Category Archives: Local News

DRUG TASK FORCE ANNOUNCES DRUG ARREST
UPDATE: Thursday evening the Indiana County Drug Task Force filed charges against Austin Jocobsky of Homer City following a search warrant executed in Homer City. Indiana County District Attorney Robe...
Hometown2 Feb 05, 2021

STATE POLICE WARN OF PHONE, EMAIL SCAMS
State police have announced that a few scams are making their way into the area. Troopers at the Indiana barracks say that they have received at least three calls reporting a phone scam where the scam...
Hometown2 Feb 05, 2021

TWO-VEHICLE CRASH REPORTED IN INDIANA BOROUGH FRIDAY MORNING
No one was hurt in a two-vehicle crash this morning in Indiana Borough. Indiana Fire Association, borough police and citizens ambulance were dispatched at 9:53 this morning to the intersection of Sout...
Hometown2 Feb 05, 2021

APSCUF ASKING FOR ANOTHER YEAR FOR TEACHERS AS RETRENCHMENT APPROACHES
The faculty union for the State System of Higher Education is asking for more time for its members to get ready for another job before their retrenchment comes up. In comments presented to the State S...
Hometown2 Feb 05, 2021

POLICE REPORTS: THEFT OF SERVICES, DRUG POSSESSION, TRESPASS
PSP-INDIANA State police are investigating an incident of theft of services at a hotel in White Township. Police say on February 3rd, they were notified by staffers at the Hampton Inn on Indian Spring...
Hometown2 Feb 05, 2021

GAS PRICES INCREASE OVER THE LAST WEEK
Gas prices once again increased in the last week. According to Triple-A, the average cost of a gallon of gas in Pennsylvania is $2.75 a gallon this morning. That's an increase of two cents from yester...
Hometown2 Feb 05, 2021

BEAR HARVEST WAS DOWN, BUT AVERAGE
The State Game Commission says the bear harvest this past season was off by about 20 percent from last year, but last year's harvest set a new record, so this year's number is not bad. In fact, it's t...
Hometown1 Feb 05, 2021

INDIANA AREA NOTIFIED OF POSITIVE COVID-19 CASE
The Indiana Area School District now has three active cases of covid-19 at the Senior High School, after a positive test result yesterday involving a student. Three other students are home in quaranti...
Hometown1 Feb 05, 2021

RURAL VALLEY WOMAN WANTED FOR FORGERY, OTHER CHARGES SURRENDERS TO POLICE
A Rural Valley woman, 45-year-old April L. Kovach, turned herself in to the Pennsylvania State Police Troop A, Indiana Station today. She was wanted on charges that included forgery, access device fra...
Renda Media Feb 04, 2021

OPPOSITION CONTINUES TO BUILD AGAINST RGGI IMPLEMENTATION
Opposition continues to build against Governor Tom Wolf's plan for Pennsylvania to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, also known as RGGI. State Senator Joe Pittman announced that the Senate ...
Hometown2 Feb 04, 2021










