Category Archives: Local News

INDIANA BOROUGH COUNCIL APPROVES 2020 BUDGET
Indiana Borough Council met last night and approved their 2020 budget that will hold the line on taxes for residents. Indiana Borough will keep taxes the same with 5.66 mils levied and assessed for ea...
Hometown2 Dec 04, 2019

INDIANA SCHOOL BOARD REORGANIZES, APPROVES FACILITY AGREEMENT WITH WHITE TOWNSHIP
The Indiana School Board met last night for a reorganization meeting and their regular monthly meeting. The board welcomed Cinda Brode and Tamie Blank as the board's newest members during the reorgani...
Hometown2 Dec 04, 2019

CENTER TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS WRAP UP PAVING FOR YEAR
Center Township Supervisors met yesterday and they announced that paving is done for the year for the township's road crews. During last night's meeting, Supervisors president Dave Smyers said that th...
Hometown2 Dec 04, 2019

COURT DOCUMENTS IN WEISS CASE FORWARDED TO SUPERIOR COURT
The State Superior Court received four boxes of documents Monday for its consideration of the appeal of Ronald Lee Weiss, the former Shelocta man who is trying to avoid a retrial for the 1978 murder o...
Hometown1 Dec 04, 2019

CRIME SPREE SUSPECT DILTS IN CUSTODY AT COUNTY JAIL
The state police manhunt for 36-year-old David Paul Dilts of Penn Run ended quietly yesterday afternoon when he was taken into custody without incident while walking along Twolick Drive in White Towns...
Hometown1 Dec 04, 2019

INDIANA BOROUGH POLICE SEARCH FOR THEFT SUSPECT
Indiana Borough Police are investigating a couple of thefts on separate dates, involving the same victim and the same thief. Police say the victim reported that the thefts occurred on the night...
Hometown1 Dec 04, 2019

FOUR APPREHENDED TODAY ON STATE POLICE "FIVE MOST WANTED LIST" FOR DECEMBER
UPDATED: From the Pennsylvania State Police in Indiana today ... We are pleased to report that four of the five individuals listed on the December 2, 2019 Troop A, Indiana "Five Most Wanted" poster we...
Hometown2 Dec 03, 2019

CONVICTED MURDERER EDMUNDSON LOSES AGAIN IN APPEALS COURT
A three-judge Commonwealth Court panel has rejected an appeal by convicted murderer Jack Edmundson Jr., who was seeking the return of $18,733 and other assets seized in the investigation of the killin...
Hometown1 Dec 03, 2019

CRIME REPORTS INCLUDE BURGLARIES, DOG INCIDENT
State police crime reports today include a break-in at the Black Leggs trout nursery sometime between November 22nd and 24th. The burglar forced entry into the shed at Hans Road and Dixon Road and sto...
Hometown1 Dec 03, 2019

WEATHER FINALLY STOPS RUDOLPH (TEMPORARILY)
Rudolph may have been able to get Santa Claus through some pretty tough weather one Christmas Eve long ago, but the winter storms across the region have proven a bit much even for him. Tonight's prese...
Hometown1 Dec 03, 2019










