The city Zoning Hearing Board Wednesday granted Eighteenth Street Community Church Pastor Nate Germany variances that will eliminate the need for him to provide off-street parking spaces for two of three recovery homes that the church operates. The granting of the variances on Germany’s ...
One person is dead following a house fire in Portage Township Wednesday afternoon. Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees confirmed that a man was killed in the blaze. His identity has not yet been released. Emergency crews were dispatched to the 4000 block of Portage Street about 2 p.m. Wednesday ...
A member of an Altoona drug ring was sentenced to five to 10 years’ incarceration in a state correctional institute after entering a no-contest plea in late March. Tareek Alquan Hemingway, 32, appeared before Senior Judge Michael A. George of Adams County for a plea hearing on March ...
A city man is suing Blair County and its prison staff for $5 million, claiming the poor medical treatment at the prison nearly cost him his life last year. Edwin Yingling, 52, was an inmate in the prison about a year ago and was serving a 90-day sentence related to a DUI charge. The lawsuit, ...
More than half a dozen fire companies, with tankers, responded to a barn fire at the Rushing Spring Farm along Texas Corner Road, New Enterprise, Wednesday afternoon. The fire, in an outbuilding, was quickly brought under control. Mirror photo by Holly Claycomb
A Blair County judge granted a motion filed by an assistant district attorney to revoke the bails in both cases against a city man accused of rape after he allegedly violated his bail conditions. In an order made on March 27, Judge Paula M. Aigner revoked the bails of David Jeffrey Brunner, ...