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A Blair County death row inmate has now been charged with attacking his attorney last week in court.State Police on Wednesday...
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier has asked a county judge to throw out charges accusing him of helping cover up abu...
Deputy District Attorney Wade Kagarise and Altoona labor attorney Dave Andrews will face-off this fall in the race for Blair ...
A fire Tuesday afternoon damaged a home in Alexandria.The flames broke out around 2:00PM in a garage and quickly spread to th...
A federal judge says she'll decide in the next couple weeks whether to dismiss Governor Tom Corbett's antitrust lawsu...
A campaign by Pennsylvania's chief justice for another 10-year term on the high court is drawing criticism by two men who...
Altoona Fire Department Chief Tim Hileman says the May 9th fire that damaged a former Altoona Police officer’s home has...
A Blair County grandmother will spend at least 60 days behind bars for using scarves to ‘hog tie’ her 5-year-old ...
Officials say that the suspect in the case of an Altoona woman missing since 1999 led investigators to her remains.A search t...
A former Altoona Area School District assistant girls soccer coach has been arraigned on sex abuse charges.Kyla Hollingshead ...
There was drama in a Blair County courtroom Monday morning when a convicted killer on death row punched his attorney in the f...
An Philadelphia abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three b...
The first of eight defendants to have a preliminary hearing in a state corruption investigation into the Pennsylvania Turnpik...
It’s over.The search for Sherry Leighty has ended as her remains have been discovered.Huntingdon County District Attorn...
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier became the highest paid public college president of 2011-12 when he was forced out...
A Bellwood woman is facing charges in an abuse case allegedly involving an eight year old girl.32 year old Jennifer Myers of ...
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Chairman Michael C. Potteiger has announced a pilot program with Securus software ...
Pennsylvania's attorney is blaming multiple defense motions for ongoing delays in the criminal case against three former ...
The supervising judge for the grand jury that investigated former Penn State administrators in their handling of the Jerry Sa...
The three candidates for Blair County judge will appear today on WRTA’s 11th Hour program.Altoona attorney Dave Andrews...
The investigation into what caused the death of a man whose body was found by kayakers in the Little Juniata River last week ...
Governor Tom Corbett and state Attorney General Kathleen Kane praised the bravery of police officers at a ceremony honoring t...
Advocates for Pennsylvania's Latino population say they'll challenge a federal court ruling involving the state's...
A Roaring Spring man is facing charges following a weekend incident in which he threatened a state trooper with a gun.Police ...
Three men from Philadelphia are facing charges after an incident Sunday afternoon in Altoona.City police say that around 2:30...
An unattended child has resulted in charges against a city woman.Altoona Police tell WRTA News that they got a call around 5:...
The man suspected to have had something to do with the disappearance of an Altoona woman missing for 14 years has asked that ...
An Antis Township supervisor has been charged with stealing gas from PennDOT.State Police say 60-year-old Robert Smith Junior...
A jury finished another day of deliberations Thursday in the murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor without reaching ...
Pennsylvania court officials say the number of abused and neglected children living in foster homes is declining because of s...
State Police have uncovered some bones and some clothing in their search for a missing Altoona woman on a Huntingdon County f...
A Cambria County man charged with supplying alcohol to the teenaged driver involved in a deadly crash in 2010 will go to tria...
Police investigators returned to a Huntingdon County property on Monday to continue searching for an Altoona woman who went m...
The Blair County Sheriff’s Department needs your help in finding a wanted fugitive.Storm Robert Robles is wanted for fe...
A jury in Philadelphia is set to start weighing murder charges against a veteran abortion provider charged with killing four ...
A man is in custody after State Police say he stole a big rig from a Duncansville business.It happened around 3:45 Sunday aft...
A Philadelphia jury is set to hear closing arguments today in the capital murder trial of an abortion doctor accused of killi...
Cadaver dogs have “hit” on several points of interest at a Warriors Mark farm where police believe a missing Alto...
We have an update on the early Wednesday morning garage fire in Altoona.Police say around 1:45 AM 33 year old Daniel Hogans o...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says public disclosure of the names of clients whose lawyers were funded by the state Senate d...
Pennsylvania state lawmakers are moving quickly to reverse a recent court decision that threw out a law letting counties elim...
The search for a missing Altoona woman continued Tuesday on a farm in Huntingdon County.City and state police investigators r...
The search for an Altoona woman who went missing more than a decade ago is now focusing on a Huntingdon County farm. City pol...
The investigation into alleged illegal pay raises at the Altoona Area School District is coming to an end.Board president Rya...
Pennsylvania voters will be going to the polls a month from now to settle nomination battles over an open seat on the state a...
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited an Altoona health clinic for eight serious violations involv...
Pennsylvania's high court says older people increasingly face abuse and other issues that involve the legal system, so th...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says races for the county offices of jury commissioner won't appear on the primary ballot,...
Altoona Police need your help in finding a man wanted on aggravated assault charges.City police filed the criminal complaint ...
One of the former Penn State administrators accused of covering up abuse complaints against Jerry Sandusky wants a judge to u...
A Pennsylvania judge is allowing a whistleblower and defamation lawsuit against Penn State to go forward.The suit was filed i...
41 year old Karnamaya Mongar is the subject of one of eight murder counts in the ongoing Philadelphia trial of Dr. Kermit Gos...
A prosecutor says suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin deserves a sentence similar to that being served by ...
The murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider enters its fifth week today.Prosecutors will continue to call witnesses ...
State lawmakers have approved a measure that would allow crime victims to address Pennsylvania's parole board directly wh...
Valley View Nursing Home officially has a new owner.County leaders voted 2-1 Thursday to approve the documents selling the ho...
A group of Penn State Altoona students accused of participating in an alcohol driven riot at an off-campus apartment complex ...
Some Blair County Courthouse workers are learning how to protect and defend themselves.Sheriff’s department officials a...
A homeless man from New Jersey is facing charges following an incident at a local grocery store Thursday afternoon.City polic...
A witness who worked at a Philadelphia abortion clinic at age 15 says she saw at least one baby's chest move after the pr...
Trying to counter testimony that Kermit Gosnell's late-term abortions killed live babies, the abortion doctor's attor...
Following 10 ten days of testimony, a Blair County jury on Wednesday found Kenneth Piner Sr. guilty of 28 drug-related offens...
An Altoona man is facing charges following a late night altercation at a local convenience store.City police tell WRTA News t...
A house fire Tuesday morning in Altoona has been ruled arson.City firefighters were called to a home on the 1400 Block of 3rd...
A Bedford County meth operation has been put out of service.A drug raid Tuesday morning at a home on Barefoot Road in Alum Ba...
A judge is allowing the criminal case against three Penn State administrators accused of covering up reports of improper cond...
A Gallitzin Township employee is accused of stealing thousands of dollars.State police say that 75 year old Leonard Cuomo of ...
Penn State's bill to pay for legal fees, consulting and other costs connected to the response to the child sex abuse scan...
A bill to give Pennsylvania prosecutors administrative subpoena power in child abuse investigations is on its way to the Sena...
A routine traffic stop on the Pennsylvania Turnpike turned into a major drug bust.Pennsylvania State Police officials release...
A Pennsylvania state judge says county jury commissioner races won't appear on the spring primary ballot, but instead can...
A Logan Township man accused of setting fire to his home and garage over the weekend is now headed to trial.Edward Houck waiv...
The Blair County Sheriff’s Department needs your help tracking down a wanted fugitive.Deputies are searching for 31-yea...
Governor Tom Corbett's administration will review the practices of companies named in a grand jury report that led to cha...
Pittsburgh Steelers nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu was sentenced Thursday to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to ...
A Cambria County woman has died from injuries suffered in a two vehicle collisionyesterday morning in Allegheny Township.Stat...
A Philipsburg woman has been charged with embezzling money from the Sheetz convenience store chain.Altoona Police arrested 45...
Altoona Police say they have arrested the person responsible for a series of car break-ins at homes and businesses along Plan...
A state judge is promising to rule within days about how the office of jury commissioner should be handled in this year's...
An alleged rape over the weekend is being investigated by Tyrone Police.18 year old Robert Mertsch, of Oil City, is accused o...
The Blair County Sheriff’s Department is looking for a fugitive. He’s 34-year-old Douglas J. Leary III and he&rsq...
Two people were killed and 160 others were injured in the 455 crashes investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police during th...
A Logan Township man charged with setting fire to his home and garage over the weekend is now facing weapons charges.Officers...
The state Department of Corrections has opened its newest prison with a ceremony at the State Correctional Institution-Benner...
A fire Sunday afternoon in Logan Township destroyed a house and garage -- and police say they have the home owner in custody....
An arrest has been made in connection with a rape case that allegedly occurred last week in Altoona.City police say 34 year o...
State Police are investigating the theft of couple of items from a Cambria County property that was the site of a home explos...
The Blair County community came together over the weekend to help out an Altoona family who lost their 3-year-old son in a tr...
State Police say a former trooper killed his wife before turning the gun on himself.The incident happened just after 10:00AM ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is taking a case that will determine if the justices, or any Pennsylvania judges, can serve on...
We now know the names of the two people who died in this morning’s murder-suicide shooting in Phillipsburg.The shooter ...
A shooting this morning in a Clearfield County store left two people dead.A 911 call was made around 10AM reporting a shootin...
The Altoona woman arrested last week on child pornography charges is now facing additional counts.City police say 38 year old...
An Altoona School District employee has been honored for extinguishing a February 19th blaze inside a women’s bathroom ...
A charity for children founded by Jerry Sandusky is getting a judge's permission to sell its headquarters building in Sta...
Legislation that would eliminate automatic cost-of-living adjustments, or COLAs, for various public officials has been introd...
14 suspected drug dealers have been reeled in as the result of an eight-month investigation that wrapped up early Tuesday mor...
A Huntingdon County man who fatally shot his 2-year-old son and wounded his estranged wife before killing himself may have pl...
A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice who awaits sentencing in a criminal case is resigning from the bench effective May 1st.A...
It's not clear who'll choose a successor to Justice Joan Orie Melvin now that she's said she'll step down fro...
State Police in Huntingdon say they are trying to figure out how the man who shot and killed his 2-year-old son over the week...
An Altoona woman has been arrested on child pornography charges.City police say Helen McKinley allegedly had dozens of images...
A hearing has been scheduled to hear arguments about delaying the lawsuit filed by the victim who testified that Jerry Sandus...
A college lacrosse player who was injured when her team's bus veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crashed is suing t...
There are new abuse accusations being lodged against a now deceased Franciscan Friar.A woman now claims she too was sexually ...
A man who blew up himself with a device in his truck that also leveled an acquaintance's Patton home on Tuesday tried to ...
A Williamsburg man charged with attacking a police officer after being caught prowling outside a State College home now faces...
An effort to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to clarify that lawmakers may decide what kinds of institutions qualify as c...
A man too drunk to know where he lived is facing charges after flagging down police over the weekend.According to city police...
Three former Pennsylvania governors renewed a call to state lawmakers to allow voters to decide whether appellate court judge...
A prison inmate had to be hospitalized after jumping from a third floor balcony inside the Cambria County Courthouse.The inci...
Governor Tom Corbett is asking a federal court to dismiss an NCAA lawsuit aimed at overturning a Pennsylvania law that calls ...
A Freedom Township man is awaiting a preliminary hearing after firing a pistol at his adult son earlier this week.77 year old...
A former state Senate leader and seven others have been charged in a "pay to play" case involving the Pennsylvania ...
Charges have been filed against a Bedford County woman for stealing from the Chestnut Ridge Elementary School’s Parent ...
Blair County’s Victim Witness Program may have to be scaled back because of ongoing state budget cuts.Details about the...
A new filing by Jerry Sandusky's appellate lawyer lists seven grounds for his appeal of a 45-count conviction for child s...
An Altoona man is facing various charges following an overnight incident involving the drug “Blizzard”City police...
A local man who last September agreed to a plea deal for drug crimes, but has since recanted will now get his day in court.On...
State Police say they will cite the driver of a truck that crashed in Antis Township Wednesday, spilling processed human wast...
More than two dozen alleged drug suspects were taken into custody Thursday during a major drug sweep throughout Huntingdon Co...
Altoona Police have charged a city man with sex crimes involving a 12-year-old.City police say the alleged incidents happened...
A city man is facing charges following an assault on a woman overnight.Altoona police tell WRTA News that they got a call jus...
A state prison inmate has been charged with making a 2009 bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the Altoona State Probati...
Penn State alleges in a new lawsuit that its insurance carrier has not been honoring its legal obligation to cover claims rel...
A family disagreement escalated into something much more overnight at a local bar.City police tell WRTA News that the inciden...
A Tyrone man is behind bars after crashing a car into the Tipton Post Office.State Police say the incident started Monday mor...
A city man is under arrest following a domestic violence incident over night.According to Altoona Police, it happened around ...
We now know the names of the two people found dead inside their Snyder Township home over the weekend.A neighbor found the bo...
State Police say two people have been found dead inside their Snyder Township home.A neighbor found the bodies Sunday morning...
Altoona police tell WRTA News that around 11:30 Sunday night they responded to a call reporting a man in a dumpster.When they...
Altoona police tell WRTA News that around 11:30 Sunday night they responded to a call reporting a man in a dumpster.When they...
Two more civil lawsuits have been filed in Blair County Court in the sex abuse case allegedly involving now deceased Stephen ...
Two city women are facing charges following a domestic violence incident late last night.Around 11:30 police were called to t...
A wanted sex offender is now in custody.City police say Jason Koch turned himself in on Thursday morning. Koch was arraigned ...
A little after 11:00 last night Altoona Police were involved in a pursuit with an Alabama man wanted on multiple drug charges...
Aspecial prosecutor will examine whether secrecy rules were violated in proceedings by the grand jury that investigated Jerry...
The Blair County woman charged with buying the handgun used to shoot and kill three people before Christmas will head to tria...
A Martinsburg man has been charged with performing a lewd act along a Bedford County highway.State Police say the incident ha...
A local attorney has filed notice of pending civil lawsuits in Blair County court related to alleged sexual abuse by the late...
Altoona Police have obtained an arrest warrant for 36 year old Jason Allen Koch for failing to change his address with the Pe...
A Penn State freshman running back has been charged by campus police with breaking a window in a dormitory.Online court recor...
A city man has been arrested in connection with a burglary last week.Altoona Police say that around 1:30 Friday afternoon the...
Two people are facing charges following their alleged involvement in an armed robbery and pursuit over marijuana in Bedford C...
Jerry Sandusky's attorneys have notified his trial judge that he wants a state appeals court to overturn his convictions ...
A former Bedford County Corrections officer has been ordered to serve time behind bars after being found guilty of using froz...
A member of Pennsylvania's highest court was convicted Thursday of corrupting the election process in her campaigns to wi...
The NCAA is challenging a new Pennsylvania law designed to keep the $60 million Penn State fine over the Jerry Sandusky s...
The driver involved in a fatal crash in Bedford County last April has pleaded guilty to the charges against him.According to ...
County officials said Tuesday they will take steps to refresh voters' understanding of Pennsylvania's fractured elect...
A 19 year old Altoona man is in custody after police say he robbed a city convenience store at gunpoint Sunday morning.The in...
Pennsylvania's voter identification law won't be enforced in the state's May 21 primary. Lawyers in a pending law...
A man has pleaded guilty to stealing 72 guns from a Blair County gun store from which he was fired, which he sold to buy pres...
Blair County Sheriff Department deputies got a man they had been looking for yesterday afternoon.Around 1230 Lawrence Walk wa...
Technology in the judicial system was the theme of Tuesday’s Blair County State of the Courts Assembly.The county&rsquo...
The Newry man who held police at bay for nearly nine hours Sunday morning is out of jail on bond.A Blair County Prison spokes...
A Blair County man is behind bars following a domestic dispute that turned into a 9-hour standoff with police Sunday morning....
A fatal two vehicle crash closed down a busy Altoona intersection this morning.City police tell WRTA News that the accident h...
The NCAA said Thursday a judge should throw out the federal antitrust lawsuit the governor filed against it over Penn State&#...
The Blair County Sheriff’s Department needs you help in findinga fugitive.41-year-old Larry Allen Walk is wanted for fe...
A city man, accused of rape, was arrested Tuesday in Cresson Township.Police say that 23 year old Daniel Kenneth Markel, of t...
Blair County District Attorney Richard Consiglio has announced that he will seek another term.Consiglio says that since he to...
A husband and wife in their 80s were killed in a two-vehicle crash late Monday afternoon in Altoona.City police tell WRTA New...
The situation concerning the possible improper pay raises at the Altoona Area School District continues to make news.District...
A preliminary hearing on additional charges against a local man already doing time for child pornography is set for Tuesday.T...
Gov. Tom Corbett’s son-in-law, a narcotics officer in Philadelphia, is under investigation by the FBI.The Philadelphia ...
An overnight car break-in in Alltona has resulted in an arrest.City police tell WRTA News that 23 year old Daniel Sabo was se...
Former Penn State Assistant Football coach Jerry Sandusky will not be getting a new trial.Yesterday Judge John Cleland ruled ...
The Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, the Third Order Regular Franciscans, and Bishop McCort Catholic High School should all be prep...
The Altoona Police are investigating multiple thefts from vehicles.Early Sunday morning someone entered and stole items from ...
Two men suspected of stealing guns from The Saxton Outdoor Supply store in Bedford County on Monday were caught Tuesday in Ba...
Eight Penn State University students have been charged with alcohol-related crimes in connection to the October 2012 fall tha...
An Altoona man was arrested overnight after threatening to kill several people.City police tell WRTA News that they were call...
The Franciscan Friar who took his own life over the weekend left a suicide note apologizing for his actions.Brother Stephen B...
The criminal investigation into allegations that a priest with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown molested ...
Restaurant owners, managers and staff across the state are urged to be on guard against a potential scam in which an unidenti...
The civil case accusing a Franciscan friar of sexually abusing students at Cambria County high school will continue despite t...
A hearing is scheduled for tomorrow in the case against a Hollidaysburg woman connected to the recent fatal shootings in Fran...
A former Altoona police officer has been found guilty on all charges stemming from a bar fight.Yesterday a Blair County jury ...
A local man was injured late last night after crashing his vehicle while trying to avoid a traffic stop.Altoona police tell W...
If you’re looking to apply for a gun permit in Blair County, be advised that the process is changing starting today (1/...
A young man who testified at a child sex abuse trial last summer that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandus...
Testimony is set to begin today in the trial of a former Altoona police officer charged with assaulting a man at a bar, then ...
There will be no jail time for the young man who caused the death of an Altoona teenager last month.Involuntary manslaughter ...
A Blair County man had to be tased by police over the weekend following a family dispute.According to state police, it all st...
As a result of discussions with the Blair County District Attorney’s office, the Altoona Police Department has filed ch...
Another arrest has been made in the investigation into a Baltimore to Altoona drug operation.On Wednesday, the Blair County D...
The Blair County Sheriff’s department is asking the public for help in finding missing fugitive.28 year old Brandon Rut...
Penn State trustees on Thursday reviewed the way the university's top lawyer interacts with the school's governing bo...
A Franciscan brother living in Hollidaysburg is at the center of sex abuse case in Ohio.The Tribune Chronicle of Warren, Ohio...
The Hollidaysburg police department is investigating a reported theft from McLanahan Corp, in the borough.Sometime between No...
An Altoona man is facing charges after police found him harassing his girlfriend overnight.City police tell WRTA News that a ...
Three Blair County teens are facing felony charges after police said they caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage t...
Two Altoona men posing as DEA agents are facing charges after an incident in the city last week.Stephen Espenlaub and Angel V...
The Blair County Sheriff’s Department is asking the public to help them locate a fugitive.34 year old Patrick R. Oschea...
The case against an area college athlete accused of raping a Penn State Altoona co-ed at her Nittany Pointe apartment is goin...
A report of a prowler on the loose overnight in Altoona resulted in the arrest of a city man.Police tell WRTA News that the i...
There’s another candidate in the race to fill retired Judge Hiram Carpenter’s seat. With that announcement yester...
The investigation into the December shooting spree in Frankstown Township that leftfour people dead continues.State police sa...
Former Penn State Assistant football Coach Jerry Sandusky will get to leave his jail cell tomorrow.Sandusky is scheduled to m...
Blair County Chief Deputy District Attorney Wade Kagarise has announced his candidacy for the upcoming vacancy on the Blair C...
Two men local men have been arrested in connection with a stolen vehicle case in Blair County.53 year old Donald Burket, of 3...
The last 24 hours have been a busy stretch for the Altoona Police Department.Around 11:00 Monday night 30 year old Jameel R. ...
The Blair County Sheriff’s Department is looking to the public for help in finding a drug suspect on the loose.35 year ...
A local attorney has announced he’s running for Blair County Judge.Dave Andrews, founder of the law firm Andrews and Be...
Two Pittsburgh men are accused of selling heroin to undercover police in Blair County.The Pennsylvania Attorney General's...
Blair County Common Pleas Court Judge Elizabeth Doyle has announced that she will seek retention later this year.Doyle, marki...
Pennsylvania's attorney general says she granted Gov. Tom Corbett the authority to file a federal antitrust lawsuit again...
A judge is allowing former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky to leave his state prison cell in order to appear next w...
One person was killed and 86 were injured in the 377 crashes investigated by the Pennsylvania State Police during the New Yea...
The NCAA says it's disappointed that Pennsylvania's governor is suing the college athletics organization over its dec...
We have an update on the Christmas Eve standoff between an Altoona man and city police.64 year old Martin Robert Sarvis of 55...
The investigation into an Altoona teenager’s death this week continues.Police say that on Wednesday afternoon they were...
Pennsylvania State Police say car accidents killed seven people and injured 315 others over the long holiday weekend.From Dec...
Altoona Police were called out late Wednesday afternoon to a shooting incident at 125 East 3rd Avenue.Upon arrival officers l...
Friends and family of 38 year old William Rhodes Jr. and 60 year old Kenneth Lynn will be received from 1 to 3 and 5 to 8 p.m...
Several sources have identified the victims in yesterday’s triple homicide in Frankstown Township as Kimberly Scott, Wi...
There are reports today of a shooting taking place in Frankstown Township.Sometime around 9:00 this morning shots were report...
A former Altoona Police Officer charged in a high-profile bar fight has entered a guilty plea.On Thursday, Eric Kriner admitt...
A city man is facing charges of sexually molesting a mentally challenged girl.39 year old Robert Riley Jr, of 107 First Avenu...
A Dysart man pleaded guilty Thursday to sexually abusing a girl over several years.30 year old Kenneth Marrapode is facing a ...
A Pennsylvania judge is denying Penn State's request to put on hold former assistant football coach Mike McQueary's l...
The man who assaulted a local school district school board member earlier this year has been sentenced.Byron Lasser, former b...
AHollidaysburg man is facing charges following his arrest Tuesday in Cambria County.Cresson Police say that during a traffic ...
The judge who presided over Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case is giving defense lawyers an evidentiary hearing to ...
A Blair County man is set to appear in court tomorrow in connection with an assault case last week.Police say 39-year-old Jos...
Pennsylvania residents are asked once again to display a blue light in their home or office window during the holiday season ...
Two city women were arrested this week in connection with a stolen vehicle investigation.19 year old Hillary Ott, of 2310 6th...
A summer trial appears likely on a constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania's new voter identification law.At a meeting w...
Jerry Sandusky’s defense team argued in post-trial motions filed in October that the court erred in not giving them eno...
One of the two off-duty police officers arrested in connection with bar brawl in Altoona in 2010 will enter a guilty plea in ...
A city man wanted for failing to appear in court for a Flight to Avoid Apprehension charge, did it again.On Wednesday, Blair ...
A Penn State graduate student escaped serious injury when she was attacked by a man with a knife Wednesday afternoon.The atta...
Lawyers on opposite sides of Pennsylvania's voter-identification law are slated to meet with a Commonwealth Court judge t...
48 suspected drug dealers, accused of dealing prescription drugs and illegal drugs were charged Tuesday following a street-le...
A Hollidaysburg man is recovering from a gunshot would he suffered in a robbery attempt in Cambria County.22-year-old David C...
The sponsor of a new Pennsylvania law increasing maximum fines for underage drinking says he'll seek an additional financ...
Altoona Police say a local man with a checkered past is behind bars once again.Police say Jermaine Morgan was traveling in a ...
Five city residents are awaiting preliminary hearings after being caught up in a drug sting late last week.A controlled heroi...
The man accused of setting the November 15th fire in Altoona that claimed the life of toddler is dead.Blair County District A...
City police are asking the public to help them find a wanted man.26 year old Travis Pfahler, of 320 Crawford Avenue, Altoona ...
State College Police expect misdemeanor charges to be filed against several people in connection with a serious fall.Police s...
The case against the man accused of setting the fire in Altoona last month that killed a little boy is going to trial.62-year...
Senior Judge Charles Brown of Centre County will be reviewing a request out of Blair County dealing with real estate taxes.Co...
A preliminary hearing and a separate trial for former Penn State administrators are being postponed.A district judge in the H...
Jerry Sandusky has appealed a decision to revoke his $59,000-a-year pension.Sandusky’s attorney Charles Benjamin...
Another drug dealer has been sentenced in Blair County.30 year old Donald Carey, a Brooklyn, New York native, was sentenced T...
Altoona police have arrested two people from New Jersey on drug charges.25 year old Rashad Naim Downey and 23 year old Antoin...
A plea deal has been reached in the case of the Bedford County man accused of causing injuries that led to the death of frien...
Penn State Campus Police are investigating two reported cases of sexual assault and rape.Police say the first alleged attack ...
A 19-year-old woman is recovering from injuries sustained after falling out of a window in State College.Police say the incid...
Three teenagers are facing charges in connection with an October Armed Robbery in Altoona.The robbery of a Domino's Pizza...
Governor Tom Corbett says he might agree to talk with investigators for the state's incoming attorney general in her prom...
A Logan Township man was killed Wednesday evening as he crossed a roadway to get his mail.84 year old Domenick Ventre of 793 ...
A Philadelphia man was arrested Wednesday in Altoona on drug charges.Altoona police got a tip that 25 year old Craig "Pl...
Former Penn State University Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley are seeking to have their December ...
Penn State says its former president had total taxable income of $3.3 million last year, including $2.5 million in se...
The man accused of setting a house on fire in Altoona earlier this month now has his defense attorneys in place.Blair County ...
An Altoona man who went on a 12 day burglary spree late last year was sentenced Tuesday in Blair County Court.Judge Elizabeth...
Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier, facing perjury charges in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse investigation, ...
Thirteen people were killed in crashes investigated by state troopers during the five-day Thanksgiving holiday driving period...
Federal prosecutors are urging a judge to sentence a former state leader.In a sentencing memorandum filed Monday, prosecutors...
A local man suspected of being a large scale heroin dealer was arrested over the weekend.28 year old Brandon Thompkins, of 11...
It was following graduation ceremonies this past June at Tiger Stadium in Hollidaysburg when the vice president of the school...
A federal judge has dropped one of eight counts against a retired northeastern Pennsylvania lawmaker charged in a corruption ...
Thirty-seven suspected drug dealers are facing charges following a sweeping drug operation in the area.Attorney General Linda...
Two people are facing charges after allegedly cooking up some meth in Bedford County late last week.Police say that it looks ...
A candlelight vigil was held last night to show support for the family of a toddler who lost his life during a recent fire.Th...
An Altoona man arrested over the weekend is facing a laundry list of charges stemming from a burglary incident in the city.Po...
The Altoona Area School District is mourning the tragic death of Daryl Etchison Jr. who attended the Learning Express at Curt...
Lawyers for Penn State and a key witness in Jerry Sandusky's criminal trial are heading to court over the university'...
A registered sex offender has been arrested by city police for a Megan’s Law violation.Around 2pm Wednesday 42 year old...
Six Pennsylvania judges are suing over the state's mandatory retirement age of 70 for judges.The judges filed the legal c...
Penn State’s legal fees are continuing to escalate.According to the school’s website, the price tag for legal fee...
An Altoona man is facing charges in connection with the theft of a car.23 year old Daniel Sabo, of 1214 2nd Avenue, was arres...
An Altoona woman involved in a drug operation that brought cocaine into Altoona was sentenced Thursday to serve 16 to 32 year...
Pittsburgh Steelers rookie nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu apologized after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing on char...
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is free on $125,000 unsecured bail.Spanier was arraigned by a Harrisburg Distr...
The case against one of the two men arrested for the October 27th break-ins at a pair of pharmacies in Altoona is headed to t...
City police are looking for an Altoona man wanted in connection to a robbery last month.26 year old Davon “Flip” ...
A Judge has rescheduled a court hearing over staying former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary’s whistleblower la...
Defense attorneys for former Penn State administrators Tim Curley and Gary Schultz have filed a motion seeking to delay a Jan...
Political rookie Kathleen Kane has been elected the first woman and first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania attorney genera...
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier is set to be arraigned today.Spanier is facing a charge of perjury, two counts of ...
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier says he's not guilty of the cover-up charges he faces in the Jerry Sandusky mo...
The former president of Penn State has been charged with perjury, obstruction and child endangerment.The charges were filed a...
Perjury and Obstruction of Justice charges against former Penn State University President Graham Spanier are expected to be a...
Jerry Sandusky has been transferred to State Correctional Institution in Greene County.Officials with the State Department of...
The D.U.I. Task Force conducted a ROVING PATROL Sunday night from 10:00 PM to 02:00 AM throughout Blair County.The event resu...
Two Altoona men were arrested over the weekend in connection with a pair of pharmacy burglaries.Police say that an alert neig...
The Greenfield Township Police are investigating a reported criminal mischief.On October 19 around 10:15PM someone threw a br...
Gov. Tom Corbett has signed legislation that gives Pennsylvania judges options other than life in prison when sentencing juve...
Voters in Pennsylvania can now file complaints about alleged election law violations online.Once submitted, these complaint f...
State Police at Huntingdon are investigating the details surrounding a recent death.Police say 70-year-old Sally Jean Fultz w...
Two first year students at Penn State’s Altoona campus have been busted for selling pot.A two month investigation led t...
Jerry Sandusky is now a state prison inmate.The 68-year-old was transferred from the Centre County jail to the State Correcti...
A Bedford County Judge on Tuesday sentenced Mark Shirey to life in prison for murder.The 45 year old Shirey shot and killed M...
Charges have been filed against a city woman who police say left her 4-year-old daughter unattended last week at local playgr...
A gun incident on Sunday has resulted in A Tipton man being arrested. 29 year old William Henshey, of 775 Bell-Tip Road is ac...
Penn State has filed a motion seeking to place Mike McQueary's lawsuit against the university on hold.The former assistan...
A city man is facing charges after he allegedly broke into a home in Altoona late last night.Police tell WRTA News that they ...
A routine traffic stop in Altoona overnight resulted in charges being filed against three people.A little before 1AM police p...
14,500 pages of secret "perversion files" compiled from the late 1950’s to the mid 1988’s and released ...
Attorneys have filed an appeal in connection with the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.Sandusky’s attorneys filed a 31-...
Authorities say a man who tried to extort $15,000 from retired Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward has been arre...
We have an update on the reported abduction attempt earlier this week in Altoona.City police have issued a statement saying t...
A 22-year-old man from Dauphin County claims that Jerry Sandusky fondled him.A new lawsuit was filed this week by a plaintiff...
The State Senate has unanimously passed a bill designed to ensure that offenders who illegally buy guns for criminals will fa...
Altoona Police are investigating an attempted abduction that occurred Tuesday.A 13 year old girl reported that a man attempte...
Penn State is not renewing the contract of athletic director Tim Curley.Curley has been on leave since last year after he was...
An FBI investigation into a suspected Blair County Brothel results in charges against Georgia Woman.59 year old Yon "Coc...
Governor Tom Corbett has ordered state flags be flown at half-staff to honor former Sen. Arlen Specter, who died Sunday at th...
City police are looking for a local man wanted in a domestic abuse incident.There is a warrant out for 25 year old Richard Ba...
Negotiators for Penn State say they have reached out to begin settlement talks with at least 20 men who accuse assistant coac...
Authorities say a Pittsburgh Steelers rookie defensive lineman fled police and crashed into parked cars while driving drunk, ...
Fire crews were called out early this morning in Altoona.Altoona Fire Chief Tim Hileman tells WRTA News that the call came in...
A convicted murderer has been denied his request for a new trial or modified sentence by a Blair County Judge. President Judg...
An Altoona couple is facing charges following a drug raid earlier this week.26 year old John Weigner and 27 year old Rachael ...
A vehicle crashing into an Altoona home on Thursday has resulted in charges being filed against a city man.20 year old Jonath...
Pennsylvania's public employee pension system is seeking to revoke Jerry Sandusky’s pension.The 68-year-old former ...
Gov. Tom Corbett says he hopes the long prison sentence imposed on Jerry Sandusky is a just reward for his victims' trust...
Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky learned this morning that he will be spending 30 to 60 years in state ...
A demonstration was held Monday outside of the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese office near Hollidaysburg.The "Survivo...
Jerry Sandusky is being sentenced today.The 68-year-old former Penn State assistant football coach is facing a possible life ...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is upset over "false allegations" regarding his convictio...
Over the weekend drug agents arrested a local man with a criminal history in New Jersey.The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney G...
Jerry Sandusky is to be sentenced tomorrow.According to courtroom rules set forth by Centre County Court Judge John Cleland, ...
A judge on Thursday granted a request by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that the court return to h...
A man convicted of killing a state game warden during a poaching investigation has been sentenced to death.The Adams County j...
Authorities say a Pennsylvania deputy attorney general and his wife face assault and child endangerment charges related to tw...
The preliminary hearings in a local neglect of care case have been postponed until November.Sherry Jo Warner, of Riggles Gap ...
A former Penn State football assistant coach has filed a lawsuit against the university.Mike McQueary filed a whistle blower ...
Opponents of a new state law requiring voters to show photo identification at polling places on Election Day are calling it a...
A Judge has postponed Pennsylvania’s voter identification law ordering the state not to enforce it in the upcoming elec...
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in the case against a city woman accused of drug fraud.35 year old Kelly Woo...
Police are still investigating the discovery of a body Saturday at a home on Everett Road in Freedom Township.An autopsy was ...
The woman who owned and operated a nursing home in Altoona where a resident was allegedly poorly cared for and later died is ...
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by an organization that includes atheists and agnostics over a Pennsylvania Ho...
An investigation is underway into a corpse being found in a Freedom Township home over the weekend.Township police, acting on...
The D.U.I. Task Force conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint Friday night in Altoona.The event took place at 7th Avenue & 15th Stree...
A key witness against convicted child molester and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, known in court ...
Pennsylvania voters claiming to have been disenfranchised by a new voter identification law testified Thursday before the jud...
A former detective for the Altoona Police Department is facing charges for allegedly stalking his ex-wife.39 year old Craig Z...
A judge has upheld perjury charges against two Penn State administrators.Former vice president Gary Schultz and athletic dire...
Ebensburg Borough Council is searching for a tenant or buyer for the old county prison.The former Cambria County prison, buil...
The overall number of crimes in Pennsylvania reported to the Pennsylvania State Police through the Uniform Crime Reporting Sy...
The woman who owned and operated a nursing home in Altoona at which a resident was allegedly poorly cared for is facing negle...
A hearing today in Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg will be the latest chapter in a legal challenge to a 6-month-old law that...
The last of the 25 criminal cases resulting from Pennsylvania's 5-year-old legislative corruption investigation is about ...
An investigation is underway into a burglary at an area resort.State police at Bedford are looking for information concerning...
The investigation continues into the case of a Tyrone man killed while a patient at a Altoona regional.In July of last year 6...
A court date has been set for Tuesday, at which a Commonwealth Court judge will hear from witnesses who say they've had t...
Trial transcripts posted online Friday show Jerry Sandusky reversed course and decided not to take the witness stand after hi...
GuiltyThat was the verdict Thursday handed down by the jury hearing the case against a traveling preacher accused of raping a...
An Altoona woman has been arrested on felony theft charges.Police say 45 year old Verna Barr, of 515 South Kettle Street stol...
The prosecution has rested in the trial of a traveling preacher accused of having raped an 11-year-old girl at a Bedford Coun...
A man and woman are the culprits police are looking for in a car wash vandalism and theft.The man caused $1,200 in damage...
One of the victims who testified against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is going to release a tell...
Penn State's acting athletic director will stay on the job as long as Rodney Erickson remains the school's president....
Pennsylvania's highest court on Tuesday told a lower court judge to stop a tough new law requiring voters to show photo i...
State Police are looking for information into a recent theft at a Duncansville Church.Police say the incident occurred someti...
A Pennsylvania judge has scheduled Jerry Sandusky's sentencing for convictions of child sexual abuse on Oct. 9.Sandusky w...
Logan Township Police have the man they say tried to knock over several convenience stores over the weekend.20 Mark LaHive of...
The Hollidaysburg Area school board is planning to file a civil lawsuit against the Central Tax Bureau of Pennsylvania Inc.Ce...
A student at Penn State Altoona was arrested overnight for allegedly burglarizing a hone near the campus.Altoona police tell ...
Charges have been dismissed against two men accused of burning down a business in Martinsburg.On Thursday charges were droppe...
A jury has been picked to hear child rape and other sex charges against a North Carolina evangelist who allegedly had sex wit...
The latest plan for new legislative districts in the state came before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday.The General A...
A Central Cambria High School senior died Wednesday in a one vehicle crash in Cambria County.The crash occurred around 7:30 y...
Pennsylvania prosecutors are asking a judge for a hearing to determine if convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky should be d...
The VoterID law and the Legislative Redistricing plan will be the top discusstions for the State Supreme Court's session ...
The VoterID law and the Legislative Redistricing plan will be the top discusstions for the Stae Supreme Court's session t...
The company that Altoona has been using to collect mercantile, property and business privilege taxes and is now closing up sh...
Two men are in custody this morning in connection with an overnight burglary in Altoona.Around 1:30AM city police were called...
The state police are looking for information concerning a recent burglary in Tyrone.The incident happened last Friday afterno...
Child pornography charges have been filed against a Tyrone man already in trouble with the law for allegedly growing psychede...
A drug investigation continues after local police arrested a McKees Rocks man late last week.35 year old Allen Nowlin was tak...
The investigation continues into a shots fired incident over the weekend in Altoona.According to police, it happened on the 1...
An investigation is underway in Altoona concerning a shots fired incident over the weekend.According to police, it happened o...
The two Penn State administrators awaiting trial for failing to properly report suspected child abuse by Jerry Sandusky argue...
A new state law imposing stiff penalties on motorists who ignore “Road Closed” or other safety warning signs and ...
A plea agreement was reached in a big local drug trial Wednesday.51 year old Kenneth Piner Sr. of Altoona pleaded guilty as t...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky regrets not taking the stand at his child sex abuse trial and likel...
The Pennsylvania charity for troubled youths started by convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky has won court approval to delay it...
The name of the victim killed in a dirt bike crash over the weekend in Logan Township has been released and funeral arrangeme...
The Blair County D.U.I. Task Force conducted a ROVING PATROL Friday night 11:00 PM to 03:00 AM Saturday throughout Blair Coun...
A two month State Police Vice Unit investigation starting in July has brought down two local alleged heroin dealers.State Pol...
In Hollidaysburg Thursday, death-row inmate Andre Staton agreed to be represented by a court-appointed attorney as he pursues...
Accused Claysburg child molester Patrick Partsch was released on unsecured bail yesterday from Blair County Prison over prote...
Steven Fisher of Patton will be staying in jail.A judge has denied a bond reduction after hearing from the victim who says sh...
A Queen woman is in Blair County Prison a week after she gave birth to a baby, its father allegedly a 14-year-old boy.20 year...
A city man and woman are both facing charges following a domestic dispute overnight in Altoona.The incident involving Vicky S...
Among the legal questions still swirling around Penn State, one has drawn little attention but continues to pose a threat to ...
We don’t know who will be filling an open judicial seat in Blair County next year but we do know that it won’t be...
A former animal right’s activist that made headlines in Blair County a few years ago is now in the news in Virginia.Tam...
Preliminary hearings are scheduled for Wednesday for two men caught up in a drug bust late last week in Altoona.Brock Bantum ...
An area priest has been removed from ministry following church officials receiving a three-decade-old allegation of sexual mi...
A federal judge who last spring struck down key provisions of Pennsylvania law governing funeral homes and undertakers, calli...
A former registered nurse at Altoona Hospital has been charged with stealing a liquid painkiller being given to patients.Heal...
Crime Solvers of Blair County is offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the th...
A county judge has rejected former state Representative Bill DeWeese's bid for a new trial on corruption charges.Thursday...
A city man is behind bars today after his arrest Wednesday night in connection with a burglary.Altoona Police tell WRTA News ...
The Democratic candidate for state attorney general says the Corbett administration is "playing politics" to impede...
Two teenagers are facing charges this morning following an incident in Allegheny Township overnight.Township Police Chief Ric...
A Bedford County capital murder case set to go to trial later this week has come to a quick end.John Gerholt on Tuesday plead...
The administration of Governor Tom Corbett is suggesting that a U.S. Department of Justice inquiry into Pennsylvania's to...
The administration of Governor Tom Corbett is suggesting that a U.S. Department of Justice inquiry into Pennsylvania's to...
An Altoona woman is behind bars after she allegedly tried to set fire to a man’s home.The incident happened at last Tue...
Jury selection is underway for the Bedford County man accused of gunning down his estranged wife outside a fast food restaura...
A Baltimore man convicted of murdering his former Altoona girlfriend in 2004 is one step closer to facing the death penalty a...
The sentencing hearing in former state Sen. Robert Mellow's corruption case is now scheduled for October.A federal judge ...
A court decision released Wednesday in Harrisburg upholds the new voter ID law that provides Pennsylvania election officials ...
A reported burglary in progress call into the Tyrone Borough Police Department on Tuesday resulted in two men going to jail.P...
The man who in 1996 received at that time the second longest drug sentence handed down to a Blair County drug dealer has died...
More than a month after an explosive investigative report accused Penn State's ousted president of burying child sex abus...
A prosecutor in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case says a "great deal" of "highly incriminating" evi...
Penn State University is holding a national child sex abuse conference as it seeks to rebound from the scandals involving for...
Pennsylvania county officials say taxpayers have spent nearly $56,000 on the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse trial so far, most ...
The dispute over a northeast Pennsylvania city's attempt to crack down on illegal immigrants is back before a federal app...
A judge has ruled a western Pennsylvania bear hunter is competent to stand trial next month in the beating of a man who alleg...
A judge in Pittsburgh has been asked to decide whether suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin should b...
Duncansville Borough Police are getting a new crime-fighting tool thanks to the Logan Township Supervisors.Logan Board member...
A status conference is planned for next month in a Bellefonte courtroom as the children's charity founded by convicted ch...
A man wanted in Altoona and Allentown was picked up by city police overnight.34 year old Fellipe Santos was taken into custod...
A Cambria County prison inmate has been formally charged with killing his cellmate.District Attorney Kelli Callihan says Will...
State Police say they now know who burglarized an Antis Township convenience store nearly three weeks ago.Troopers on Wednesd...
The Pennsylvania Democratic Party told a state judge Wednesday that former House speaker Bill DeWeese should be removed from ...
Several Pennsylvania district attorneys are calling for funds from the $60-million in fines that Penn State must pay as p...
Eleven alleged drug dealers are in custody following a raid Tuesday in Bedford County.District Attorney Bill Higgins says dru...
Last night more than 500 people attended the 28th Annual Night Out Against Crime in Duncansville. Police Chief Jim Ott explai...
A Cambria County Prison inmate will be charged with criminal homicide later this week after police say he strangled his cellm...
A Tyrone man has been charged with assault after police say he violently attacked a woman over the weekend.The incident happe...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next month in its Philadelphia courtroom on 13 appeals to the new map...
An inmate in the Cambria County Prison was killed over the weekend.27 year old William Sherry was strangled with a piece of a...
An Altoona man is facing aggravated assault charges after police say he tried to run down his wife and their 6-month-old chil...
The one thing both sides agreed on as a hearing on Pennsylvania's new voter-identification law ended is that each will ap...
Colleges in Pennsylvania are working to ensure students can use their campus IDs to cast ballots this fall if the state's...
A Cambria County man faces up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to third-degree murder in the shaking death of his ...
Police departments all across Blair County have a new tool when it comes to fighting crime in dangerous situations.The Associ...
Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer says the convicted former football coach is distraught over the NCAA penalties issued to Penn S...
A man has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with rioting on the streets of State College following the dismissal of the...
A judge from outside the State College area is now handling a request by the children's charity that Jerry Sandusky found...
An accused cocaine dealer who has been on the run for more than a year is now in custody.Altoona Police say 31-year-old Olive...
A leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says the implementation of Pennsylvania's new ...
Authorities in Cambria County say a man who was robbed and then set on fire in his garage a week ago has died at a Pittsburgh...
A pair of routine traffic stops in Blair County on Thursday resulted in drug charges being filed in each instance.In the firs...
A Gallitzin man has been charged with using and possessing illegal bath salts.Police say they found Gary Lynch Junior dazed a...
A Tyrone man is facing charges after police say he assaulted his mother during an argument over some cats. The incident happe...
The first legal test for Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law began Wednesday, with state lawyers calling th...
A Gallitzin man has been charged with using and possessing illegal bath salts.Police say they found Gary Lynch Junior dazed a...
A Tyrone man is facing charges after police say he assaulted his mom during an argument over some cats. The incident happened...
A Logan Township man is facing drug charges after state police say they uncovered five marijuana plants growing inside his Lo...
An insurance company for ex-Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky says his homeowners' policy shouldn't have to co...
The Department of Justice is looking at whether Pennsylvania's tough new voter law requiring photo identification complie...
Three people are facing charges this morning in connection with two stabbings in Altoona.The first incident occurred a little...
An Altoona man has been convicted of perjury and making false statements to police investigators.But the same Blair County ju...
Governor Tom Corbett says he's still reading through the report that accuses top Penn State administrators of covering up...
Governor Tom Corbett says he's still reading through the report that accuses top Penn State administrators of covering up...
State Police have charged a Cresson man with sexually assaulting a teenaged girl – and giving her alcohol.Troopers took...
Companies providing janitorial services to Blair County’s district courts and the 911 Center will now be required to co...
A retired local businessman and teacher facing felony assault charges will no longer fill in as a substitute in the Hollidays...
A Johnstown man is facing involuntary manslaughter charges after police say he supplied the alcohol that led to a deadly car ...
Penn State University's former president Graham Spanier is dropping a lawsuit that sought the release of his university e...
The state Supreme Court has denied suspended Justice Joan Orie Melvin's request for an out-of-county judge to hear her po...
Lawyers in a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law says at least 1-million Pennsylvania v...
An argument over a video game resulted in charges being filed against an Altoona man last night.Police tell WRTA News that th...
An Altoona woman will spend some time behind bars after settling her welfare fraud case with Pennsylvania’s Office of I...
A judge has set a date to hear oral arguments on pretrial motions in the case of two former Penn State officials charged with...
Crime Solvers of Blair County is offering a reward for information that leads to the arrest of a hit and run driver.The incid...
Experts on sexual abuse lawsuits say Penn State University could face years of litigation over Jerry Sandusky's abuse of ...
State Police have now released the name of the Huntingdon County man killed last week in a logging accident.Troopers identifi...
For more than two decades, colleges have been required to publicly share details of campus crimes and report murders, rapes, ...
Special investigator Louis Freeh says he believes Penn State has undertaken significant changes to focus on campus safety in ...
Pennsylvania's top prosecutor says the newly issued report into how Penn State handled the Jerry Sandusky child molestati...
Lawyers for the victims of sexual abuse by Jerry Sandusky say a report commissioned by Penn State will strengthen the civil s...
One of Jerry Sandusky's attorneys is challenging the trial judge's order designed to figure out if lawyers have been ...
The man who abducted a 6-year-old girl from her grandmother’s Tyrone home last August will effectively spend the rest o...
A Bedford man reportedly high on drugs and alcohol when he caused a crash that killed a 5-year-old Maryland boy has waived hi...
Paterno Defends Penn State Football in New Letter Joe Paterno, in a letter written nearly a month before his January death, d...
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier told investigators hired by the university that he was never informed that former ...
A local man who pleaded guilty to the August 2011 kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old girl will be formally sentenced today in...
A local contractor has been chosen for Blair County’s new security upgrade.Bettwy Electric in Newry will install 30 sec...
An Altoona man accused of placing obscene phone calls to women working at several local insurance companies and real estate o...
Lawyers for Penn State and its former president Graham Spanier are heading to court next month to discuss whether Spanier'...
The D.U.I. Task Force conducted a D.U.I. CHECKPOINT on Friday from 10:00PM to 2:00AM in Hollidaysburg.This Task Force event r...
State Police say a Bedford man was high on drugs and speeding when he caused an April 29th crash that killed a 5-year-old Mar...
An Altoona man is facing charges after an altercation on the 4th of July.State police say that around 3:30 Wednesday afternoo...
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier is asking a Centre County judge to throw out the university’s objection to r...
Suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin is asking that court to appoint an out-of-county judge to hear her pol...
An Altoona woman allegedly high on Blizzard while recovering from child birth in the Altoona Regional maternity ward is faces...
In State College, University Police are investigating a sexual assault that occurred in a residence hall in South Halls on th...
Legislation that will permit expert testimony in court regarding sexual assault victims has been ceremonially signed into law...
Pennsylvania has removed millions of public records from a state court system website, and while some say that's a troubl...
Safety and law enforcement officials are reminding Pennsylvanians to exercise caution when using fireworks during Fourth of J...
Thursday’s ruling from the United States Supreme Court on the Affordable Healthcare Act drew strong reactions from WRTA...
A Megan’s Law status update last late last month resulted in the arrest of a Dysart man.When 81 year old Walter Becker ...
Even though Jerry Sandusky is in jail for sexually abusing ten boys, he's likely to keep his 59-thousand-dollar state pen...
An Altoona woman is facing charges after allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from a local credit union.Police say that 53...
A 10-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Wednesday after being struck by a car near DelGrosso’s Amusement Park.The i...
Pennsylvania's public employee pension system says it won't be able to say if Jerry Sandusky will lose his retirement...
Acting on a tip they received alerting them to a stolen car in Altoona, city police found the vehicle on the 3000 block of Br...
Attorney: Jerry Sandusky "Anxious" to Leave Isolation The only person to visit convicted child sex offender Jerry S...
A lawyer for Jerry Sandusky says the retired Penn State assistant football coach wants "people to know that he's not...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett says the pace of the investigation into Jerry Sandusky's child sex crimes was necessary...
The fate of former state Rep. Stephen Stetler is in the hands of the jury in his corruption trial.Lawyers for the prosecution...
A bill that would reshape Pennsylvania's corrections system to give a second chance to more nonviolent offenders and rese...
Opponents of an attempted crackdown on illegal immigrants in Pennsylvania say a new Supreme Court ruling bolsters their case....
Jerry Sandusky will remain on suicide watch as a precautionary measure until a doctor sees him this week and determines if it...
Jerry Sandusky's attorney Karl Rominger over the weekend said he and Attorney Joe Amendola tried to get out of Sandusky&#...
Ed Rendell will appear in court on behalf of a former top state House Democrat who is fighting charges that he illegally dive...
Jerry Sandusky has been led away in handcuffs from a Pennsylvania courthouse after being convicted of molesting 10 boys over ...
Sandusky Jury to Restart Deliberations Friday Jurors will return today to deliberate in the child sex abuse trial of former P...
Police officers from all across Blair County gathered Thursday night in Hollidaysburg to remember those who gave their lives ...
Jerry Sandusky's lawyers finished putting on their case Wednesday without calling the former Penn State assistant footbal...
An Altoona man was stabbed Wednesday afternoon during an argument over a woman.Around 2:30 city police were called to a distu...
A bill to require contractors on public construction projects in Pennsylvania to verify the Social Security numbers of their ...
A psychologist testifying for the defense in the Jerry Sandusky trial says the former Penn State assistant football coach has...
Former state Representative Mike Veon has been sentenced to at least another year in state prison for his conviction on corru...
Former Pittsburgh-area state Senator Jane Orie's request to be released on bail while appealing her conviction on campaig...
The first defense witness in Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse trial says he and other Penn State coaches were present whe...
A motorcyclist sustained moderate injuries after a crash Monday morning.The accident happened at the intersection of 7th Aven...
As the second week of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse trial gets underway the focus will eb turning to defense witnesses.T...
Testimony is about to begin in what may be the final trial spawned by the Pennsylvania attorney general's investigation i...
The last of Jerry Sandusky's accusers has testified that he spent more than a hundred nights in the former Penn State coa...
The fourth alleged victim to testify at Jerry Sandusky's trial says he endured sexual abuse at the hands of the former Pe...
Hollidaysburg Area School Board members met last night – but there was no public mention about a scuffle at last week&r...
Three people are facing drug charges after a Monday raid on a Roaring Spring home turns up $180,000 in heroin.Blair Count...
A bill to overhaul Pennsylvania's wiretapping law has the approval of the state House of Representatives.Wednesday's ...
Authorities have filed felony assault charges against a retired businessman accused of attacking a Hollidaysburg School Board...
On Tuesday former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary told jurors at Jerry Sandusky's sex abuse trial about...
Sandusky Witness Describes Abuse, Letters The first day of testimony in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse trial feature...
A Cambria County teenager will spend the next 3½ to 17 years behind bars for causing a high-speed DUI car crash that k...
A Duncansville man is one of two people facing drug charges after narcotic agents’ confiscated bath salts and methadone...
Today, one of the state’s most intriguing trials ever will get underway in Bellefonte.A jury of seven women and five me...
The outcome of Jerry Sandusky's trial on 52 counts of child sex abuse on 10 alleged victims over a 15-year span won't...
Assault charges are pending against a retired local businessman who is accused of attacking a Hollidaysburg School Board memb...
Three Days to Opening Arguments in Sandusky Trial The attorneys arguing the child sexual abuse trial of former Penn State ass...
A reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of whoever is responsible for the recent string of arsons in ...
A jury has been selected for the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse trial.The seven women and five men who will hear opening s...
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. says a cover-up involving forged documents likely led a judge to sente...
State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin's staff will lose their jobs effective June 16th because she's been susp...
Seven Commonwealth Court judges will decide on a constitutional challenge by seven municipalities to portions of Pennsylvania...
9 Jurors Picked for Sandusky Child Sex Abuse Case Connections to Penn State weren't enough to keep prospective jurors fro...
A tussle with police earlier this week resulted in the arrest of a Duncansville man.39 year old Brian Dean, of 1224 Fourth Av...
The Supreme Court on Monday denied a last-minute motion by Jerry Sandusky's attorney to delay his trial -- which is sched...
Former Republican state Senator Jane Orie has been ordered to serve 2 1/2 to 10 years in state prison for using her taxpayer-...
Jury selection in the Jerry Sandusky Sex Abuse trial is set to begin Tuesday morning.One question is worth pondering at this ...
A driver escaped serious injuries over the weekend when he crashed his car in Frankstown Township.Police say the accident hap...
Legal experts say former Pittsburgh-area Republican state Sen. Jane Orie might wind up in prison on campaign corruption charg...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has asked a state appeals court to review his case and to delay the...
Two people are facing charges after Altoona Police had to remove five children from a filthy home Wednesday.Around 1AM office...
A Centre County judge on Wednesday denied a request from former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky to delay the June 5...
FBI agents have arrested a Blair County man accused of sending pornographic pictures children over the internet.Police say th...
A Tyrone man has been charged with stealing $2,900 in jewelry from a woman in Centre County.Spring Township Police say 26...
A teenager was rushed to the hospital Wednesday after hitting a car while riding a mini bike..Police say the accident happene...
A closed-door meeting that included former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, his lawyer, prosecutors and th...
Four of the young men alleged to be child sexual abuse victims of Jerry Sandusky are asking the judge in his case to prevent ...
Drugs and or alcohol may have led to an arrest of an Altoona man early this morning.City police tell WRTA News that around 3:...
The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Bureau of Narcotics Investigation has announced the drug arrest of a Baltimore m...
Altoona Police are searching for a man stained with red ink who robbed a city bank Thursday afternoon.The incident happened a...
A Hollidaysburg man has been arrested in connection with a series of incidents overnight in Altoona.A little after 1:00 AM, c...
Penn State has named Stephen Dunham its new general counsel, pending approval of the university's trustees in July.The un...
A weekend fire that destroyed a vacant Altoona home was arson.City fire crews were called to 1313 17th Avenue around 1:45AM S...
Pennsylvania's failure to update rules that govern funeral homes and undertakers could wind up burying taxpayers.A Harris...
Former Pennsylvania House speaker Bill DeWeese is back behind the bars of a state prison after nearly four days of court-orde...
The preliminary hearing for state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin on campaign corruption charges has been postponed un...
We now know the identity of the woman killed in a violent crash near Tipton over the weekend.24 year old Chasitee Novak died ...
A traffic stop in Blair County on Monday resulted in drug charges being filed against two people from Pittsburgh.Just before ...
Blair County taxpayers shelled-out more than $120,000 to prosecute and convict Nicholas Horner on double murder charges.A...
The June child sex-abuse trial of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will not be delayed.The one-sente...
A Tyrone man has been charged with inappropriately touching a young girl.Borough police say the case dates back to 2007. Offi...
Two people were arrested for driving under the influence during a Blair County DUI Task Force crackdown on drunk drivers last...
After a weekend of unexpected freedom, the fate of a convicted ex-legislator is back in the hands of the judge who presided o...
A New Jersey man currently living in Altoona is facing charges after his arrest late last night.City police tell WRTA News th...
A Tipton woman was taken for a ride by an internet scammer last week.The woman, who wanted to sell a diamond ring on Craig&rs...
A fire that displaced six people and damaged a city business Wednesday afternoon has been ruled an accident.Altoona fire offi...
Jerry Sandusky's lawyer is giving the judge in his child sexual abuse case more details about why he thinks the criminal ...
Valley View Nursing Home is looking for a few good nurses.Salary Board members voted this week to hire several licensed pract...
A Blair County woman is among ten people to recently settle their welfare fraud claims with Pennsylvania’s Office of In...
A fire Wednesday afternoon in Altoona destroyed a business and three apartments.City fire crews were dispatched to 1912 8th A...
Jerry Sandusky has again asked a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him, arguing that some counts are ...
A Williamsburg man is facing drug and illegal weapons charges following a disturbance over the weekend at a home in Centre Co...
A Duncansville man is facing charges after police say he threatened another man with a handgun.The incident happened Friday n...
Pennsylvania prosecutors are asking for advance notice if Jerry Sandusky's defense lawyers plan to call any expert witnes...
A federal judge has struck down vast swaths of a 60-year-old law that governs Pennsylvania's funeral home industry.U.S. D...
A group of Pennsylvania voters is opposing a challenge to the state's voter ID law, saying their rights as voters would b...
A Tyrone woman is in jail after police say she had sex with a teenaged boy.23-year-old Courtney Zimmerman was taken into cust...
Former state House Democratic leader Bill DeWeese has begun his 2 1/2-to-five-year prison term for corruption.Officials at Da...
A four-month investigation has led to the arrest of more than three-dozen alleged drug dealers throughout Blair County.Agents...
Jerry Sandusky is getting some of the information his lawyers sought through subpoenas, but the judge isn't allowing the ...
An attorney for the charity founded by Jerry Sandusky has asked a judge to throw out a defense subpoena seeking a vast array ...
The judge in Jerry Sandusky's criminal trial says he'll decide what information the defense is entitled to from schoo...
Former state Senate Democratic Leader Robert Mellow has pleaded guilty in a public corruption case involving the misuse of hi...
Pennsylvania is now the most populous state that is refusing to comply with the federal Real ID Act.Governor Tom Corbett on W...
Sandusky Accuser's Name Posted Online by PA Attorney General A prosecution document in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has temporarily suspended state Senator Jane Orie from the practice of law following her convi...
A former Blair County judge who stepped down from the bench after a 1984 charge of improperly touching a 14-year-old girl, ha...
Lawyer Says Sandusky Won't Attend Pretrial Hearing Jerry Sandusky's lawyer says the former Penn State defensive coord...
A coroner says a 24-year-old student at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania has been found dead in his dorm room.Indiana C...
A copper thief has been nabbed in Altoona.51 year old Carl Clatterbaugh, of 211 3rd Avenue, is accused of scrapping over $...
Tyrone Police are looking for a tire slasher.Someone targeted a borough police cruiser around 12:30 AM on Friday on the 900 b...
More than $761 million in restitution is owed to Pennsylvania’s crime victims, and a newly-formed task force plans ...
A man with prior convictions for stealing items from vehicles was apparently at it again overnight in Altoona.The incident ha...
Police in two counties are looking for a female bank robber who struck twice Thursday.The first incident occurred around 12:3...
The man police investigators says was responsible for a multi-million cocaine ring in Blair County will spend the next 7 to 1...
Jerry Sandusky's lawyer is defending the use of defense subpoenas and asking a judge to order prosecutors to provide more...
Pittsburgh-area Republican state Senator Jane Orie intends to resign by May 21st, but is asking the court to delay her senten...
The Blair County Commissioners say they are pleased with the way the county prison staff brought a quick end to a drug smuggl...
Keeping the pressure on drug dealers, the Bedford County Drug Task Force arrested three local suppliers in as many weeks.Tues...
A state police fire marshal is investigating the early morning fire Tuesday in Coalport that caused significant damage to an ...
State Police say they will charge a Huntingdon County man with assaulting a pregnant woman.Troopers say Byron Daniel Kling st...
Former state Senate Democratic Leader Robert Mellow is now scheduled to plead guilty in his corruption case next week.Mellow ...
A group of people who say they may be unable to vote because of Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law are sui...
Charges are expected to be filed against the driver of the SUV involved in the crash that killed a Hollidaysburg man late las...
State Police say the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a minivan killing a young boy on Sunday morning was likely drunk.T...
A Pennsylvania school district is asking the judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case to throw out a def...
Officials are investigating the death of an inmate at a state prison in Centre County.A prison spokesperson at the State Corr...
A young boy was killed in an accident in Bedford County yesterday.A little before 5am Sunday, 23 year old Cory Childers of Be...
Three people from the Tyrone area are facing charges of burglary and theft for entering a home in the borough and stealing va...
A Bellwood man has been charged with simple assault following an incident last week involving a family member.State Police sa...
Pennsylvania is working with neighboring states to share information about violent or potentially violent offenders who move ...
Members of an advisory panel are hoping to see changes in how the Pennsylvania state government issues dog licenses, deals wi...
A grassroots group of about a dozen Penn State students are collecting cards and emails to be distributed to the alleged vict...
A fire overnight in Altoona is being investigated.City fire officials tell WRTA News that just before 2:30 AM crews were disp...
Even though he's now been sentenced to prison for corruption, former longtime Pennsylvania House Democratic leader Bill D...
A two-vehicle crash Monday afternoon in Huntingdon County killed an elderly woman.The accident happened around 3:30PM at the ...
A local Iraq war veteran has been formally sentenced to life in prison in the shooting deaths of two people during the robber...
A former aide to Representative Bill DeWeese has been sentenced to five years' probation in a corruption case.Dauphin Cou...
A violent crash Sunday evening in Altoona sent one person to the hospital.The accident happened around 6:15 at the intersecti...
A series of controlled drug buys has resulted in the arrest of an Altoona man and woman.Seth Sunseri and Nichole Steven, both...
An elderly man is recovering after being brutally beaten and robbed inside his Altoona home.City police say the incident happ...
Five inmates hurt in a two vehicle accident earlier this week that also claimed the life of a Woodbury woman, remain hospital...
A Bedford County woman died Tuesday afternoon at the scene of a collision with a vehicle transporting maximum security state ...
Penn State Officials Seek Delay in Pretrial Filings Two Penn State administrators accused of lying to the grand jury that inv...
Blair Countyemergency responderssay a woman died after her sedan crashed into a van carrying state prison inmates.State polic...
A fire that may have started in a shed caused damaged a couple homes in Altoona on Monday evening.Fire officials think the ba...
A fire that may have started in a shed caused damaged a couple homes in Altoona on Monday evening.Fire officials think the ba...
Penn State confirms that school President Rodney Erickson has been subpoenaed to testify regarding the investigation into for...
Two local men have pleaded guilty to welfare fraud charges.The Office of Inspector General announced the settlements on Monda...
An Altoona man is accused of assaulting his wife during an argument over a pack of cigarettes.The incident happened early Sun...
Mike Manzo, a key prosecution witness in the corruption case against former Democratic leaders in Pennsylvania's House of...
Operation Our Town will be holding the Blair County Kick-Off event of the neighborhood Watch Program on Tuesday.Speakers will...
A Duncansville manufacturer has reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency resolving alleged violatio...
A judge has refused to throw out child sex abuse charges against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.Ju...
A man is hospitalized after shooting himself in the parking lot of the Bedford Wal-Mart.The incident happened Tuesday afterno...
State Police are investigating a stabbing incident at the State Correctional Institution in Cresson.Troopers say it happened ...
A state judge will hear a request for an immediate injunction against Pennsylvania's new Marcellus Shale law filed by a g...
A man will spend the next 6 1/2 to 13 years in prison for breaking another man's jaw with a baseball bat during a road ra...
The judge overseeing the child sex abuse case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is putting at...
The Penn State-Altoona campus has suspended a sorority after two members allegedly attacked a third woman in a dispute over a...
A Cresson woman is facing charges after leaving a baby in a vehicle unattended for almost an hour over the weekend.State poli...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's lawyer said after a short pretrial hearing Thursday that he e...
A man wanted in connection with a stabbing early Tuesday morning has been taken into custody.Altoona Police tell WRTA News th...
The Blair County Commissioners will pay a former long-time assistant district attorney $25,000 to settle a civil lawsuit ...
A state House member from southwestern Pennsylvania says he'll remember the friendships he made during nearly four decade...
A city man has been charged with various drug offenses after being picked up by police last night.According to officials from...
A stabbing took place early this morning in Altoona.There are few details available at this point but it appears around 3:30 ...
A fire Monday afternoon damaged a home in Altoona’s East End.Flames broke out around 3:15PM at a home located at 421 6t...
The judge overseeing former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case on Thursday dela...
One person was killed in two-vehicle crash Thursday morning at the entrance to Bald Eagle State Park.State Police say a loggi...
Now that Nicholas Horner has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the lengthy appeals process will begin...
A local Iraq war veteran has been sentenced to life in prison for killing two people during an armed robbery of a sandwich sh...
Police in three Cambria County communities are investigating a series of burglaries that they think may be connected.Burglari...
An insurance company for Penn State University says it shouldn’t have to pay for claims stemming from a civil lawsuit f...
A former Iraq war veteran has been sentenced to life in prison in the shooting deaths of two people during the armed robbery ...
It took a Blair County just over three hours Tuesday night to convict a local Iraq war veteran on two counts of first-degree ...
Defense attorneys for Nicholas Horner will begin the process today of trying to save the former Iraq War veteran’s life...
Mayors of some Pennsylvania cities say a bill backed by gun-rights advocates is an attempt to bully them into repealing ordin...
Although Pittsburgh-area state Senator Jane Orie was convicted of using her state-paid staff to do political fundraising and ...
A local Iraq war veteran has been convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two people during the robbery of...
A defense psychologist says a local Iraq war veteran charged in the shooting deaths of two people during an Altoona Subway sa...
Republican state Senator Jane Orie has been convicted on 14 counts of theft of services, conflict of interest, and forgery bu...
A new federal lawsuit says a state House resolution that declared 2012 the "Year of the Bible" in Pennsylvania viol...
Four of the nine Republicans recently sentenced in a public-corruption case were forced to forfeit state pensions besides ser...
The nation's highest court begins hearings today on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The justices will l...
The Blair County Drug Task Force has announced the arrests of an Altoona man and woman coming back to the city from New Jerse...
A veteran’s court could be in the cards for Blair County.Adult Parole and Probation Office officials are trying to dete...
The U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) begins today (Monday).The law has not yet been fully implemen...
Jurors in the campaign corruption retrial of Pittsburgh Republican state Sen. Jane Orieended their fourth day of deliberation...
Prosecutors seeking the death penalty in the Nicholas Horner double murder trial will present their closing arguments when ju...
More details have come out in the case of the man who was discovered sneaking around inside an Altoona school building this w...
The attorney for Jerry Sandusky has asked a judge to throw out a majority of the criminal charges filed against the former Pe...
An Altoona school was on lockdown Wednesday after a city man entered the facility as a fake delivery person.City police were ...
Four witnesses took the stand Wednesday in the Nicholas Horner double murder trial.Jurors first heard from a retired Altoona ...
A former New Jersey man currently living in Ebensburg is in custody today after an overnight drug arrest in AltoonaCity Polic...
Penn State is providing free child-abuse counseling services, an effort prompted by the criminal charges lodged against forme...
Former Pennsylvania House Speaker John Perzel must spend at least 2½ years in prison for his role in a scheme to use p...
It was day two of testimony Tuesday in the Nicholas Horner double murder trial.Michelle Petty -- the Subway employee who was ...
The judge in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case says state prosecutors have to turn over phone numbers or addresses...
Penn State says it will reimburse legal expenses of employees who received subpoenas from state attorneys prosecuting the chi...
The first three of the remaining Republicans convicted in Pennsylvania's government corruption scandal won't be going...
A section of Pleasant Valley Boulevard remains closed this hour as utility crews work to repair some utility lines.The incide...
The Nicholas Horner double murder trial got underway Monday with opening statements and prosecutors calling the first six wit...
Pennsylvania criminal courts are all now accepting credit and debit card payments online, with daily collections currently re...
The remaining Republicans convicted in Pennsylvania's government corruption case are about to learn how much jail time, i...
With jury selection completed, opening statements will be heard today in a local high profile double-murder case.Nicholas Hor...
If you have matters to attend to at the courthouse you should expect some delays as you go through security.The Horner trial ...
Three people, two adults and one juvenile, have been charged in weekend attempted burglary incident in Altoona.City police ma...
Ten jurors have been selected for the double-murder trial of an Iraq war veteran facing the death penalty for allegedly killi...
A Commonwealth Court judge has tossed incumbent 9th District Congressman Bill Shuster's only opponent of the April 24th p...
A former Democratic leader of Pennsylvania's Senate was charged Thursday with misusing Senate staff and resources for pol...
A Martinsburg man was one of seven people arrested Wednesday in connection with a major arson spree that began in Bedford Cou...
Seven jurors have been selected for the double-murder trial of an Iraq war veteran facing the death penalty for allegedly kil...
Half of the jury panel has now been seated for a local Iraqi War veteran’s upcoming murder trial.Prosecutors and defens...
Blair County’s top prosecutor has still not decided whether or not an Allegheny Township homeowner will face criminal c...
The judge in former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse case says a defense request f...
Two jurors were selected Monday as jury selection got underway for a second time in a local veteran’s capital murder tr...
Here we go again.Today, lawyers will try for a second time today to choose a jury in the case of a local Iraq war veteran acc...
A target practice session in Antis Township over the weekend ended up with charges being filed against a city man.State Polic...
Pennsylvania state prosecutors and Jerry Sandusky's lawyers will appear in a central Pennsylvania courtroom this morning ...
An 85 year old woman, who’s U-Turn on Interstate 99 Thursday evening caused a crash, is facing charges.The accident hap...
State Police at Hollidaysburg have identified the man shot dead Tuesday night following a brutal attack with a police trooper...
A Pennsylvania judge says Jerry Sandusky will get the 581 pages of secret grand jury testimony before the start of his trial ...
A two vehicle accident last night in Fulton County resulted in one person being gunned down by police.The crash occurred just...
Lawyers in the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal case were ordered Tuesday to appear in court next week to address how much informat...
A one-time Democratic power broker in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly has been convicted on 10 criminal counts in a cor...
Last Thursday State prosecutors filed charges against 14 people who allegedly operated a drug distribution network, buying co...
The woman at center of a national debate over whether or not employers should be required to provide contraception coverage a...
A one-time Democratic power broker in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly has been convicted on 10 criminal counts in a cor...
Pennsylvania state prosecutors say they're turning over some of the records and material sought by Jerry Sandusky's d...
A Bellwood man is facing DUI charges after State Police say he was passed out in his truck while it was sitting in an interse...
State prosecutors say they've filed charges against 14 people, including some local residents, for allegedly operating a ...
A Cambria County teenager will spend at least three years in state prison for a 2010 car crash that claimed the life of a 16-...
Jerry Sandusky allegedly molested eight young boys on the Penn State campus.That’s according to new court documents rel...
Jurors in the corruption trial of former Pennsylvania House Democratic Whip Mike Veon went home last night without reaching a...
The Blair County District Attorney’s office is investigating a February car crash that claimed the life of a Burkittsvi...
The Blair County district attorney will decide if a local bus driver will face charges after a 7-year-old girl was left alone...
The judge in Jerry Sandusky's 52-count child sex-abuse case is rejecting a defense attorney's request for a two-month...
A state judge has rejected a challenge aimed at keeping state Representative Bill DeWeese off the primary election ballot bec...
A Duncansville man who was involved ina plot to blow up his ex-girlfriend’s home will spend the next two years in a fed...
Blair County Court administration officials are changing the boundaries and caseloads of some magisterial district judicial o...
An Altoona man who caused a violent car crash in 2009 that claimed the life of a Penn State Altoona student will spend the ne...
Jerry Sandusky's lawyer wants the judge in his child sex-abuse case to delay the start of his trial until mid-July.Attorn...
A retired state senator who co-chaired a nonprofit with former House Democratic whip Mike Veon told jurors at his corruption ...
An argument earlier this month between two Bellwood men has resulted in charges being filed against one of them.The incident ...
A 17-year-old juvenile arrested for robbing two men at gunpoint inside a 6th Avenue garage this week will be charged as an ad...
Penn State says it has received a federal subpoena related to a former assistant football coach accused of molesting boys and...
Altoona Police say a city teenager is in custody charged with armed robbery.Details about the incident haven’t been rel...
The Blair County Commissioners say their new Central Booking Center could open as early as June.Commissioner Terry Tomassetti...
The veteran accused of killing two people in a local sandwich shop robbery and shooting wants to represent himself at sentenc...
One person was sent to the hospital last night following an accident in Altoona involving a pickup truck and a pedestrian.Cit...
A Cambria County man will spend the next 20-40 years behind bars for the October 29th shooting death of his mother.The senten...
State Police in Hollidaysburg say they believe they have identified one of two men involved in the theft of copper wires from...
Residents of six Pennsylvania state House districts that aren't currently represented because their lawmakers have been e...
A suspected drug dealer wanted by the Blair County Drug Task Force saw his big day at a casino last week turn into an arrest....
Two Tyrone men are facing assault charges after an altercation with another man over the weekend.Borough Police say 21-year-o...
State Police have arrested a second man in connection with a shooting last Thursday at an Ashville bar.Troopers took 24-year-...
State Police officials say two men who stole copper wire from four radio towers on Brush Mountain in Logan Township were luck...
Several cell phone and radio tower sites in Blair County were hit over the weekend by thieves stealing copper wire.The incide...
The accident Friday night in Tyrone that killed a resident of the borough is still being investigated by police.57 year old T...
An arrest has been made in connection with a shooting incident in Cambria County last night.State Police tell WRTA News that ...
A Blair County man has been charged with pulling a gun on his neighbors.The incident happened Wednesday at an apartment along...
The second corruption trial of former state House Democratic whip Michael Veon is under way.In opening statements before a Da...
About 650 notices have been sent out to Blair County residents as the second attempt at selecting a jury for a local murder t...
A Huntingdon County man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl last November.Mount Union Police arrested...
A former Penn State vice president wants a judge to throw out charges he lied to a grand jury investigating former football a...
A Blair County man accused of kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old girl will spend the next 40 to 80 years behind bars.Prosecut...
A Blair County man has been charged with allegedly selling off equipment owned by his employer.State Police said Monday that ...
Penn State says it's spent more than $3-million on lawyers, consultants and public relations firms in response to the...
A Penn State administrator is asking a judge to throw out charges that he lied to the grand jury investigating child sex abus...
Jury selection is under way in a state corruption case against a former top Democratic lawmaker in Harrisburg and his one-tim...
A Blair County car dealer was targeted by a truck thief overnight.State police say that just before 1:30 AM someone drove awa...
A Patton man has been arrested after allegedly raping and threatening to kill his wife, her children and himself unless she t...
Blair County prosecutors are still trying to determine if the newly expanded Castle Doctrine applies in the death of an Altoo...
A hearing on the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case is scheduled for today.State prosecutors want a judge to approve bringin...
A local man who was shot by an Allegheny Township homeowner has died.Brandon Zeth succumbed to his injuries at UPMC Pittsburg...
A Duncansville man was charged Wednesday with selling marijuana and illegal bath salts to undercover cops.The investigation i...
Police believe they have their man in connection with a string of thefts from vehicles that targeted the Cove area.27 year ol...
The lawyer representing Jerry Sandusky isn't expecting any new child abuse charges to be filed before his client goes to ...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky wants jurors in his child sex abuse trial to be chosen from the com...
Convicted state Representative Bill DeWeese says he'll step down when he is sentenced for corruption but he's hoping ...
Pennsylvania state prosecutors are seeking changes in Jerry Sandusky's bail conditions after getting complaints he's ...
It’s back to square one in the Nicholas Horner double murder trial.Blair County President Judge Jolene Kopriva on Monda...
A once-powerful Democratic Pennsylvania lawmaker has been convicted on five of six corruption charges relating to allegations...
A federal judge is mulling challenges to the use of Pennsylvania's 2001 legislative district maps in this year's elec...
A meeting is scheduled today for those involved in a local high profile murder case.At 1:30 this afternoon Blair County Presi...
Jurors in the corruption trial of once-powerful Pennsylvania state Rep. Bill DeWeese are poised to deliberate for a third day...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says a local Iraq war veteran can't raise an insanity defense to charges that he murdered ...
A newspaper is reporting that Penn State's insurer wants a judge to determine if it has to provide coverage or pay for de...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s child molestation trial will stay in Centre County.Wednesda...
Jurors in the corruption trial of state Rep. Bill DeWeese are slated to begin a second day of deliberations.Dauphin County Pr...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says a local Iraq war veteran can't raise an insanity defense to charges that he murdered ...
Prosecutors in the child sex abuse case against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky plan to provide his...
A Hollidaysburg man is facing felony drug charges after police say he attempted to eat bath salts during a routing traffic st...
State Police need you help in finding a truck driver involved in a hit and run incident.It happened around 4:30PM Monday alon...
An Altoona man is wanted by authorities in Clearfield County for failing to appear at his jury trial.District Attorney Willia...
The man shot by an Allegheny Township homeowner on January 13th remains hospitalized in Pittsburgh.Officials investigating th...
A plea has been entered in the case against an 18 year old Cambria County man, who was involved in a fatal accident in Hollid...
A lawyer hired to represent Pennsylvania House Democrats in the early stages of a state corruption probe says long-time floor...
The Republican speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is asking a federal judge to rule that the legislative di...
An investigation is underway into the death of a man whose body was found in the woods near Phillipsburg over the weekend.Sta...
A county-wide drug operation was conducted this morning.Officials from the Blair County District Attorney office and Pennsylv...
A county-wide drug operation was conducted this morning.Officials from the Blair County District Attorney office and Pennsylv...
A county-wide drug operation was conducted this morning.Officials from the Blair County District Attorney office and Pennsylv...
A fallen Blair County police officer has been laid to rest.Law enforcement officials from all over the region gathered in Dun...
A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court says the four-justice majority opinion that lays out why they invalidated new ...
A task force charged with studying Pennsylvania's child-abuse reporting system and related laws is starting its work.The ...
A once-powerful state lawmaker told a grand jury in 2009 that he relied heavily on his district staff to perform re-election ...
A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday invalidated a plan to redraw state House and Senate district lines, calling...
State Police in Hollidaysburg say a good Samaritan worked feverously Tuesday afternoon to keep an alleged drunk driver off a ...
Two people were found shot dead inside a Logan Township home Tuesday morning.Police Chief Ron Heller tells WRTA News the inci...
Two employees of a local American Legion post are facing charges after allegedly stealing from the organization.State police ...
One of Blair County’s busiest courthouse offices has taken a big step into the digital age.Register of Wills and Record...
Blair County officials say the number of workers compensation and work loss claims have fallen more than 70-percent over the ...
Faculty Nixes No-Confidence Vote in Penn State Board (AP)Penn State faculty members have rejected a vote of no-confidence in ...
Two people have been found shot dead in Logan Township.Police Chief Ron Heller says the shooting appears to be a murder-suici...
Blair County’s law enforcement community is mourning the loss of one of their own.Allegheny Township police officer Chr...
A prosecutor says a Pennsylvania lawmaker who served in the Democratic leadership for many years is a "common thief"...
The state Supreme Court heard arguments Monday over whether the new district boundaries for Pennsylvania state senators and r...
Lawyers are poised to make opening arguments in the corruption trial of former longtime Pennsylvania House floor leader Bill ...
The new district lines for Pennsylvania state senators and representatives will be the subject of a state Supreme Court sessi...
A Blair County jury has acquitted an Altoona man on child endangerment and reckless endangerment charges.It took just 15 minu...
An Altoona man was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of violating counterfeit laws.The one-...
An Altoona man has been charged with fleeing from police during a routine traffic stop.The incident began around 9:30AM Wedne...
Two people were arrested overnight for breaking into cars in Altoona.City police tell WRTA News that a call came in a few min...
New details about a weekend shooting investigation in Allegheny Township.Authorities have identified the shooting victim as 2...
Blair County prosecutors want the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reject an appeal that has indefinitely delayed the death pena...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is allowing live broadcast of next week's hearing on appeals regarding the newly drawn distric...
A man shot over the weekend by an Allegheny Township homeowner remains hospitalized at the Altoona Regional Health System.Tow...
An investigation is underway into what appears to have been an attempted abduction last week in Logan Township.Police say tha...
Nicholas Horner’s capital murder trial will not begin today in Blair County Court as originally planned. That’s b...
The man who pleaded guilty to burning a Bedford County church last summer will spend the next 10 to 20 years behind bars. A B...
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday in the public corruption case against a Pennsylvania lawmaker charged with ill...
An investigation continues into the shooting that occurred ovef the weekend during an Allegheny Township home intrusion.Polic...
Details have been released concerning the death of a Bedford County man who jumped from a moving car last week.State Police s...
A Philadelphia drug dealer convicted of peddling millions of dollars in narcotics throughout Blair and surrounding counties h...
The Altoona lawyer representing Nicholas Horner at his upcoming capital murder trial has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court...
An Altoona man has been charged with allegedly raping a 6-year-old girl.Detectives arrested 50-year-old David Walter Pulcine ...
A Blair County prosecutor has been named to a new panel that's been established to study Pennsylvania's child abuse laws and ...
Prosecutors and defense attorneys seated seven more jurors Wednesday for the upcoming Nicholas Horner capital murder trial. S...
Investigators with the state attorney general's office have begun re-interviewing current and former employees of Penn State'...
A former U.S. representative running for Pennsylvania attorney general never took the state bar examination and has not tried...
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has at least four appeals to consider on the state legislative redistricting plan.Wednesday is t...
One juror is in place for Nicholas Horner’s upcoming murder trial.Blair County Court officials tell WRTA News that more...
Lawyers and experts in child abuse are among the people named to a new panel that's been established to study Pennsylvania's ...
A Cresson Township man charged with killing his mother has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder.24-year-old Andrew Choros to...
Jury selection begins today in a high-profile Blair County murder case. Court officials tell WRTA News that 500 potential jur...
Jury selection gets underway tomorrow for the double murder trial of a local Iraq War veteran.Horner is facing charges he kil...
An insanity plea in a Blair County double murder case has been disallowed.Judge Jolene Kopriva ruled Wednesday that attorneys...
A Logan Township man suspected in a string of burglaries across Blair County has been taken into custody.Police caught up wit...
The sentencing of two defendants convicted in a Pennsylvania state government corruption trial has been postponed.Dauphin Cou...
Pennsylvania's highest court is making contingency plans to hear appeals of the 2012 state legislative redistricting plan - e...
An Altoona man is facing charges following a drunken incident last night.City police tell WRTA News that around 11:30 they re...
Bedford County has a new assistant district attorney.Attorney Lesley Childers-Potts was appointed Tuesday to fill the role. C...
A New Year’s Eve incident has a local man facing charges.Police say that between 9:30 and 10 Saturday night 20 year old...
Jury selection is set to begin next month in the case against a Cresson Township man accused of shooting his mother to death ...
A second man claiming he was sexually abused by former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has begun legal proceedings a...
A holiday get-together in Altoona resulted in the arrest of a Pittsburgh man Monday nightCity police tell WRTA News that 44 y...
It wasn’t exactly one of those greeting card holidays for a Williamsburg man facing charges after he allegedly robbed h...
Tougher training requirements and new restrictions are now in place for teen drivers in Pennsylvania.As of today, anyone with...
The preliminary hearing transcript for two Penn State administrators charged with perjury and failure to report suspected chi...
More than 500 potential jurors are being called to hear testimony in an upcoming Blair County capital murder trial.Court offi...
Police in Cambria Township stopped a car Tuesday night that contained mail that had been stolen from Cambria and Blair Counti...
A Logan Township woman will be in Blair County Courtroom today for a hearing that will determine whether or not she will lose...
A business in downtown Altoona was targeted by a thief last night.A little before 11pm city police responded to an alarm set ...
More than a month after Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child molestation charges, a new law went on the books in Pennsylvania...
An altercation outside a city bar over the weekend has resulted in charges of ethnic intimidation being filed against an Alto...
A former convict living in Altoona is once again in trouble with the law.Police were called to 61 year old Willie Williams&rs...
Penn State Officials Eager to Confront Charges Two former Penn State administrators will be in a Harrisburg courtroom today f...
A city man is facing charges following a scuffle with police earlier this week.27 year old Chad McClure, of 1229 4th Avenue w...
A New Jersey man has been jailed on drug charges.Agents with the Blair County Drug Taskforce arrested 23-year-old Antwon Terr...
A State College woman was arrested Wednesday on first-degree murder charges in connection with the death of her 6-week old in...
Dental records have led to the identification of the skeleton found in Bedford County last month.A forensic Doctor says the r...
Taxpayers Shell Out $17,000 for Sandusky Non-Hearing Taxpayers in Centre County will shell out $17,000 for Jerry Sand...
A Bedford County man charged with torching a borough church over the summer has entered a guilty plea.District Attorney Bill ...
Sandusky Waives Hearing, Vows to Fight Charges Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky waived his prelimina...
Accused child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky waived his right to a preliminary hearing shortly after entering the Centre County Co...
Sheriff’s Deputies in Blair County will see a hefty pay bump beginning next year.Salary Board members on Monday agreed ...
Staff members in Blair County’s district magistrate offices are getting a pay increase at the beginning of the year. Sa...
Former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary is among those expected to testify Tuesday at the Jerry Sandusky hearing in B...
The owner of an Altoona bar has been charged with aggravated assault. The incident happened June 24th at Family Pizza Pub. Ci...
A city man arrested in October for allegedly raping a child over the summer will face a judge today.Michael Eugene Finnegan i...
An Altoona man is facing charges after he accidentally shot someone overnight.City Police tell WRTA News that the incident ha...
It took a Blair County Jury just 45 minutes on Wednesday to find a local man guilty of causing a 2009 crash that claimed the ...
A Blair County jury could begin deliberations later today in the homicide by vehicle trial of Jason Sanders. The accident hap...
The State Attorney General's Office is investigating an Altoona personal care facility.Warner's Home for the Aged, located at...
State Police say an elderly Cambria County woman died Monday after being struck by a vehicle.The accident happened around 7:3...
The driver involved in a fatal one vehicle crash earlier this year in Logan Township will face DUI charges.Police say 20 year...
A city man accused of sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl has turned himself in.54 year old Ray Hale, of 708 2nd Avenue sur...
Logan Township Police have executed a search warrant on the apartment building where a Penn State Altoona student says she wa...
A team of forensic archeologists from Mercyhurst College spent four hours Thursday examining the wooded area where a woman&rs...
Hunters in Bedford County made a disturbing discovery Wednesday when they came across the decomposed body of a woman.The woma...
Roaring Spring Police say two handguns were stolen during a series of car break-ins earlier this month.Now borough officials ...
State Police investigators say a series of major power outages last week in Bedford County were cause by the theft of some co...
A female Penn State Altoona student was the reported victim of a physical and sexual assault early this morning. The assault ...
A Tyrone man accused of sexually abusing a minor will go to trial.A magisterial district judge sent all of the charges agains...
If you owe child support or alimony monies it will soon become more efficient to make your payments. Blair County officials o...
Penn State Accuser Disputes Defense’s Approach The lawyer for a young man described by prosecutors as a sexual abuse vi...
Penn State police say they have received a letter from a person who says he may have been "possibly assaulted" by J...
The U.S. Department of Education will launch a campus security program review today into Penn State's compliance with the Cle...
Fire crews in Altoona were called out early this morning to battle a blaze on 2nd Street and Lexington Avenue.The call came i...
Not guilty by reason of insanity will be the defense in the upcoming trial of a local Iraqi War veteran charged with killing ...
Lawyer: Sandusky Bail May Increase if New Charges are Filed (AP)A legal expert says if more charges are filed against former ...
An Altoona man has been added to Operation Our Town’s “Most Wanted List.”Officials say 26-year-old Glenn Pi...
A Tyrone man convicted of possessing child pornography in 2010 is now facing sexual assault charges. State Police arrested 38...
Two women escaped serious injury Tuesday after the car they were riding in sheered off a telephone pole.The accident happened...
The man accused of brutally attacking a motorist with a baseball bat during a road rage incident over the summer has entered ...
Penn State Taps Ex-FBI Director for Investigation (AP)Former FBI director Louis Freeh has been tapped to lead Penn State's in...
Firefighters responding to a call for a structure fire in Northern Bedford County on Monday found themselves in a standoff wi...
University Police Report Another Indecent Assault (AP) Penn State University police say they've referred another previous inc...
A Logan Township man accused of stabbing two people early Thursday morning in Cresson Township has taken his own life. Cresso...
An Altoona man is facing charges after he was found behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle overnight.City police tell WRTA News...
An Altoona man has been charged with selling prescription drugs and marijuana to undercover police informants.52-year-old Wil...
New District Judge Assigned for Sandusky Hearing (AP)A new judge is being assigned to handle Jerry Sandusky's preliminary hea...
Blair County Sheriff Mitch Cooper is seeking hourly pay increases for some of his deputies. Cooper told Salary Board members ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett says he believes a Penn State assistant coach who said he witnessed a former coach assaulting a...
A long-powerful Pennsylvania senator was re-sentenced Thursday to 61 months in prison in a sprawling corruption case, just ab...
Penn State President Graham Spanier, one of the nation's longest-serving college presidents, was ousted Wednesday along with ...
The U.S. Department of Education is launching an investigation into whether Penn State officials broke federal law by not rep...
A top state lawmaker says Graham Spanier should lose his job as Penn State's president unless a clear explanation is made for...
A Pennsylvania lawmaker and former federal prosecutor is asking for an investigation into whether Penn State officials broke ...
A press conference was held Monday regarded the investigation into sexual assault charges against former Penn State football ...
Two Penn State officials charged with covering up allegations of a child-sex abuse scandal related to former Nittany Lion Foo...
Fifteen suspected drug dealers were charged today as part of an ongoing joint investigation between state and local law enfor...
Jurors in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial have finished their first full day of deliberations without reaching a v...
The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court says a lawyer tasked with setting up a deal to build a new Family Court b...
The jury in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial has begun its deliberations.The six-man, six-woman panel retired to th...
State Police say the man who stuck and killed and young girl with his truck over the weekend will not face any criminal charg...
The passenger injured in a dramatic crash in Logan Township on Friday has died.20 year old Cory Lynn of Greenwood was taken o...
Two Tyrone men are facing charges following an incident on Friday involving a juvenile.Tyrone Borough police say they were ca...
A former state representative and his aide who are accused of participating in a scheme to illegally spend millions in public...
Testimony in Pennsylvania's 5-week-old government corruption trial is over. Defense lawyers presented several final witnesses...
Armed with more than five dozen warrants, narcotics agents and police officers hit the streets of Cambria County early Wednes...
House Speaker Sam Smith testified at a government corruption trial that fellow House Republican caucus leaders left him out o...
The Blair County Commissioners have settled a two-year-long civil lawsuit over the accessed value of a Tyrone senior housing ...
Several alleged drug dealers have been taken off the streets of Bedford County.Drug taskforce members launched Operation Scar...
Impaired drivers, especially those under the legal drinking age, had better beware this Halloween, as PennDOT and the Pennsyl...
Two former Altoona Police officers will face trial on charges they severely beat two men during an altercation in May of last...
Crime Solvers of Blair County and the state police announced a cash reward on Monday for information that led to an arrest an...
A Philadelphia woman is facing charges after State Police say she smuggled marijuana into the State Correctional Institution ...
An Altoona man charged with setting a summer blaze that destroyed three homes along Third Avenue will go to trial.Magisterial...
The man accused of brutally assaulting a 9-year-old girl more than 30 years ago in Bedford County has pleaded guilty to the c...
Altoona Police say there will be no criminal charges after a toddler fell from the second floor window of a city home. The in...
Blair County Court officials are working to open a new adult probation and parole satellite office in Altoona.President Judge...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is all a Twitter about a new way to access its opinions and rulings online. The state's highes...
A woman is in intensive care following a three vehicle accident in Allegheny Township Monday evening.Police say the crash hap...
A Williamsburg man was injured after being stuck by a car Monday morning. The accident happened at the intersection of State ...
Former House Speaker John Perzel is scheduled to testify in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial. Officials say the Phi...
A Funeral service will be held today for the Hollidaysburg Area High School senior who died in a one car accident last week.P...
A man was taken to the hospital after being struck by a pickup truck in Altoona. The incident happened just after 5:00PM near...
An Altoona man will spend at least a month behind bars for punching a female State College Police officer.24-year-old Christo...
The inmate who had been missing since he walked away from a work release job in Tyrone back on October 3rd is back in jail.Ro...
City police responded to a domestic complaint last night that led to charges against an Altoona man.Police were called out a ...
A state appeals court says the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation acted improperly when it canceled the driver's licen...
The murder trial involving a local ex-soldier has been pushed back until January.Nicholas Horner’s death penalty trial ...
No names have been released in a rather strange case of simple assault that occurred over the weekend in southern Blair Count...
A new Pennsylvania state law that overhauls criminal history disclosure rules for all public and private school employees als...
Two women were the victims of a mugging in State College last night.Penn State police say that around 10pm a female student a...
Sentencing has been delayed for one of three men who pleaded guilty to setting off a bomb in a Hollidaysburg home six years a...
A seven block section of an Altoona neighborhood was targeted by thieves early this morning.City police tell WRTA News that b...
Tyrone Police say they have arrested the two men responsible for a robbery Monday morning. 21-year-old Shawn Chathams and 26-...
The search continues for a missing Blair County Prison inmate.Warden Michael Johnston tells WRTA News that so far no credible...
The Pennsylvania attorney general's office says its building in downtown Harrisburg was evacuated Wednesday after they identi...
The number of reported crimes in Pennsylvania is on the decline, and violent crime is falling even faster.A state police repo...
A Blair County Prison inmate is missing after walking away from a work-release job.38 year old Robert Losowski, left his job ...
A fire Monday morning damaged a home in Logan Township.Firefighters were called to 1509 South Ninth Street around 9:00AM. Wit...
State Police in Bedford are investigating a two-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a teenager. The accident happened arou...
State Police say a Bedford County man was knocked off his bike by a tea jug.The incident happened September 20th along State ...
It's the beginning of Week Two in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial.Prosecutors are expected to call more witnesses ...
Pennsylvania's law that governs the collection of DNA may soon get its first overhaul since it was established 16 years ago, ...
An Osterburg man who struggled with State Police troopers following a traffic stop in southern Blair County will stand trial ...
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. says he's having state police experts examine Republican state Senate ...
An Altoona man is facing charges following an incident overnight in the city.Police tell WRTA News that around 12:45am 43 yea...
Nicholas Horner’s double-murder trial has been delayed yet again. Horner’s defense attorneys filed a motion in Bl...
State Senator Jane Orie's corruption retrial was pushed back until February 13th to give lawyers more time to prepare for new...
The Cambria County Coroner’s Office says a 42-year-old grad student found dead in his car at a local college over the w...
Former Pennsylvania state Senator Vincent Fumo could face more prison time when he is re-sentenced next month in his federal ...
We now know the name of the woman killed Friday night in a Cambria County crash.22-year-old Aubrey Gaul died in the accident ...
The first trial of Republicans in Pennsylvania's corruption scandal is about to get under way in a Harrisburg courtroom.Openi...
A Roaring Spring man is behind bars after police say he was involved in a string of cash register thefts throughout the Cove ...
Sentencing has been delayed for a Duncansville man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up his ex-girlfriend house six years ...
A former Republican staff member in Pennsylvania's House of Representatives is guilty of a single count of conspiracy in a st...
A Lackawanna County woman has filed a lawsuit against Penn State Univesity saying she was struck and injured by a tram driver...
An Altoona man was taken into custody yesterday just two hours after city police say he robbed a downtown pharmacy at gunpoin...
Hollidaysburg Police are trying to determine if the teenaged driver of a vehicle that stuck a utility pole causing a power ou...
Pennsylvania prosecutors say they're having to drop or not pursue cases against people for not registering under the state's ...
Lawyers have picked a jury for the corruption trial of three former Republican aides in the state House of Representatives.A ...
A Tyrone man has been charged with threatening two females with a Rambo-style knife following a break-up. The incident happen...
A new Pennsylvania legislative report says the rate of wrongful convictions of innocent people can be reduced by changing how...
Both violent crimes and property crimes are down slightly in Pennsylvania, echoing national and regional trends. The FBI rele...
Convicted cop killer John Lesko has received his fifth death warrant. The 52-year-old was convicted in a 1980 kill-for-thrill...
Another Republican defendant in the state legislative corruption probe is planning to plead guilty.Dauphin County court offic...
Two Tyrone women are facing charges after a video surfaced on the internet showing them blowing marijuana smoke into the face...
An Altoona man and woman have been charged with leaving their 3-year-old sons alone in a children’s swimming pool.City ...
An Altoona man has been charged with multiple offences after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend overnight.According to poli...
State Police are investigating a theft that occurred at a local business this week.Sometime between Monday and Thursday someo...
A city man was arrested overnight after police found him passed out in an empty lot.Donald Crum was found around 1:20am in th...
Duncansville Police have made an arrest in connection with the burglary of a borough business.18-year-old Albert Weyant of Du...
Blair County Crime Solvers needs your help in solving a burglary at a Hollidaysburg Borough pizza shop.The incident happened ...
A Clearfield County judge who presided over numerous cases in Blair County has died. Senior Judge John K. Reilly died Monday ...
The Altoona Area School District has hired a Pittsburgh law firm to guide it through an ongoing federal grand jury investigat...
It’s been a deadly few days on area roadways.The identity of the man reportedly killed in a pedestrian/vehicle accident...
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for tomorrow in the case against an Altoona man who tried to elude police serving him with...
State police are investigating the theft of a tv and a wood chipper from the Blue Knob ski resort.According to police reports...
The following paving projects will begin today in Altoona.Kissell Avenue between 50th street and 58th Sreet, and, Broad avenu...
An Altoona woman is facing charges after she tried to set fire to her own home last night.City police say that the incident h...
A Duncansville man has been charged with fraudulently obtaining a false drivers license after his was suspended through 2025....
An Altoona man is facing fraud charges after state police say he allegedly used PennDOT inspection and emissions stickers and...
A Bedford County crash Tuesday afternoon claimed the life of a Blair County woman.60 year old Dianna Mock of East Freedom was...
An Altoona man has been charged with torching a camper. The incident happened around 8:00PM September 4th in the area near 22...
State Police in Centre County say a motorcycle driver who crashed into a semi-truck along Interstate 99 Monday afternoon took...
An early morning fight on Labor Day culminated in injuries and arrests.According to city police the incident happened just be...
A Bedford Township man suffering from Alzheimer’s was victimized by the woman hired to care for him.According to State ...
A Tyrone man is facing domestic assault and resisting arrest charges after police say he severely beat a woman.The incident h...
A Blair County toddler is seriously injured in what state police are calling a freak accident.It happened just before noon We...
The former speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a public co...
An overnight domestic dispute that turned physical has landed a Hollidaysburg man in jail.The incident occurred just before m...
Charges have been filed against an Altoona man after he allegedly violently attacked his girlfriend last week.Police say that...
An Altoona man accused of kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old Tyrone girl earlier this month is now headed to trial.Blair Coun...
A Blair County judge has refused to throw out a felony kidnapping charge against a woman accused of taking a baby from a city...
Blair County Crime Solvers is offering a cash reward for information that leads to the arrest of some copper thieves.The Loga...
An early morning fire in Franktown Township is being investigated.A State Police fire marshal has been called in to see what ...
A local man is facing charges of having sex with a minor three years ago.Tyrone Borough Police say a 16-year-old girl came fo...
A fire Tuesday afternoon destroyed a home in Altoona.City fire crews responded to 1921 15th Avenue just before 2:00PM and fou...
A Roaring Spring woman has been accused of putting her four month old daughter in danger.State police say that just before 1a...
A day after being reported as a missing person, a teenage girl was found by local police.The 16 year old, in the custody of B...
Altoona Police say the man responsible for a June blaze that destroyed three of his neighbor’s homes is a serial fire b...
A state police investigation into an alleged sexual assault of a 15 year old girl in Bedford County has resulted in an arrest...
A Duncansville man has admitted to setting fire to his father’s home over the weekend. State Police have charged 26-yea...
A Hollidaysburg man was bitten by a snake while riding in a car on I-99 Wednesday.Police say that Donald Forshey was bitten o...
There still isn’t very much information to report on the Wednesday morning crash in Altoona that sent two people to the...
Members of the Blair County Community got a first-hand look at some of the nation’s most dangerous gangs Wednesday nigh...
An Altoona man facing child pornography charges will face judge at a later date. Robert Allen Mulraney was scheduled for a pr...
An Altoona man who pleaded guilty to impregnating a 12-year-old girl in 2007 was formally sentenced Tuesday in Blair County C...
The Tyrone man wanted in connection to a burglary investigation is now in jail.Police had been asking for the public’s ...
A Blair County man accused of kidnapping and raping a 6-year-old girl will have to wait a little bit longer before having his...
New details on a top member of Penn State's NCAA champion wrestling team who is facing sex assault charges after allegedly tr...
Local law enforcement caught up with a man with a checkered past overnight in Altoona.It all started around 1:30am at a resid...
Three people are facing charges following a stabbing incident in Gallitzin Township Friday.State Police say that charges are ...
A car/pedestrian accident in the city sent one person to the hospital over the weekend.On Saturday night around 11pm aman was...
Tyrone Police say they are looking for the man who allegedly broke into a borough home last month and stole thousands of doll...
A Tyrone teenager is facing assault and harassment charges after police say he punched a man out for a walk. The incident hap...
Tyrone Police say a borough man was under the influence of Blizzard and other synthetic narcotics when he began yelling profa...
The team that coordinates Bedford County's response to domestic violence has been asked to present its "success story&qu...
A city man has been arrested on a multitude of child pornography charges.36 year old Robert Mulraney, of 1041 Riggles Gap Roa...
A Tyrone woman is facing felony charges after a run-in with police.The incident occurred on Tuesday when 26-year-old Gina Woo...
A crook got more than he bargained for when he targeted an Altoona home Wednesday.Police say that around 1pm a burglar was ca...
Ateenager from Ohio luckily escaped serious injury yesterday when he was involved in a car/pedestrian accident in the city.It...
City police were called to the Station Medical Center parking lot around 3:45 this morning where they found a man slumped ove...
An Altoona man remains behind bars on $1-million bail after police say he kidnapped a Tyrone girl over the weekend.State ...
A Tyrone man is facing burglary charges after police recover a stash of stolen items in his possession.Tuesday Tyrone police ...
A Hollidaysburg man who got conned in a drug deal earlier this week is now facing charges.Altoona police say that on Monday 5...
A barn in Taylor Township was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.The fire at 1284 Cove Lane started just before 2pm.The 15 year old...
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for today in the case of Michigan man accused of selling drugs in Altoona.22 year old Lawr...
Blair County will be participating in the 28th Annual Night Out Against Crime this evening.The event, held at the Antique Dep...
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has rejected an Imler man’s excuse for not to meeting the state’s Sexual Offender...
Two people from Pittsburgh have been arrested in Blair County for selling dope.The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, B...
A Blair County home burglary is under investigation and the police are turning to the public for assistance in solving the ca...
Blair County officials have reached a settlement with a Bellwood woman over her husband’s prison suicide in 2006. A fed...
A missing 4-year-old Terre Haute boy who was taken from his mother on Tuesday has been found safe in Kentucky.An FBI spokesma...
A federal judge in Pittsburgh has dismissed a lawsuit begun by ACORN that hoped to overturn a state law used to prosecute vot...
State Representative Bill DeWeese's legal team is mounting a wide-ranging challenge to his prosecution on government corrupti...
An Altoona man is facing felony charges after police say he pointed a loaded handgun at two individuals during an argument.Th...
A widow has requested that her lawsuit against Blair County over her husband's prison suicide be dismissed in the midst of wh...
A homicide is under investigation in Bedford County.On May 28th 85 year old Irvin Hengst was found in his Imler home having s...
Pennsylvania State Police have issued a Missing Endangered Persons Advisory on behalf of the FBI and the Terre Haute, Indiana...
State police say the cause of a cabin fire that killed four people in Huntingdon County last week remains under investigation...
A judge has stopped enforcement of a northeastern Pennsylvania school district's policy to require students to submit to rand...
Former Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar has been declared dead.Gricar disappeared on April 15, 2005, about nine mon...
A hearing dealing with declaring a missing Centre County District Attorney legally dead is scheduled for today.The daughter o...
A violent domestic dispute Thursday results in the arrest of a city man.Altoona police tell WRTA News that they were called o...
A ruckus outside a city bar overnight landed an Altoona woman in jail.Police were called out a little after 2am to 7th Avenue...
A Bedford County judge has ordered a former Maryland police officer to spend the next five to ten years behind bars for havin...
39 year old Melissa Miller was arrested over night in AltoonaShe was taken into custody a few minutes after midnight on the 2...
A city woman is facing charges following a burglary in Altoona overnight.Police tell WRTA News that 41 year old Corina Pfahle...
Crime Solvers of Blair County needs your help in solving a burglary case in northern Blair County.Tyrone Borough Police say s...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says a local farmer caused or contributed to the contamination of a neighbor’s...
A local woman lost her life in a crash over the weekend in Huntingdon County.State police say the accident happened a little ...
Two former Altoona police officers and another Blair County man face charges following a grand-jury probe into a bar fight th...
Bedford County’s top prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty against the Maryland man accused of murdering his e...
Following a year-long investigation, charges are expected to be filed today in a 2010 brawl at a city lounge which left two m...
A city man is facing charges after an apparent night of Blizzard abuse.Altoona police tell WRTA News that they were called ou...
A Williamsburg woman who went missing Monday night has been found in an Altoona motel.State Police in Hollidaysburg say 46-ye...
Tyrone Police need your help in finding out who ransacked a borough home.The incident occurred on the 300 Block of Oak Street...
The Greenfield Township Police Department is investigating a theft from a construction site in Blue Knob.According to police,...
Valley View Nursing Home officials say their steep overtime costs are in line with what nursing facilities in the private sec...
An Altoona woman is in custody this morning after a domestic dispute overnight turned into a stabbing incident.City police te...
Blair County Salary Board members approved nearly $97-thousand in overtime compensation for the month of May.An expense r...
Three people from Altoona have been arrested in connection with stolen guns.City police tell WRTA News that two stolen guns w...
A Williamsburg woman has been reported missing.41-year-old Tonya Settle hasn’t been seen since she walked away from her...
A Cambria County teenager will be charged as an adult for causing a DUI car crash that killed on of his friends.Blair County ...
A Milesburg man who fatally shot his girlfriend in an apparent hunting accident is being sent to prison.A Centre County judge...
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has joined the investigation into a burglary of a Bedford County trading post whe...
Pennsylvania's environmental regulators are agreeing to take more precautions before they approve certain permits for oil and...
Governor Tom Corbett is signing dozens of new Pennsylvania laws that the Legislature passed in the first half of its 2011 ses...
Governor Tom Corbett is signing dozens of new Pennsylvania laws that the Legislature passed in the first half of its 2011 ses...
Police are keeping an eye out for a sticky-fingered person wandering the streets of Philadelphia in a flowing judicial robe.A...
A Tyrone man is facing felony assault charges after police say he beat-up his girlfriend. The incident happened on the 500 Bl...
An Altoona couple is facing drug and child endangerment charges after police say they were found passed out in their SUV with...
State Police at Hollidaysburg are investigating two home break-ins. The first happened during the overnight hours of July 4th...
A Blair County judge has ruled that an Altoona woman accused to kidnapping an infant is competent to stand trial.City police ...
An Altoona man has been arrested and charged with setting a massive blaze that destroyed three homes along 3rd Avenue last mo...
State Police in Bedford say someone stole a cache of weapons from a sporting goods store near Everett.The incident happened s...
The daughter of a central Pennsylvania district attorney who went missing more than six years ago has asked a judge to declar...
A massive fire that destroyed two Altoona homes on June 19th has been ruled arson. City fire inspector Mike Tofano tells WRTA...
A small fire that started on the roof of an East End home Tuesday afternoon was caused by a rogue firework.Altoona Fire Inspe...
A Hollidaysburg man is in custody after police say he returned to the scene of a crime he committed.The incident happened ear...
A State police investigation is underway in the death of an elderly Imler man.Calling it an "equivocal death", mean...
Duncansville Borough Police say someone stole some collectable silver coins from a vendor at a local flea market – and ...
Fire damaged a Sinking Valley home early Wednesday evening.Fire crews were dispatched around 5:45PM to a home near the inters...
A Tyrone woman and an Altoona man are facing assault charges after police responded to a disturbance happening inside an SUV....
A Huntingdon County man is facing charges for reporting a made-up child endangerment incident.State police say that about a y...
A Bedford County man accused of severely injuring his infant son in a baby shaking incident will be put on trial as an adult....
A Cambria County man charged with killing his mother in October of last year was back in court Monday.Attorneys for Andrew Ch...
A police investigation is underway in connection with a possible attempted abduction over the weekend in Gallitzin.The incide...
The state attorney general's office says more than two dozen people have been taken into custody in a drug sweep in Huntingdo...
Investigators say it could be at least another week until the cause of Sunday’s fire on 3rd Avenue is released. City po...
A Blair County Judge has continued a temporary countywide ban on the sale of bath salts, K2 and other synthetic drugs.The inj...
Copper thieves have struck another Blair County business. State Police say the suspects entered the New Enterprise Stone and ...
A Huntingdon County district justice is apologizing and paying a fine after pleading guilty to harassment following his arres...
The man accused of setting fire to a Bedford County church earlier this month is headed to trial.Twenty-one year-old Charles ...
Authorities have solved a string of recent burglaries in southern Blair County.Roaring Spring Police arrested 22-year-old Eri...
Blair County prosecutors were in court Tuesday urging a judge to make a temporary ban on the sale of bath salts and other leg...
The Blair County District Attorney announces this morning that he will be pursuing an Injunction against businesses selling b...
More than 300 police officers, firefighters, elected officials, Boy Scouts and others gathered in Hollidaysburg last night to...
A hearing to determine whether a Vintondale teenager should be charged as an adult in connection with a fatal DUI crash in Du...
State Police have identified the man whose body was found in the water at Canoe Creek State Park on Tuesday.Troopers say 71-y...
Law enforcement officials from all across the county will gather tonight to pay tribute to their colleagues who have given th...
Bedford County prosecutors announced the arrests of three people in connection with the burglary and arson of a church buildi...
Officials say a man found dead Tuesday morning at Canoe Creek State Park died of accidental or natural causes. State Police, ...
An Altoona business received an unexpected visitor Tuesday morning.City fire crews were called to Wall Financial at 630 Pleas...
A Bedford County teenager has been accused of assaulting an 8-week-old baby. State Police say the incident happened June 9th ...
Some Blair County operations continue to be plagued with significant overtime issues.Salary Board members on Monday approved ...
A young driver is facing charges after city police pulled his vehicle over during the early morning hours.The juvenile was st...
Altoona Police have arrested three people in connection with a string of armed robberies last week in Altoona. City police sa...
A fire that gutted part of a church complex in Downtown Bedford has been ruled arson.State Police fire investigators say some...
Altoona Police say they are seeking two additional suspects in connection with the June 1st armed robbery of a city cab drive...
An Altoona man has been arrested for robbing a cab driver a week ago.City police say they took 24 year old Joshua Benz into c...
A Bedford County man charged last week with raping an underage girl is now facing more serious charges.State Police officials...
The Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court on Monday to take a new look at a Pennsylvania city's crackdown on illegal ...
The investigation into an attempted rape in Logan Township over the weekend continues.Police say the incident happened Saturd...
Altoona Police raided an East End home on Thursday afternoon.Several marked police cars and the city’s crime scene unit...
Altoona Police say three armed robberies over the past three days share many similarities. But Chief Janice Freehling said Th...
A Bedford County man wanted on more than 300 rape charges has turned himself into police.State Police troopers launched a mas...
A city woman is facing attempted homicide charges after allegedly threatening another woman with a knife earlier this week.25...
Altoona Police are investigating two more armed robberies. The first incident happened around 11:30 last night on the 1800 Bl...
A windmill construction worker accused of stabbing a fellow co-worker over the use of a racial slur is going to trial.Robert ...
A city man is facing various charges after police found him in possession of a stolen handgun overnight.Altoona police say th...
Three people were arrested overnight for trying to break into pop machines in Altoona.Police say that around 2:30AM three mal...
City police are investigating an armed robbery.The incident happened around 10:15 last night when a local pizza shop employee...
Blair County prosecutors say they want to spend $3,500 to hire a toxicology expert for the August capital murder trial of...
An Altoona teenager was taken into custody during a Thursday morning drug raid. Narcotis agents surrounded the 22nd Street ho...
The mother of a 14-month-old baby is charged with homicide after the girl's emaciated body was found stuffed into a suitcase ...
Altoona’s crime rate increase slightly in 2010.Chief Janice Freehling told city council Wednesday that number of crimes...
A man charged with murder was back in Bedford County Court on Wednesday.40-year-old Mark Allen Shirey waived his right to a p...
Authorities say they've arrested a serial flasher who targeted women inside Penn State residence halls and off-campus apartme...
Agents from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and the Blair County Drug Taskforce have arrested 30 suspected d...
A Dauphin County judge has postponed the second trial of disgraced Pennsylvania political power broker Mike Veon until next y...
A Bedford County man has been ordered to serve up to 25 years in jail for raping a child. Judge Daniel Howare has sentenced 3...
Three people under the influence of Blizzard were arrested over the weekend in Altoona.Police say a car parked illegally on t...
A startling discovery at the Mishler Theatre in Altoona.State Police say a dancer discovered a wireless camera attached to a ...
City police have arrested a burglary suspect in connection with two Thursday afternoon incidents in Altoona.Police tell WRTA ...
A local man is hospitalized after being struck by a car in Blair County Wednesday afternoon.The accident happened around 3:00...
After 23 years a local judge is reportedly looking to walk away from the bench.A published report out today says that 65 year...
Blair County District Attorney Richard Consiglio says he will likely appeal a state Superior Court’s ruling that a conv...
State police out of Ebensburg are investigating a case that involves a man they believe is living in the Altoona area.Accordi...
A shootout Wednesday afternoon in a Huntingdon Borough apartment sent one man to the hospital and three others to jail.The in...
Logan Township supervisors say their disorderly house ordinance enacted in 2008 to curtail underage drinking around Penn Stat...
Officers from several police departments launched a massive search Tuesday for a burglary suspect caught trying to break into...
The Blair County Commissioners adopted a new firearms and training policy Tuesday for the county’s sheriff’s depa...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is considering which types of criminal convictions are serious enough to prevent people from h...
Several homes and cars were damaged during a brick throwing spree overnight in Altoona.City police tell WRTA News that 27 yea...
A theft case involving some stolen checks is this week’s Blair County Crime Solvers Crime of the Week. The incident hap...
Charges have been filed in a local rape case involving a teenager.According to police, 48 year old Philip McAlkich, of 301 Oa...
A fight between a mother, her daughter and another woman late Tuesday night resulted in two state police troopers being assau...
A Bellwood man is facing theft charges after leaving his wallet at the scene of the crime.State Police at Hollidaysburg say 3...
The Blair County Coroner has ruled last week’s death of an Allegheny Township couple a murder-suicide.Coroner Patricia ...
State Police at Hollidaysburg say a man who was found dead in an SUV in Frankstown Township over the weekend took his own lif...
A city man arrested last week as part of the Brian Pfister Cocaine network is now facing new drug charges. Drug taskforce age...
Two people were found dead after a house exploded Thursday night in Blair County.The incident happened around 7:15PM at 989 O...
An attack on two male Penn State students over the weekend is under investigation’The incident happened around 1:30AM S...
Duncansville police are looking for a thief that targeted an Antis Township mail box earlier this year.Authorities say that o...
An Altoona woman has been arrested on drug charges following a Pennsylvania state Police Vice Unit investigation.During the p...
An Altoona man is facing new charges after State Police say he failed to report back to prison after signing himself out over...
State Police are investigating a break-in at a Newry business over the weekend.The incident happened sometime between Saturda...
A routine traffic stop in Snyder Township Tuesday ended up on a more serious note for a Reading man.Around 12:30 in the after...
A Cresson Township man accused of shooting his mother to death following a car crash last fall is scheduled to go on trial la...
Fire crews from Cambria County were called out to battle a fire on the grounds of the State Correctional Institution in Cress...
A Cambria County man has been charged with attempting to lure two children away from the Ebensburg Wal-Mart.State Police say ...
Prosecutors in Clearfield County need you help in finding an Altoona man who is wanted in connection with the theft of a vehi...
Despite high overtime costs, Blair County officials say Valley View Home is still well-within its allotted overtime budget.Co...
Charges have been filed against an Altoona couple following a domestic dispute overnight.City police say that a little after ...
A Duncansville man is facing several charges following an assault over the weekend involving an Altoona woman.The state Polic...
An Altoona man is facing DUI charges as a result of a one vehicle accident in the Juniata section of the city overnight.Polic...
Blair County Crime Solvers needs your help in figuring out who burglarized a sandwich shop earlier this week.The incident hap...
Altoona fire officials say they are 99-percent sure what caused a deadly apartment fire last month that killed five people.Bu...
An Altoona woman is recovering after being attacked and stabbed late Wednesday afternoon.The incident happened around 5:40PM ...
Altoona Police say three Schuylkill County men are facing drug charges after one of them overdosed on heroin.City officers or...
A wanted fugitive thought to be staying in the Altoona area has finally been apprehended after nearly five months on the run....
Altoona Fire officials are investigating four suspicious blazes over the past three days. The first fire broke just after mid...
A Huntingdon County magistrate is off the bench as state court administrators investigate harassment and public drunkenness c...
An assault over the weekend lands a Logan Township man in jail.61 year old Louis Green, of 1620 East Pleasant Valley Boulevar...
A Duncansville man is facing charges after he allegedly broke into a local restaurant over the weekend.23 year old Ryan Moore...
A local DUI case involving a little mystery is being investigated by State Police.25 year old Erika Latchford, of 504 Pinecro...
Altoona Police are investigating a brutal fight between two city teenagers that’s now made its way onto the World Wide ...
Bedford County prosecutors said Thursday that a man being held in a Maryland jail on a vehicle theft charge and will face fir...
Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator known for his charitable work helping at-risk children, is being ...
Blair County Crime Solvers needs your help in finding the person responsible in a rash of thefts at a Martinsburg business.Po...
An Altoona man shot by city police outside of a 58th Street convenience store is headed to trial.23-year-old Arthur Jackson-P...
A Tyrone man is behind bars after allegedly threatening his estranged wife with a knife.The incident happened just after midn...
Two people are under arrest following a drug raid in Altoona.Agents from State Attorney General’s Office and City Polic...
An indiscretion with a teenage student has cost an area teacher his job and has him facing a criminal charge.31 year old Carl...
A homicide investigation is underway in Bedford County.State Police say 49-year-old Michael Wayne Simpson was found dead in h...
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