Category Archives: Local News
WEISS ATTORNEYS MUST FILE DOUBLE JEOPARDY CLAIM BY DECEMBER 17
After a status conference yesterday, Indiana County Judge Thomas Bianco gave attorneys for 70-year-old Ronald Weiss until December 17th to file a pretrial motion raising a double jeopardy claim as the...
Oct 30, 2018
JUVENILE CHARGES FILED IN SCHOOL THREATS
Indiana Borough Police have filed a Juvenile Allegation with the Indiana County Probation Department, charging a juvenile with making two threats against the Junior High School. In a separate incident...
Oct 30, 2018
MCSB APPROVES CONDITIONAL STAFF RATE INCREASES, FITNESS CENTER PURCHASES
The Marion Center school board approved yearly salary rate increase plans for certain staff members and approved purchases as part of the fitness center expansion project. The board approved a three y...
Oct 29, 2018
INDIANA WOMAN SUSPECTED OF PASSING COUNTERFEIT BILLS
Police moved quickly to crack a counterfeiting case, taking an Indiana woman into custody Friday. Now, they're advising business owners to watch for other phony bills that might still be in circulatio...
Oct 29, 2018
POLICE NAB FUGITIVE, FIND DRUGS AND A GUN
State Police working with Blairsville Borough Police apprehended a fugitive Pittsburgh woman just before eleven o'clock Sunday morning at a home in Blairsville. 26-year-old Tamara Newland was wanted i...
Oct 29, 2018
MORE INFORMATION RELEASED ON SHOTS FIRED INCIDENT IN DOWNTOWN INDIANA
Indiana Borough Police have released more information on the shooting Sunday morning in the borough. Joe Clement of Indiana Borough Police said that the two victims were treated and then released from...
Oct 29, 2018
MARION CENTER BOARD TO DISCUSS FITNESS CENTER TONIGHT
A school fitness center will be the focus of some of the discussion tonight at the Marion Center School Board meeting. The agenda for tonight's meeting includes two proposals from Webster Fitness: one...
Oct 29, 2018
WEISS STATUS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR TODAY
A status conference is scheduled today for Ronald Weiss, the 70-year-old man whose murder conviction in the 1978 death of a 16-year-old Tunnelton girl was overturned this year by a federal judge. The ...
Oct 29, 2018
DEFENDANTS TO BE SENTENCED IN INDIANA COUNTY COURT
A number of defendants will be sentenced in Indiana County Court today, including several for felony drug offenses. All of the defendants pleaded guilty, most to reduced charges. They include: 25-year...
Oct 29, 2018
ELDERLY WOMAN FATALLY STRUCK BY VEHICLE IN PINE TWP
Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman Jr. says an elderly woman died early yesterday morning when she was struck by an a vehicle as she was crossing Route 422 to get her newspaper. Overman says 80-year...
Oct 28, 2018
