Bedford News

Share + Jul 3, 2009 8:05 am US/Eastern BEDFORD, Pa. A south central Pennsylvania man had pleaded guilty but mentally ill to fatally bludgeoning his father with a long-handled, wood-splitting hammer last year.

In what is being called Operation Sunburn, the Bedford County Drug Task Force and Pennsylvania State Police arrested 10 people early Tuesday on drug distribution charges.

BEDFORD, Pa. - A former youth mentor in Bedford County will spend the next 20 to 40 years in prison for molesting a 14-year-old girl whom he was assigned to mentor.

A Bedford County man has died as the result of a single vehicle crash June 11, state police at Bedford reported this morning.

For tourists: Once it gets its period wheels, this apple truck will be placed at Shatzers Fruit Market, 2197 Lincoln Way West.

Several Bedford residents asked City Council on Tuesday to keep two school resource officers posted at Bedford Middle School and Bedford Elementary School.

State police are investigating a case of cemetery vandalism near this Indiana County community.

There is still time for the public to offer input on how Pennsylvania can best use federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to deploy broadband throughout the state, Governor Edward G. Rendell said today.

Working to keep the streams and lakes of Southwestern Pennsylvania jumping during trout season, the volunteer program of the state Fish and Boat Commission in the region is considered by at least one man as among the best.

Armed sheriff's deputies will be standing guard while residents wait for informal hearings on their property reassessments at one south-central Pennsylvania county.

Armed sheriff's deputies will be standing guard while residents wait for informal hearings on their property reassessments at one south-central Pennsylvania county.

WHY? This south central Pennsylvania town boasts covered bridges, a 130-year-old county fair, outdoorsy activities and a classic spa, reborn.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Neil Berg's 101 Years of Broadway, the stars singing Broadway hits, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, Richland Township.

A western Pennsylvania county wants a nonprofit living history museum to pay taxes, hitting the tourist destination just as the economy takes a toll.

The Bedford County District Attorney, the Pennsylvania State Police and the Bedford Borough Police are requesting assistance in locating a fugitive from justice.

An Ebensburg woman pleaded guilty this week to having a sex party last year with young boys.

March was a busy month for Chapter Q, Gold Wing Road Riders of Warren. They had a dinner ride to the Fernwood Inn on March 7 with 14 people attending.

Mary Pickels can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-5401. Motorists along Route 30 West in Ligonier Township Wednesday slowed to a crawl, and sometimes stopped, as a 21-foot-high replica of a 1940s gasoline pump was lowered by crane onto a concrete slab near the entrance to Idlewild Park.

Fred T. LeCrone Jr., 47, LeCrone Road, Altoona RR 6, died Saturday morning in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., as the result of an automobile accident.

Dorel Industries, parent company of Cannondale bicycles, announced on Thursday that it will cut 200 jobs from its manufacturing facility in Bedford.