Geistown News

Thieves stealing from unlocked vehicles around Westmont Borough in recent days are branching out into surrounding areas, authorities said.

Losers in last month's USSCO Johnstown Federal Credit board of directors election are getting a "do over" thanks to a little-known quirk in the organization's bylaws and procedures.

Menoher Post 155, Veterans of Foreign Wars in Geistown is sponsoring a motorcycle run on the anniversary of D-Day to raise money to prevent suicide among veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Members of Menoher Post 155 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Geistown have served their nation not only on the front lines but also on the home front.

I turned 60 yesterday, what folks call a "milestone birthday." "I don't believe you're gonna tell your age!" exclaimed galpal Lorraine.

Joan Yeager of Geistown has taken command of Lions District 14-J, which takes in six counties and 37 Lions clubs.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Monsignor Arnold L. Gaus, pastor of Holy Name Roman Catholic Church in Ebensburg, will celebrate his 50th anniversary in the priesthood during an anniversary Mass at 4 p.m. May 9 at the church, 500 N. Julian St.

Richard D. Speicher, the incumbent Republican Cambria County jury commissioner, is being challenged by an Ebensburg area woman for the GOP nomination for the office in the primary election.

Last week, the state Department of Community and Economic Development received 17 requests from volunteer fire companies seeking assistance to merge.

The latest comic book to be adapted into a movie is the "The Watchmen." The film is based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon's influential and lauded graphic novel of a dystopian view of the United States set in a parallel world of the mid-1980s. Moore, a British self-proclaimed anarchist, twists U.S. history to such an illogical and idiotic turn of ...

Thanks to Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania and Menoher Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 155 in Geistown, some troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa will be getting special treats - Girl Scout cookies.

A Cambria County man and woman will face county court action on charges they conspired to obtain pain pills illegally from a Geistown pharmacy.

Pennsylvania is the only state not taxing pipe and chewing tobacco and cigars, but that would end if Gov.

Johnstown teen a pageant participant Ashley Heslop of Johnstown will compete in the Miss Teen Pennsylvania International pageant March 28 in Altoona.

Five-year-old Elijah Ketley is a playful little boy who is full of spunk. But just a few years ago it was a completely different story.

Another Roman Catholic elementary school is closing in June, leaving four in the Johnstown area.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM A new exhibit has been launched at the Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center that will give visitors a bird's-eye view of nearly two dozen landmarks of Johnstown and the surrounding ...

The number of murders in Cambria County more than doubled in 2008, but the final total - eight - is not unusually high, officials say.

A Geistown jewelry store owner hung on to a car door trying to stop thieves who began to speed away with a stolen $4,500 ring Saturday afternoon, borough police said.

Firefighters from Richland Township and Geistown Borough responded to the 1100 to 1400 blocks of Scalp Avenue Tuesday night to clean up diesel fuel that leaked from a truck.