News Stories for April 2005
Stories for Saturday, April 30
Flight 93
Big changes coming to the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel. Members of the Garden Club Federation of Pennsylvania and the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel director announced the changes on Saturday. They unveiled plans for a Flight 93 Crew Monument, a Heroes Memorial Garden, and a Children's Peace Garden. Both gardens should ...
Stories for Friday, April 29
New Technology For Breast Cancer Patients
Theres a new MRI at Windber's Breast Cancer Center. Its twice as fast, more powerful and more accurate than what's used now. The magnet used to get the images is 70,000 times more powerful than the gravitational pull of the earth. Within months it will be able to disintegrate a ...
Coal Miner Age Discrimination?
Local experienced miners have been turned down after applying for a job at the new AMFIRE mine in Cambria County. In March, AMFIRE promised hundreds of new jobs, but former miners say that promise apparently doesn't apply to them. Several miners contacted Channel 6 News saying they applied for jobs ...
Stories for Thursday, April 28
Violent Dogs In Johnstown
Johnstown City Council members adopted a zero tolerance policy against violent stray dogs in the area Wednesday night. The policy says if a dog is attacking you or your child, police can now shoot the dog on site. This all comes on the heels of the city's animal control officer ...
Stories for Wednesday, April 27
Lee Hospital Employees Meet With Conemaugh
Conemaugh officials hoped to ease some of those concerns. They met with Lee Hospital employees Wednesday to announce some of their plans. The goal of these meetings is to let employees know some of their plans and hopefully ease their concern. But many Lee Hospital employees say it didn't work. ...
New Johnstown Fire Chief Announced
Anthony Kovacic was appointed to the position Wednesday morning by City Manager, Jeff Silka. Kovacic was Deputy Fire Chief and was serving as Interim Fire Chief. He's been with the Johnstown Fire Department for 16 years in many roles including the first training officer. Silka says because of his work ...
New Proposal For Johnstown
The proposal involves putting an upscale coffeehouse and loft apartments in a vacant building along Clinton Street. The building sits next to the Clinton Street Pizza and 6 Pack. It was recently used as storage. But now a Florida developer, originally from Johnstown, wants it for a coffeehouse and apartments. ...
School District Bans Student Teaching
Altoona Area School District officials have banned Penn State Altoona students from student teaching in the district. District officials say they are concerned about the supervision of student teachers. The program's director is retiring, but Penn State officials say the program is not changing. They say there must be something ...
Centre County Rape
Centre County police say they need help in tracking down a rapist, after a 52-year-old woman says a man entered her home through an unlocked door while she was sleeping, and held a knife to her throat and raped her. Police say they are looking for a white male in ...
Stories for Tuesday, April 26
Deer Decision
Originally, many hunters in our region said they wanted doe season eliminated for one or two years to try to regenerate the population. On Tuesday, the Game Commission came to a sort of compromise. That compromise, very simply involves slashing hundreds of thousands of doe licenses available to hunters in ...
Conemaugh Addresses Maternity Rumors
Officials at Conemaugh Health System and Lee Hospital have not said if the maternity unit at Lee Hospital is to close when Conemaugh takes over, however, Conemaugh officials are to hold a press conference Thursday to announce some of their plans. Published reports say the Maternity unit at Lee Hospital ...
Deer Debate Continues
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is to decide the 2005-2006 hunting season doe licenses allotment Tuesday. At Monday's meeting, hunters voiced their concerns about what they say are dwindling numbers. A Somerset County hunter says the commission cannot afford to continue to ignore their warnings. "they'll be depleted to a point ...
Stories for Monday, April 25
Somerset County On Alert
Police sat the burglary spree happened over the weekend when three townships and one borough were hit. Three businesses and two homes were hit between Friday night and Saturday morning. The burglaries happened in Stoneycreek, Shade, and Jefferson Townships as well Boswell. According to published reports, the burglar used an ...
Everett Evacuation
Main Street closed and emergency crews covered the area....This, after an employee at Susquehanna Bank in Everett, Bedford County finds a box sitting under the overhang of the drive through window. She called the bank manager, who called state police...and then explosives experts were called in from Harrisburg. After x-raying ...
Shopping Center Project May Be For Sale
Logan Town Centre developer, Greg Morris, says his company has been required by different state agencies to put in more money than any other shopping center developer in state history. Now, the project may be for sale. Project owners say they are talking with national developers. Morris says there is ...
Stories for Sunday, April 24
Deadly Accident
A Somerset County woman is dead following a Friday night accident. Linda Houck, of Meyersdale, was pronounced dead at a Johnstown hospital Saturday. Somerset State Police say Gregory Smith ran a stop sign and slammed his car into the side of Houck's truck. It happened at Shaffer Crossroads along the ...
Stories for Saturday, April 23
DuBois City Councilman Faces Lewdness Charges
Three-term city council member, John Micks was arrested at a rest area along Interstate 86 near Randolph, New York. According to police, Micks was found by an undercover officer in a public area, committing a lewd act. He is to answer those charges in court next month.
River Rendezvous
They braved the wet weather and rapids this weekend in Somerset County. The Stonycreek Rendezvous went on all weekend. Hundreds of boaters faced mother nature head on and gave local restaurants something to smile about. The event took place at Greenhouse Park in Benscreek. It created a welcomed ripple of ...
Divers Search River For Missing District Attorney
Search crews and a cadaver dog in a boat - divers in the Susquehanna River and others combing the river banks, all looking for missing Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar. Bellefonte police chief, Duane Dixon, says "This is the place for them to go in at. And, its close ...
Stories for Friday, April 22
New Jobs In Somerset In Jeopardy
Fleetwood Folding Trailers were expecting more business after one company site closed in Maryland. But now, business is slow for Fleetwood Folding Trailers. Instead of adding more jobs, like the company planned to, they've laid off workers. 10% of their non-union workforce is now without a job. That's 11 people ...
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