At a recent meeting of Blair County’s Hope for the Homeless committee, member Kevin Dellape presented his ideas on how to make a complicated social services landscape work for the vulnerable, troubled, resource-limited individuals who need the help that may be available. It would be ideal if ...
HARRISBURG — A group of Pennsylvania counties has billed the federal government more than $21 million in recent years to detain immigrants in their jails, a first-of-its-kind review by Spotlight PA has found. While these agreements predate the second Trump administration by years or even ...
To convince colleagues that Pennsylvania workers need access to paid family and medical leave, state Rep. Jennifer O’Mara used facts from her own life: her father died young, she has two kids and her veteran husband was wounded in combat. Those circumstances can disrupt family income, said ...
TYRONE — The Tyrone Area School Board reviewed budgets for the district’s special education, curriculum and instruction, physical plant and technology departments Tuesday. While special education costs are on the rise due to more students in the district qualifying for services, the ...
One person was killed after being struck by a vehicle early Tuesday morning along Pleasant Valley Blvd. in Antis Township. According to a press release from state police at Hollidaysburg, Travis E. Replogle of Altoona was walking north on the west shoulder of 4578 E. Pleasant Valley Blvd. ...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has rejected an appeal filed by an Altoona man who is serving a prison term of 47.5 to 95 years for his sexual abuse of a child throughout her formative years. Charles Raymond Fagan, 45, is presently incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution in Forest ...