A key Senate committee on Wednesday gave bipartisan support to the concept of letting a municipality put in place an 18-month moratorium on data center development, but it shunned the notion of one lasting three years. In separate votes, the Senate Local Government Committee passed two ...
Artist Brienne M. Brown of Julian (Centre County) oil paints a scene Monday from a sketch she made while visiting a temple in India. Brown was painting at Garfield Park while waiting on her son as he attends Altoona Community Theatre’s Summer Drama Camp. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
At a news conference Monday at the Railroaders Memorial Museum called by local leaders in emergency management and law enforcement, AMED Executive Director Gary Watters spoke of videos taken in recent weeks in places like New York state that illustrate why there’s so much concern about the ...
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson will now begin in January instead of the fall, a judge said Monday at a hearing that started late because Mangione got stuck in a courthouse elevator. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said ...
Members of the Hollidaysburg Community Band had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and packed their instruments earlier this month to travel to France in celebration of D-Day’s 82nd anniversary. On June 6, 1944, about 160,000 Allied troops invaded a 50-mile stretch of beaches in Normandy, ...
Inside today’s Altoona Mirror, readers will find a special publication dedicated to America’s 250th birthday — its semiquincentennial. It’s impossible to do more than briefly skim through our shared history in one edition — after all, thousands of books, papers and articles have been written about the United States of America, and indeed, there are several major research institutions, federal archives and special facilities all dedicated to the history of the U.S. The aim of this commemorative edition, then, is not to tell all, but to inspire, remind and prompt us to discover ...
