Category Archives: Local News

Potential candidates for Congressman Bill Shuster's 9th District seat continue to jockey for position as the first benchmark of the campaign season approaches. February 13th is the first date on which...

WHITE TOWNSHIP State police have not released any details on an investigation of the alleged indecent assault of a 4-year-old girl in White Township. Police say only that the incidents occurred betwee...

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...