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HOLLIDAYSBURG - Overtime payments at the Blair County Prison have started to drop since the hiring of 12 full-time corrections officers.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Blair County Sheriff Mitch Cooper announced Friday that he is not going to run for another term as sheriff and will instead resign in January to pursue a private sector opportunit.

An Altoona man is in jail after he allegedly threatened to demolish a district magistrate's office and kill someone.
Merle G. Rightenour Jr., 53, of 1011 20th St., Ap.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A Philadelphia native facing 33 to 66 years in prison on drug-dealing convictions told a Blair County judge Thursday that he doesn't want to enter a plea to additional charges, even if it means no additional jail time.
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On Wednesday, the night before GOP nominee Donald Trump was set to make his long-awaited convention speech, local Republican official A.C. Stickel watched from the third row as boos filled the Cleveland hall.
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CLEVELAND - Declaring America in crisis, Donald Trump pledged to cheering Republicans and still-skeptical voters Thursday night that as president he will restore the safety they fear they're losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation fro...

An Allegheny Township resident arrested in 2014 for displaying an American flag upside down as a protest will receive a settlement of more than $55,000 to be paid by the township's insurance carrier.

Of Altoona Area School District's four new high school building plans, the option preferred by the school board and faculty at this point is to build a new high school building on the junior high intramural field.

PORTAGE - A Portage man is in jail after police said he broke his girlfriend's jaw over the weekend.
Portage Borough police said they were dispatched to a home along the 700 block of Blair Street about 1:15 a.m. Saturday for a fight.

The Blair County Convention Center and Sports Facilities Authority agreed Wednesday to hold off on issuing a financial pledge letter for support of Peoples Natural Gas Field improvements until commissioners vote on a bed tax increase.