True tales of scary historical events involving area residents might send a chill through visitors at the Railroaders Memorial Museum’s Haunted Rails and Tails the next three Saturdays. Visitors will go on a guided tour through the museum, where actors portraying people who lived between ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — An Altoona woman was convicted of supplying a gun used by a teenager in a June 12, 2021, daylight shooting at a busy Altoona intersection. A Blair County jury took less than 10 minutes to render the pair of guilty verdicts against Alisa A. Ramcharan, 28, on a felony firearm ...
CLAYSBURG — To his family, Bryan “Chipper” Chamberlain was a gentle giant, a big teddy bear who always tried to make others laugh and was always close at hand when someone needed help. On Aug. 20, 2018, Chamberlain, a PennDOT employee, was killed when a piece of heavy equipment in which ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied further hearing for an Altoona man convicted of drug offenses, but who has adamantly proclaimed for several years the investigation into his drug activities was illegal from the beginning. The state’s highest court however took a different ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Roaring Spring woman accused of drug trafficking offenses associated with one of the largest seizures of methamphetamine in Blair County was sentenced Thursday to 4.5 to 10 years in a state prison, followed by 15 years’ probation. Erica Lynn Eckert, 44, pleaded guilty ...
A city man who faces robbery charges in one case and assault charges in another is behind bars after police found him hiding in a third-floor storage area in a home on the 300 block of North Seventh Avenue. Christain Thomas Malique Brown, 25, is accused of threatening a female victim about ...