A Norfolk Southern conductor gives the thumbs up to the engineer of a helper tandem after coupling to the end of a westbound intermodal freight train under the Eighth Street Bridge in Altoona on Monday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

HOLLIDAYSBURG — Blair County’s lack of an updated hazardous mitigation plan is potentially jeopardizing access to state and federal disaster relief funds and disaster prevention funds, county leaders said Monday. That was named as one of the reasons Blair County commissioners, in early ...

TYRONE — The resignation of a full-time police officer and an improvement project for Reservoir Park topped the list of items voted on during Monday’s Tyrone Borough Council meeting. With councilman William Wiser voting no, the council accepted the resignation of full-time officer Jeff ...

Almost 100 people attended a City Council meeting Monday, with 19 of them speaking against at least one of three ordinances introduced later in the meeting for possible adoption in April. One of those ordinances would charge organizers of public events that need police protection $50 an hour ...

PAOLI — A Pennsylvania State Police trooper was shot and killed by a man he had pulled over in a traffic stop Sunday night, authorities said. Cpl. Tim O’Connor was killed as he approached the car when the driver fired from inside the vehicle, the state’s acting police commissioner, Lt. ...

A city man who pleaded guilty to three felony counts of child pornography is back behind bars with bail denied after allegedly threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend. Hasan Elwood Gaines, 25, was arraigned Saturday by Magisterial District Judge Andrew L. Blattenberger on felony counts of ...