Category Archives: Local News

POLICE REPORTS: WIRE FRAUD, DEATH INVESTIGATION
PSP-INDIANA State police are investigating a case of wire fraud in West Wheatfield Township. Police say that a woman from Blairsville had a $388 transaction made on her bank card from Your Keyless tha...
Hometown2 Jan 31, 2020

ONE PERSON SENT TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER CRASH IN CENTER TOWNSHIP
One person was taken to Indiana Regional Medical Center after a crash on Thursday night in Center Township. Indiana County 911 reported the crash at 5:25 PM on Route 119 South. Officials with Homer Ci...
Hometown2 Jan 31, 2020

FATHER CHARGED AFTER FOUR-YEAR-OLD WANDERS AWAY FROM HOME
A Blairsville man was charged yesterday with felony endangering the welfare of children and misdemeanor recklessly endangering another person when his four-year-old daughter was found by a neighbor st...
Hometown1 Jan 31, 2020

POLICE SEEK PUBLIC'S HELP IDENTIFYING WALMART THEFT SUSPECTS
State police are investigating two suspected shoplifting incidents at the White Township Walmart, and have issued surveillance images of the suspects in the hope that the public might help identify th...
Hometown1 Jan 31, 2020

TWO CHARGED WITH DRUG POSSESSION FROM TRAFFIC STOP NEAR SHELOCTA
Two people now face charges of drug possession following a traffic stop in Armstrong Township. State Police say that on January 29th at 12:22 PM, a trooper from the Indiana barracks pulled over an SUV...
Hometown2 Jan 30, 2020

IUP ANNOUNCES DATE FOR KOPCHICK HALL GROUNDBREAKING
IUP has announced the date for the groundbreaking for their new math and science building. The university has announced that groundbreaking ceremonies for the John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natu...
Hometown2 Jan 30, 2020

ONE INJURED IN CLYMER ACCIDENT
One person reportedly suffered minor injuries in a two-vehicle crash last night at the intersection of Penn and Adams streets in Clymer. It happened at 11:30 PM and a 31-year-old Clymer man was arrest...
Hometown1 Jan 30, 2020

BRADY: DRUG LAW'S EXTENSION IS KEY
U.S. Attorney Scott Brady says the House's passage yesterday of a fifteen-month extension for the emergency scheduling of fentanyl analogues re-arms his office for the ongoing war on opioids. Brady wr...
Hometown1 Jan 30, 2020

$10.7 MILLION PENNVEST GRANT AWARDED FOR WATER LINE EXPANSION PROJECT IN NORTHERN INDIANA COUNTY
The Indiana County Municipal Services Authority was awarded a large grant from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority for a water line expansion project in Northern Indiana County. The $...
Hometown2 Jan 29, 2020

COMMISSIONERS APPROVE GRANT FOR AIRPORT MASTER PLAN STUDY
The Indiana County Commissioners today approved a grant that will help the Jimmy Stewart Airport with a master plan study. The federal grant will help the airport complete the study. The airport has n...
Hometown2 Jan 29, 2020












