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The decision by Blair County voters to not retain President Judge Elizabeth Doyle for another 10-year term and the death of former Congressman Bud Shuster were voted the top local stories of 2023 by the Mirror newsroom. The news staff voted in December on the top stories from a ballot that included the most prominent […]
A federal judge has determined that a former Altoona man on death row for killing his estranged girlfriend in 2004 is no longer competent to represent himself i
The Blair County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that it plans to seek the death penalty in the stabbing death of 42-year-old Christopher Helsel.
HOLLIDAYSBURG — An Altoona man accused of killing his neighbor and living with the dead man’s body for days will face trial after all charges in the case we
A city man charged with murder had been living with the dead man’s body in his living room for several days before police, responding to a report of a burglar