Saltsburg News

A recent decision by the Indiana County Board of Assessment Appeals will lead to a significant tax revenue reduction for the Homer-Center School District.

John Poorbaugh, an 18-year-old senior at United High School, was among newly elected members taking their seats on the district's school board at the panel's reorganization meeting Tuesday.

Dr. H. Robert Mencer will be back on the job Tuesday at Blairsville-Saltsburg School District.

An Indiana County man died in a single-car crash early Friday along Route 286, state police said.

A man was killed in one-car crash this morning on Route 286 in Westmoreland County.

A Saltsburg man died after the car he was driving ran off a Westmoreland County road into a creek bed.

A Saltsburg man died in a single-vehicle crash early this morning along Route 286 in Bell Township.

A burglar cut wires to an alarm system before making off with $3,000 from a Dollar General store in Saltsburg, state police in Indiana County said.

Police in Indiana County said a burglar stole from a Dollar General store, but he didn't actually break into the building.

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State police in Indiana are looking for a burglar who hid inside a Saltsburg store, disabled the store's alarm system and cut the hinges from a safe before fleeing with more than $3,000. Police said the burglary occurred between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 7:35 a.m. Thursday at the Dollar General store.

Saltsburg Borough Council was able to hold off on raising taxes for yet another year, as it gave tentative approval to what President Elizabeth Rocco called a "bare bones" new budget.

A pickup truck rear-ended a car early Sunday morning, shutting down part of the Parkway East in Edgewood.

Voters in several southern Indiana County communities will have a choice of nominees for their future municipal leaders when they report to Election Day polls on Tuesday.

When Bob Hoover addressed the Historical Society of the Blairsville Area at its September meeting, the group's president, Daunise Marshall, was astounded by the depth of the local memorabilia collection he displayed.

The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department responded to an overturned trailer loaded with 8 tons - 480 bales - of hay at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Big game hunter, deep-sea fisherman, bullfighting enthusiast and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist -- every aspect of the life of literary icon Ernest Hemingway can be found along the walls or on the shelves of a new permanent library exhibit at The Kiski School in Saltsburg.

A state police fire marshal is investigating a mobile home fire where a 61-year-old western Pennsylvania man has been found dead.

A 61-year-old man died in a mobile home fire in Westmoreland County on Tuesday night.

Borough council voted Monday to increase sewage rates in 2010. The minimum monthly rate will jump from $24 to $30 while a separate usage fee will increase from $2.65 to $2.75 for each thousand gallons above 3,000 gallons used per quarter.