EBENSBURG — The family of an Altoona man brutally killed in May 2023 told convicted killer Austin Louis Kline, 26, that he was a monster who should “rot in hell.” Kline showed no emotion during Wednesday’s proceedings, in which Judge Tamara Bernstein handed down a sentence of life in ...
Penn Cambria’s Rising Stars Youth Football camp for kindergarten through sixth grade students wrapped up its third and final day Wednesday in Lilly. The camp is led by the Penn Cambria varsity football coaching staff, led by coach Jason Grassi, and the varsity football players, completing ...
HARRISBURG — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is giving up on its plan to use two rural Pennsylvania warehouses to hold thousands of people. The plan had been held up by the state’s denial of drinking water and wastewater permits, and an ICE lawyer filed paperwork Wednesday withdrawing his agency’s appeal of the denial. The state had raised concerns that the local water and wastewater services in rural areas of Berks and Schuylkill counties were inadequate to handle the thousands of inhabitants envisioned by the federal agency. ICE did not say what, if anything, it would ...
Low-interest loans are now available through the U.S. Small Business Administration for Pennsylvanians impacted by the July 5-6 flooding in Blair County, and surrounding Bedford, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield and Huntingdon counties. A Disaster Loan Outreach Center is now open at the Tyrone Borough building to allow people to apply for a Small Business Administration low interest loan and the Commonwealth Disaster Recovery Assistance Program grant. The office will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays at the borough municipal officers, ...
The Van Zandt VA Medical Center received funding for nonrecurring maintenance projects in the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, after receiving funding earlier in the year. The funding is part of a record $4.8 billion in nationwide VA spending to modernize, repair and improve health care facilities in FY2026 via the Veterans Health Administration’s Non-recurring Maintenance program. Funding projects for JEVZ VAMC in the third quarter of FY2026 are: - Electronic health record modernization activities, $224,294 - Electrical system improvements to support long-term reliability and ...
While legislators from both chambers have proposed legalizing skill games in recent years, nonprofits who rely on revenue from the devices fear it may disappear because of a mid-October deadline created by a Supreme Court decision. The estimated 70,000 devices scattered around the state are unregulated and untaxed. The court decision issued in mid-June declared them to be illegal gambling devices, but the court stayed the decision for 120 days to allow them to come up with a solution. In Dauphin County, Lisa Iskric is the manager of the Steelton American Legion, a nonprofit which ...
