Author Archives: Bill Berry
JOANNE FRENCHIK, 80
Joanne Adele (Sabo) Frenchik, 80, of Blairsville, PA (Brenizer) passed away on Monday, January 8, 2018 at her home. The daughter of Anthony Joseph and Jean Edith (Chiesa) Sabo, she was born May 22, 19...
Bill Berry Jan 10, 2018
TWO RESCUED IN BLAIRSVILLE FIRE TUESDAY MORNING
Two people were rescued and everyone else was evacuated safely as the apartments above Fox’s Pizza Den in Blairsville caught fire this morning. Fire crews were called to the scene shortly before...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018

FIREFIGHTERS BATTLE BLAIRSVILLE BLAZE
Fire crews continue to battle a blaze in downtown Blairsville. Fourteen fire companies from across the region were summoned at about five o’clock this morning to the Fox’s Pizza building a...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018
JUDGE REJECTS MOTION IN STEVENSON MURDER CASE
Indiana County Judge Thomas Bianco has denied a defense motion for additional discovery in the Justin Stevenson murder case. The 20-year-old Stevenson and 19-year-old Nathan Price are charged with kil...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018
COURT RECEIVES RECORDS IN DiSTEFANO APPEAL
State Superior Court now has the court records in District Attorney Pat Dougherty's appeal of the dismissal of a homicide case against Brady Distefano, a former IUP student originally charged in the d...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018
MAN CHARGED WITH TORCHING MOBILE HOME
In Westmoreland County, a Fairfield Township man already in jail for allegedly stealing an ATV has been charged with setting fire to a vacant mobile home in West Bolivar. 35-year-old Charles McCurdy J...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCORES, JAN. 8, 2017
Boys Marion Center 49, DuBois 46 Indiana 80, Hampton 68 – Indiana’s Carlos Carter 34, Tommy Arbuckle 20, Alec Petroff 10 Girls Homer Center 61, Ligonier Valley 40 – Homer-Center̵...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018
IUP SWEEPS ROCK ON MONDAY NIGHT
The IUP basketball teams swept a PSAC West doubleheader from Slippery Rock last night at the KCAC. The women ran their record to 13-0 with a 76-50 win on the strength of a 24-5 second quarter. Four pl...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018
RUTH VARNER, 92
Ruth B. Varner, 92, of Indiana, passed away Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, at her home. A daughter of the late Frederick T. and Mary Elizabeth Keener Byers, she was born Jan. 13, 1925, in Johnstown. Mrs. Var...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018
RUTH VARNER, 92
Ruth B. Varner, 92, of Indiana, passed away Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, at her home. A daughter of the late Frederick T. and Mary Elizabeth Keener Byers, she was born Jan. 13, 1925, in Johnstown. Mrs. Var...
Bill Berry Jan 09, 2018












