Vinco News

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Organizers of the Jackson Heritage Festival are rolling out the welcome mat for their sixth annual jam-packed event.

Three Boy Scouts with Troop 204 in Jackson Township are proud of where they live and will be showing off their community to others during the annual Jackson Heritage Festival July 17-19. Benjamin Grove and Keith Henry will split their time between helping their troop with its booth and helping vendors assemble and disassemble their booths.

The woman who survived an April 6 double murder described in court Friday how she heard noise in the back room of a sandwich shop, walked around a counter and was shot in the hip.

Tight security will be in place for the preliminary hearing of a former Johnstown man charged in the April shooting deaths of a retired Vinco insurance agent and a high school senior.

A Johnstown man was jailed Tuesday after police said he filed a false report of a shooting to get officers to respond to his earlier call that his vehicle had been stolen.

An East Conemaugh Borough police captain was charged Monday with simple assault and harassment in connection with a domestic dispute.

Yesterday we had a situation where low clouds was backed up against the mountains in Central Pennsylvania.

Ron Shawley loves weather, and the more lively and dangerous it is, the better. "I just love it," he said enthusiastically.

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.

The former Johnstown man charged in the shooting deaths of a Vinco insurance agent and another man recently was discharged from the Army because of a service-related disability, records show.

A Vinco-area woman was charged Wednesday with lying to police about being pulled over on Route 219 in Richland Township last week by a man impersonating as a police officer.

An 8-week-old Benshoff Hill boy was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital Monday with severe head and chest injuries after police say he was abused by his father.

After spending $4.50 for a pack of his favorite brand of cigarettes, Shane Mackanick declared: "It's time to quit." The 37-year-old from Vinco also said, "When it goes up over $5, I'm done." That's apparently about to happen.

A former Navy SEAL who speaks on good character - and who has been featured on The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel and ESPN - will address pupils today at Central Cambria Middle School.

We had some pretty wild weather this week here in Central Pennsylvania, home of AccuWeather HQ [ Google Map of State College ]. First, on Friday we had excellent conditions for "Snow Devils." Also known as Snow ...

Kelly Deskevich, 11, of Vinco might not be the Queen Bee. That role would go to her mom, Eileen.

A Johnstown man was jailed Friday after police said he raped a woman in East Taylor Township.

A Moxham man has been charged with slashing another man during a fight involving six people early Sunday outside a Richland Township establishment.