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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...

Lois Kaneshiki, newly chosen to lead the Blair County Republican Party, described her vision of a bottom-up party not beholden to incumbents Monday in her first public comments since her election last week.

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...

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...

Lois Kaneshiki, newly chosen to lead the Blair County Republican Party, described her vision of a bottom-up party not beholden to incumbents Monday in her first public comments since her election last week.

Altoona police
May 25
? Drugs: 1100 block 16th St., 1100 block 16th St., 1100 block 16th St., 1100 block 16th St.
? Lewdness: 16th St.
? Theft: 2800 block Beale Ave., 400 block Hudson Ave.

May 26
? Assault: 1200 block 16th Ave.

Police reported a number of serious or fatal crashes involving motorcycles over the weekend, with at least six people killed and one person wounded.

At first, Ted Kattouf thought the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study program wouldn't work.
Kattouf, an Altoona native and former U..