The conviction of an Altoona man for the stabbing deaths of an elderly Spruce Avenue couple almost 22 years ago has been upheld by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in a decision handed down earlier this week. William Darwin Thompson, now 42, was sentenced to consecutive life terms in 2007 by Blair County Judge Hiram A. […]
The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Friday upheld a Blair County judge’s decision to sentence a Williamsburg man to probation for alleged drug offenses that occurred in 2021 despite complaints by the prosecution that the sentence was “excessively lenient” and that it “unreasonably deviated” from Pennsylvania’s sentencing guidelines. Scott Andrew Baker Jr., 29, was originally sentenced […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG Two people have pleaded guilty to murder and related charges in a drug-selling dispute that left two people dead of gunshot wounds inside an Altoona residence on May 28, 2020. Isiah “Zay” Payne, 35, Philadelphia, who pleaded guilty in Blair County Court on Tuesday to two counts of first-degree murder, is facing life-in-prison […]
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld the conviction and a lengthy prison sentence imposed on a former Altoona man convicted two years ago of sexually abus
HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County President Judge Elizabeth A. Doyle set the trial of an Altoona man charged with the murder of a corrections officer during a Nove