Windber News

Even the Grinch can't steal this Christmas. Borough police are collecting toys and cash for the 10th annual Christmas for Kids drive for families in need.

Christmas is back on for some children in Somerset County. The phone has been ringing off of the hook at the Windber police department, with people wanted to know how they can help save a Christmas program, that gives kids in need gifts, and their families food vouchers, for the holiday.

A man who walked away from the Johnstown Community Corrections Center on Washington Street a week ago is back in custody.

A Stoystown tavern worker was charged with illegal gambling after authorities said he paid out cash to a woman playing a video poker machine.

The former treasurer of SS. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church on Hoffman Farm Road near Windber has been charged with stealing more than $40,000 in church funds through her nearly five years of employment there.

Click small images above to enlarge. Turkey is, of course, a staple of Thanksgiving, and a group in Somerset County wants to make sure area families don't go hungry this holiday.

The first of 22 proposed housing units has been completed, marking the official opening of Hillside View Estates.

Jim and Ann Petrunak expected to greet a fair number of bargain shoppers during Petrunak's Clearance Outlet's first week of business.

State police are searching for a man who escaped from the Johnstown Community Corrections Center.

This ceremony was at the Jackson Township Senior Center. A Central Cambria High School Teacher who served in Iraq talked about his experience in the military.

The abrupt discharge of longtime borough administrative assistant Robin Gates on Tuesday disrupted at least one popular community program.

In a shocking move that drew criticism, Borough Council eliminated longtime administrative assistant Robin Gates' job Tuesday.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Tony Kenney, one of the most respected entertainers in Ireland, will show Americans how the holidays are celebrated in the Emerald Isle.

Like dozens of other children across the region, Abby Bush, 6, of Windber, came down with a fever this month.

The Indiana County commissioners have approved bids for work on a project that will expand the Blairsville Municipal Authority sewage treatment plant.

A controversial decision to end ties with Central City Volunteer Fire Company has raised the stakes in the race for a six-year Shade Township supervisor's seat in Tuesday's election.

Faced with a $1.3 million estimate to replace its mold- and asbestos-contaminated municipal building, borough leaders are grasping at every option to provide a safe operations base.

Adam Dulak said he wasn't thinking about the Group of 20 summit at midnight Sept.

Ignoring warnings by residents that they were splitting the community, Shade Township supervisors Thursday forged a five-year deal with the Richland Township Fire Department for a satellite site in Cairnbrook.

A Windber woman killed her boyfriend and then herself early Friday, police in the borough said.