Category Archives: Local News
UPDATE: CRASH AT INTERCHANGE DUE TO HIGH SPEED
More details have come in concerning a car crash this morning at the interchange of Routes 22 and 119. Blacklick Fire Department 2nd Assistant Chief Dan Shacreaw said that the car involved was going t...
Bill Berry Nov 05, 2018
SIX TO BE HONORED WITH IUP YOUNG ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Six recent alumni of IUP will return to campus today to accept the Young Alumni Achievement Award. In a news release, IUP announced that the six recipients for this year include: Justin Brown, who gra...
Bill Berry Nov 05, 2018
REGION’S FALL FOLIAGE “STARTING TO FADE”
Don't blink or you'll miss it...the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources publishes a weekly fall foliage map, and for this week it says Indiana County, most of our neighbors, and eve...
Bill Berry Nov 05, 2018
COOK’S ATTORNEY FILES MOTION TO DISMISS HOMICIDE CASE
The attorney for Charles Cook on Friday filed a motion to dismiss the charges against his client, citing state law that demands a speedy trial. The 65-year-old Cook is charged with criminal homicide a...
Bill Berry Nov 05, 2018
GREENSTEIN OPTIMISTIC AFTER STATE SYSTEM TOUR
In a series of tweets, State System of Higher Education Chancellor Dan Greenstein this weekend summed up his tour of all fourteen state-owned universities, saying they fueled his optimism, pride, and ...
Bill Berry Nov 05, 2018
ONE PERSON INJURED IN CRASH EARLY MONDAY MORNING
One person was injured this morning in a traffic crash on the Route 119 on-ramp from Route 22. Indiana County 911 reported the call came in at 12:20 this morning for Blairsville and Blacklick fire dep...
Bill Berry Nov 05, 2018
ONE INJURED IN RT 119 CRASH SATURDAY NIGHT
One person was injured in a crash involving a dump truck on Route 119 just outside of Homer City. Fire crews were called out around 8 o'clock Saturday night to the intersection of Route 119 and Lucern...
Bill Berry Nov 04, 2018
POLICE REPORTS: BURGLARY, PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS
Indiana Borough Police report an instance of burglary, and an incident of public drunkenness. Police say a burglar broke into a home in the 200 block of South 10th Street between 2 PM Friday and 7 PM ...
Bill Berry Nov 04, 2018
TWO OF FIVE MOST WANTED SUSPECTS IN CUSTODY
Two of the five suspects whom state police listed as the "five most wanted" for November are now in custody. 44-year-old Todd Eric Quidetto of Blairsville turned himself in at the state police barrack...
Bill Berry Nov 04, 2018
RURAL VALLEY MAN FACES RAPE CHARGES
State police out of Kittanning have arrested a Rural Valley man and charged him with statutory sexual assault. Police say the charges in this case goes back to June when 20-year-old Jordan Blake Grove...
Bill Berry Nov 03, 2018