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Altoona man acquitted of charge of drug delivery resulting in death

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County jury acquitted the city man charged with delivering the drugs that resulted in the overdose death of 40-year-old Christy Clifford in April 2025 and convicted him on three related counts Thursday afternoon. The jury of seven women and five men deliberated about ...

To Dolly Parton, God and acceptance shared stage

In her 1994 memoir, Dolly Parton recounts in vivid detail the place where she found God. It was an abandoned church, in rural Tennessee where she grew up, that had become known as a haven for sex, drugs and violence. Rather than see the used condoms on the floor, the out-of-tune piano left ...

Altoona codes officer fired over Facebook comments

The city has terminated Scott Campanaro, a former codes officer who made “inappropriate and insensitive” comments online last week that were “not indicative of who we are as a city,” City Manager Chris McGuire said at a press conference Wednesday. In response to a resident’s ...

Frankstown Township supervisor ordered to pay $48K

The state ethics commission has ordered a longtime Frankstown Township supervisor to pay $48,000 to the township for Ethics Act violations. The order issued Tuesday states that ethics violations occurred when George Henry voted several times for a developer’s project within the township, ...

Pa. secures $516M in Meta settlement

Pennsylvania will receive $516 million as part of a nationwide settlement with Meta, the technology company that owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, Attorney General Dave Sunday announced at a Harrisburg press conference Wednesday. “This settlement will bring the following: a complete transformation of young users’ experience on those platforms, and hundreds of millions of dollars to the Commonwealth over the course of the next nine years,” Sunday said. “This settlement is significant not only because of the monetary amount involved but, most ...