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Altoona Area School District students facing charges in altercation

The mother of an Altoona Area sixth grader is speaking out after her daughter was attacked from behind during dismissal Monday afternoon. A video of the incident has circulated online and shows the victim’s hair being pulled from behind by a female student, who throws the victim to the ...

Jury finds city man guilty of aggravated assault

HOLLIDAYSBURG — A city man on trial for attacking multiple customers at the 700 Chestnut Ave. Sheetz in June 2025 was convicted Friday afternoon of felony aggravated assault and related charges. The jury of six men and six women deliberated for about 80 minutes before returning their ...

Change of scenery

Hollidaysburg Area High School senior Brayden Sidney, 17, scrapes the winter scene from the windows of G3 Physical Therapy on the Diamond on Allegheny Street on Wednesday afternoon. Sidney works there as part of the school’s student co-op program. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Altoona Water Authority to remove silt from Gamelands 158 in Reade Township

The Altoona Water Authority has been working on a plan to transport 30,000 cubic yards of silt from Gamelands 158 in Reade Township to a site next to the Bellwood Reservoir, from whose basin the silt was transported to the gamelands in the early stages of the authority’s recently completed ...

Nicolás Maduro arrives in court in New York, fighting charges

NEW YORK — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been brought into a New York courtroom as he seeks to have his drug trafficking indictment thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees. Maduro's lawyer contends the U.S. is violating the deposed leader's constitutional ...