Category Archives: Local News

STRING OF AUTO ACCIDENTS REPORTED AS SNOW HITS AREA THURSDAY
As the snow started to hit the area yesterday, emergency crews were called out to four reported vehicle accidents. The string of crashes started at 5:17 PM with a crash on Route 553 in Pine Township, ...
Hometown2 Jan 17, 2020

"IT'S ON US PA" SEXUAL ASSAULT GRANTS BENEFIT IUP, OTHER SCHOOLS
The state yesterday announced nearly one million dollars in grants to combat campus sexual assault at thirty-six colleges and universities, including IUP. "It's On Us PA" was established four y...
Hometown1 Jan 17, 2020

STATE SYSTEM, APSCUF SIGN FACULTY CONTRACT
State System of Higher Education Board of Governors Chair Cynthia Shapira and Dr. Kenneth Mash, the president of APSCUF, the faculty union at the state-owned universities, yesterday signed a new four-...
Hometown1 Jan 17, 2020

JOSEPHINE'S NAMED BEST PIZZA IN REGION IN POST-GAZETTE REVIEW
An Indiana pizza restaurant was recently named one of the best in the region. In today's edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of their staffers proclaimed that Indiana-based Josephine's Pizzari...
Hometown2 Jan 16, 2020

GREENSTEIN SAYS STATE SYSTEM IS AT A TURNING POINT
Chancellor Dan Greenstein told the Board of Governors yesterday that State System of Higher Education is "at a turning point" in deciding the course of public higher education in Pennsylvania. ...
Hometown1 Jan 16, 2020

SUPERIOR COURT KEEPS WEISS APPEAL ALIVE
The State Superior Court has ruled that Ronald Weiss's appeal may go forward, as he seeks to reverse Indiana County Judge Thomas Bianco's rejection of a motion to dismiss Weiss's murder case. I...
Hometown1 Jan 16, 2020

INDIANA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS APPROVE CDBG CONTRACT MODIFICATION
The Indiana County Commissioners on Wednesday approved a contract modification for the 2018 Community Development Block Grant Funding for Burrell Township. The modification will remove phase one of th...
Hometown2 Jan 15, 2020

THREAT AGAINST INDIANA SENIOR HIGH INVESTIGATED, PROVED TO BE UNFOUNDED
The Indiana Senior High School is in session this morning after a threat was received by the district last night. According to a news release from the Indiana School District, they received an anonymo...
Hometown2 Jan 15, 2020

NO ONE HURT IN CRASH INVOLVING INDIANA SCHOOL BUS THIS MORNING
No one was injured and no students were on board a school bus involved in a crash this morning at the intersection of Fourth and Philadelphia Streets in Indiana Borough. Few details have been released...
Hometown2 Jan 15, 2020

COURT ACTION TODAY INCLUDES MOTIONS HEARINGS, PLEA COURT
Three motions hearings for 19-year-old arson defendant Dylan Dalessio are still listed on today's Indiana County Court schedule, but they are not likely to happen. Judge Thomas Bianco last week grante...
Hometown1 Jan 15, 2020

Konnor Griffin
Konnor Griffin is a Bucco! Are you going to go watch him play?
You bet! He's going to put them in the playoffs!
Sure will, but he's not going to make them much better.
Maybe a few games, but he's going to struggle.
Nope! The Pirates have been too bad for too long.
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