COLUMBUS — First responders rescued more people from floodwaters Wednesday as utility crews cleared trees and wires downed by severe storms in the Midwest that unleashed tornadoes, heavy rains and flash flooding, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity. A 4-year-old ...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld the conviction of an Altoona man on two counts of illegally possessing firearms, although the guns in question were locked in a safe in his home. Altoona police were called to the home of Kevin Maurice Wright Jr., 40, on the 1100 block of Third ...
Norfolk Southern officials confirmed Wednesday morning that the clean-up of a 12 railcar derailment along Altoona’s Horseshoe Curve was “essentially complete.” Senior communications manager Kasandra Jenkins wrote in an email that all railcars were back on the tracks as of 8:30 a.m., ...
TYRONE — The Nov. 7 Gardners Candies Chocolate Harvest Festival is a new event Tyrone Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rose Black said she’s been wanting to do for nearly 40 years. This year, the Tyrone Events and Promotions committee decided to pursue the chocolate festival idea and partnered with Gardners Candies, which picked the date and is branding the event, according to Black. During the chamber’s regular meeting Wednesday, Black said the event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 10th Street in Tyrone Borough. The street will be blocked off and feature ...
PORTAGE — Although mild mold spores were found in the Portage Area Elementary School in early July, the building is safe for occupancy, and teachers are excited to welcome their students back to school in a couple weeks, Acting Superintendent Krystal Smith said. During Wednesday’s school board meeting, Smith said the district hired an outside company, Allegheny Mountain Research, to come in and test the affected areas, which were located in the lower level of the building, with the front of the building having a higher spore concentration than the backside. The district got those ...
The city zoning hearing board approved three variances Wednesday afternoon for a small landscaping company to use a vacant lot as a storage yard in an area zoned as residential neighborhood. Franklin Reed Jr., owner and operator of Frank’s Down to Earth Landscaping, applied for the variances that would allow him to have a contractor/storage yard in a residential zone, allow a reduced buffer area and provide only landscaped screening, as well as allow less than a 50-foot setback from the street right-of-way, online documents state. Reed purchased the parcels of 1320 and 1322 N. Fourth ...
