EBENSBURG — Hours after Cambria County officials began exhuming the believed gravesite of babies linked to a decades-old homicide case in Gallitzin, Cambria County Coroner Jeffrey Lees said they were left with more questions than answers. There was no indication that anyone was buried in ...
PORTAGE — At 95, Korean war veteran William Grove is known as a “go-getter.” Typically, Grove can be found collecting food from local stores and restaurants or standing behind a donations table at the Altoona Sam’s Club to help the Portage elderly and veteran communities. As the ...
They may be more than 7,200 miles away from Kampala — capital of their native Uganda — but the children in the Imani Milele Choir feel right at home in Blair County. The children are in the U.S. for a six-month tour of the East Coast, performing music from their homeland in order to ...
PORTAGE — Raising the United States flag at Kondisko Park is “the cherry on top” of the work the Portage Area Historical Society has been doing for years to transform the former brownfield land into a picturesque area for the community, Portage Borough Mayor Robert Fox said. The flag, ...
CARROLLTOWN - In 1984, Don Gawel didn't know where Carrolltown was. Once he saw the Carrolltown Hi-Way Drive-In, though, he fell in love with not only the theater but also the community as well. As the owner of the Hi-Way, and the Bar-Ann Drive-In, Portage, after the previous owner decided to ...
A former Altoona man who is serving life sentences plus 20 to 40 years for the murders and robbery of two elderly neighbors 23 years ago has filed a federal petition seeking a new trial. William Darwin Thompson was only 20 years old when he was arrested for the stabbing deaths of Raymond Bracken, 83, and Marjorie Bracken, 81, in their home on the 200 block of Spruce Avenue. The prosecution maintained the murders occurred on the evening of March 1, 2002, and that Thompson pushed his way into the home and stabbed the couple, then made off with a telephone and a gold ring with a green ...
