HOLLIDAYSBURG — The company that manages Blair County’s invested pension funds is recommending the county transition to use what’s referred to as its OCIO or Outsourced Chief Investment Officer services. The option, recommended by Marquettes Associates, would allow the investment ...
EBENSBURG — It was a packed house Monday night at Holy Name Catholic Church in Ebensburg, as guests came to hear a former Mafia boss speak about his religious journey. Michael Franzese, 74, was known as the “Prince of the Mafia” in the 1980s before serving prison time on state ...
The Logan Township Planning Commission plans to invite some residents of the narrow slice of Lakemont bounded by Logan Boulevard, Convention Center Boulevard and Roswell Street to its meeting in June to discuss a request by a business there to rezone part of that neighborhood from residential ...
EBENSBURG — The trial of a South Fork man accused of killing an Altoona landscaper in 2023 entered its second day Thursday as a state police trooper testified about the interviews conducted with the suspected killer. Austin L. Kline, now 25, is facing charges of criminal homicide, aggravated ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Altoona man charged in the April 2023 stabbing death of 38-year-old Christopher Helsel was convicted Thursday on all 13 counts against him in a separate case for stabbing two fellow inmates at the Blair County Prison in October 2023. Raymond Thomas Oechsle Jr., 54, was ...
About five years ago, after a meeting of the Logan Township supervisors, Chairman Jim Patterson and Supervisor Joe Metzgar went to Texas Hot Dogs. Metzgar didn’t have any cash with him, so Patterson paid the bill and told his colleague that next time, it would be his turn, Patterson said in ...