Cambria County News

A western Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars post has close after falling behind on its bills and failing to elect new officers to manage the club at its last meeting.

A central Pennsylvania prosecutor must decide how many of a man's five drunken-driving arrests in the past 14 months count as "first" offenses.

ONE RESIDENT AND A FIREFIGHTER WERE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER AN OVERNIGHT FIRE AT A HOUSE ON CEMETERY LANE IN GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP, BLAIR COUNTY.

A western Pennsylvania county has begun fining no-show jurors $100 each, after months of warning citizens that too many people are ignoring jury summonses.

A well-known Richland Township businessman has been charged with illegal dealing in protected animals or animal parts.

A DEADLY FIRE BROKE OUT JUST AFTER 4 MONDAY MORNING AT A 200 YEAR OLD LOG CABIN ON PROPERTY OWNED BY MILLER'S QUALITY RECYCLING IN BEDFORD TOWNSHIP.

Police said a middle-aged Cambria County man died after he was shot Saturday in a hunting accident on the 400 block of Seesetown Road in Adams Township.

A Johnstown man faces up to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Saturday to third- degree murder in the Feb. 6 shooting death of Joshua Scott Price in a Cypress Avenue home.

It was a bittersweet reunion this morning when about 100 members of a Johnstown-based National Guard helicopter unit came together for the first time since returning in August from deployment to Afghanistan.

The Cambria County commissioners announced Thursday that a secured bank deal, taking effect at the start of 2014, would refinance $19 million in debt over the next 15 years and allow the county to assume a new $5 million loan, to be paid over the next eight years.

The Cambria County commissioners on Thursday commended Pitt-Johnstown President Jem Spectar for completion of the university's six-year strategic plan.

Christmas is coming early to Ebensburg, with the borough's eighth annual Dickens of a Christmas set to kick off Friday.

According to a release, unknown suspects cut through a chain-linked fence surrounding the Cambria County 911 tower behind Valenty's Bottled Water, 200 Buckwheat Hill Rd., Nicktown.

One of the men involved in a deadly shooting by police in June of last year has pleaded guilty to selling heroin.

A FirstEnergy spokesman said around 16,000 Penelec customers suffered outages beginning around 10 p.m. Tuesday night.

Trout Unlimited has partnered with the Chest Creek Watershed Alliance and four local municipalities in Cambria and Clearfield counties to host a series of public meetings and to develop educational signs that will be placed at four locations throughout the Chest Creek Watershed.

Ebensburg is poised to become the first local municipality to begin charging residents an extra utility bill to help fund creation of a stormwater-management system.

Gov. Tom Corbett plans to sign into law next week a massive transportation bill that will raise $2.4 billion over the next five years to repair Pennsylvania's crumbling bridges and highways, shore up mass transit and pump money into air, rail and other projects.

Nov. 22 -- EBENSBURG -- The Cambria County commissioners Thursday introduced a 2014 general fund budget which is $1.7 million less than the current spending plan and one they say is balanced without a tax increase.

Cambria County commissioners unveiled a preliminary $60 million 2014 general fund budget Thursday evening during a meeting at Ferndale Area Junior-Senior High School.