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Besides changing your clocks this weekend the state fire commissioner’s office is urging you to do something else. Acting State Fire Commissioner Bruce Trego says in addition to changing their c...

Michele Lynn Kelly, 47, Homer City died Thursday, March 8, 2018 at Indiana Regional Medical Center. She was the daughter of Roger and Cheri (Harvey) Finotti and was born May 20, 1970 in Indiana. Miche...

State Police are looking for the public to provide information on a theft that happened in late February at the Blairsville Wal-Mart. Police say that an unknown person entered the Wal-Mart on Route 22...

31-year-old Clayton Mibroda of Bolivar is scheduled for an evidentiary hearing in Westmoreland County Court today, as he seeks to overturn his conviction for killing his 20-day-old daughter in 2011. M...

UPDATE: The hearing has been continued. No word yet on when the new hearing will take place. WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED For more than a year, and for most of the last three years, 39-year-old Todd W...

UPDATE: Samuel Zvara was sentenced to 150 days to 1 year in Indiana County Jail, but was promptly paroled from jail time. He still must serve three years probation. Michael Shawn Bernd was sentenced t...

David Paul Barr, 70, of Clymer, passed away Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at UPMC Shadyside. A son of the late Robert C. and Cora Aileen Young Barr, he was born Jan. 30, 1948, in Indiana. Mr. Barr was a gra...

Bill Kelly, 84 of Homer City, died Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at Scenery Hill Manor, Indiana. Born in Indiana, July 23, 1933, he was the son of the late, Kenneth W. Kelly and Bertha (Wagner) Kelly. He w...

Lydia Elnora (McAdoo) Rothrock, 58, Homer City died March 7, 2018 at Mercy Hospital Pittsburgh. She was the daughter of the late William and Elsie (Gardner) McAdoo and was born June 2, 1959 in Indiana...

The Budget hearings continue in Harrisburg, and yesterday, the focus of the state house budget hearings was on the state police. While some of the topics included the state-wide radio system proposal,...