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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 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 […]
A Saxton man serving a prison sentence for the sexual abuse of a young relative has lost his appeal in which he contended his trial counsel was ineffective, according to a decision issued last week by the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Damian Christopher Metz, 26, was found guilty by a Huntingdon County jury in June 2018 […]