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Saturday Nov 21 | Altoona Mirror

Uphill battle

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.

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Related Topix: Fire, Huntingdon County, PA

Thu Nov 19, 2009

PennLive.com

Property assessment: Legislators need to develop statewide model

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.

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Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Opinion

Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Tribune-Democrat

Burial plot scheme: Murder suspect tried to get space next to slain wife, police say

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.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Hopewell, PA, Everett, PA, Huntingdon County, PA

Sun Nov 15, 2009

WWCP Fox 8 TV

Deadly Crash And Hazmat Spill Closes Route 220

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.

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Related Topix: Clarion County, PA

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Centre Daily Times

Dead driver blamed for triple-fatal Pa. crash

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.

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Related Topix: Pittsburgh Metro, Schellsburg, PA

WWCP Fox 8 TV

New Details In Deadly Untral Light Plane Crash

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

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Wed Nov 11, 2009

Cumberland Times-News

Clearville man dies in plane crash

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.

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Related Topix: Clearville, PA

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Altoona Mirror

Bedford County pilot dies in crash

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

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, Clearville, PA, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Cincypost.Com

Woman, Daughter Hold Signs Admitting Theft

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.

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Related Topix: Bedford, PA

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Shame on them: A Bedford prosecutor tries an outdated punishment

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

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Sat Nov 07, 2009

MomLogic

2 Women Who Steal from 9-Year-Old Get Public Shaming

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.

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Related Topix: Bedford, PA, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Everett, PA

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Sentence for theft is humiliation in Bedford town center

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

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Related Topix: Bedford, PA, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Harrisburg, PA

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Bedford women left at intersection holding signs that shame them

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.

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Related Topix: Bedford, PA

Tue Nov 03, 2009

The Arizona Daily Star

Pa. woman, daughter hold signs admitting theft from girl

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.

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Related Topix: Bedford, PA

The York Daily Record

W.Pa. woman, daughter hold public signs of shame

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.

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Related Topix: Bedford, PA

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

3 teens missing from Murrysville found in Bedford

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

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Related Topix: Murrysville, PA, Bedford, PA, Westmoreland County, PA

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Altoona Mirror

Village awaits tax decision

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.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

Altoona Mirror

Blair unemployment rate increases a.....

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

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Related Topix: Huntingdon County, PA, Blair County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Cambria County, PA

Sun Oct 18, 2009

The Tribune-Democrat

In brief: Lighter, lint set off fire in Westmont

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

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Related Topix: Fire, Westmont, PA, Farmington, PA, Friedens, PA, Johnstown Metro

Fri Oct 16, 2009

InYork

Pennsylvania Turnpike closing Saturday for 65-mile stretch

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

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Related Topix: Cumberland County, PA, Willow Hill, PA, Fort Littleton, PA

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