The Commonwealth Court has rejected a request by a Logan Township man seeking the return of more than $14,000 taken by police during a search of his home in June 2020. Police were called to the home of Dwight Campbell due to an ongoing domestic dispute, but officers turned their attention to ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Hollidaysburg man charged with child sexual abuse and related offenses across three separate but related cases pleaded guilty Wednesday to three misdemeanor counts and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation. Kyler Felix Bem, 20, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts ...
PORTAGE — Two advisory committees were established during Wednesday’s Portage Borough Council meeting with the hopes of involving the community in more of the borough’s affairs. Borough Manager Makayla Zonfrilli-Lang is currently soliciting letters of interest from borough residents ...
A pending House bill seeks to bring more public involvement to the process for closing a campus at public institutions of higher education. A memo filed by Rep Jill Cooper, R-Allegheny, with bipartisan cosponsors gives an additional job to the state Education Secretary when deciding whether to approve a campus closing application or not. The secretary would publish a notice about the application in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and post information on the department’s website. The public would have a 30-day comment period after that under Cooper’s proposal. The secretary would ...
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman spoke to the Republican midterm convention via video Wednesday, an extraordinary escalation of the growing rupture between the Pennsylvanian and his party. Fetterman’s decision is certain to stoke fears, already simmering among Democrats, that he will switch ...
The Blair County Mosquito-borne Disease Control Program will conduct a truck-mounted ultra-low-volume mosquito control operation today, Thursday, Sept. 10, in portions of Antis Township, Blair Township and Hollidaysburg Borough. The operation will begin around dusk and is intended to reduce populations of nuisance mosquitoes and mosquitoes capable of transmitting West Nile virus. The adult mosquito control operation originally scheduled for Sept. 3 was canceled because of weather. A makeup operation scheduled for Sept. 8 was canceled because of equipment malfunctions. The treatment ...
