Taylor Township will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Roaring Spring Fire Hall on a proposed amendment to the township’s subdivision and land development ordinance (SALDO) designed to ensure that a proposed data center for the former Appvion paper mill site will not cause ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Gallitzin man found unresponsive after overdosing while he was supposed to be caring for two nonverbal, autistic patients in April 2024 was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to about two to 6.5 years in a state correctional facility. Scott Joseph Hollen II, 38, entered an open ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County jury convicted a North Carolina man Tuesday evening on 17 of the 20 felony counts against him for his role as the “supplier” of a fraud ring. Jaylon Maurice Speight, 31, of Walstonburg, North Carolina, faced single felony counts of corrupt organizations ...
A former Altoona man who is in a state correctional institution on multiple drug-related offenses has failed to convince the Pennsylvania Superior Court his sentence was “manifestly unjust.” Allen Lee Phelan Jr., 50, who lived in an apartment on the 1200 block of 15th Avenue, was ...
Officials of the organization that operates the state-mandated recycling program for Altoona, Logan Township and Hollidaysburg are looking for ways to increase revenues, so the organization can more easily make ends meet. An additional total of about $92,000 in annual costs for health insurance and wages since 2019 and slower delivery of entitlement grants from the state, coupled with almost flat revenues, is making it difficult for the Intermunicipal Relations Committee to put together a budget for 2027, according to Executive Director Brock Bryan. Bryan and committee members ...
The House Communications and Technology Committee approved a bipartisan bill Wednesday seeking to help individuals know when digital content has been created or altered by AI. The panel voted unanimously for House Bill 2534 giving individuals tools to verify authenticity of that content. HB2534 is sponsored by Committee Minority Chair Jason Ortitay, R-Allegheny, and co-sponsored by Committee Minority Chair Joseph Ciresi, D-Montgomery. The legislation focuses on digital content provenance, information embedded in or attached to digital content that helps verify its origin and ...
