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Intermunicipal Relations Committee gives approval for possible coal exploration near Buckhorn

A local council of governments whose mission is the renewable use of materials is entertaining proposals from a pair of energy firms for leasing land it owns for a solar project and for potentially strip mining coal. The Intermunicipal Relations Committee, which operates recycling programs for Altoona, Logan Township and Hollidaysburg, and which has a compost facility with lots of extra, unused ground near the Buckhorn, has been working for the past year and a half with a firm that is hoping to install a solar array; the committee also this week agreed to allow a coal mining company to ...

Penn State trustees sued over ‘gag policy’

Spotlight PA and two other news organizations are suing leaders of the Penn State Board of Trustees in federal court, accusing them of violating the First Amendment by controlling what individual trustees can say to the public and the press. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District ...

Penn Run man accused in Altoona man’s OD death files suit

A Penn Run, Indiana County, man awaiting trial in Blair County on a charge of drug delivery resulting in death has filed a federal civil rights petition contending he was unwittingly duped into providing the drugs by a man he thought was a federal agent. Eldon Allen Sajko, 56, remains ...

Roaring Spring man arrested for alleged sexual assault of child

A Roaring Spring man is behind bars with bail denied after allegedly sexually assaulting a toddler. Joshua Daniel Ross, 29, was arraigned Thursday before Magisterial District Judge Andrew L. Blattenberger on felony charges of rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a ...

The Central Blair Recreation and Park Commission has leveraged a suggestion made last December by the family of a man long connected with the commission that could enable the commission’s annual golf tournament to take flight. The suggestion from the family of late Blair County NAACP President Don Witherspoon was to hold a second golf tournament in memory of Witherspoon, commission Executive Director Mike Hofer said at a recent commission meeting. Hofer deflected that suggestion, persuading the family of his late friend and fellow supporter of recreation opportunities for young ...