Category Archives: Local News

POLICE REPORTS: RESISTING ARREST, HIT-AND-RUN
INDIANA BOROUGH POLICE An Indiana man is charged with resisting arrest, evading arrest and disorderly conduct for an incident at a convenience store in Indiana Borough on September 24th. Indiana Borou...
Hometown2 Oct 04, 2023

NATIONWIDE CELL PHONE ALERT SYSTEM TEST TO BE HELD TODAY
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will conduct a simultaneous test of the Emergency Alert System and the system that sends emergency messages to cell phones across the United States. Both tests ...
Hometown2 Oct 04, 2023

PA HOUSE PASSES TAX CODE BILL
The State House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a tax code bill that has some significant changes to it. Some of the changes include the acceleration of corporate tax rate cuts and an increase in...
Hometown2 Oct 04, 2023

COMPANY BEHIND CENTER TWP BIODIGESTER PLANT HAS ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS
The company behind a new biodigester facility that is going in to the Route 119 Business Park in Center Township does have some environmental violations on its record. Most recently in November of 201...
Hometown2 Oct 04, 2023

INDIANA BOROUGH COUNCIL HEARS UPDATE ON BOROUGH BUILDING UPGRADE PLANS
On Tuesday night, the Indiana Borough Council heard an update on the plans to update the George E. Hood borough building. The design process has been going on for the last nine months to upgrade the H...
Hometown2 Oct 03, 2023

INDIANA BOROUGH COUNCIL MEMBER FOUND GUILTY OF SUMMARY HARASSMENT
A member of Indiana Borough Council was in a summary trial yesterday in Indiana County District Court. During a summary hearing at District Judge Guy Haberl's court, Suphavadi "Poom" Sunhachawi-Taylor...
Hometown2 Oct 03, 2023

MAN FACES CHARGES CONNECTED WITH THREAT INVOLVING IRMC
State police on Monday investigated a threat that involved the Indiana Regional Medical Center earlier this week. Troopers say yesterday, they investigated a report of a man from Armstrong Township th...
Hometown2 Oct 03, 2023

MAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH ROAD RAGE INCIDENT
Police in Indiana Borough have arrested a Baltimore man after a road rage incident reported Monday. Officers say 24-year-old Miles Mateo Eggleston-Baxter and an identified victim were involved in a ne...
Hometown2 Oct 03, 2023

LEWIS SENTENCED IN FIVE CASES ON MONDAY
An Indiana man was sentenced in five different cases on Monday. 39-year-old Dennis Lewis, Jr. was ordered to serve up to a day less than two years in the Indiana County Jail along with probation time ...
Hometown2 Oct 03, 2023

FIRST RESPONDERS BUSY YESTERDAY, EARLY THIS MORNING
First responders were busy on Monday and early this morning. A vehicle accident was reported by Indiana County 911 at 2:19 PM. Rossiter fire department, state police and Punxsutawney EMS were dispatch...
Hometown2 Oct 03, 2023












