Even after the passing of 60 years, Tyrone’s Kathy Shea abduction mystery continues to baffle virtually all who hear details of it. How, they ask, can a child, in a populated and well-traveled area just across the street from her school, simply vanish without anyone noticing that something ...

In her “Turning Points” column in the Feb. 19 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Clare Ansberry attempted to answer the question of why Americans are “getting worse at grieving.” For many residents of Blair County, it is a topic that seems beyond settling on a widely verifiable ...

Many student loan borrowers are receiving unwelcome messages about their higher education indebtedness, and most of the blame, if not all of it, is attributable to them — their shoulders alone. Lack of attention or mere irresponsibility is coming back to haunt them, in a way that, for many, ...

The biggest immediate challenge that will confront the new “All Together Altoona Fund Development Committee” will be to construct an operational format that will allow it to remain focused, productive and forward-looking for at least a decade as it works toward objectives outlined in the ...

There is no beach in Ligonier. That isn’t surprising. Westmoreland County is more than 100 miles from Lake Erie and hundreds more from the Atlantic Ocean. There is water in abundance from the variety of creeks and springs and more peppering Pennsylvania. There is no stretch of sandy shore ...

Voters of the six-county Southern Alleghenies region, as part of the national electorate who opted to return Donald Trump to the White House, were supportive of his promise to cut the size of the federal government. Trump has found many “candidates” for the proverbial chopping block — ...