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By Sean Sauro
ssauro@altoonamirror.

An Altoona man faces felony charges after state police say he fled the scene of a fatal crash.
Cody L. Oblinger, 22, of 8 Cricket Club Lane was arrested Saturday afternoon about 3 p.m.

UPMC Altoona on Monday dedicated a playroom for children.
The event transformed a fair percentage of hospital employees into children themselves.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Witnesses told a Blair County jury on Monday that they heard the gunshots and saw Jorge Luis "Macho" Gomez III holding a handgun on the night of an Altoona party in May 2015 where 28-year-old Kai "Castro" Carter was shot before he...

Amtran has received an $864,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration, which in tandem with a new tentative commitment for additional funding from PennDOT should allow Amtran to buy six new compressed natural gas buses.

Most evenings, one could walk down the middle of 11th Avenue and only occasionally veer to the side to avoid a car.
On Sunday, one could walk down 11th only by veering constantly - to avoid the foot traffic.

TYRONE - Larrie Derman has lived in Tyrone for all his 76 years - and he's spent 58 of them helping its residents say goodbye to their loved ones.

Oftentimes, the first public notice was a newspaper article: A local serviceman was missing overseas, his fate unknown.
For some, good news would arrive quickly - perhaps that he would live out the war, captured but alive, in an enemy prison camp.

Early in his talk Sunday at a 9/11 memorial event in Altoona, Gordon Felt asked about 1,000 people in attendance what they knew about Aug. 24, 1814.

Amtran has received an $864,000 grant from the Federal Transit Administration, which in tandem with a new tentative commitment for additional funding from PennDOT should allow Amtran to buy six new compressed natural gas buses.