A second daily round-trip passenger train between Pittsburgh and New York City will begin operation in mid-November, according to a news release Monday from Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office. Amtrak’s board had previously announced the addition of the second Pennsylvanian at a meeting July ...
Last year, a controversy erupted when residents living near the 200 block of Beech Avenue in Logantown learned that the city had been planning to develop a housing project on what those residents long thought of as Orchard Park. It turned into nine months of legal wrangling, with the city ...
PHILADELPHIA — Two unvaccinated Pennsylvania residents have died from measles, state health officials said Tuesday, the first measles-related deaths in the U.S. this year. Officials did not reveal any details about the people who died, other than that they lived in Lancaster County, west ...
A Charleroi man was taken into custody Sunday morning after he allegedly broke into an Altoona convenience store and refused to leave, causing an hourslong standoff with police. David Allen Mooers, 40, was arraigned Sunday by Magisterial District Judge Daniel C. DeAntonio on single felony ...
ASHVILLE — A new scholarship has been created to help attract new members to the Ashville Volunteer Fire Company. The Evelyn and Eugene Eyer Ashville Scholarship Fund — established through the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies — will provide a scholarship to students who are pursuing any type of post-secondary education. Applicants must be an Ashville Volunteer Fire Company member or a child, grandchild, niece or nephew of a member. The fund was established by CFA board member Bob Eyer in memory of his parents, Evelyn and Eugene Eyer. Eugene Eyer was one of the fire ...
A native of India, who contends his detention in the Moshannon Valley Processing Center is illegal, has filed a federal petition seeking release from the facility, or, at the very least, that he receive a bond hearing. The petition was filed late last week by Philadelphia attorney Rizwan M. ...
