Category Archives: Local News

PROPOSED BILL TO MAKE PARENTS MORE ACCOUNTABLE FOR SCHOOL BULLYING
A bill under consideration in the state House would make parents of school bullies more accountable for their kids' actions. Representative Frank Burns's House Bill 1778, titled the "Pennsylvania Anti...
Hometown2 Oct 31, 2023

TRICK-OR-TREATING TO BE HELD IN A HANDFUL OF COMMUNITIES TONIGHT
Many communities celebrated Halloween over the weekend, and there will be more celebrations tonight. For Homer City and Center Township residents, a Halloween parade will be held at 5:30 tonight, foll...
Hometown2 Oct 31, 2023

MORE DETAILS RELEASED ON OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING SUNDAY NIGHT AT IUP
Charges have been filed against the suspect in an officer-involved shooting that happened last night on IUP's campus. Court documents show 19-year-old Cameron Held Raubaugh of Pittsburgh is facing cha...
Hometown2 Oct 30, 2023

NO ONE HURT IN OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING NEAR IUP
Pennsylvania State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened Sunday evening near IUP. Troopers say an officer with IUP's Department of Public Safety and University Police was...
Renda Media Oct 30, 2023

FIRST RESPONDERS CALLED OUT FOR VEHICLE CRASH, CO ALARMS
Only four emergency calls were reported on Sunday. Indiana County 911 reported the first call was a Carbon Monoxide Alarm activation on Getty Avenue in White Township. Indiana Fire Association was cal...
Hometown2 Oct 30, 2023

MAN CHARGED IN JANUARY FATAL CRASH TO BE SENTENCED TODAY
A sentencing hearing will be held in Indiana County Court today for a man charged with killing someone in a vehicle accident in January of this year. Court documents show that a sentencing hearing is ...
Hometown2 Oct 30, 2023

IUP ANNOUNCES OPENING OF "COMMON GOODS" POPUP AT INDIANA THEATER
IUP has announced that their 3D Design and Digital Fabircation class will open their "Common Goods" popup store, this time in the ticket booth of the Indiana Theater building. The Common Goods items s...
Hometown2 Oct 30, 2023

MOTORCYCLIST KILLED IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY
A Westmoreland County motorcyclist was killed in an accident early yesterday in Derry Township. 35-year-old James A. Trice III, who lived in Derry Township, crashed his Harley Davidson shortly after 1...
Hometown1 Oct 29, 2023

DEFENDANT ADVOCACY GROUP JOINS WEISS TEAM
For the first time in more than a year, there has been some movement in the murder trial of Ronald Weiss, the now-75-year-old man found guilty in 1997 of the 1979 murder of 16-year-old Barbara Bruzda ...
Hometown1 Oct 29, 2023

DEADLINE APPROACHES FOR MAIL-IN BALLOTS
Another election deadline is approaching this week. Registered voters have until the end of business at five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon to apply to vote by mail. There are two types of ballots with ...
Hometown1 Oct 29, 2023












