HOLLIDAYSBURG — The city man who caused the death of 17-year-old Lundyn Treese by crashing a truck while driving under the influence was sentenced Friday afternoon to the statutory maximum of five to 10 years’ incarceration. Family and friends of Treese, some sporting light blue t-shirts ...
Authorities released police bodycam footage Thursday showing the discovery of a Pennsylvania college student’s body that led to the arrest of her boyfriend, who said in court documents that a “demon” told him to stab her. The boyfriend’s mother, meanwhile, is accused of helping him cover up the crime, according to state police. Royce Moser, 18, of North Strabane Township, faces a homicide charge in the death of Karoline Heintz, a student at PennWest California University whose body was found Aug. 20 after she failed to return to the southwestern Pennsylvania college, ...
Despite CamTran officials proclaiming the Johnstown Inclined Plane would reopen Friday, mother nature had other plans as severe weather caused road closures, storm damage and power and cell service outages throughout the area Thursday night. Passenger service at Johnstown Inclined Plane was ...
Larry McKee of Altoona, a railroad history, photography, movie and circus aficionado who died last month at 83, was an only child who never married and never had children. But it isn’t true that McKee was without family, according to Joe DeFrancesco, executive director of the Altoona ...
In nearly half of municipalities hosting the state’s most prominent data center projects, local public officials or staff signed non-disclosure agreements with companies, a dynamic that is fueling concerns that the public’s access to information is being compromised. Public records ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Representatives for Indivisible Blair County urged commissioners Thursday to explore options as to how they can play a role in controlling the potential development of data centers. Blair County has a lot of rural farmland that could be vulnerable for such development, Indivisible Blair County President Carol Taylor of Altoona told commissioners during their weekly meeting where she referenced concerns about water and energy usage, noise, emissions and displacement. “What could we do proactively,” she asked commissioners to consider. Indivisible Blair County ...
