Coalport News

Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging, Inc. and Clearfield Colonial Courtyard staff gathered together recently to plan for their Summer Celebration.

A state House bill that would charge municipalities lacking police departments $156 annually for each resident to cover the cost of state police protection is so unpopular, it may necessitate police protection at upcoming municipal meetings.

Once again the Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging, Inc., in cooperation with the PA Department of Agriculture, will be distributing Farmer Market Nutrition Program food vouchers.

According to Charlie McQuown, deputy chief, Reade Fire Co., he went past the barn at about 9:45 p.m. and nothing was showing, but about 45 minutes later it was fully engulfed.

A 69-year-old Coalport man's residence was burglarized sometime between 11 a.m. May 15 and 7 p.m. Saturday, the Clearfield State Police reported.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, police responded to a report of a burglary at the Osceola Hotel on May 16.

Four people accused of breaking into the Osceola Hotel were scheduled to appear at Centralized Court on Wednesday.

In conjunction with the Morris-Cooper Regional Police Department, troopers conducted "Operation My Safe Prom Night" in the West Branch area.

Troopers are investigating an incident of disorderly conduct Friday at the Winburne firehall when someone used their vehicle to throw stones at another vehicle driven by an 18-year-old man.

A pair of Amish families have been evicted from their homes for failing to follow a judge's order to get their properties' sewage systems into compliance.

Daniel Stephenson Jr. of Coalport was involved in a hit-and-run accident yesterday on Market Street in Beccaria Township in which he lost control of his vehicle and it struck an embankment and a fence.

No charges were filed April 7 when a vehicle traveling west on Interstate 80 slid off the roadway and struck a vehicle that was disabled in the median from a previous accident.

A coroner says a Pennsylvania trucker loading lumber onto his tractor trailer was killed when he fell, setting a forklift in motion that crushed the man between the lift's boom and its roof.

The $825 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or "stimulus package," comprised $275 million in tax cuts, the rest in investments.

Five mayors from Clearfield County celebrated National Mayors for Meals Day by serving meals on wheels to recipients in the boroughs of Clearfield, Coalport, Curwensville, and Ramey and the city of DuBois.

Yesterday, a tractor-trailer traveling on Interstate 80 in Graham Township struck a piece of scrap metal, which caused it to strike another vehicle.

Teens injured on their way to school in a crash last week are on the mend, family and friends say.

To correct the problem, an alley between Hopkins and Irvin streets was widened, and residents living on the upper side of Hopkins were asked to park in the alley so those living on the lower side could park in ...

Four teenagers were injured - one critically - when their Ford Explorer went out of control and rolled over twice around 7:30 this morning as they were enroute to Glendale Area High School.

Erika Young of Altoona was charged for passing a bad check at Leyo's Supermarket in Coalport Jan.