The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is in the process of establishing its first tattoo artist training program for inmates at the state prison in Frackville. The department released a request for proposals on Sept. 4 seeking a vendor to provide an instructor to work 32-40 hours a week ...
Editor’s note: The following information was provided by the prothonotary’s offices at area county courthouses. Blair County BECKER –– Terry; Tory, both of Altoona. Married July 24, 2009. KIDD –– Matthew S., Hollidaysburg; Jessica K., Sproul. Married June 1, 2009. McGARVEY –– Dirk, Van Cleave, Mich.; Brooke, Tyrone. Married Dec. 4, 2013. IGOU –– Heather L., Martinsburg; Malcolm W. Jr., Roaring Spring. Married June 12, 2021. ORBERG –– Heather; Thomas, both of Altoona. Married May 22, 2012. REGAN –– Sean, Heston; Mindy, Tyrone. Married July 21, ...
Editor’s note: the following information was provided by the prothonotary’s offices at area county courthouses. Blair County Jacob L. Gromiller and Kelsey M. Miller, both of Altoona. Glenn B. Grunewald and Heather A. Mease, both of Altoona. Dallas L. Gummo and Torianne A. James, both of Altoona. Sarah E. Gunter and Tyler J. Steele, both of Altoona. Jennifer L. Guyer and Nathaniel L. Smith, both of Tyrone. Caleb E. Gwinn and Alisha L. Hardy, both of Bellwood. Brandon A. Helsel and Mary E. Fletcher, both of Hollidaysburg. Natalie A. Hershberger and Daniel Wright, both ...
Nation Tennessee GOP, Dems look to name airport for Dolly NASHVILLE — In Nashville, Tennessee, the Republican-dominated state government and Democrat-controlled city government are engaged in an ugly battle for control of the city’s airport. But there’s one thing the two sides can agree on: Nashville International Airport should be renamed to honor Tennessee’s favorite daughter, Dolly Parton. Mississippi Police arrest a man in death of Tasia Fortune Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last ...
ROME — Emma Bonino, who rose to political prominence in the 1970s as a leader of the Radical Party campaign to legalize abortion in heavily Roman Catholic Italy over the objections of the Vatican, has died. She was 78. Her party of recent years, +Europa, announced her death. “Her life was a long struggle against everything that denies freedom: against clandestine abortion, world hunger, the stranglehold of party politics, female genital mutilation, punitive justice, genocide, and every form of authoritarianism,” the party said. Italy ‘s conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni ...
For nearly two minutes, one of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway and killed five people repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going too fast as they approached for landing and after touchdown, according to flight information released Wednesday. A summary of cockpit voice recordings compiled by the National Transportation Safety Board said the fellow pilot never gave “a consistent verbal response” to the warnings. The plane touched down awkwardly, briefly attempted to take off and then smashed into a van carrying the five victims. The ...
