Category Archives: Local News

Westmoreland County District Judge Denise Thiel on Friday ordered Ray Shetler Jr. to stand trial for two felony counts of aggravated assault and solitary counts of disarming a law enforcement officer ...

With the spring primary just months away, the battlegrounds have formed in the state gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. For governor, two Republican caucuses yesterday held their straw polls, with L...

Bitter cold temperatures have hit Indiana County to start the weekend. The low temperature recorded this morning at the Pennsylvania American Water Company's Twolick Filter plant showed temperatures a...

Earlier this week, the Indiana County Development Corporation held its annual meeting and recognized two of its long-time members for their distinguished service. The board recognized outgoing preside...

Several people were sentenced yesterday in Indiana County Court. One of them was 21-year-old Jordan Clayborn of Blairsville, who was sentenced in two cases. He entered guilty pleas to two counts of ag...

State Police from the Indiana barracks have been investigating several scams over the last few weeks. A Homer City woman was bilked out of $8000 in a scam through Facebook. State police said that betw...

IUP has updated its Covid dashboard for the first time this semester, and the university is reporting 37 IUP students have tested positive for Covid-19 over a two-week period. Ten of the 37 students l...

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has announced that the unemployment rate for the state went down in December to 5.4 percent. The report states that the rate went down by three-tenths...

The Indiana County Samaritan's Purse operation packed a lot of shoe boxes over the holiday season that will be sent to children all over the world. In 2021, volunteers for the program packed a total o...

Several sentencing hearings will be held today in Indiana County's Court of Common Pleas, including a man facing charges related to an incident at the Indiana County Jail. 27-year-old Jordan Alexander...