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Frankstown Township supervisor ordered to pay $48K

The state ethics commission has ordered a longtime Frankstown Township supervisor to pay $48,000 to the township for Ethics Act violations. The order issued Tuesday states that ethics violations occurred when George Henry voted several times for a developer’s project within the township, ...

Connellsville man files suit against Cove Forge Behavioral Health Center in Williamsburg

A Connellsville man has filed a federal civil rights complaint in the District Court at Johnstown seeking admission to the Cove Forge Behavioral Health Center in Williamsburg. Zachary Thomas Spada, 35, contended in his lawsuit that he was accepted earlier this month for residential substance-use-disorder treatment at Cove Forge, which is part of the Pennsylvania-based White Deer Run Treatment Network. Spada stated in his lawsuit that he sought residential treatment after being diagnosed with several conditions that have identified him as a disabled individual under the Americans with ...

Altoona codes officer fired over Facebook comments

The city has terminated Scott Campanaro, a former codes officer who made “inappropriate and insensitive” comments online last week that were “not indicative of who we are as a city,” City Manager Chris McGuire said at a press conference Wednesday. In response to a resident’s ...

Former Altoona city code enforcement officer fired for comments

City Manager Chris McGuire announced the termination of former code enforcement officer Scott Campanaro Wednesday following an investigation into “inappropriate and insensitive” posts Campanaro made online. In response to a resident’s post about the Altoona Area School District ...

Preservationists work to save revolution ‘witness tree’

EUTAW SPRINGS, S.C. — Standing beneath the spreading branches of a massive live oak, historian Garrison Marcoux tries to imagine what this scarred, struggling tree saw 245 years ago. Did one of the British soldiers encamped at this South Carolina crossroad near the end of the Revolutionary ...