Category Archives: Local News

RAIL SERVICE EXPANSION WOULD ADD TRIPS TO HARRISBURG, POINTS EAST
The expanded passenger rail service in Pennsylvania that Governor Wolf promised on Friday will require infrastructure improvements by Norfolk Southern Railway, and the company will also be able to dou...
Hometown1 Feb 21, 2022

CHERRYHILL TOWNSHIP FIRE CALL BLAMED ON FAULTY TOASTER
Firefighters from Cherryhill Township, Clymer, Commodore, and Pine Township were summoned yesterday afternoon to the Spiritlife Recovery Center, off Route 422 in Cherryhill Township for a reported str...
Hometown1 Feb 20, 2022

SNOW MAY HAVE BEEN A FACTOR IN SATURDAY CRASHES
Yesterday morning's snow may have been a factor in a couple of crashes within minutes of each other on Route 22 in Derry Township. State police say the first of those crashes, at 10:38 AM, happened ab...
Hometown1 Feb 20, 2022

BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PLANS DISPLAY NOW ONLINE
The plans display for the replacement of the Yellow Creek Number 2 bridge went online on Friday and will be available through March 4th. The approximately $3.5 million project in White, Center, and Br...
Hometown1 Feb 20, 2022

BUDGET HEARINGS ON THE AGENDA IN HARRISBURG
With the State House Appropriations Committee on the verge of its second week of budget hearings, the Senate Appropriations Committee begins its first week of hearings on Tuesday. Representative Jim S...
Hometown1 Feb 20, 2022

MAN CHARGED IN 2020 SHOOTING ON WAYNE AVENUE SENTENCED
One of the men involved in a 2020 Valentine's Day shooting and robbery near IUP Campus was sentenced yesterday in Indiana County Court. On Friday, Nafis Harper was ordered to spend three to six years ...
Hometown2 Feb 19, 2022

MAN SENTENCED IN INDIANA COUNTY JAIL CELL PHONE SMUGGLING SCHEME
A former Pittsburgh man has entered guilty pleas in federal court connected with a scheme to smuggle cell phones into the Indiana County Jail. According to a news release from the US District Court in...
Hometown2 Feb 19, 2022

IUP COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES APPROVE PLAN TO REDUCE TUITION FOR IN-STATE UNDERGRADS
On Friday, the IUP Council of Trustees approved a new tuition plan that will reduce the cost of college for undergraduate in-state students. Effective in the Fall 2022 semester, IUP will reduce tuitio...
Hometown2 Feb 19, 2022

POLICE IDENTIFY, ARREST SUSEPCT IN ATTEMPTED THEFT
Indiana Borough Police have identified a suspect in an attempted theft that happened in early January at an Indiana convenience store. Police have identified 40-year-old Nicholas John Horner of Apollo...
Hometown2 Feb 19, 2022

ROADS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING
UPDATE: Maple Street and Wandin Road/Pine Flats Road reopened as of 11:05 AM. The other roads remain closed. WHAT WE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PennDOT has announced parts of four Indiana County roads have c...
Hometown2 Feb 18, 2022

Konnor Griffin
Konnor Griffin is a Bucco! Are you going to go watch him play?
You bet! He's going to put them in the playoffs!
Sure will, but he's not going to make them much better.
Maybe a few games, but he's going to struggle.
Nope! The Pirates have been too bad for too long.
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