Category Archives: Local News
HOME DESTROYED IN WEST MAHONING TOWNSHIP FIRE
A fire destroyed the home of an Amish family on Griffith Road in West Mahoning Township Wednesday afternoon. Indiana County 911 reported that Marion Center, Plumville, Dayton and Perry Township fire d...
Jul 29, 2020
DIOCESE OF GREENSBURG SCHOOLS TO WELCOME STUDENTS BACK TO PHYSICAL BUILDINGS
A letter from the Diocese of Greensburg notified parents of Catholic school students Wednesday of its intention to welcome students back to their physical school buildings on a daily basis upon the be...
Jul 29, 2020
LEVINE ADDRESSES “THE PERPETUATORS AND THE PERPETRATORS” OF TRANSPHOBIC ATTACKS
PA Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine responded Tuesday to recent incidents of LGBTQ harassment and transphobia directed at her. Levine, a transgender woman who is leading the state's response to the ...
Jul 29, 2020
BLAIRSVILLE-SALTSBURG SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES HEALTH AND SAFETY PLAN, SUPERINTENDENT RESIGNATION
The Blairsville-Saltsburg School board met last night and approved the edits to the district's Health and Safety plan. The board acknowledged that the documents that cover both the return to school an...
Jul 29, 2020
TODAY IS LAST DAY FOR VOTING FOR LOCAL MAN'S SONG
Today is the last day for people to help a local man get a song into the finals for a national competition. Randy Degenkolb, a host that's part of WDAD's This Sunday Morning and of the county Prothono...
Jul 29, 2020
PA OVERDOSE DEATHS DROP SLIGHTLY
While the state saw a decrease in the number of drug overdose deaths from 2018 to last year, Indiana County saw an increase. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported yesterday that the prelimina...
Jul 29, 2020
THREE THEFTS REPORTED BY STATE POLICE
PSP-INDIANA State Police are looking for someone who stole a robot vacuum cleaner from a home in Clymer Borough. Troopers say that the theft happened between July 24th and 26th at a home on Hancock st...
Jul 29, 2020
TWO CRASHES, CAR FIRE REPORTED BY INDIANA COUNTY 911
Two crashes were reported by Indiana County 911 yesterday. The first was at 8:14 in the morning on Old Mission Road in Brush Valley Township. Brush Valley Fire Department, State Police and Citizens' A...
Jul 29, 2020
FIRST COMMONWEALTH TO REDUCE NUMBER OF BANK BRANCHES
Indiana-based First Commonwealth Bank announced yesterday that it will be closing approximately 20 percent of its branch locations, in a move that it expects will position it for future growth and inc...
Jul 29, 2020
INDIANA COUNTY MAKES ANOTHER DOUBLE-DIGIT JUMP IN REPORTED COVID-19 CASES
Reported cases of Covid-19 in Indiana County jumped by double digits for the third time in four days, as 11 new cases were reported since noon on Monday. The county total now stands at 218 cases since...
Jul 28, 2020
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