NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson will now begin in January instead of the fall, a judge said Monday at a hearing that started late because Mangione got stuck in a courthouse elevator. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said ...
Members of the Hollidaysburg Community Band had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and packed their instruments earlier this month to travel to France in celebration of D-Day’s 82nd anniversary. On June 6, 1944, about 160,000 Allied troops invaded a 50-mile stretch of beaches in Normandy, ...
Inside today’s Altoona Mirror, readers will find a special publication dedicated to America’s 250th birthday — its semiquincentennial. It’s impossible to do more than briefly skim through our shared history in one edition — after all, thousands of books, papers and articles have been written about the United States of America, and indeed, there are several major research institutions, federal archives and special facilities all dedicated to the history of the U.S. The aim of this commemorative edition, then, is not to tell all, but to inspire, remind and prompt us to discover ...
UPPER BERN TOWNSHIP — A week after news broke that the Trump administration plans to get rid of two warehouses in Pennsylvania, local and state officials say they are in the dark about what will happen next. The Department of Homeland Security and ICE have not disputed reporting by the New York Times that federal officials intend to sell or give away seven of the 11 warehouses purchased over the past year as part of a sweeping, $38.3 billion plan to expand detention capacity. Efforts to “reengineer” empty warehouses as detention centers and processing facilities were paused ...
With one day left before the deadline to produce a state budget, closed-door negotiations among top state Democrats and Republicans were said to be continuing on Monday but there was no indication a deal had been reached. If no budget is passed by the end of Tuesday, it will be the fifth year ...
A former Altoona man who is serving a lengthy prison sentence for a DUI crash that killed three Cambria County residents is questioning the length of his sentence that was initially imposed by retired Judge Norman D. Callan. James Wolfe, now 51, has been serving time behind bars for an ...
