Howard News

Despite objections from many local residents, Centre County transportation planners are hoping to tap into $1.5 billion in federal stimulus money to help pay for two new interchanges connecting Interstate 80 and Interstate 99.

Michelle Spaide, left, of Bellefonte, and Ken Maney, right, of Port Matilda, put candles in glass jars as Jane Kone, center, of Howard Township, walks along the bleachers arranging them during the Bellefonte Relay for Life at Bellefonte High School on Friday, June 19, 2009.

The low base bids for Bald Eagle Area School District's high school renovation project came in about $3 million less than architects and district officials say they initially anticipated.

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Transportation planners Wednesday urged construction of two new interchanges at the merger of interstates 80 and 99 in Marion Township.

Howard Area Lions Club member Randy Payton leads the "Journey for Sight" walk-a-thon, pictured with a lion mascot built by 25-year Lions Club member Lester Beck, which is the Centre County Lions' 26th annual fund raising walk to benefit the visually impaired at the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Sunday May 31, 2009.

Marine Corps Sgt. DJ Emery and his girlfriend Angel Stover during a recent news conference.

Burglary reported at Centre Hall home State police are investigating a burglary at a home on the 100 block of South Pennsylvania Avenue in Centre Hall sometime overnight Sunday.

The following is a partial list of criminal cases handled by judges in the most recent term of Westmoreland County criminal court.

Visitors to the Vietnam Memorial lay flowers and items of remembrance near the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. Abbott graduated from Philipsburg- Osceola High School in 1962, worked for a time at the Presbyterian Home for the Aged, then joined the Army in 1965.

Two candidates are competing in the Republican primary to fill the party's jury commissioner post.

Come on down to Dwayne Haines' storeroom for the best deals around on home medical equipment.

This thriving municipality, favored by three Interstate 99 interchanges, has applied for a $4.5 million federal earmark to double the size of one of them.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education yesterday filed suit against Agora Cyber Charter School in Devon, alleging fraud and breach of fiduciary responsibility by its board of trustees.

At least 16 people were displaced by an afternoon fire at a complex in Warminster.

Two people suffered minor injuries when a 1999 Volvo V70XC collided with a 1984 Honda Gold Wing motorcycle at about 5:22 p.m. at 303 Hublersburg Road in Walker Township.

The mural, "Justice" created in the 1940s by Harry Scheuch in the City-County Building: Note the muscular figure holding the scales of justice.

Submitted by cchs on Fri, 2009-04-10 14:31. Start: 2009-05-06 08:00 End: 2009-05-06 17:28 Timezone: The Centre County Historical Society is sponsoring a bus trip to Harrisburg to visit the exhibit "A Common Canvas: Pennsylvania's New Deal Post Office Murals" on Wednesday, May 6. A bus will transport visitors from State College to The State Museum ...

Police say a high-speed crash in central Pennsylvania has killed two people. Police say a driver heading south on SR 150 in Centre County's Howard Township went out of control just after 10 a.m. Saturday morning.

Wreckage is towed away from a car accident in which a speeding southbound driver lost control, spun counter-clockwise and crashed head-on into the front passenger side of an oncoming car on SR 150 in Howard Township on Saturday afternoon, April 11, 2009.