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Pennsylvania court records show a significant increase in the number of distracted-driving citations issued in recent years, with that number jumping 43 percent between 2014 and 2015.

TIPTON - Daytime rainshowers may have staved off some visitors to DelGrosso's Amusement Park Sunday, but, by late afternoon, blue could be seen through gaps between gray clouds.

TIPTON - Daytime rainshowers may have staved off some visitors to DelGrosso's Amusement Park Sunday, but, by late afternoon, blue could be seen through gaps between gray clouds.

HOLLIDAYSBURG - The former manager of an Altoona municipal pool recently lost a quest in Blair County Court to have a 1988 corruptions of minors offense removed from his record.

TYRONE - A dream led the Rev. Aden Wertz into the ministry.
Wertz had gone to work at the Kinney Shoe Store in the Indiana Mall, where he was manager, to have his morning devotions before the store opened for business.

Pennsylvania court records show a significant increase in the number of distracted-driving citations issued in recent years, with that number jumping 43 percent between 2014 and 2015.

TIPTON - Daytime rainshowers may have staved off some visitors to DelGrosso's Amusement Park Sunday, but, by late afternoon, blue could be seen through gaps between gray clouds.

TIPTON - Daytime rainshowers may have staved off some visitors to DelGrosso's Amusement Park Sunday, but, by late afternoon, blue could be seen through gaps between gray clouds.

A Philadelphia woman who allegedly worked for a statewide prescription painkiller ring is behind bars in Blair County.
Melissa M.

Altoona
Weekend patching to start on Plank
Gulisek Construction LLC of Mount Pleasant is scheduled to begin concrete patching work next weekend on Plank Road from Goods Lane to Sheraton Drive as part of the Plank Road interchange project, PennDO...