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Wildlife biologists in Pennsylvania are looking for some help counting Appalachian bats. The Pennsylvania Game Commission say...
The estate of the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno and several university trustees and former players are suing the NCAA ove...
A former Penn State assistant football coach who testified in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case is disputing the univer...
A federal judge says she'll decide in the next couple weeks whether to dismiss Governor Tom Corbett's antitrust lawsu...
Penn State will be on the road September 13 at Rutgers to open the coming season’s conference schedule in the expanded ...
Penn State Football coach Bill O'Brien is aggressively disputing suggestions raised in a report that player medical care ...
Penn State University is disputing an article in Sports Illustrated coming out today, calling the magazine’s characteri...
From Mansion Park in Altoona, to Saturday afternoon games at Ohio University, to a shot in the NFL, that’s the path Nea...
Penn State's annual Blue-White Weekend which starts today and continues through Sunday includes a carnival, concessions a...
A Thanksgiving night visit to Baltimore and a trip to London highlight the Pittsburgh Steelers' schedule.The Pittsburgh S...
Penn State's police chief says his department is carefully evaluating plans for Saturday's spring football game, and ...
A Pennsylvania judge is allowing a whistleblower and defamation lawsuit against Penn State to go forward.The suit was filed i...
The Altoona Curve and Richmond Flying Squirrels were suspended due to rain on Tuesday night tied 1-1 in the top half of the t...
Six runners from Blair County who traveled to Boston to participate in Monday’s marathon were not injured by the terror...
The Altoona Curve beat the Harrisburg Senators, 5-4, on Opening Night in front of over 3,600 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Fiel...
Thousands of enthusiastic baseball fans are expected to be on hand tonight as the Altoona Curve returns to People’s Nat...
A five-run sixth inning by the Erie SeaWolves was too much for the Curve to overcome in a, 10-6, loss on Thursday night.Jarek...
Altoona Curve front office staff and players met with the local media Tuesday at Peoples Natural Gas Field to preview the upc...
Eleven former Penn State football players have written a letter to fellow lettermen calling for a former player to be voted o...
The Altoona Curve is gearing up for next Saturday’s big exhibition game with the Pittsburgh Pirates.Ball club officials...
Seton Hill University held a memorial Mass on Sunday for the victims of the crash of a bus carrying the women's lacrosse ...
The Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic girls basketball team will be back in action on Tuesday.The PIAA has announced that the Lady Ma...
Penn State coaches begin another road trip next month to meet fans and alumni.The Penn State Coaches Caravan tour begins Apri...
Bishop Guilfoyle boys and girls basketball teams, as well as the Hollidaysburg girls basketball team, will compete thisweeken...
An Altoona City Councilman says he wants the city’s recreation commission to be more proactive in helping the Altoona Y...
For the second time in less than a week wintry weather has caused District 6 to postpone all of its basketball playoff games....
Jerry Sandusky's attorneys have notified his trial judge that he wants a state appeals court to overturn his convictions ...
And then there were five.That’s how many potential buyers are left for Blair County’s Valley View Nursing Home. C...
The Penn State trustee who fired football coach Joe Paterno over the phone has announced he is leaving the board. John Surma ...
With 12 letters of intent being signed on Wednesday, Penn State completed its first recruiting class after heavy NCAA sanctio...
Former Penn State Assistant Football coach Jerry Sandusky will not be getting a new trial.Yesterday Judge John Cleland ruled ...
If you don't gamble on Pennsylvania Lottery games, the British company that's poised to take over management of the &...
Penn State’s coaching staff experienced a major shakeup Wednesday when Defensive Coordinator Ted Roof resigned to accep...
A charity event planned by the Johnstown Tomahawks for today isn’t going to happened.The Johnstown Tomahawks announced ...
Former Penn State Assistant football Coach Jerry Sandusky will get to leave his jail cell tomorrow.Sandusky is scheduled to m...
At a Monday morning press conference Penn State head Football coach Bill O’Brien covered a lot of ground but he started...
The NCAA says it's disappointed that Pennsylvania's governor is suing the college athletics organization over its dec...
Gov. Tom Corbett said Tuesday he plans to sue the NCAA in federal court over stiff sanctions imposed against Penn State Unive...
Former Altoona Area High School boys basketball coach John Swogger passed away at the age of 77 on Tuesday.Swogger was head-c...
A Pennsylvania judge is denying Penn State's request to put on hold former assistant football coach Mike McQueary's l...
Penn State defensive end Deion Barnes and tight end Kyle Carter have earned first-team Freshman All-America honors.Barnes and...
Penn State Nittany Lion Head Coach Bill O'Brien is on of nine coaches named as finalists for the Eddie Robinson Coach of ...
It hasn’t even been a year since Penn State selected Bill O’Brien as Joe Paterno's permanent successor, and h...
Rutgers is joining the Big Ten, leaving the Big East behind and cashing in on the school's investment in a football progr...
P.J. Forbes will not return for a third season as the Altoona Curve manager.The Pirates offered Forbes another position in th...
NCAA data released Thursday shows the Penn State football team had a record graduation rate of 91 percent, tied with Rutgers ...
NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow will speak as part of the Penn State Altoona Speaker Series in April of n...
Penn State easily defeated Iowa Saturday night setting up a big game this weekend at home against Ohio State.It didn’t ...
The Big Ten has announced that the Penn State, Ohio State game on Saturday, October 27 in Beaver Stadium will kick at 5:30 p....
Penn State continues grabbing up Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week awards.The most recent player to be named is Senior lin...
A former Penn State football assistant coach has filed a lawsuit against the university.Mike McQueary filed a whistle blower ...
Phil Sipes Has the Lowdown on tonight's Golden Tiger Football Game
With the Pittsburgh Steelers off this weekend you can still get your football fix and while you’re at it help out a gre...
Paul Jones, who moved from quarterback to tight end in an attempt to get more playing time, is no longer on the Penn State fo...
One of the victims who testified against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is going to release a tell...
A Pennsylvania judge has scheduled Jerry Sandusky's sentencing for convictions of child sexual abuse on Oct. 9.Sandusky w...
Two Penn State Nittany Lion football players have been recognized for their efforts on the field winning Big Ten honors this ...
Troubles continue to mount for the Penn State Nittany Lion football team.Junior wide receiver Shawney Kersey has left the tea...
Troubles continue to mount for the Penn State Nittany Lion football team.Junior wide receiver Shawney Kersey has left the tea...
For about an hour and a half Monday things were a little tense in State College.A package left at Beaver Stadium led Universi...
Penn State’s home game against Temple on September 22 will begin at 3:30 p.m. The game will be broadcasted nationally b...
The Altoona Area School District will honor our region’s First Responders at tonight’s home football game against...
The Altoona Area School District will honor our region’s First Responders at tonight’s home football game against...
Hollidaysburg Golden Tiger Preview with WRTA’s Phil Sipes.
Among the legal questions still swirling around Penn State, one has drawn little attention but continues to pose a threat to ...
A new era is about to begin in Happy Valley.Saturday’s Penn State Nittany Lion football game is the first season opener...
Former Penn State faculty leaders blasted the NCAA and former FBI director Louis Freeh on Tuesday over their handling of the ...
Penn State's Board of Trustees held a special meeting by conference call on Sunday to discuss the consent decree imposed ...
A group of former Penn State football players are appealing the NCAA sanctions against the university.Michael Robinson, Anwar...
Penn State is adding the names of players as well as a symbol of child-abuse awareness to the football team's jerseys for...
The spot where Joe Paterno's bronze likeness once stood is now occupied by freshly planted trees.The Centre Daily Times r...
Franco Harris and two other former Penn State football players say the report about Penn State's handling of the Jerry Sa...
The president of Penn State says the university will probably have to give its athletic department a long-term loan to pay th...
Governor Tom Corbett says the penalties imposed on the Penn State football program "go well beyond" those with resp...
Of the long list of problems now facing Penn State coach Bill O'Brien, the top priority sounds simple: keeping the Nittan...
State Farm is pulling its ads from Penn State football broadcasts, while General Motors is reconsidering its sponsorship deal...
Governor Tom Corbett says he wants assurances that Penn State won't spend any tax dollars on the $60-million fine lev...
Penn State University's former president Graham Spanier is dropping a lawsuit that sought the release of his university e...
Governor Tom Corbett says he'll work to ensure that Penn State administrators and trustees implement recommendations cont...
The Freeh report about Jerry Sandusky and Penn State says investigators found no evidence linking his 1999 retirement to a 19...
Paterno Defends Penn State Football in New Letter Joe Paterno, in a letter written nearly a month before his January death, d...
Altoona Curve rising star Gerrit Cole was back on the mound yesterday after leaving the game Tuesday night after being stuck ...
Altoona Curve rising star Gerrit Cole, left his start in Harrisburg last night after being hit by a pair of line drives in th...
Jerry Sandusky's lawyers finished putting on their case Wednesday without calling the former Penn State assistant footbal...
Penn State Nittany Lion wide receiver Devon Smith has been kicked off the team.Multiple sources have confirmed the move.Smith...
Dottie Sandusky says her husband never had inappropriate contact with the boys who stayed at their home.The wife of former Pe...
The first defense witness in Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse trial says he and other Penn State coaches were present whe...
Logan Township supervisors have directed their police chief to report a threat made against a little league baseball player t...
On Tuesday former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary told jurors at Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial about...
A newspaper is reporting that the last will and testament of long time Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has been ordered...
Altoona Area School District officials will spend nearly $25,000 to fix drainage issues at the district’s high scho...
A caravan of Penn State coaches paid a visit to Altoona on Monday – including new head football coach Bill O’Brie...
Local Penn State football fans will have a chance to meet new Nittany Lion head football coach Bill O’Brien today as th...
Another graduating class from Penn State Altoona has stepped out into the world to make their mark.Spring commencement was he...
The North American Hockey League has approved selling a junior league team in Alaska to an ownership group that plans to move...
The family of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has reportedly turned down an offer from the school to have Beaver...
More than 3,000 runners and walkers raised over $290,000 Sunday in the Beaver Stadium 5K race benefiting the Special Olym...
Saturday marked the Beaver Stadium debut of Penn State head coach Bill O’Brien in front of an estimated 60,000 fans at ...
Penn State University handed over more than $3 million in checks Thursday to Joe Paterno's estate and family members,...
The Altoona Area School District is seeking bids to fix the Mansion Park baseball field.Board members voted 7-2 to seek bids ...
The judge overseeing the child sex abuse case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is putting at...
The Altoona Curve is gearing up for another big baseball season.The minor league ball club’s 2012 campaign officially b...
An ESPN Magazine article published on Wednesdays suggests that Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett was behind the firing of for...
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Former Penn State men's basketball coach Dick Harter has died.The 81 year old Harter succumbed to cancer Monday at his ho...
The Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic and Hollidaysburg girls high school basketball teams continue their journey through this year&r...
The PIAA has announced the high school basketball play-in and first-round schedules.The Altoona Lady Lions will play Oakland ...
Jerry Sandusky allegedly molested eight young boys on the Penn State campus.That’s according to new court documents rel...
The Altoona Curve and six other minor league baseball teams in Pennsylvania will team up against child abuse during the upcom...
An unprecedented 86 candidates are running for three seats on Penn State's Board of Trustees, which has been scrutinized ...
Some PIAA District 6 championship games will be returning to Saint Francis University this weekend.Basketball Chairman T.J. K...
A former Bishop Guilfoyle head football coach was honored over the weekend.The Central Blair Recreation and Park Commission p...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary has put his State College home up for sale.A Kissinger, Bigatel and ...
Two big names in Pittsburgh professional sports will pay a visit to Blair County this baseball season.Pittsburgh Steelers&rsq...
Fire officials say they believe a weekend fire in Cessna that destroyed uniforms and equipment belonging to the Bedford Youth...
An Altoona convenience store has sold a winning $1-million Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off ticket.The owner of the Sunoc...
Penn State officials say it cost about $29,000 to hold the viewings and services on campus for the late football coach Jo...
It’s official. John Franco is the new head football coach at Altoona Area High School.Board members voted 6-3 Monday ni...
At a memorial service Thursday that drew some 12,000 people to the Bryce Jordon Center, Jay Paterno reflected on what he call...
A simple two-word message flashed this week on the electronic signboard outside Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center."Th...
John Franco is coming home to Altoona.Several sources tell WRTA News that Franco will be named the new Altoona Area School Di...
Paterno Memorial Tickets Go Fast; eBay Yanks SalesMore than 10,000 free tickets made available to the public for a memorial s...
Two of Blair County’s current commissioners say they don’t take issue with the Altoona Curve’s decision to ...
Former Penn State Football Coach Joe Paterno will be laid to rest on Wednesday.The 85-year-old Paterno died Sunday morning, l...
His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devote...
Penn State's embattled Board of Trustees meets Friday for the first time since the chaotic week in November when the school w...
A group of Penn State University trustees say they decided to fire legendary football coach Joe Paterno in part because he di...
A high-ranking state senator choked up with emotion as he praised the accomplishments of former Penn State football coach Joe...
The world is finally hearing from Joe Paterno on the Sandusky sex abuse scandal.Speaking out for the first time since his fir...
Penn State President Rodney Erickson says it "grieves" him when people refer to "the Penn State scandal" ...
Penn State University’s Board of Trustees is responding to angry alumni who are questioning why football coach Joe Pate...
Penn State President Rodney Erickson says his ousted predecessor informed university trustees of the existence of a grand jur...
Penn State quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno will leave the university where he coached under his legendary father for 17 years....
New Penn State head football coach Bill O’Brien had his first meeting with his players over the weekend.After meeting w...
Billy Oliver’s career-high 21 points and seven threes pace Lions UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.; JAN. 5, 2012 – Dominating ...
Altoona School District officials interviewed Tyrone Football Coach John Franco for their head football coach position on Wed...
The latest name to surface in the Penn State search for a new head football coach is Greg RomanRoman is currently with the NF...
Case Keenum passed for over 500 yards and three touchdowns as the University of Houston beat Penn State 30-14 in the TicketCi...
Penn State interim head football coach Tom Bradley says its looking less likely that starting quarterback Matt McGloin will p...
As the search for a new head football coach at Penn State continues it looks like one prominent candidate has dropped out of ...
A second man claiming he was sexually abused by former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has begun legal proceedings a...
The Nittany Lions continue to prepare for the TicketCity Bowl.There is still uncertainty about quarterback Matt McGloin being...
The Penn State committee searching for a new football coach is taking what acting athletic director David Joyner called a ver...
A 75-yard, seven-play drive resulted in a game-clinching 15-yard touchdown pass, giving Lancaster Catholic a 17-7 win over Ty...
Student athletes from Altoona and Hollidaysburg may soon be playing athletes from schools in the City of Pittsburgh. Four cit...
Sandusky Waives Hearing, Vows to Fight Charges Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky waived his prelimina...
Penn State will close the door on its tumultuous football season on January 2 in the Ticket City Bowl against Houston.The Nit...
Penn State Downs Boston College, 62-54Frazier and Marshall lead Lions with 22 points each in Big Ten/ACC Challenge winCHESTNU...
Altoona Area School District board members voted 6-3 Monday night to open the head football coaching position.More than two d...
An Altoona Area High School baseball player will take his talents to the division 1 collegiate level. Christian Helsel on Wed...
Altoona Area High School Football Coach Tom Palfey will have to wait a little bit longer to see if he will have some competit...
In Saturday’s football game against Nebraska, Penn State took the first few steps toward whatever lies ahead for the un...
Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary will miss Saturday's game against Nebraska after the school said he received "m...
Penn State President Graham Spanier, one of the nation's longest-serving college presidents, was ousted Wednesday along with ...
The Patriot-News of Harrisburg is calling for the immediate resignation of Penn State President Graham Spanier in a rare, ful...
A top state lawmaker says Graham Spanier should lose his job as Penn State's president unless a clear explanation is made for...
Coaches are likely to get new rules shortly on how they handle concussions sustained by Pennsylvania student athletes. The st...
Silas Redd’sthree-yard touchdown run with 1:08 left in the game sent Penn State to a 10-7 victory over Illinois at Beav...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Linebacker Gerald Hodges (Paulsboro, N.J.) has earned his first Big Ten Defensive Player of th...
The young life of a Chestnut Ridge student athlete cut short by a fatal crash last week was memorialized over the weekend.Dur...
A Lackawanna County woman has filed a lawsuit against Penn State Univesity saying she was struck and injured by a tram driver...
Another off the field incident has a Penn State Nittany Lion football player in the news.Kevin Haplea was cited for underage ...
Penn State is urging fans traveling to Happy Valley this weekend for the Number 23 Nittany Lions' game against Number 3 Alaba...
Penn State's football season will get under way with Penn State Football Eve on Friday. The event, now in its eighth year, fe...
Penn State Football running back Stephfon Green has been suspended from the team. Head coach Joe Paterno confirmed Green&rsqu...
New details on a top member of Penn State's NCAA champion wrestling team who is facing sex assault charges after allegedly tr...
Penn State Football coach Joe Paterno is being treated for hip and arm injuries after being injured during a practice session...
Penn State fans can get their single game football tickets for the upcoming season starting Friday.It will be the 125th seaso...
The 2011 Penn State student football ticket sale begins this week. The senior class will kick-off the sale today, with sales ...
More than a decade after last meeting on the football field, Penn State and Pittsburgh will renew their rivalry with a home-a...
It’s that time of year again….Blair County’s Golden Games competition is now underway.The month-long event...
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno remains the university's highest-paid employee, though his compensation package took a ...
Penn State men’s basketball head coach Ed DeChellis resigned Monday to take the vacant coaching job at Navy.DeChellis c...
The Altoona Curve and 45 other Minor League Baseball Teams are teaming up in a “15 for 15” fundraising initiative...
The Altoona Curve will open their home portion of the 2011 season this evening.A seven-game home stand will feature four game...
One of the area’s most popular supporters of youth sports has passed away.John Conlon died early Sunday morning of cong...
The Altoona Curve is ready for another big year. The minor league baseball season officially opens up on Thursday, when the C...
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