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The Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating allegations that the Van Zandt VA Medical Center failed to conduct needed followup on many vulnerable brain-injury patients between 2007 and 2014.

To read comments online and among excited beer buyers, Gov. Tom Wolf's signature on a liquor bill will open the taps to unlimited beer and wine sales at nearly every gas station and grocery store in the state.

City Council plans to consider an ordinance that would require permits for projects that involve regrading more than 500 square feet or digging deeper than 4 linear feet.

From Mirror staff reports
A Blair County coroner was called Saturday night to the site of a motorcycle-verses-vehicle crash on Interstate 99 between the Duncansville and Roaring Spring exit.

HUNTINGDON - In seven years, the borough's Juneteenth Celebration has developed into a homecoming and a history lesson.

In the past week, some of Jay Adams' friends have sought out handguns.
"They're terrified right now," Adams, a bartender at Escapade, a gay bar along Union Avenue, said.

When residents of a local municipality were told a neighbor would be fertilizing his crops with treated sewage, they spoke out claiming they got a crappy deal.

A Newry man remains behind bars on charges he assaulted his girlfriend, drove her to the hospital and then told the medical staff she fell down the stairs.
Ralph H. Arnsparger Jr.

BELLWOOD - Bellwood-Antis students soon will have new tools to enhance their learning experience.
Bellwood-Antis School Board members this week authorized administrators to enter into a $520,260.

Attorneys for an Allegheny Township resident and the township's police department are attempting to settle a civil rights lawsuit involving a dispute over an American flag out of court, according to papers filed this week with the U.S.