Category Archives: Local News

PHYSICAL RESCUE INCIDENT REPORTED YESTERDAY
First responders were kept busy yesterday with multiple calls for service. Officials responded to two incidents of physical rescue. The first was reported at 11:05 am on Phillips Road in West Mahoning...
Hometown4 Jul 11, 2025

NEW BIPARTISAN PUSH FOR RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA INTRODUCED
A new bipartisan push to legalize recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania is facing long odds in the state Senate. Republican Senator Dan Laughlin and Democrat Sharif Street introduced the bill Thursda...
Hometown4 Jul 11, 2025

TASTE AND TOUR ANOTHER ROUSING SUCCESS
Downtown Indiana's restaurants got to show off their best Thursday night as part of the 22nd annual Taste and Tour event. Close to 20 establishments were on display to get not only the vote of celebri...
Hometown2 Jul 10, 2025

MAN WANTED ON WARRANTS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY IN INDIANA BOROUGH
A man who was wanted on warrants was taken into custody by Indiana County Sheriffs Deputies this morning on Philadelphia Street. Indiana County Sheriff Bob Fyock said that 29-year-old Austin Milanos w...
Hometown2 Jul 10, 2025

GOVERNOR JOSH SHAPIRO APPROVES BILL TO END SUNDAY HUNTING BAN
Hunting on Sundays will soon be legal across Pennsylvania. Governor Josh Shapiro signed a bill this week that repeals the Commonwealth's long-standing ban on Sunday hunting, a restriction that dates b...
Hometown4 Jul 10, 2025

22ND ANNUAL TASTE AND TOUR TAKES PLACE TODAY
The 22nd Annual Taste and Tour will kick off this afternoon in downtown Indiana. Taste and Tour is a fundraiser event put on by Downtown Indiana, Inc. in partnership with First Commonwealth Bank. The ...
Hometown4 Jul 10, 2025

CLYMER CHIEF OF POLICE RESIGNS FOLLOWING STRANGULATION CHARGES
The Clymer Borough Chief of police has resigned. Charles Waller Jr. of Indiana has given up his position as the chief of police following a domestic incident last month that turned physical. On June 1...
Hometown4 Jul 10, 2025

"OPERATION LAKE EFFECT" SUSPECT ENTERS GUILTY PLEA TO KINGPIN CHARGES
A man who was one of the people arrested in "Operation Lake Effect" pleaded guilty yesterday to violating the federal "Kingpin" statute for operating a continuing criminal enterprise and for money lau...
Hometown2 Jul 10, 2025

PHILADELPHIA MAN SENTENCED IN DRUG RING THAT CAME TO WESTERN PA IN 2021
A Philadelphia man was ordered by a federal judge in Johnstown to serve 15 years in prison and five years of probation in connection with a drug ring in 2021. Last March, 47-year-old Mikal Davis, Jr. ...
Hometown2 Jul 10, 2025

PENNS MANOR GETTING READY FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR
The Penns Manor School Board was updated Wednesday night on preparations for the next school year. That included making sure the classrooms are clean for the first day of school. Superintendent Daren ...
Hometown2 Jul 09, 2025












