Hastings News

At 6:18 a.m. Sunday, Fred Speaker, 21, Camp Hill, was found intoxicated after he pounded a door of a residence at 333 North Eighth St., according to borough police.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A panel of judges has dismissed a lawsuit against a utility company for a western Pennsylvania fire that killed four people.

In a split 2-1 decision, Cambria County judges have dismissed a civil lawsuit against Penelec in a 2005 Hastings house fire that claimed the lives of four people.

A firefighter has died of a heart attack responding to a blaze at an abandoned building in central Pennsylvania, and a fire marshal has ruled it an arson.

A 28-year member of the Westover Area Volunteer Fire Company, Clearfield County, Westover, Pa., Station No.

By KATHY MELLOTT KMELLOTT@TRIBDEM.COM PATTON - Changes in design of a shoreline erosion-control project at Prince Gallitzin State Park have eliminated the need to draw down the water level at Glendale Lake by five feet, a state official has confirmed.

Federal clean water rankings place the Northern Cambria and Hastings public water systems in the top five Pennsylvania systems polluted with an industrial chemical that is associated with cancer, heart ailments and other illnesses.

Kendra Prasko stands rapt before the African bush elephants. "I love animals" says Prasko, 17, from Hastings in Cambria County.

Area police departments face similar struggles: including rising costs, manpower and scheduling.

A Northern Cambria woman gave birth on the way to Altoona Hospital after another hospital could not perform the delivery, authorities said.