HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County commissioners on Thursday approved the purchase of two drones and all optional equipment totaling $61,990, as requested by the county’s Emergency Management Agency. The purchase will be made from Axon Enterprises of Scottsdale, Ariz., which submitted the only bid ...
A Bedford man faces more than 250 charges after a lengthy investigation into three complaints made by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding child exploitation. Jacob Christen Clark, 33, was arraigned Thursday before Magisterial District Judge Tonya M. Osman on 268 ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The bell inside the Blair County Courthouse clocktower is slated to ring again this year when the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding. The Fort Fetter American Legion Post has collected more than $60,000 toward a fundraising goal of $75,000 to pay for the ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump swiftly signed a bipartisan legislation Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, shortly after the package won final approval in the House, ending the longest agency shutdown in ...
Raincoats and umbrellas didn’t crush students’ excitement Thursday morning at Peoples Natural Gas Field as they ditched the classroom for an education day with the Altoona Curve. One of those students was fourth grader Kinslee Swope of Mount Union Elementary School, who could be found ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — In the four weeks that K-9 Officer Dea has been on the streets of Blair County with her handler, Officer Bryan Ketner of the Hollidaysburg Borough Police Department, she’s already been deployed eight times and played a vital role leading to drug-related arrests in each ...