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Intergovernmental Stormwater Committee exceeds requirement for sediment reduction

During the past seven years, the Intergovernmental Stormwater Committee has exceeded its requirement to reduce the amount of sediment that annually flows into area streams by more than 700,000 pounds per year, according to ISC stormwater coordinator Chelsey Weyant. The requirement of the seven-year Department of Environmental Protection permit cycle — initially five years long — was to shrink the amount of sediment washed into area streams in the committee’s nine-municipality urbanized area in central Blair County by 1.4 million pounds per year. That represented a 10% ...

Man who sought photos of minor girls loses appeal

A Clearfield County man in prison for attempting to obtain photographs of minors has lost an appeal of his case in which he charged his lawyer with ineffectiveness for not filing pre-trial motions to dismiss the charges against him. The defendant, Reed Eugene Meeker Jr., 43, of Osceola Mills ...

Suspect who threw Molotov cocktail at Railroaders Memorial Museum takes plea

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Clifton Heights man who threw a Molotov cocktail at a railcar doused in gasoline outside the Railroaders Memorial Museum in May 2025 was sentenced Friday morning to 25 days to two years less one day in the Blair County Prison after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charges ...

New Enterprise woman sentenced on theft, firearms charges

A New Enterprise woman who broke into her former boyfriend’s Clearfield home and took a firearm was sentenced Tuesday to county prison by President Judge Paul E. Cherry, according to a report by The Progress. Danyel Nicole Brallier, 51, pleaded guilty to felony charges of theft by unlawful ...

Shapiro seeks oversight for frontier AI development

Gov. Josh Shapiro called for federal and international action to slow down and responsibly govern the development of artificial intelligence during a keynote speech at the AI Horizons Summit in Pittsburgh Thursday. Shapiro noted the concerns raised earlier this month by tech leaders who called for a slowdown in AI development and said the potential harm from rogue AI demands the government take a role in regulating the industry. “We don’t let pharmaceutical companies develop drugs and put them right out in the market. No, they must first go through the (Food and Drug ...

Pennsylvania unemployment rate dips to 3.7%

The number of people working in Pennsylvania hit another record high in August while the number of people looking for work dropped, new data from the Department of Labor and Industry shows. It’s the third month in a row state officials have touted a record-breaking number of people working in Pennsylvania. There are, however, some indications that things are not as rosy as they appear. The unemployment rate was down 0.2%, dipping to 3.7%, the lowest rate since May 2024. The unemployment rate was down 0.7% from August 2025. The number of people looking for work in August was down ...