Stories for September 2003
Stories for Friday, September 12
Penn State Football Player Pleads Guilty
A Penn State football player, accused of riding a stolen bicycle, will avoid jail time after pleading guilty to two summary offenses. Scott M. Paxson pleaded guilty Wednesday to summary charges of criminal mischief, and riding a bicycle without a headlight. Prosecutors agreed to drop charges of receiving stolen property ...
Stories for Thursday, September 11
Flight 93 National Memorial
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Stories for Wednesday, September 10
Is Centre County Reaches Its Limit
What will the Centre region look like thirty years from now? A new report, put together by the Council Region Planning Staff, estimates the population will grow by nearly twenty thousand people. That will lead to more than 7 thousand new housing units. The projection numbers are based on the ...
Centre County Officials Sued In Inmates Death
Centre County officials are facing a federal lawsuit over the death of a former Penn State student in the county prison The family of Timothy Kulp filed the suit two years after Kulp was found dead. He was jailed after Penn State police charged him with illegally entering several dorm ...
Murder Trial Continues In Somerset County
Jury selection will continue today in Somerset County Court for the murder trial of Todd Mitchell. He's the Meyersdale man accused of beating his girlfriend's 17-month old son to death. Alexander Stull died of head injuries in April of last year. Mitchell is facing first-degree murder charges for the infant's ...
Did A Blair County Man Really Want Police To Kill Him?
Testimony will continue today in the Ricardo Guzman trial. Guzman was arrested last fall after barricading himself in his girlfriend's home. That incident eventually led to a shootout with police. Guzman let his girlfriend go, but he was hurt. Witnesses were called to testify and a neighbor's videotape of what ...
FBI Continues To Look For Second Man
An FBI agent says that one of two men sought by investigators, in the case of a bank robber who died when a bomb locked to his chest exploded, has been interviewed and was not involved in the incident. His identity was not released. Investigators are still looking for a ...
Stories for Tuesday, September 9
The Grateful Life Tour
The Red Cross says a critical shortage of blood still continues. Today they're on the Penn State campus, staging the "Grateful Life" tour. Blood donors receive tie dye t-shirts and pizza. Its designed to be a grassroots effort to spur community awareness about the lack of blood supplies. the Red ...
Centre County Family Files Suit Against Prison Officials
The family of a former Penn State student who hung himself in the Centre County prison has filed a federal lawsuit against the county, and prison officials. Timothy Kulp was found dead in a prison cell almost two years ago. He had been charged by University Police with illegally entering ...
Personal Care Home Under Investigation
A personal care home in Adams Township has created quite a stir within its neighborhood, and members of the community turned out to voice their concern to the township supervisors. The reason for the concern surrounds Sharon's Personal Care Home in South Fork. Residents claim that the home is in ...
Dog Attack In Johnstown
An innocent afternoon walk turned into a terrible scare when two-pit bulls attacked another dog-- and then its owner. Fortunately quick work by police saved the dog, which was attacked, from being killed. The 7-year-old terrier mix, named Jessie, was rushed to the Vet Sunday night after she and her ...
Water Line Breaks In Johnstown
If you are a customer of the Highland Water Authority, crews are on the scene near the Eat-N-Park in Richland working on an early morning water line break. You may experience low pressure or no water until the lines are fixed.
Blair County Legal Battle Continues
Four men, who claim they were injured from inhaling carbon monoxide while repairing a boiler at Appleton Papers, will be able to continue their lawsuits against a Wisconsin company. Blair County Judge Daniel Milliron turned away arguments by Appleton Papers that contractors were responsible for monitoring the safety of employees. ...
Stories for Monday, September 8
Did State Police Do All They Could During Erie Robbery/Explosion?
Investigators say the State Police, and a bomb squad in Erie, did all they could to save a man who had just robbed a bank with explosives clamped around his neck. 46 year-old Brian Wells died on August 29th when a bomb fixed to his neck detonated. Some have criticized ...
Latrobe Man Shot While Sleeping In Car
A Latrobe man is in the hospital after being shot two times, and a Greensburg man is behind bars for the shooting. Police say Harry Shaffer was sleeping in his car when Russell Rowe woke him up. The two got into a fight and Rowe fired into Shaffer's car six ...
Olympic Skating Coach Visits Planet Ice
Over the years he's trained figure skating Olympians, and now, he's sharing his talents with people in our region. Olympic Coach Valentine Nikolev taught a skating clinic Saturday at Johnstowns Planet Ice. The coach spent much of the time helping young skaters perfect everything from their triple jumps to their ...
Sani Dairy Is Going Down
Plans are still in the works to demolish the Sani Dairy building in Johnstown. City leaders feel potential businesses will be able to understand how much space is available if the vacant structure is taken down. They say the approximately 6 acre space should be attractive to a number of ...
Stories for Sunday, September 7
Steelers Roll In Home Opener
PITTSBURGH (AP) - On a day filled with mismatches, the biggest of all might have been Tommy Maddox against a Ravens defense supposedly among the NFL's best. Maddox threw three touchdowns passes, two to Hines Ward, and Pittsburgh's defense roughed up Baltimore rookie quarterback Kyle Boller in his NFL debut, ...
Stories for Saturday, September 6
Braves Blast Pirates
ATLANTA (AP) - Greg Maddux made it look easy against one of his favorite patsies as he moved toward another milestone in his march to 300 wins. Maddux pitched into the eighth inning and within one victory of becoming the first major leaguer to win at least 15 games in ...
Coleman Hopes To Boost Eagles' Depleted Defensive Line
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Marco Coleman went from facing an uncertain future after he was cut by Jacksonville to taking a crash course of Philadelphia's playbook. He'll have to catch up quickly. "I was out there today and my head was swimming," Coleman said. Coleman, wearing No. 93, practiced Saturday with ...
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