Courtesy photo The Friends of the Hollidaysburg Area Public Library presented a check for $14,000 to HAPL Library Director ...

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The Portage Area girls basketball team is replacing five starters from last year but has already built an identity as a team with an elite ability to get to the foul line along with the full-court ...

Eyer reaches milestone By Andy Stine [email protected] It’s fitting that the slang term for $1,000 dollars is ‘a grand ...

President Donald Trump surveyed disaster zones in California and North Carolina on Friday and said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, offering the latest sign ...

Blair County commissioners have approved specifications and the advertisement of bids on milk, food and non-food items at the county prison. The proposed contract will ask contractors to identify ...

The Altoona Redevelopment Authority has authorized its staff to draw up a request for proposals for renovation of a house on two lots on the 300 block of Wopsononock Avenue. It’s the third RFP for ...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s highest court on Thursday confirmed a slander conviction against U.S. defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man of murdering her British flatmate 17 years ago in a ...

Throughout the war, the Israeli military had barred Palestinians from returning to the north by severing Gaza along the Netzarim corridor, a belt that runs east to west across the strip where troops ...

More than 118 million children had their schooling interrupted in April alone, UNICEF said, as large parts of the Middle East and Asia, from Gaza in the west to the Philippines in the southeast, ...

Shaina Harris of Baltimore dries her car after a wash at the All Washed Up Auto Spa on East Southey Avenue on Friday ...

Trump on Monday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and announced plans to send U.S. troops and restrict refugees and asylum, saying he wants to halt illegal entry and border crime ...