the story of ...
A Bridgefield man was taken into custody after allegedly following a 5-year-old family member into a bathroom and touching her inappropriately. James Frederick Waxter, 75, was arraigned Thursday by Magisterial District Judge Kayla Hetzel on 25 felony counts, including rape of a child, ...
President Donald Trump openly encouraged Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania to switch parties and become a Republican just weeks before the midterm elections could reshape control of Congress. “I’d love to see him as a Republican,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews ...
