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The state Game Commission yesterday gave preliminary approval to start the antlered deer season statewide on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. For decades, buck season started on the Monday after the h...

After a pretrial conference Friday at which Judge William Martin had hoped to set a trial date for Todd Walters, he instead had to order another pretrial conference because a defense mental health exp...

Peoples Natural Gas yesterday filed a rate increase request with the Public Utility Commission, asking for fourteen percent more from most customers, and nineteen percent more from customers of the fo...

Indiana County District Attorney Pat Dougherty will join Indiana Area School District officials and others tonight to conduct a program entitled "Vaping-Family Community Educational Training". It's sc...

The Indiana Area and Marion Center school boards meet tonight, with mostly routine matters on their agendas. One item of note for the Indiana board is a motion to change to a new supplier of substitut...

State police were summoned Saturday morning to the Burrell Township Walmart for a retail theft investigation, and wound up investigating a methamphetamine operation and arresting four people. Walmart ...

State Police have not classified a fire Friday night at a West Mahoning Township carpentry shop as arson, but they have said it was incendiary in nature, and "was set on the interior of the structure"...

State Police say no one was injured Friday afternoon in a rollover crash on Clymer Road in Cherryhill Township. 22-year-old Anna Lindemuth of Tidioute, PA, was driving too fast for conditions, accordi...

Crime reports today include an alleged domestic assault Thursday morning at a home along Shady Grove Lane in West Wheatfield Township. 20-year-old Megan Dawn Jones of Irwin is accused of punching punc...

The IUP basketball teams swept a doubleheader at Clarion yesterday. The women scored 26 consecutive points on the way to a 73-51 win, with Carolyn Appleby scoring 17 points and Brittany Robinson addin...