HOLLIDAYSBURG A Tyrone man convicted in August of selling methamphetamine to a confidential informant in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to nine months of house arrest as part of a county sentence, followed by three years’ probation. Kevin T. Soellner, 36, who continues to maintain his innocence, told Judge Jackie Bernard that in the three-plus […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG Prosecutors can use a Frankstown Township man’s statements to state police, including his alleged confession, while addressing homicide and related charges in the 2021 stabbing death of his 24-year-old brother. In a decision handed down Monday, Blair County Judge Jackie Bernard declined to suppress the use of Vasudev Y. Aswathappa’s statements to state […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG The Blair County Courthouse has another new judicial portrait, gifted by President Judge Elizabeth Doyle. Unveiled Thursday, it hangs on the front wall of Courtroom 4, on the opposite side of the bench from an enlarged framed photo of the late President Judge Thomas G. Peoples. “My portrait is not as grand and […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG The state Department of Human Services is assigning an operations manager to Blair County’s Children, Youth & Families office, which is now operating on its fourth provisional license. The state Department of Human Services announced Thursday morning that the county agency continues to fall short of meeting state requirements, based on the state’s […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG The Altoona man whose escape attempt led to the Nov. 17, 2021, fatal shooting of a Blair County Prison corrections officer will be spending the rest of his life in prison. Christopher J. Aikens, 56, who rendered guilty pleas in October to second-degree murder of a law enforcement officer and related charges in […]