Bonnie Sanders wasn’t worried, but she was taking precautions nonetheless. Sanders, 82, was among a couple dozen people who came to the Station Medical Center Monday morning for UPMC Altoona’s once-a-year walk-in mammography screening for women who are due for their annual mammogram, ...
ROME — Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery Tuesday that confirmed that he has lung cancer, and doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican said. Tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin after the surgery. It said the diagnosis ...
Despite having his latest appeal denied, an Altoona man is approaching eligibility to be released after being convicted in 1990 of stabbing a man more than 70 times and killing him. When James “Frankie” Rodgers was 17 years old, he was accused of killing Pasquale “Patsy” Lascoli, 72, ...
A Martinsburg company plans to establish an egg farm in Blair Township off Route 36 near the top of Chimney Rocks. Roman Musser Egg Operations would include a 47-by-512-foot barn that township officials estimate could house 25,000 chickens that would be located on 146 acres to the right of ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The woman who accused a city man of raping her near an off-campus party in February told a jury Tuesday morning that she was afraid he was going to hurt her. The victim said through tears that David Jeffrey Brunner, 25, gave her an ultimatum after driving her away from the ...
A new state law paves the way for development of two bases in central Pennsylvania where drones can be tested and deployed. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed Senate Bill 468 into law last week after it cleared both the House and Senate by unanimous votes. The law designates sites in Cambria and ...
