Category Archives: Local News
GAS WELL "PRESSURE ANOMALY" LEADS TO MORE TESTING AT RESERVOIR
After a gas well lost pressure last month at the Beaver Run Reservoir, CNX Resources has suspended fracking operations at the well and the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County asked the IUP stud...
Feb 05, 2019
RUDDOCK, BAKER DECIDE NOT TO RUN AGAIN FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
The two Republican members of the Indiana County Board of Commissioners have announced that they will not run for re-election. Five-term Commissioner Rodney Ruddock says he will retire from office. He...
Feb 04, 2019
STRUZZI'S HOUSE SCHEDULE INCLUDES TWO COMMITTEE MEETINGS
It's down to business for the state legislature in Harrisburg today, with a busy schedule. That means the first committee meetings for new State Representative Jim Struzzi. Two of the committees of wh...
Feb 04, 2019
SHELOCTA WOMAN ACCUSED OF SHOOTING AT FAMILY MEMBERS
A Shelocta woman ended up in the Armstrong County Jail Saturday night after a shooting at a home along Hemlock Road in South Ben Township. State police were dispatched to a report of shots fired just ...
Feb 04, 2019
MEN KILLED IN MURDER-SUICIDE IDENTIFIED
State police have identified the two men killed in a murder-suicide over the weekend in Apollo. It happened in the early morning hours on Saturday at a home in the 500 block of Terrace Avenue. Police ...
Feb 04, 2019
TWO DEAD IN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE
Autopsies are scheduled for today on the bodies of two men killed yesterday morning in a murder-suicide in the 500 block of Terrace Avenue in Apollo. State police say a 33-year-old man and a 25-year-o...
Feb 03, 2019
PASSENGER KILLED IN ROUTE 22 CRASH
A 59-year-old Pittsburgh woman was killed yesterday in a single-vehicle crash on Route 22 in Derry Township. Police say Mary Mastriano was a passenger in a westbound minivan which left the road, hit a...
Feb 03, 2019
CHIEF SUTTON STEPS DOWN, NEW CHIEF SCHAWL SWORN IN
Yesterday was the official change in command for the Indiana Borough Police Department as one police chief officially stepped down and a new one was sworn in to office. Yesterday, Indiana Borough Poli...
Feb 02, 2019
MAN ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT, MARIJUANA GROWING
State police have arrested a Shelocta man on charges of domestic violence and marijuana growing. Police say that the incident happened on January 19th at a home in the 1000 block of Route 156 in Shelo...
Feb 02, 2019
PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL MAKES PREDICTION FOR REST OF WINTER
The eyes of the world fell this morning on Punxsutawney in nearby Jefferson County this morning as Groundhog Day celebrations were held at Gobbler's Knob. Around 7:30 AM, just after dawn, Phil gave hi...
Feb 02, 2019
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