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The Altoona Area School Board is set to hire a new superintendent during a special Saturday morning meeting, Board President John Donley said.
The superintendent search has been ongoing since John Kopicki announced his resignation in late March.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Blair County has a larger than planned deficit and significantly less in reserve fund, an audit shows.
In addition, an $86 million shortfall in the county pension system was revealed.

HARRISBURG - Legislation in Pennsylvania to give victims of child sexual abuse more time to sue took another step forward in the Senate on Tuesday, although not without debate over whether people who have lost the legal ability to sue should get it...

A Hollidaysburg-area man will spend three to 12 years in a state correctional institution for selling drugs that resulted in the death of a Hollidaysburg teenager, Andrew Hines, in 2014.
Judge Daniel Milliron sentenced Jacob D.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - The first reassessment notices are in the mail with others being sent later this week, Blair County commissioners said Tuesday.

All stakeholders involved believe a financial fund that will help keep the Altoona Curve around for many years is within reach, but there is mounting frustration from the Eastern League's standpoint on one issue concerning the team.

When Mindi Ferguson was in junior high school, she began going with her parents and other members of the Second Avenue United Methodist congregation on mission trips to the state of Indiana, arranged by the Second Avenue pastor and his seminary...

CHEST SPRINGS - A Lilly man is in jail after allegedly kicking state troopers who arrested him Friday morning on drunken driving charges in Allegheny Township, Cambria County.

Three people were charged with credit card fraud for using a Staples credit card belonging to the St. Vincent de Paul Society to purchase gift cards worth $800 on Sunday.

The Logan Township supervisors have unwillingly agreed to join a Blair County-based council of governments that will help municipal participants comply with evolving federal regulations for purifying stormwater before it reaches local streams and...