Bedford County News

Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century, would have felt right at home this week in Bedford County.

Cumberland Times-News : BEDFORD, Pa. -- Two Bedford women who stole a 9-year-old girl's gift card on her birthday publicized the matter Tuesday as part of Bedford County District Attorney Bill Higgins' public punishment initiative.

Land surveyor Lee Geisler was researching old property records not long ago when he spotted a criminal record from Fulton County in the 1890s.

Tina Griekspoor stood Tuesday on the corner of Penn and Juliana streets in Bedford, struggling to hold a large cardboard sign as the wind whipped it.

In this photo provided by the Bedford County, Pa. District Attorney's Office, Evelyn Border is seen holding a sign in front of the Bedford County courthouse in Bedford, Pa.

A woman and her daughter are outside a western Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday.

Three Westmoreland County girls who ran away last week from a foster home were found over the weekend in Bedford County, police said.

Old Bedford Village Executive Director Roger Kirwin traded in his Revolutionary War reenactment costume for a business suit Thursday morning, pleading with county leaders to rescind an $18,000 property tax put on the living history museum earlier this year.

The unemployment rate in September increased in Blair and three other counties but decreased in neighboring Huntingdon County.

Firefighters from four departments responded when fire broke out in the basement of a Westmont home around 8:20 p.m. Friday.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike will be closed for a 65-mile stretch between Breezewood and Carlisle overnight Saturday.

A Claysburg man was jailed Tuesday after a chase that brought in police from two counties, Greenfield Township police said.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Some of the area's fall festivals have come and gone, while others are up and coming.

At the Greencastle-Antrim Lioness Club meeting earlier this week in the Antrim House Restaurant, Peggy Ann Bradnick Jackson spoke.

Three area schools made a list of Pennsylvania schools that have dealt with contaminated drinking water within the last decade.

Motorists should expect delays on Route 219 between Sidman and New Germany on Monday between 6 and 7 p.m. The contractor will be lifting a bridge structure that crosses the Norfolk Southern line and the little Conemaugh River.

Each year, about 4,500 American youth under the age of 25 died by suicide, for an average of 12 deaths per day.

When statistics from the U.S. Census for the year 2000 came out, the percentage of Pennsylvanians listing Dutch heritage had skyrocketed from the 1990 census - for no apparent reason.

As two commissioners hesitate to approve new property values, the process the appeals board is using in the county reassessment - and the issues it raises with the Sunshine Act and Right to Know Law - came under question Tuesday.

A Toronto-area resident is suing a Bedford County motel because he said nasty gunk oozed up from the floor as he was taking his morning shower.