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HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Buffalo, N.Y., man convicted of trafficking heroin in Blair County in the late 1990s is being released from state prison in light of a 12-to-24 year sentence handed down Thursday to replace a sentence of 60 to 150 years imposed in 2000. Senior Judge Timothy M. Sullivan imposed the new sentence on […]

pray@altoonamirror.com A panel of judges from the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has rejected a request from a Clearfield man to address what he considers undue delay in hearing his appeal before the U.S. District Court in Johnstown. The defendant, Luther L. Ware Jr., 70, is serving a prison term of 11 to 30 years at the State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale. Ware was convicted in 2015 on two counts of possession with intent to deliver cocaine, delivery and related offenses ...