A federal safety agency recommended the development of written policies and procedures for flushing gas valves a year after a blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh killed two workers. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board issued a final report into the August 2025 ...
Emergency personnel and officials are at the Horseshoe Curve after several freight cars tipped off the tracks in front of the visitors center. Few details are available at this time. An unknown substance seems to be leaking from one or more of the cars. The Mirror is on scene and working to ...
Lucille was a black Lab whose initial destiny as a seeing eye dog came to grief in training. So she was retrained to become an arson detection dog, ending up in 2022 with the Altoona Fire Department and fire inspector Justin Smithmyer. Lucille’s sudden death a few days ago has brought ...
The Prospect Pool complex’s reconstruction is on schedule to be completed for next year’s swim season, City Manager Christopher McGuire said after Monday’s city council meeting. During the meeting, city council members awarded the bath house renovations to Clark Contractors of Bedford in the amount of $696,313.85 as part of a consent vote with other resolutions, which included awarding demolition and repository bids. A full renovation of the bath house will make it fully compliant with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, McGuire said, noting the bath house was ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Philadelphia man convicted earlier this year of trafficking nearly $74,000 worth of narcotics requested his sentence be vacated in documents filed Monday. Following a two-day trial in May, a Blair County jury found Damar Michael Holmes, 34, guilty of five felony counts of ...
