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Share + Jul 3, 2009 7:58 am US/Eastern EBENSBURG, Pa. A western Pennsylvania man faces up to 40 years in prison for twice raping a 6-year-old girl in his home, holding a pillow over her face when she cried and then forcing her to bathe to get rid of evidence of the attacks.

Cambria County's fiscal house is in order, and some important ink is black, county commissioners announced at their meeting Thursday.

Cambria County's nursing home will be on a fast-track this summer toward a sale, with marketers hoping to have a bid list for the county by August to meet a year-end sale goal.

Law-enforcement authorities remained tight-lipped Thursday about an investigation allegedly centered on financial irregularities dealing with two recent promotions at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena.

Tight security will be in place for the preliminary hearing of a former Johnstown man charged in the April shooting deaths of a retired Vinco insurance agent and a high school senior.

The following have been sentenced in Cambria County Court : Derek Johnson, 47, 900 block of Ash Street, Johnstown, theft and driving while license suspended, was sentenced to six months to two years, less a day, in county jail.

A Blair County district justice shortly before noon today ordered that all charges against Nicholas Adam Horner be bound over for trial.

A former basketball coach from Cambria County has been sentenced to 10 years of intensive probation for indecent assault charges and other offenses related to her interaction with a female player from Westmoreland County.

Saying that Cambria County taxpayers can no longer prop up Laurel Crest financially, the county commissioners voted Thursday to put the nursing home up for sale.

A statewide grand jury has found sufficient evidence to warrant further criminal action against a Blair County man accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of timber from property owners in Cambria and Somerset counties.

A Mineral Point man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Cambria County Court to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl and to setting fire to a stolen dirt bike.

Financial help from the state and donated labor are enabling one area recreation facility to undergo some significant improvements.

The Johnstown branch of the NAACP has published color posters featuring the 15 minority churches of Cambria County.

A Cambria County judge who ordered the barns of two Amish families padlocked because their properties lack modern sewage is allowing them to store harvested grain and hay there.

A judge says two Amish families can use their barns to store harvested grain and hay even though he had previously ordered he buildings padlocked after the families failed to follow modern sewage regulations on their western Pennsylvania property.

A Cambria County woman was jailed briefly Monday after her arrest on firearms and other charges in a domestic violence case, authorities said.

In 29 years of enforcing sewage laws in Pennsylvania, Jack E. Crislip has never faced violators more adamant, or more pleasant to deal with, than members of the ultraconservative Swartzentruber Amish sect.

The start of the Empty Chair Project was announced Friday at a press conference conducted by the Veterans Memorial Monument Inc.

Johnstown City Council's newest member knows a thing or two about public safety.