HARRISBURG — A man who allegedly scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion was denied bail Monday as he faced charges including attempted homicide, terrorism and arson. Cody Balmer spoke with a public ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro angrily called for an end to rising political violence just hours after a man broke into the governor’s mansion and set it on fire, forcing Shapiro and his family to flee into the night. It was the latest in a string of partisan political attacks in the United ...
A Philadelphia native who was the alleged mastermind behind a 2013 robbery and murder of an Altoona man in his Walnut Avenue home will not get a new trial, according to a ruling late last week by the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Kashif Omar Ellis, now 38, argued before the appeals court that ...
A Cleveland, Ohio, man is behind bars after an argument at a local hotel led police to find he was in possession of a firearm. Stephen Shawn Holbert, 54, was arraigned April 4 by Magisterial District Judge Matthew Dunio on one felony count of possession of a firearm prohibited and one ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Philadelphia man arrested in August for his role in a drug-trafficking organization that provided the Altoona area with substantial amounts of methamphetamine in 2018 and 2019 has pleaded guilty for a county prison sentence of 11.5 to 23 months’ incarceration, followed by ...
William Rabold II recently announced his candidacy for Frankstown Township supervisor in the upcoming May primary. A Republican, Rabold has lived in the township for nine years, although he is a lifetime resident of Blair County. Rabold said he is running for supervisor because he wants to ...