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PRISON INMATE PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULTING OFFICERS
Indiana County District Attorney Bob Manzi says an inmate at SCI Pine Grove pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of aggravated assault on corrections officers, both second-degree felonies. 57-year-o...
Hometown1 Sep 08, 2021

INDIANA BOROUGH COUNCIL TO CONSIDER DONATION TO CITIZENS' AMBULANCE
At last night's agenda prep session, Indiana Borough Council heard from Citizens' Ambulance as they continue to try and get donations from municipalities. The donations would be matched by White Towns...
Hometown2 Sep 07, 2021

DRUG DEALER SENTENCED TO FIVE TO TEN YEARS IN PRISON
A convicted drug dealer was sentenced Tuesday morning in Indiana County Court. Indiana County District Attorney Robert Manzi announced that 31-year-old Kyle William Rider of Homer City was ordered to ...
Hometown2 Sep 07, 2021

MARION CENTER PARENTS, CHILDREN STAGE ANTI-MASKING RALLY AT SCHOOL
The issue of the mask mandate came to the forefront at the Marion Center School District complex this morning as some parents and children rallied against the mandate. The rally was held at the comple...
Hometown2 Sep 07, 2021

INDIANA BOROUGH TO HOLD CDBG MEETING TONIGHT
Before Indiana Borough Council's Agenda Prep meeting, council will hold a hearing for its 2021 community development block grant program. The hearing will be held at 6:30 tonight at the conference roo...
Hometown2 Sep 07, 2021

HEARINGS TO BE HELD TODAY IN INDIANA COUNTY COURT
Several different hearings are on the docket for today at Indiana County Court. One of those hearings will be for a writ of habeas corpus for 37-year-old Tiffany Wissinger of Indiana, who was charged ...
Hometown2 Sep 07, 2021

HOMER-CENTER FOOTBALL TO WEAR CAMO UNIFORMS TO COMMEMORATE 9/11
As the nation and our area get ready to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one Indiana County football team will do so on the field Friday night. The Homer-Center Wildcats...
Hometown2 Sep 07, 2021

SCHOOL RESUMES WITH MASKS IN PLACE
School resumes today after the Labor Day holiday, with Pennsylvania's statewide mask mandate in place, and while all of Indiana County's school districts say they will enforce it, not everyone is happ...
Hometown1 Sep 07, 2021

BLAIRSVILLE MAN KILLED IN MOTORCYCLE CRASH
Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman Jr. says a Blairsville man died of blunt force trauma shortly after 6 o'clock last evening in a motorcycle crash on Tunnelton Road in Conemaugh Township. 39-year-o...
Hometown1 Sep 07, 2021

FIRSTENERGY CUSTOMERS MUST RESET THEIR PASSWORDS
FirstEnergy Corporation, the parent company of Penelec and three other electric companies in Pennsylvania, says it has disabled all of its online accounts, and is requiring all of its customers to res...
Hometown1 Sep 06, 2021












