Huntingdon News

When it comes to politics, there usually is more than meets the eye. Students from Mifflin and Juniata county high schools opened their eyes to new viewpoints during the 11th annual Model United Nations Conference, held Monday at Juniata College in Huntingdon.

Area residents celebrated the efforts of Crossroads Pregnancy Center Thursday at its annual banquet, held at the Evangel Baptist Church in Lewistown.

Two hospitalized in Walker Twp. crash A 51-year-old Huntingdon woman and 41-year-old Huntingdon man suffered severe injuries after a Saturday evening car crash involving two 17-year-old Bellefonte boys, police say.

Share + Nov 2, 2009 5:32 pm US/Eastern Reporting Mary Robb Jackson NORTH HUNTINGDON Students in the Norwin School District in North Huntingdon are being given the opportunity to have the H1N1 FluMist nasal spray.

Despite rumors that as many as six students at the middle school have H1N1, Southmoreland Superintendent John Halfhill said there have been no cases there or anywhere else in the district.

With the national unemployment rate near 10 percent, career services departments at colleges are working harder than ever to help their students find jobs.

Knowing state lawmakers are loathe to eliminate their own seats, a Republican senator Wednesday proposed a slow-motion plan to reduce the size of the Legislature each decade.

Audrey Luciana's two children say their writing teacher at Redeemer Lutheran School is tough.

Background: Querriera holds bachelor's degrees in international business and German from Juniata College, Huntingdon, and a master's in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania State Police Huntingdon said a McVeytown woman died on Oct. 22, following a head on collision with another car on state Route 22 at Mill Stone Manor in Henderson Township.

A woman who used to do maintenance work for some western Pennsylvania nuns is suing the order for allegedly not stopping sexual harassment by a man also employed by the sisters.

John Los wasn't planning to become Huntingdon Area High School's head varsity boys basketball coach again.

In a split decision, a U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions of animal-rights activists charged under a terrorism statute with using their Web site to incite threats and vandalism against a company that tests products on animals.

More than a month after a judge found that a North Huntingdon lighting shop violated consumer protection laws, the business is up and running with no apparent instances of new violations.

A former Westmoreland County Prison supervisor, fired after officials implicated him in the fallout from an alleged beating of an inmate, wants his job back.

Citing "philosophical differences" as the reason for his decision, Jeremy Uhrich has resigned as the varsity boys basketball coach at Huntingdon Area High School after two seasons.

Westmoreland County 911 reported a hunter was found dead in East Huntingdon Monday evening.

William Frankfort, president of the Peters Creek Historical Society, and Larry Gallant, right, the society's field investigator, speculate on the origins of a stone monolith along the Montour Trail in South Park.

New bridge on Route 2012 eliminates detour A new bridge has opened, spanning Muddy Creek on state Route 2012 in Gregg Township, about two miles southeast of the road's intersection with state Route 45.

Volunteer firefighters enrolled in the FireVEST program work together to extinguish a propane tank fire in a drill at the Allegheny County Fire Academy in North Park.