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JOHNSTOWN - An urgent message is being sent to customers from businesses in the Moxham and Hornerstown areas of the city. Businesses want to inform customers that they have limited communication due to service outages. This means no internet and phone service. Store owners say it's been going on since Monday. Sometimes silence can s be a good thing, but inside Moxham Lumber Company, silence is becoming a problem. "We've had dozens of people like 'Ah, I didn't know what happened to you we kept calling but I didn't get a busy signal it goes to nothing,' "

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue collar bard, has died. He was 85. His son, Dean Hall, confirmed the musician's death on Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. Hall, known as “The Storyteller” for his unadorned yet incisive lyrics, composed hundreds of songs. Along with such contemporaries as Kris Kristofferson, John Hartford and Mickey Newbury, Hall helped usher in a literary era of country music in the early ’70s, with songs that were political, like “Watergate Blues” and “The Monkey That Became President,” deeply personal like “The Year Clayton Delaney Died,” and philosophical like “(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine.

ALTOOONA, Pa. (WJAC) -- Bella Italia Pizza in Altoona is one of dozens of restaurants throughout the state that have been ordered to close by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. It comes after Bella Italia's owner ignored Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s temporary restrictions and let customers dine in anyway. The owner said he's staying open, no matter what. “I’ll lose everything,” said Antonio Serradella, Owner of Bella Italia Pizza. “If I close, I’ll lose everything.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz to join Fox News as political analystWed, 05 Jun 2024 08:57:24 GMT (1717577844600) Gallery - News3 v1.0.0 (common) 85a848d002b3a7f7785bfb6376ad1dbb5836f767 Fallback Presentation. Using deprecated PresentationRouter. ncG1vNJzZmivmpawtcKNnKamZ56axLR7wqilp52TqXq1u4ycpqefoprAtHvGmqOlnaKufLOxz6ipratdp7KxecmaqqimXZi1orLFnquzZaSkequ7yKdkn6eoYrumw9JmmKxloKS5qsDInJilZZGjrq3F0q0%3D

EDFORD, Pa. (WJAC) -- The Omni Bedford Springs opened in 1796 and has since played host to a number of historical events and figures. One president was a frequent patron and received a monumental communication during a visit. “This resort is just full of history,” said George Schwartz, director of special events for the hotel. “History that includes, being part of the first transatlantic message between Queen Victoria and President James Buchanan.

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — For most of 2020 we stayed at home but things have started to slowly open back up including a new business in Johnstown. The building itself has been a part of the city for 60 years, but when it went up for sale two brothers bought it and added so much more. Chris Hogue and his brother thought the former Richland Lanes was right up their alley and have turned it into 814 Lanes and Games.

BENNER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WJAC) — A man convicted of murder was found dead in State Correctional Institution Benner Township over the weekend. According to the state Department of Corrections, 32-year-old Yessy Rivera was found unresponsive in his cell Sunday morning. SCI officials say staff provided immediate emergency assistance until medical personnel arrived at the prison. Rivera was taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, where he was later pronounced dead, according to the DOC.

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — Crews from multiple counties responded to an early morning fire in Cambria County Tuesday. According to county dispatchers, the blaze was called in shortly after 6 a.m. Glendale Fire Chief Adam Rydbom says crews arrived to the 100 block of Market St. in Reade Township to find flames coming out of the two-story building. According to dispatchers, the Fallentimber home was abandoned, so no one was inside.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea's mass-casualty disaster because of water streams and bodies trapped beneath the tons of debris that swept over a village, a United Nations official said Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees devastated Yambali in the South Pacific nation's remote highlands when a limestone mountainside sheared away Friday.