HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County jury trial nearing its conclusion ended with a mistrial Tuesday after one of the 12 jurors admitted to looking for information about the defendant and seeing prior convictions. The late disclosure halted a trial for Nicholas McCune, 37, of Hollidaysburg, who was accused of threatening Magisterial District Judge Andrew Blattenberger […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County judge has handed down a state prison sentence of eight months to five years to a 61-year-old Altoona man who spoke of having a longtime battle with drugs and alcohol and who testified during a co-defendant’s trial in December 2021. “My addiction took me places I shouldn’t have been,” Dennis […]
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 Blair County jury has convicted an Altoona man of strangulation, assault, witness intimidation and all related offenses that developed after he initiated a fight with his ex-girlfriend at a local convenience store and later tried to coerce her into influencing his potential sentence. Justin Paul Seilhamer, 38, an inmate at the county […]
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 […]