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HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Blair County jury took about a half hour Friday to convict an Altoona man of resisting arrest on Christmas Eve 2022, despite the man’s claims that he wasn’t resisting. Kuwait D. Anderson, 37, tried unsuccessfully to convince the jury that Altoona police forcibly removed him from his residence without justification. “They’re in […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Williamsburg man will be on house arrest for six months, then probation for 3.5 years, to address two misdemeanor convictions from a July 4, 2020, incident where the man said he fired a shotgun to scare neighbors who were setting off fireworks that he believed were endangering his residence. Blair County President […]
BEDFORD — New details in the case of a Duncansville woman allegedly offering a Lewistown man cash and drugs to kill her estranged wife and the woman’s family emerged during a preliminary hearing on Wednesday afternoon. Heather Ann Dibert, 43, is facing 32 felony charges, including attempted solicitation – conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A 22-year-old Altoona man accused of using a handgun to strike a person on the head in downtown Altoona, then later fleeing from police seeking to arrest him on a warrant, was sentenced Thursday to four to eight years in a state prison. Blair County Judge Wade A. Kagarise imposed the sentence after […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG — An Altoona man who has spent more than two years fighting child sexual abuse charges has pleaded guilty in Blair County Court for a sentence with 20 to 40 years’ incarceration. Jason M. Brandt, 44, an inmate at the county prison, presented the pleas on Monday instead of proceeding with a jury trial […]