HOLLIDAYSBURG — Three members of an Altoona drug ring who were indicted on criminal charges following a statewide grand jury investigation in July 2025 were handed state prison sentences Tuesday in Blair County court. Rickey Sharief Joyner, 45, Matthew Lewis Rodriguez, 40, and Kirsten ...
TYRONE — Over the past two weeks, Tyrone Borough has seen the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, Mayor John Harlow said during Monday’s council meeting. On July 4, more than 750 riders took their bikes from the American Legion Post 281 to DelGrosso’s Amusement Park and back for the 2026 Freedom Ride, celebrating America’s 250th anniversary, raising $52,000 for the James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center, Harlow said. The day after the borough celebrated America’s semiquincentennial, the town faced the lowest of lows, Harlow said, as the borough got three inches of rain in ...
The Jaffa Shrine was damaged extensively Tuesday morning after a burglar who believed his daughter was being hidden there allegedly spread kerosene to burn the facility down, causing an estimated $130,000 in damage. James Morris Kaufman, 72, of New Paris, was arraigned Tuesday evening before ...
Businesses within the Logan Valley Mall have reportedly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars after a transformer blew out three weeks ago and forced 10 stores to temporarily close. Jamie Powers, an assistant manager of Joseph Jacob Jewelers, on the second floor of the mall, said he hasn’t ...
Xander Montanez, 5, gets a swimming lesson from his mother, Tiffany Mills, both of Tyrone, at Tyrone Community Pool on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
More than 50,000 retired state workers and teachers will get their first cost-of-living increase in their pension benefits in decades under a provision included in the state budget. The cost-of-living adjustment benefits retirees who left the workforce before 2001, prior to a 2001 law that boosted pension benefits for other state government workers and teachers. On average, the retirees impacted by the change had been getting about $20,000 in benefits a year, according to the Pennsylvania State Education Association. Retirees in the State Employees Retirement System will see an average ...
