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The NAACP concerns about Operation Our Town expressed last month in a report by the agency’s president, Andrae M. Holsey, are not new, according to documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Johnstown. Holsey, who became NAACP president following the death of Don Witherspoon two years ago, stated that in reviewing records of the […]
Local history 50 years ago: June 29, 1973 Twenty-four teachers from Appalachia Intermediate Unit gathered at Penn State Altoona to hold a two-week workshop
Several Ybor City bar and nightclub employees were arrested after a two-month undercover drug-buy operation, according to the Tampa Police Department (TPD).
The Tampa Police Department issued six warrants, primarily on employees working at bars in Ybor City, following a two-month drug-buy operation dubbed "Operation Last Call." Detectives were made aware of several individuals selling drugs inside establishments in Ybor City. Between July through September of 2022, as part of Operation Last Call, officers worked in an undercover capacity at several bars and night clubs in Ybor City conducting narcotics purchases.
pray@altoonamirorr.com A Blair County judge has asked the Pennsylvania Superior Court to deny reinstatement of a right to appeal by a former Altoona man who is contesting the forfeiture of cash and multiple items, such computer equipment, confiscated by the government upon his arrest on drug-related charges. In opinions issued in two separate cases recently, Judge Timothy M. Sullivan pointed out that Jermaine Samuel, an inmate in the State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, wants the right to challenge the forfeitures — now more than seven years after the fact. According to the judge, ...