Category Archives: Local News

IUP has named a new registrar. She is Jennifer Fedele of Murrysville, who comes to IUP after serving in the same post at Point Park University since 2003. Fedele has also worked in administrative posi...

State police nabbed a suspected drug dealer last Saturday during a traffic stop in Burrell Township, at the western base of Penn View Mountain. A trooper on patrol pulled over a car for multiple vehic...

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission has awarded almost $2 million in grants to 141 museums and official county historical societies from 57 Pennsylvania counties, including funds direc...

As always, buying a gallon of gas in Pennsylvania costs more than anywhere else, but at least it’s holding steady. Triple A East Central’s weekly Gas Price Report puts the price of a gallo...

In Blair County Court yesterday, a Homer City man was sentenced to serve five years probation for a fatal accident on Interstate 99 near the Bald Eagle exit in May of 2015. 41-year-old Dean Rowland Jr...

An annual report from the state Liquor Control Board shows western Pennsylvania teenagers are more likely to drink heavily than teens in other parts of the state, and Indiana County teens are much mor...

In Westmoreland County Court yesterday, 56-year-old William Wano of Derry pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and tampering with evidence in a plea bargain which allows him to avoid prison time. Cha...

A former Maryland man is awaiting extradition after his arrest yesterday on a warrant from Maryland. Indiana Borough police say 20-year-old Jamar Lamont Brown went to the police station on North 8th S...

Former IUP basketball star Yancey Taylor has been accused of trying to scam a 69-year-old Lancaster County woman out of about $159,000 to feed his gambling habit. State Attorney General Josh Shapiro c...

A 16-year-old girl was flown by medical helicopter from an accident scene involving an Indiana Area School District bus yesterday afternoon on Rustic Lodge Road in Center Township. State police say th...