South Fork News

A former beer distributorship, vacant for six years at a busy Johnstown intersection, has a new owner.

Authorities suggest that whoever killed three women at an auto glass shop may have hidden evidence at a relative's nearby farm.

A South Fork man was taken to Memorial Medical Center after his vehicle plunged down a 25-foot embankment Monday.

A bedroom community for Johnstown and Richland Township or a commercial industrial center, the communities making up the Forest Hills School District have the potential to be many things, a state official concludes.

Replacing an Adams Township bridge will close the only road access to about two dozen homes and a business in the Amsite Road development.

The following people have been sentenced in Cambria County Court on guilty pleas to criminal charges: Mekiya R. Shaw, 32, 300 block of Strayer Street, Johnstown, false identification to law enforcement.

Just when many area residents are hitting the highways, motorists can expect to encounter a bump in the road.

BY TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM In one of the most moving tributes to victims of the 1889 flood, the National Park Service will conduct a luminaria at the Johnstown Flood National Memorial near South Fork.

BY JANICE RAINEY JRAINEY@TRIBDEM.COM Six Catholic churches in Cambria City will host an ancient practice of visiting churches on Holy Thursday.

Arrested in Portage drug sweeps were: -- Jeremy Bitter, 28, 784 Frankstown Road, South Fork, felony pill delivery -- Robert Caldwell, 28, 722 Main St., Portage, felony marijuana delivery -- Patrick Flynn, 42, 379 Plane Road, Portage, felony pill delivery -- Raymond Foreman Jr., 21, 900 Johnson Ave, Apt.

A total of 23 Portage-area drug suspects have been arrested in the past three weeks, authorities on Wednesday.

Fire late Monday destroyed a trailer home in the 700 block of Stewart Street, leaving two brothers homeless.

Area power companies are reporting massive power outages due to the severe storm that has been battering the region since last night.

John Fabo isn't letting cold weather get him down. At 66, he is the owner of Fabo's Garage, a full-service gas station on Lake Street in South Fork that he mans 14 hours a day.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Santa's Place is open through Tuesday at North Pole Lane, near Summerhill.

Sentenced to six months to two years less one day in Cambria County Prison with credit for time served, one year probation, and $3,670 in fines, costs and restitution to New Dimensions Dentistry, Johnstown.