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Pennsylvania is on course to have four attorney generals in five months, with the state Senate likely to vote soon on a replacement for interim Attorney General Bruce Castor.

Blair County

Altoona Area
Aug. 29: First day, grades 1-12
Aug. 31: First day, kindergarten
Sept. 5: Labor Day
Oct. 28: In-service
Nov. 11: Veterans Day
Nov. 24-28: Thanksgiving holiday
Dec. 23: In-service
Dec. 26-Jan.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Altoona attorney Thomas M. Dickey and his law office can continue representing Paul Aaron Ross in an upcoming murder retrial in connection with the 2004 death of 26-year-old Tina Miller of Hollidaysburg.

While students overdosing on opioid drugs hasn't been an issue in area schools, a life-saving medicine will make its way into local school nurses' offices, providing an antidote just in case.

The public will be "less protected" under a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that reduces the number of years some child sexual offenders must register with state police, Blair County First Assistant District Attorney Jackie Bernard said.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A former Blair County Prison guard was convicted Friday of official oppression based on his treatment of a handcuffed inmate he was escorting through the prison in late 2014.
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When Donald Trump announced at his Altoona rally last week that "cheating" is the only way he could lose Pennsylvania's vote, the claim quickly reverberated through national media and prompted a new campaign move to monitor polls.

When Donald Trump announced at his Altoona rally last week that "cheating" is the only way he could lose Pennsylvania's vote, the claim quickly reverberated through national media and prompted a new campaign move to monitor polls.

MARTINSBURG - The past was paramount Friday afternoon at the Altoona-Blair County Airport, where World War II aircraft were on display and flying overhead.

A stalwart in his community, the Rev. Norman E. Huff, who died Friday at the age of 84, was remembered by his family, friends and colleagues as a "man who loved people.