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Rosalind Merritts of Hollidaysburg has been regularly protesting outside of the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese administration office since March 1 when the attorney general released a grand jury report naming dozens of priests who allegedly molested...

Reassessment change notices have been mailed to all property owners, the Blair County commissioners announced Thursday.
According to a news release, notices to owners in Altoona, Hollidaysburg and Logan Township were mailed Tuesday.

HARRISBURG - The Pennsylvania Legislature on Thursday sent Democratic Gov.

Officials with the Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown are in talks to sell their Allegheny Township office complex to the Garvey Manor Nursing home and move the diocesan headquarters to the City of Altoona.

Two dozen street-level and mid-level drug dealers who allegedly sold heroin, cocaine, prescription drugs and marijuana were the targets of the latest drug sweep Thursday in Blair County.
"I was a drug addict, and I was clean for five year.

It wouldn't come as a shock to the Tuscarora School Board if Altoona Area hired away its current superintendent on Saturday, Tuscarora School Board President Larry Funk said.
Tuscarora School District Superintendent Charles A.

BELLWOOD - Members of the support staff in the Bellwood-Antis School District have now been working without a contract for one year.

Two area residents are among the 43 who have been charged following investigations by the state Attorney General's Insurance Fraud Section. The charges were part of a June sweep.

A proposal that could have opened Pennsylvania's state parks to private development was shot down in the state House Tuesday, earning praise from environmental groups but leaving future changes possible.

An Altoona-area man under investigation for a fatal traffic accident 13 months ago on the North Eighth Street Bridge has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that he was the victim of racial discrimination for several years when he was associated with...