Cambria County News

Highmark Inc. has reached a multiyear contract with Conemaugh Health System in Cambria County, giving the insurer's members in-network access to three hospital campuses.

Also, long gestating plans to expand parking at a senior center in the northern part of the county are moving forward with a new infusion of cash.

A western Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal homicide for killing his father with a hammer before breaking into his safe and stealing money to buy drugs.

TIME POLICE CHIEF JEFFREY KETNER IS RETIRING EFFECTIVE AUGUST 1ST, BUT BORO OFFICIALS AND KETNER AREN'T COMMENTING.

An Altoona man who sexually assaulted a teenage girl has been sent to a state correctional institution for 15-30 years by Blair County Judge Wade Kagarise.

A new Cambria County program is looking not only at what's going wrong in teens' lives, but at what schools, parents and churches are doing right to curb bad choices - and how the community can better support them.

The state has awarded a $2 million grant to the Altoona-Blair County Development Corp. to support the proposed Convention Center Commons development in Allegheny Township.

A former area school superintendent has lost his bid to withdraw a guilty plea he entered in 2011 for misappropriating federal funds that were to be used to extend Internet services to the Glendale Yearound Community in Cambria County.

Friedens-based PBS Coals Limited is being sold to a Canadian coal company for $60 million.

A man who pleaded guilty to more than 30 charges related to child pornography will spend 25 to 50 years behind bars.

AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING HOLLIDAYSBURG BORO POLICE CHIEF JEFFREY KETNER TELLS THE ALTOONA MIRROR BORO OFFICIALS MADE A BIG MISTAKE AND HE'S HOPFUL THAT "REASONABLE MINDS" ON COUNCIL WILL PUT HIM BACK ON THE JOB.

Authorities say a man scheduled to graduate this summer from a western Pennsylvania police academy was shot to death over the weekend.

Robert Davis Gleason, the best-known defense attorney in Cambria County, is calling it quits.

Habitat for Hounds, an all-volunteer organization that rescues animals, recently found new homesa Sfor two dogs and one cat that had been abused by the previous owners.

The incline has been out of service since breaking down June 28 a few feet from its station.

The parents of an inmate who hanged himself in a state prison in Cambria County have sued the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections for misusing solitary confinement to deal with mentally ill inmates.

"This is a very difficult decision for our family, but one that we have reached together amicably," the 9th district congressman said in a statement emailed to reporters.

Steps outside the Cambria County Courthouse are deteriorating, and now officials are considering what steps to take to fix the problem.

AN ERIE WOMAN was killed in a MOTORCYCLE crash Saturday evening in Freedom Township, BLAIR COUNTY.

The programs will be operated by Cambria County Child Development Corporation as of the 2014-15 school year, a move that will save the district approximately $1.6 million, according to Superintendent Gerald Zahorchak.