Category Archives: Local News

ONE PERSON DIED IN HOUSE FIRE NEAR MARION CENTER FRIDAY MORNING
One person has died in a house fire in the Marion Center area this morning. Members of the Marion Center, Indiana, Plumville, and Clymer Fire departments along with the county's rapid intervention tea...
Apr 05, 2019

LAWYERS IN HIGH PROFILE CASES HAVE ASKED FOR CRIMINAL CALL HEARINGS TO BE POSTPONED
At criminal call this morning at the Indiana County Courthouse, attorneys for Nathaniel Price and Brady DiStefano have requested that their respective hearings be delayed. No word yet if the judge has...
Apr 05, 2019

TWO ARRESTED IN INDIANA BOROUGH ON DRUG CHARGES AFTER TRAFFIC STOP
Indiana Borough Police have arrested an Indiana man and a Wilkinsburg man on drug-related charges. Police say that around 10:01 AM on Thursday, Indiana Borough police along with the State Police took ...
Apr 05, 2019

POLICE SEEKING IDENTIFICATION OF THIEF AT BLAIRSVILLE WALMART
State police have released pictures related to another theft at an area Wal-Mart. This time, the theft was reported at the Wal-Mart in Burrell Township. Troopers say back on March 19th, Emily McKee of...
Apr 05, 2019

INTERNET SAFETY COURSE TO BE HELD AT IUP FOR FAMILIES
IUP's criminology department will host the first Digital Families Community Workshop today at the university's Humanities and Social Sciences building. Five IUP Criminology Doctoral Students will pres...
Apr 05, 2019 Yuri Samoilov / CC

STATE POLICE IDENTIFY THIEF IN RECENT INCIDENT AT WALMART IN INDIANA
State police have identified the man in the Penguins jersey who stole a bunch of items from the White Township Walmart store on March 25th. A single felony count of retail theft was filed against 30-y...
Apr 05, 2019

STATE SYSTEM BOARD OF GOVERNORS APPROVE NEW TUITION MODEL
The Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education yesterday approved a new tuition model that allows each university to craft their own tuition plans. Each university's plan will require ...
Apr 05, 2019

CRIMINAL CALL LIST INCLUDES PRICE, DiSTEFANO CASES
There is an extensive Criminal Call sheet for Indiana County Court today, with more than six dozen cases scheduled for judicial review. Two of them involve high-profile crimes in which the victims wer...
Apr 05, 2019

CRIME REPORTS: SEXTING, THEFT, DRUGS, OPEN LEWDNESS
WHITE TOWNSHIP State police have filed charges against a 15-year-old girl for sending sexually-explicit images to a 16-year-old boy, and the boy has been charged for sending the images to others. The ...
Apr 05, 2019

GRANT TOWNSHIP ORDERED TO PAY PORTION OF GAS COMPANY'S LEGAL FEES
Grant Township has been ordered by a federal judge to pay Pennsylvania General Energy Company almost $103,000 in legal fees incurred when the gas company sued to challenge the constitutionality of the...
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