HOLLIDAYSBURG Blair County has about 100 job openings, with some departments struggling more than others to fill vacant positions at a time when the county’s unemployment rate is less than 3 percent. Sheriff James Ott said Wednesday that he is looking for job applicants who can fill nine deputy positions and two office positions. […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Blair County man was sentenced Friday to a combined 18.5 to 37 years in prison during two sentencing hearings addressing his role in the 2022 brutal assault of a fellow county prison inmate and his role in a 2021 home invasion in Tyrone to steal marijuana and cash. Kyler B. Luckadoo, 22, […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG An Altoona man convicted in September of drug-trafficking offenses and theft of a stolen gun was sentenced Wednesday to incarceration adding up to a minimum of 11 years and one month. Blair County President Judge Wade Kagarise handed down the sentence to Clifford M. Baxter, 50, a county prison inmate since his arrest […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A New Jersey man staying at an Altoona residence in November 2022, where police found drugs, guns and cash, has been sentenced to 2.5 to seven years’ incarceration. James Sykes-Griffin, 50, currently an inmate in the Blair County Prison, told President Judge Wade Kagarise that he was taking responsibility for his actions. “I […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG A Williamsburg man will be on house arrest for six months, then probation for 3.5 years, to address two misdemeanor convictions from a July 4, 2020, incident where the man said he fired a shotgun to scare neighbors who were setting off fireworks that he believed were endangering his residence. Blair County President […]