Always equipped with a can-do attitude, relatives, friends and students are remembering local teacher Samantha Brisini as a beam of light. “She lifted everyone up around her, and she never questioned if someone could do something or not,” Saint Michael School teacher and longtime friend ...
Ken Tedora of the Central Pennsylvania National Guard and Veterans Association has helped refurbish local veterans monuments and the grounds around them with and without help from other association members for years. Since last year, with the assistance of the son of a Van Zandt VA Medical ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County commissioners office has no copies of environmental reports for the Duncansville area land where a new county prison could be built, Commissioner Amy Webster said Thursday. While commissioners reported in late May that environmental reviews of the wooded ...
The state Senate advanced legislation Thursday to reform the way defendants are sentenced for second-degree murder convictions. Individuals convicted of second-degree murder are typically conspirators found to have broken other laws while participating in a crime that resulted in a victim being killed. The classic example of this is the getaway driver who is directly involved in the crime itself, though prosecutors at the Capitol on Thursday said most individuals convicted of second-degree murder are responsible for the victim’s death in the crime that led to the defendant’s arrest ...
At 1.5 million, fewer students today attend Pennsylvania’s public schools than in 2019 by roughly 5%. That figure climbs to 18% when analyzing enrollment figures since 2000, as the Commonwealth Foundation did in its latest report on public education funding, using state data. The raw data ...
Members of the Logan Township Board of Supervisors Thursday advised residents to use fireworks around the Fourth of July legally and courteously. Township code prohibits setting off fireworks between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m.; within 150 feet of a building that’s typically occupied; on any ...
