Category Archives: Local News

TERRION GATES TO HAVE POST-SENTENCE MOTION HEARING
UPDATE: A man convicted of first degree murder in a fatal shooting near IUP campus in 2020 was back in Indiana County Court today to try to get his conviction set aside. During the post-sentence heari...
Hometown2 Apr 25, 2025

ONE OF THREE CHARGED WITH ANIMAL CRUELTY TO ENTER PLEA TODAY
Plea and sentencing hearings are on the schedule today for Indiana County Court, including one for a man charged with animal cruelty. Zachary Tyler Yeager of Homer City is charged with aggravated crue...
Hometown2 Apr 25, 2025

INDIANA, 60 OTHER COUNTIES AT HIGH RISK OF WILDFIRE
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources says that most of the Commonwealth is currently at risk of a wildfire, including Indiana and the surrounding counties. According to th...
Hometown2 Apr 25, 2025

RELIANT HOLDINGS CASE DROPPED BY FEDERAL CONSUMER PROTECTION BUREAU
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped its case against White Township-based Reliant Holdings. The case was ended "with prejudice", meaning not only the case is over, but the bur...
Hometown2 Apr 25, 2025

GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE ARSON SUSPECT RELOCATED
The suspect in the arson at the Pennsylvania Governor's Residence is being relocated to a prison with a psychiatric facility. Officials said Cody Balmer was moved Thursday to SCI Waymart, a facility t...
Hometown2 Apr 25, 2025

INDIANA BOROUGH, PENNDOT, POLICE TAKE TOUR OF DOWNTOWN INDIANA INTERSECTIONS
Representatives of Indiana Borough, the local police and PennDOT were on a walking tour of some Downtown Indiana intersections today. The meeting was prompted by the collision on March 11th that kille...
Hometown2 Apr 24, 2025

IUP GRADS EARN HIGHER SALARIES ACCORDING TO EXPERTS
IUP graduates earn higher salaries than their peers, according to the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council on Education University President Micheal Driscoll talks about what the "Opportunity ...
Hometown4 Apr 24, 2025

ONE PERSON DISPLACED BY HOUSE FIRE IN CLYMER
Four fire departments were on the scene of a fire yesterday at a home in Clymer Borough. Indiana County 911 sent the Clymer, Commodore and Cherryhill Township fire departments along with RIT teams fro...
Hometown2 Apr 24, 2025

MOTIONS HEARINGS SET FOR TODAY
A motions hearing is set for today for a Glen Campbell man charged with sexual assault. The hearing today for 44-year-old Andrew John Komlosky, Jr. concerns a motion to have him released to house arre...
Hometown2 Apr 24, 2025

FORMER VANDERGRIFT POLICEMAN, HOMER-CENTER SECURITY OFFICER WAIVES HEARING
A Vandergrift man who was a former policeman and security officer in the Homer-Center School District waived his preliminary hearing in court earlier this week. Troopers charged 59-year-old Anthony De...
Hometown2 Apr 24, 2025

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