HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County District Attorney’s Office filed a motion Thursday morning to revoke the bail of the Hollidaysburg man accused of sexually abusing two underage girls over several years after allegedly contacting one of the victims to have her recant. William John ...
Grassroots resistance to data centers is creating some strange bedfellows with Republican lawmakers who are typically not on the side of environmentalists leading the calls for a moratorium on data center development. Karen Feridun of the Better Path Coalition, one of the groups leading statewide opposition to data center expansion, said she can’t remember an environmental issue that unified people across the political spectrum in the same way. “Everybody’s saying the same thing for once,” she said. “Once we stop playing the roles they like to play us, as adversaries, we are ...
JOHNSTOWN Alternative Community Resource Program will host a formal signing ceremony to establish a new clinical affiliation agreement with Indiana University of Pennsylvania, marking a significant step forward in expanding health care education and services in the region. The signing will take place at ACRP’s Outpatient Clinic, 119 Walnut St., Johnstown, at 1 p.m. Monday. The agreement supports the development of IUP’s Proposed College of Osteopathic Medicine and reflects a shared commitment to advancing community-based clinical training and improving health care access across ...
A fiery North Dakota derailment that happened two years ago demonstrated yet again why the National Transportation Safety Board has been urging the rail industry for decades to replace flawed tank cars that tend to rupture in a crash. The NTSB said in its final report Thursday that the workhorse DOT-111 tank cars are long overdue for replacement because of the way the devastating impact of a derailment is magnified anytime hazardous chemicals leak, especially if they catch fire as they did in this derailment just outside the town of Bordulac, North Dakota. In addition, the NTSB said ...
The state Senate shot down legislation that would have banned intoxicating hemp products and set up a cannabis control board to assume oversight of the state’s medical marijuana program. The bill’s prime sponsor, Sen. Dan Laughlin, R-Erie, called the defeat a “missed opportunity.” The bill was defeated by bipartisan opposition in a 29-21 vote, although only Democrats criticized the bill during the debate before the vote. “Pennsylvania is choosing to leave intoxicating ‘gas station weed’ completely unregulated,” Laughlin said. “That means no testing, no oversight, no ...
Anna Resig (left) and Elle Dalby of the Altoona Department of Public Works pick up trimmed tree branches along the 2100 block of Sixth Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
