Category Archives: Local News

$10,000 IN REWARDS OFFERED FOR INFORMATION ON NORTHERN INDIANA COUNTY FIRES
State Police yesterday announced that a combined $10,000 in reward money has been offered for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person or persons responsible for eight suspic...
Hometown1 Jun 11, 2019

POLICE REPORTS: HARASSMENT, ONE-VEHICLE CRASH
PSP-INDIANA State Police have charged two Indiana County residents for their involvement in a harassment case on Saturday. Troopers say that they were called out for a reported domestic issue between ...
Hometown2 Jun 10, 2019

PITTMAN TO TAKE OATH OF OFFICE TODAY
He becomes a Pennsylvania state senator today, but it will be with a heavy heart that Joe Pittman takes the oath of office in Harrisburg this afternoon. One of his staff members, a former campaign wor...
Hometown1 Jun 10, 2019

INDIANA, PURCHASE LINE BOARDS TO MEET TONIGHT
A couple of Indiana County school boards are scheduled to meet tonight, including Indiana Area, which has an agenda full of preparatory items for the next school year. That agenda includes the applyin...
Hometown1 Jun 10, 2019

REVEREND LECHNAR TO BE TRANSFERRED TO KITTANNING PARISH
The Greensburg Catholic Diocese has not officially announced its latest round of priest reassignments, but Father Willie Lechnar informed his congregation at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Kent th...
Hometown1 Jun 10, 2019

APSCUF/STATE SYSTEM COACHES CONTRACT TALKS RESUME
With their contract set to expire June 30th, the negotiators for the State System of Higher Education and coaches at the state-owned universities last week exchanged proposals for a new deal. Contract...
Hometown1 Jun 10, 2019

JURY FINDS SALTSBURG MAN NOT GUILTY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
A Saltsburg man has been found not guilty on all charges after having been accused of the sexual assault of a then-15-year-old boy in 2016. 29-year-old Michael Snyder was acquitted on all five counts ...
Hometown1 Jun 09, 2019

21-YEAR OLD IUP STUDENT, PITTMAN STAFFER KILLED IN ARMSTRONG COUNTY CRASH
An IUP student who worked for State Senator-elect Joe Pittman died Friday in a single-vehicle accident in East Franklin Township, Armstrong County. 21-year-old Brian Henry Swatt's body was found in hi...
Renda Media Jun 08, 2019

CORAL, GRACETON WATER SERVICE TO BE IMPACTED BY CONSTRUCTION TUESDAY
The Central Indiana County Water Authority says customers in the Coral and Graceton service areas will be without water for most of this coming Tuesday due to the ongoing waterline construction projec...
Renda Media Jun 08, 2019

NUMEROUS SENTENCES HANDED DOWN IN INDIANA COUNTY COURT
Friday's Criminal Call sheet in Indiana County Court contained more than four dozen cases up for review, and numerous defendants decided to plead their cases and be sentenced. President Judge William ...
Renda Media Jun 07, 2019












