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NORTHERN CAMBRIA - Local firemen sprayed water from hoses, performing a show of skill for the dozens of bystanders gathered Saturday morning on Philadelphia Avenue.

A new population report highlights some areas of growth in the region amidst overall decline during the last five years.

It's always the same ending, said a man who was sexually molested as a teenager by a priest in the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese.
"They get away with it," John Nesbella said.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A Blair County judge has awarded 14 days credit to a convicted drug dealer serving a 10-to-20-year prison sentence, far less than the nearly nine months credit the dealer sought.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A Blair County judge has awarded 14 days credit to a convicted drug dealer serving a 10-to-20-year prison sentence, far less than the nearly nine months credit the dealer sought.

NORTHERN CAMBRIA - Local firemen sprayed water from hoses, performing a show of skill for the dozens of bystanders gathered Saturday morning on Philadelphia Avenue.

A new population report highlights some areas of growth in the region amidst overall decline during the last five years.

It's always the same ending, said a man who was sexually molested as a teenager by a priest in the Altoona-Johnstown Catholic Diocese.
"They get away with it," John Nesbella said.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - An Altoona man will spend at least three years in jail on drug-related charges after entering a guilty plea, thereby foregoing a jury trial scheduled to start Wednesday in Blair County Court.
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The family of a man murdered in the Cambria County Prison within days of his arrest four years ago for failure to pay costs has settled a civil rights lawsuit with the county, according to court papers filed in the U.S. District Court in Johnstown.