Somerset County News

Pike County Economic Development Authority Executive Director Michael Sullivan can crunch numbers like they're an empty can of soda.

More than 300 people came out to the Kingwood Church of God Sunday afternoon to honor Somerset County 's veterans.

The number of students enrolled in cyber charter school programs has increased throughout Somerset County during the past several years, much to the dismay of local school administrators.

Somerset County police are investigating a case of identity theft. Police are searching for a suspect who they say stole Christopher Yodder's bank account information.

Editor's note: This feature is a collaboration between the Somerset County Sheriff's Department and the Daily American to apprehend individuals who are wanted on warrants for failing to appear at court hearings.

State officials dedicated the new Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail Bridge in Somerset County.

The Somerset County commissioners approved three 2012 community improvement grants as the result of profits generated by the Community Service Recycling Program.

No one was hurt after a bomb threat was made at the Bald Eagle Area School District Wednesday.

Officials in Altoona will introduce an ordinance that forbids certain pets in the city Wednesday night.

The Somerset County Office Building has windows - lots of them. "I don't know how many windows it has, but the courthouse has 133 and the office building has more," said Dan Gindlesperger, head of the county's maintenance department.

By a vote of 2-1, the Somerset County commissioners guaranteed the debt of a refinanced 2007 water revenue bond Tuesday.

Four Pennsylvania men have been charged with fraud following a statewide sting called "Operation False Comfort". Attorney General officials say Bruce Howard Cherry, Ross Rabelow, Thomas Muldoon and Robert Lerner are all accused of conspiring to operate a financial fraud scheme.

George Richard "Dick" Wetmiller, 87, was born March 16, 1925, in Berlin, Pa., the son of George H. and Elfreda M. Wetmiller.

State Police in Somerset County are searching for a 16-year old teen that made deadly threats via text message to another teen and her baby.

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Richard J. Allan today announced that the swimming beach at Kooser Lake in Kooser State Park, Somerset County, will be closed indefinitely due to unsafe conditions related to too much sedimentation and algae.

Emergency dispatchers say a trio of kayakers found by a search team in southwestern Pennsylvania were never really lost, but had simply stopped to nap along the stream where they had been riding.

Somerset County 911 tells Channel 4 Action News three kayakers who were presumed missing when they were not heard from in over 12 hours, were actually never missing or even lost.

MONDAY, MAY 21, 2012 CRASHESa ONE FATALITY ONE PERSON DIED IN A CRASH JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT SUNDAY IN ANTIS TOWNSHIP, BLAIR COUNTY.

After spending the past two years in Somerset, Michael Gregory is ready to take the next step in his life.

Britta Musser, 18, is finding her roots one distant relative at a time. The Somerset Area High School senior has been tracing her family line all the way back to their arrival to earliest days of the nation.