Johnstown News

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM A violin virtuoso has become a favorite with Johnstown audiences.

Voters in two western Pennsylvania counties have apparently elected their first female Common Pleas judges.

Tom Trigona is keeping the mayor's chair in Johnstown. The Democratic incumbent held off a strong challenge from Republican Sharyn Spinelli, who lost by 238 votes with all precincts reporting late Tuesday.

A Fairton man facing child pornography charges in Cumberland County recently admitted in Superior Court in Western Pennsylvania that he traveled to Pennsylvania to sexually assault a teenage girl he met on the Internet, according to reports.

Singer Kenny Rogers, recognized for his silky-smooth voice and silver mane, returns to Johnstown during his Christmas and Hits Tour.

With only a few hotly contested local races and some state judgeships at stake Tuesday, election officials and a political analyst are expecting a low voter turnout at the polls in Cambria and Somerset counties.

The Johnstown Cambria County Airport has been criticized about their financial state but theyre pushing a campaign called The Plane Truth to get their message across.

A defense attorney wants to stop representing a troubled Iraq war veteran who faces the possible death penalty on charges he fatally shot two people while robbing a sandwich shop in Altoona.

Jurors found Friday that Bruce Emerick did not maliciously take his fiancee's life, but negligently did set up the conditions that led to her death - a loaded rifle standing in a crowded bedroom.

This after a boy locked himself in a classroom with access to knives. Richland Township Police quickly responded.

Johnstown officials have a proposed budget for next year, but there's a giant hole in it.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM The holidays are approaching and the Garden Club of Johnstown will celebrate with its annual fundraiser.

Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a fast-moving fire sparked by a faulty valve on a dryer claimed the life of a teenage girl and injured her grandfather.

The attorney defending a Johnstown native charged in a double homicide in Blair County wants off the case.

A borough policeman testified Monday that Bruce Emerick confessed - just minutes after his fiancee was shot to death on Dec.

It was less than 20 years ago when Dr. Nancy E. Davidson was in the audience to hear geneticist Mary-Claire King announce she had identified the chromosome with a gene responsible for some inherited breast cancer.

Linda Hardin of Nanty Glo gives a thyroid doctor credit for her surviving breast cancer.

Four Johnstown area residents have either been sentenced or entered guilty pleas in federal court in Johnstown for a variety of offenses.

A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty in Cambria County Court to four felony charges in the sexual abuse of a Johnstown-area teenaged girl whom he met online.

A former Somerset County high school teacher was acquitted Tuesday of raping an eighth-grade student in 2001.