One person was killed in a house fire early Monday morning in Williamsburg. According to the Blair County Coroner’s Office, Tyler Gearhart, 38, Williamsburg, was pronounced dead at the scene. Gearhart was found in a second story bedroom by firefighters, said Williamsburg Volunteer Fire ...
The Spring Cove school board voted to raise taxes to help offset a budget deficit and approved the district’s business manager to act as superintendent while the district searches to replace soon-to-retire Superintendent Betsy Baker. During Monday’s meeting, the board voted 6-3 to adopt a ...
The presence of the Union Pacific’s Big Boy steam locomotive in the region between July 8-11 is generating a carload of warnings from authorities — like a mother admonishing a little boy whom she knows is about to be tempted to misbehave. The latest such warnings came in a news release ...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld a decision by a Blair County judge to dismiss a petition by a former Altoona man, Stephen Montier Piner, who challenged the funding of drug investigations by Operation Our Town. Piner, 67, is presently serving a 20- to 40-year prison term after ...
EBENSBURG — During Monday’s Ebensburg Borough Council meeting, officials approved increases in hourly parking rates and overtime parking fines, which are expected to take effect later this year, after a part-time parking enforcement officer is hired and trained for the vacant ...
HARRISBURG — For nearly two years, the Shapiro administration has refused to say whether a state watchdog under the governor’s jurisdiction investigated Pennsylvania’s network of agencies that are supposed to help older adults who are abused and neglected. However, records show state ...
