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 ...
HAVANA — Cuba’s power grid collapsed once again on Friday, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity for at least the sixth time since U.S. President Donald Trump cut off fuel to the island in January. The Ministry of Energy and Mines announced the islandwide power outage on its official X account and added that officials had begun “activating service-restoration protocols.” “No one can stand these constant blackouts. There isn’t enough food, there’s no water, there’s no electricity -- you have no idea,” Mercedes Rodriguez, a 60-year-old ...
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 ...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight: at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, spotted feline had been living for years. The discovery, reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology, marks the first time scientists have named and described a new living wild cat species in more than a century. Bolivian biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a National Geographic explorer and one of the study’s lead authors, said a colleague who thought the cat looked unusual invited her to examine it at the sanctuary in the ...
TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday cast Canada as moving quickly beyond its historical reliance on the United States after a whirlwind week in which he embraced the prospect of becoming the European Union’s first associate member. Carney, who returned from Europe on Thursday night, said Canada and Europe had “launched a process for a new alliance.” He also called the latest U.S. tariffs a “miscalculation” and repeated that suspending trade talks with Washington last month was the right decision. “Amidst this global rupture, we must move forward,” ...
Around 2016, when Altoona Blair County Development Corp. Executive Director Marty Marasco was ready to retire, he reached out to Steve McKnight, who had formerly worked for ABCD Cop., and suggested he apply for the top job. “What about Pat,” McKnight asked, speaking of Marasco’s ...
