Bedford County News

When an emergency call comes into a local 911 center, a quick series of events - complete with dispatchers, sirens, pagers, a lot of technology and some fast-thinking - begins immediately.

Across the state, people are grappling with our system of property assessment. In many places, county government officials are trying to figure out the best way to update their assessments, especially as other neighboring counties choose not to do so.

Authorities say a man who shot and killed his wife in a McDonald's parking lot has tried to acquire the cemetery plot next to her, with an eye toward being buried there.

A Clarion County man has died after a car accident in Bedford County. Police say 27 year old Sheldon Gathers swerved into the northbound lane of Route 220, and hit pick-up truck carrying drilling equipment.

Pennsylvania state police say a 17-year-old boy's failure to obey a stop sign caused the August crash that killed him and two passengers.

New details on the ultra-light crash Monday afternoon that left a Bedford county man dead.

Sixty-eight-year-old Helmut Karl Neubrand was fatally injured late Monday afternoon when his ultralight aircraft crashed along Ragged Mountain Road in Southampton Township, Pennsylvania State Police said.

A Bedford County pilot is dead after an ultralight plane crash Monday, authorities said.

In this photo provided by the Bedford County, Pa. District Attorney's Office, Evelyn Border is seen holding a sign in front of the Bedford County courthouse in Bedford, Pa.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century, would have felt right at home this week in Bedford County.

Cumberland Times-News : BEDFORD, Pa. -- Two Bedford women who stole a 9-year-old girl's gift card on her birthday publicized the matter Tuesday as part of Bedford County District Attorney Bill Higgins' public punishment initiative.

Land surveyor Lee Geisler was researching old property records not long ago when he spotted a criminal record from Fulton County in the 1890s.

Tina Griekspoor stood Tuesday on the corner of Penn and Juliana streets in Bedford, struggling to hold a large cardboard sign as the wind whipped it.

In this photo provided by the Bedford County, Pa. District Attorney's Office, Evelyn Border is seen holding a sign in front of the Bedford County courthouse in Bedford, Pa.

A woman and her daughter are outside a western Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday.

Three Westmoreland County girls who ran away last week from a foster home were found over the weekend in Bedford County, police said.

Old Bedford Village Executive Director Roger Kirwin traded in his Revolutionary War reenactment costume for a business suit Thursday morning, pleading with county leaders to rescind an $18,000 property tax put on the living history museum earlier this year.

The unemployment rate in September increased in Blair and three other counties but decreased in neighboring Huntingdon County.

Firefighters from four departments responded when fire broke out in the basement of a Westmont home around 8:20 p.m. Friday.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike will be closed for a 65-mile stretch between Breezewood and Carlisle overnight Saturday.