Tyrone News

David Travis Garner, of rural Tyrone, faces assault and driving under the influence charges as the result of an incident in a DelGrosso's Amusement Park parking lot Friday night, state police said.

An Easton man was arrested in connection with the stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in Phillipsburg, early Sunday, police said.

John Eichelberger: The American Dream On our country's birth month, State Senator John H.Eichelberger, Jr.

Now in its 10th year, the Wiest-Wehry Memorial Golf Tournament, scheduled for Saturday, has raised about $135,000 for scholarships in memory of five Line Mountain School District students who perished in a 1998 ...

A young man on a bicycle pulled up beside a parked car on 54th and Webster streets last night and opened fire, critically wounding a 29-year-old man who was sitting in the car with his girlfriend, said police ...

Community oriented growth and development plans, in his opinion, are what he believes will truly make Tyrone the "Place for Pleasant Living." In his own estimate, he expects to see positive changes in Tyrone ...

Uni- Marts LLC filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday as part of an overall plan to sell the company, an attorney representing the company said.

“I long to see who you'll be. What you'll love and all you'll do. Can't wait to know you. Can't wait to look into your eyes. Can't wait to hold you.”

The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school, when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams in Big Yank work pants. via The Courier-Journal

Two local radio stations will change hands in about a month, if no objections are filed with the Federal Communications Commission. via Centre Daily Times

“But, obviously, this is a very difficult time for me and my family. And I'm asking people for their prayers for my family.”

An attorney working with the doctor who has been trying to reopen Philipsburg's hospital was charged Monday with indecent assault. via Centre Daily Times

“But as a habitat organization, we'll also focus on wetland and woodland habitat work as those opportunities arise.”

Central Pennsylvania is home to two new Pheasants Forever chapters. Residents from Blair County have formed the Blair County Chapter of PF, while residents from Centre County have formed the Central ... via Pheasants Forever

“The idea is to subdivide off into smaller properties”

Larry Dick has a vision for the 52-acre property he just purchased across from the former Born2Run Sports Complex in Springfield Township. via The Herald

Five people were killed Sunday in Philadelphia bringing the death toll for the year to 101. via Philly.com

“A 400-foot apparatus would interfere with that.”

Submitted by voicesweb on Wed, 2008-04-23 14:51. article & photo by Anthony Spaulding The winds of change are blowing energy alternatives into central Pennsylvania and stirring up debate along the way. via Voices Online

The Philipsburg State Police reported theft Tuesday just off South Mountain Road west of the Bald Eagle Pike in Taylor Township, Centre County. via GantDaily.com

Mr. and Mrs. Donald Johnson , Hanover, a son, March 22, 2008, at Hanover Hospital. via Evening Sun

A judge has upheld a sentence of 300 hours of community service for an animal activist convicted of stealing a dog from a Blair County couple. via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“And all of Gamesa's siting decisions are based on sound science.”

TYRONE -- A jet circling overhead, a neighbor's thumping bass or a train's brakes squealing as it rounds a curve.

These are scenarios Todd Stull and Clair Chappell use to describe how the noise of spinning wind turbines have shattered their once idyllic life in the mountains.

'We cannot escape the noise,' Stull said. 'This issue cannot be trivialized. It's nothing short of a pollution problem.'

Stull and Chappell, who live next to the Allegheny Ridge Wind Farm in Blue Knob, warned borough residents not to chose a similar fate during a public forum Wednesday in Tyrone. Read more

“It was this idea she had in mind in carrying out her charitable work”

This month I chose to write about a local nurse, who gave her life in the line of duty nearly 100 years ago and whose legacy lives on. via The Lebanon Daily News

“Today's drug arrests are part of an ongoing effort to target local, street-level drug dealers, who are working in connection with upper-level dealers to peddle their drugs on the streets of Blair County”

Fourteen individuals, classified as street-level drug dealers, have been charged with dealing a variety of different drugs in the Tyrone area. via Attorneygeneral.gov