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A state appeals court has upheld a lifetime sexual registration requirement imposed on a former Altoona Area High School girls assistant soccer coach in 2014, after she pleaded guilty to the abuse of two of her players. The coach, Kyla A. Hollingshead, now 34, of Pittsburgh, has repeatedly challenged the lifetime requirement as unconstitutional because […]
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld the conviction and life sentence of John E. Hoffman of Johnstown, who was convicted 26 months ago of murdering a 74-year-old man during a robbery in the victim’s Geistown home. A Cambria County jury convicted Hoffman, 56, of using a club or pipe to kill Anthony Profaizer on Nov. […]
An Altoona man described as a mid-level drug dealer has lost his bid to overturn his conviction and 25- to 117-year prison sentence, according to a Superior Court opinion issued late last week. Darwin Maurice Herring Sr., 41, incarcerated in the State Correctional Institution at Rockview in Centre County, argued in his appeal that he […]
A panel of Superior Court judges on Wednesday upheld the 21- to 42-year prison sentence imposed on a former Bellwood-Antis Middle School wrestling coach convicted of sexual offenses against two student-athletes. Blair County Judge Daniel J. MiIliron, now retired, sentenced the former coach, Ryan L. Blazier, 22 months ago after a jury found him guilty […]
Voters will have to fill one seat on the Commonwealth Court and two on the Superior Court when they cast their ballots on Tuesday, Nov. 7.