A city man was taken into custody for allegedly pouring gasoline throughout a building’s basement and threatening to burn it down while people were inside. Giuseppe Failla, 32, was arraigned June 27 by Magisterial District Judge Benjamin F. Jones on two misdemeanor counts of recklessly ...
A state tax on consumer electric bills currently seeing a revenue surge is targeted for a repeal. The House and Senate have both voted to repeal the 5.9% gross receipts tax on electric bills in recent weeks. But the two chambers have yet to put the repeal provision in an agreed to bill so it could be sent to Gov. Josh Shapiro for signing. The latest action came when the House Rules Committee amended a Senate-passed tax code bill, House Bill 1667, to include the gross receipts tax repeal last Wednesday. The tax repeal is in the mix with no sign of when an overdue state budget for ...
A Blair County mother with a severe drug problem has lost her parental rights, according to an opinion issued last week by the Pennsylvania Superior Court. The opinion by a three-judge panel upheld a January decision by Blair County Judge David B. Consiglio, who rejected the mother’s ...
Nation New York Shooting wounds eight at cookout NEW YORK — A shooting at a Fourth of July cookout near New York’s Coney Island beach wounded eight people, including four children, police said. One of the victims, a 21-year-old woman, was in critical condition while the others were described as being stable and expected to survive, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Sunday. Michigan Dem McMorrow suspends campaign TRAVERSE CITY — Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow suspended her campaign for the U.S. Senate on Sunday, abruptly reshaping the party primary just a ...
EBENSBURG — Celebrating America’s semiquincentennial has been something Cambria County Commissioner Keith Rager has looked forward to for 50 years, as he was overseas serving in the United States Marine Corps during the bicentennial. Rager was the master of ceremonies for Saturday’s ...
EBENSBURG — American flags, scooters and horses packed the streets for Ebensburg’s first Independence Day parade as the community celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary Saturday morning. Although the borough has hosted Christmas and Memorial Day parades in the past, Saturday was ...
