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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.

A common and agonizing element of the grief that follows a loved one's suicide is the feeling that one could have done more to prevent it.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Homes that sell for more than their assessed values could soon be held to those higher values for tax purposes under a proposal made by Councilman Sean Burke.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Some voters in Hollidaysburg Borough could find themselves in different wards by the 2017 primary after council presented a proposed revised map Thursday.

EBENSBURG - Many Cambria County fair-goers may expect to be stopped by a barker pushing a carnival game or ride.
What some were not expecting was to be stopped by a member of the French medi.

A former mining site became a catalyst for graphic memories in mid-September of 2001, when disaster responders flocked to Somerset County, crawling on their hands and knees to collect debris and human remains.

The hearing for two Bethlehem men who state police say were smoking marijuana while speeding down I-99 has been continued until October.
Michael A. Castellani, 20, and Jeffrey A. Bell, 18, both of Bethlehem, were arrested Sept.