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A Llyswen man has asked City Council for permission to fell a large and apparently healthy evergreen in a street-median near his house, so he can replace it with a flagpole and a smaller tree.

For the third consecutive year, the Van Zandt VA Medical Center was named one of the "Top 25" hospitals in the U.S.

MARTINSBURG - The Altoona-Blair County Airport Authority is endorsing the Southern Airways Express plan to offer daily flights to Pittsburgh and Baltimore as the best option for building ridership and retaining federal subsidy for passenger service.

State auditors said Central Cambria School District reported inaccurate transportation costs over two school years and missed almost $120,000 in state reimbursements.

A federal judge in Johnstown has refused to bar the death penalty in the upcoming retrial of Paul Aaron Ross, charged with the 2004 murder of a Hollidaysburg woman at Canoe Creek State Park.
U.S. District Judge Kim R.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Efforts to restore the original portions of the Blair County Courthouse could take a decade, but when the work is done, those involved say the structure could shine like it did for its 1877 dedication.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - A former East Freedom man will be sentenced to 20-40 years in prison for the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl that occurred over a period of about eight months in 2013 and 2014 and resulted in her pregnancy.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - The Blair County Salary Board is abandoning its longstanding practice of re-creating employee positions, a task that required elected officials and/or department heads to ask the salary board for permission to fill vacant positions.

HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania's top legal office told lawmakers Monday that it is unconstitutional to change state law to retroactively give victims of child sexual abuse more time to sue, although some lawmakers said they remain willing to support it.

The Altoona area has lost a man who spent his life helping others enjoy their lives.
Dennie Huber, 60, 2547 Union Ave., best known as a master balloon artist and magician, died Sunday in Pittsburgh.
"He was a unique individual.