Category Archives: Local News

The College Board yesterday released its 8th Annual AP District Honor Roll, recognizing school districts for increasing access to Advanced Placement courses while maintaining or improving the rate of ...

Joanne Adele (Sabo) Frenchik, 80, of Blairsville, PA (Brenizer) passed away on Monday, January 8, 2018 at her home. The daughter of Anthony Joseph and Jean Edith (Chiesa) Sabo, she was born May 22, 19...

Two people were rescued and everyone else was evacuated safely as the apartments above Fox’s Pizza Den in Blairsville caught fire this morning. Fire crews were called to the scene shortly before...

Fire crews continue to battle a blaze in downtown Blairsville. Fourteen fire companies from across the region were summoned at about five o’clock this morning to the Fox’s Pizza building a...

Indiana County Judge Thomas Bianco has denied a defense motion for additional discovery in the Justin Stevenson murder case. The 20-year-old Stevenson and 19-year-old Nathan Price are charged with kil...

State Superior Court now has the court records in District Attorney Pat Dougherty's appeal of the dismissal of a homicide case against Brady Distefano, a former IUP student originally charged in the d...

In Westmoreland County, a Fairfield Township man already in jail for allegedly stealing an ATV has been charged with setting fire to a vacant mobile home in West Bolivar. 35-year-old Charles McCurdy J...

Ruth B. Varner, 92, of Indiana, passed away Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, at her home. A daughter of the late Frederick T. and Mary Elizabeth Keener Byers, she was born Jan. 13, 1925, in Johnstown. Mrs. Var...

Jeremy Guy Davis, 8, Indiana, died Sunday, January 7, 2018. The son of Daniel Baer Jr. and Tracy Lynn Davis, he was born December 28, 2009 in Indiana, PA Jeremy attended the Alpha School and enjoyed p...

Connie Eileen Davis-Shields, 60, Clymer, died Sunday, January 7, 2018. The daughter of Mary Davis Gearhart, she was born January 5, 1958 in Indiana, PA. Connie was a 1975 graduate of Purchase Line Hig...