Category Archives: Local News

POLICE REPORT CRASHES IN WHITE TOWNSHIP, CLYMER, AND PINE TOWNSHIP
WHITE TOWNSHIP One person suffered minor injuries yesterday afternoon in a collision at the intersection of Indian Springs Road and Oakland Avenue in White Township. State police say an SUV driven by ...
Hometown1 May 04, 2020

MOTIONS HEARING TODAY FOR SHOOTING SUSPECT LIBENGOOD
There is a motions hearing scheduled today for Justin Libengood, the Latrobe man charged with trying to rob another man during a drug transaction, resulting in gunfire last July at the Days Inn in Bur...
Hometown1 May 04, 2020

SALTSBURG-AREA HOUSE DAMAGED WHEN SHED CATCHES FIRE
No one was injured but a house was damaged when a nearby shed caught fire early Sunday in Loyalhanna Township, Westmoreland County. Saltsburg, Tunnelton, and Blairsville firefighters responded at 1:30...
Hometown1 May 04, 2020

HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORTS SMALL INCREASE IN POSITIVE COVID-19 CASES IN INDIANA COUNTY
The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported today that the number of positive Covid-19 cases in Indiana County increased to 69 after holding at 63 for a couple of day, while the number of Indiana C...
Renda Media May 03, 2020

LAWMAKERS SEEKING ANSWERS FROM WOLF
The chorus of voices demanding that Governor Wolf open Indiana County and others with relatively low Covid-19 infections continues to grow louder. State Senator Joe Pittman calls Wolf's decision to ke...
Hometown1 May 03, 2020

GAME COMMISSION SEEKS INFO ON FATALLY INJURED OSPREY
The state Game Commission continues to investigate how an osprey was fatally injured in Blacklick Township last week. The bird was found in a field Tuesday with a severely injured leg and later had to...
Hometown1 May 03, 2020

911 CALLS INCLUDE GAS LEAK, ACCIDENT, AND FIRE
Indiana County 911 has been relatively quiet in the last twenty-four hours. Indiana firefighters were dispatched for a gas leak on North Ben Franklin Road in White Township yesterday afternoon. Clymer...
Hometown1 May 03, 2020

STRUZZI, PITTMAN NOT HAPPY WITH GOVERNOR'S LIST OF COUNTIES TO HAVE COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
On Friday, Governor Tom Wolf announced a list of 24 counties that would be ready to re-open. Under the Governor's color-coded plan, the counties of Bradford, Cameron, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Clin...
Hometown2 May 02, 2020

INDIANA MAN CHARGED WITH DRUG-RELATED CRIMES
An Indiana man was arrested by state police and charged with drug-related crimes. Troopers say that they executed a search warrant on April 29th at a home on East Pike Road in White Township where the...
Hometown2 May 02, 2020

POLICE REPORTS: THEFT, THEFT BY DECEPTION
PSP-INDIANA State Police are investigating a theft in East Wheatfield Township where someone stole $1900 worth of items. Troopers say that the theft happened between March 15th and April 21st at a pro...
Hometown2 May 02, 2020










