Category Archives: Local News

Phyllis L. Rainey, 86, Indiana, died Monday, February 19, 2018, while at the Beacon Ridge Nursing Center. The daughter of Wilbert and Wilhelmina (McMasters) Rainey, she was born August 18, 1931, in Nu...

Olga Rose (Skapura) Lipsie, 93, of Forest Hills, PA, formerly of Blairsville, passed away on Monday, February 12, 2018 in the William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, Dallas, TX. The daughter of A...

Ellen Grace (Lewis) Barnhart, 80, of Blairsville, PA (Derry Twp.) passed away on Monday, February 19, 2018 in the Indiana Regional Medical Center, Indiana, PA. The daughter of Norman B. and Grace M. (...

The Blairsville council approved a payment on a local demolition contract at Tuesday night’s meeting. And, two county fire departments may be joining forces. Ab Dettorre of the Blairsville Counc...

Indiana County District Attorney Pat Dougherty has a deadline today to file a brief in support of his appeal in the Brady DiStefano case. Dougherty is appealing Judge William Martin's decision to drop...

Jury selection is scheduled today in Indiana County Court for a drug trial involving 34-year-old Vincent Lamar Jackson of Euclid, Ohio. He was taken into custody last August as police were serving a w...

The State Supreme Court yesterday imposed a new congressional district map, wiping out the one that it had previously ruled as being gerrymandered in favor of Republicans. But House Majority Leader Da...

Mary (Lupyan) Sracic, 92, formerly of Blairsville, PA, went home to be with her Lord on Saturday, February 17, 2018 in Homewood at Martinsburg, Martinsburg, PA. The daughter of George and Mary (Polly)...

PSP-INDIANA State Police have charged a woman with harassment in White Township. Police say the incident happened on Saturday, at 3:25 in the morning at a home on on Millay Circle in White Township. D...

The faculty union at IUP and the thirteen other state-owned universities held its legislative assembly last week, officially signing the one-year contract recently ratified by the state and laying out...