This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Sunday is the solstice, marking the start of astronomical summer north of the equator. It’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the shortest day of the year and winter will ...
CLAYSBURG — Those looking to get in shape or try something new need look no further than the Claysburg Community Park, where a bright blue outdoor gym has taken shape. During an official ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday, local government officials, school district administration and ...
A recent inspection of the inflatable rubber dams installed seven years ago atop the spillways for Lake Altoona and the Impounding Dam near Horseshoe Curve showed the rubber dams are in fundamentally good condition and could last another 25 or 30 years, according to authority General Manager Mark Perry. That “good news” assuages authority fears that the rubber dams would need replaced far sooner than would normally be expected, due to recent cracking and leakage of air, as reported at a meeting in May. The cracking of the rubber atop the Impounding Dam, however, is only ...
The parent corporation of a Clearfield firearms store has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the mother of a murder victim, who claims the company and the store had a duty to prevent the alleged “straw purchase” of the gun used in the killing. The lawsuit was filed ...
In a stunning reversal, Luigi Mangione’s lawyers told a judge Thursday that he will no longer be asserting a psychiatric defense at his state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The retraction came just a day after Mangione’s lawyers told Judge Gregory ...
Two Blair County men are behind bars with bail denied Wednesday after officers uncovered a large drug trafficking operation spanning two decades that allegedly saw the pair traffic nearly $500,000 worth of narcotics from New York City in a single day. Olubayo Mensah Ranger, 45, and Anthony ...
