Cambria County News

A Johnstown man set to pick a jury today on charges he sexually abused two boys, entered a guilty plea in Cambria County court Wednesday.

Environmental groups are rounding up stories of sickness in the shale fields, following reports of inaction by the state Department of Health.

Joseph M. Abrams Jr., 38, no fixed address, faces 40 felony and misdemeanor sex-related charges stemming from the alleged abuse of the girl, abuse police said occurred in the city, South Fork in Cambria County, and Moon Township in Allegheny County, where Abrams was stationed in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

From her birth and throughout her formative years, Jim Crow laws were in effect, barring her and other African-American citizens from becoming equal members of U.S. society.

Colt Bopp, a 16-year-old Greater Johnstown junior, said he avoids the violent, criminal element when he can.

A release from the office of state Sen. John Wozniak, D-Westmont, said Johns town will receive a $10.9 million, 20-year loan at 1 percent interest to rehabilitate about 37,000 feet of sewer line in the city's Woodvale and Prospect neighborhoods, a project expected to create 20 construction jobs.

July 26--VINCO -- A Mineral Point man has been charged with running down a fire police official Monday at the scene of a crash on William Penn Avenue in Jackson Township that killed a motorcyclist.

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.