Blair County News

Altoona Regional Health System plans to award contracts next month for an $18 million renovation of the former Altoona Center, system Chief Operating Officer Ron McConnell said.

Twelve state-sentenced inmates will remain in Blair County Prison until early December when their admissions can be scheduled, a state Department of Corrections spokeswoman said Friday.

A former school teacher charged with vehicular homicide will be in Blair County Prison while awaiting trial.

Commissioners in Blair County unveiled their tentative 67 million dollar budget for 2010.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM One museum is not enough to hold all the works of an Altoona artist.

A long-running boundary dispute between Portage and Washington townships appears to have been resolved during an informal meeting Wednesday.

Students observed a moment of silence at the Penn Cambria - Central game in Blair County Friday Night.

Missing money in the Blair County Sheriff's Department has been linked to a secretary.

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A mass immunization effort is underway in Blair County as the Altoona and Hollidaysburg Area School Districts are giving students the swine flu vaccine.

The attorney for an Altoona man who spent money placed in his bank account is asking that criminal charges be dismissed, saying they only were filed when his client refused to go along with a plan to repay the bank.

Three Altoona men were each placed on three years' probation Thursday in connection with the beating death of another man during a neighborhood argument that escalated into a Labor Day weekend brawl four years ago.

Election Day has come and gone, and changes are in store in Blair County and surrounding parts.

A young Washington County woman who was attending college at Penn State Altoona died in a two-car crash Sunday night near the campus in Logan Township, Blair County.

Blair County is shutting down -- 90 employee, most long time workers will soon be out of a job.

A 2009 Wilson High School graduate was injured in a weekend car accident in Blair County that killed one of her college roommates and injured three others, police said.

Election Day 2009 has been pretty quiet throughout Blair County. Typically, voter turnout is low in the year following a presidential election, and that likely will be the case when the numbers come in tonight.

The Blair County Tea Party Steering Committee is considering transforming the organization into a legal entity due to its rapid momentum and rising popularity in Blair County.

OPERATION S.O.S. is kicking off its 6th annual campaign to help make the Christmas season a little brighter for American troops who are stationed overseas.

This article has been read 506 times. A 2008 graduate of Canon-McMillan High School and sophomore at Penn State-Altoona was killed in a two-car crash Sunday night about a mile from the schoola s campus in Blair County.