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HOLLIDAYSBURG - Efforts to move forward toward a retrial of murder suspect Paul Aaron Ross became bogged down Thursday in a legal representation issue that will be under review for about a mont.

PHILADELPHIA - Media groups have asked a Philadelphia judge to unseal insurance documents that could address whether Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was told in the mid-1970s that his assistant was molesting boys.

Catherine Copley's family has become accustomed to waiting these past seven months.

At a City Council meeting Wednesday, representatives of the Hollidaysburg YMCA spoke of plans for the organization's big July 4 race in Altoona, outlining its benefits without alluding to a recent proposal that could mean the organization would nee...

City Council on Wednesday adopted an ordinance rezoning a section of Lakemont Terrace from residential to mixed use, at the request of Dr. Mohammad Dowlu.

A former Saxton police chief was laid to rest Wednesday, four days after he was killed in an apparent motorcycle crash in Freedom Township.
According to an obituary, James Paul Leonard Sr.

NORTHERN CAMBRIA - Tension between Northern Cambria's Borough Council and its mayor escalated Wednesday evening as council ignored the mayor's concerns to hire a part-time police officer.

A gruesome discovery in an abandoned garage Wednesday morning in Altoona has one family fearing the worst and investigators working to find some answer.

At a City Council meeting Wednesday, representatives of the Hollidaysburg YMCA spoke of plans for the organization's big July 4 race in Altoona, outlining its benefits without alluding to a recent proposal that could mean the organization would nee...

City Council on Wednesday adopted an ordinance rezoning a section of Lakemont Terrace from residential to mixed use, at the request of Dr. Mohammad Dowlu.