Ebensburg News

As Portage prepares to lay to rest four young men killed Sunday in a car accident, their families try to deal with the loss.

We have 1413 guests online Monday, 14 July 2008 Two traffic accidents left six people dead over the weekend in neighboring counties.

Pennsylvania Highlands Community College and Clarion University of Pennsylvania are joining forces.

A portion of Route 22 east of Ebensburg was closed early Friday because of a downed power line, snarling traffic into the early afternoon when it reopened, and then was closed again in the evening.

A handful of residents gathered on the steps of the Boswell Borough municipal building to tackle the problem of drugs, vandalism and speeding in town.

The former treasurer of the union that represents federal prison guards at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto has been charged with embezzling $43,794 since 2005.

Manpower Inc. is on the move again - and heading to Richland Township. Manpower's offices have relocated several times since the job services company arrived in the region in 1983.

The Cambria County district attorney's office said that - although felony counts against Northern Cambria police Chief Kevin Stanek were withdrawn Monday - they could be refiled if the remaining case is not ...

A Portage man is accused of racking up more than $5,000 on a company credit card during a weekend binge when he was angry at his boss.

Sixty-three years ago today, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Leonard Reighard was awarded his second Bronze Star Medal.

The Mifflin County Register and Recorder just completed phase two of restoring and filing old estate documents that date back to the late 1780's. The restoration project began in 2006 when a $5,000 grant was ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission says bald eagles are now known to be nesting in 47 of the state's 67 counties.

A 5-year-old boy was injured seriously in a car-pedestrian accident at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 2700 block of Fairway Drive.

An Ebensburg woman was crowned Miss Hog Wild 2008 at a swimsuit contest that kicked off the borough's first Pool 'n Pork festival.

A former Johnstown man serving up to 45 years in state prison for killing a reputed drug dealer four years ago was back in Cambria County Court on Thursday seeking a new trial.

Construction of the new Penn-Eben Park is in the home stretch, giving the county seat two downtown parks with gazebos and other amenities.

The borough's one-day Wheels & Wings event has tripled in size since it began four years ago, and between 15,000 and 20,000 bikers and others showed up Thursday evening.

Authorities in Cambria County say an exchange of gunfire between a divorced couple claimed the lives of three people in what they believe was a double murder-suicide. County Coroner Dennis Kwiatkowski said ...

A volunteer fireman from the Harrisburg area is the latest soldier from Pennsylvania to be killed in the Iraq war.

For the second time this year, Ebensburg officials are threatening to withdraw from the regional code enforcement agency it has supported in the past.