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Altoona, Pennsylvania. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Blair. Associated ZIP codes: 16601, 16602, 16603.
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Body camera video shows Altoona police arresting Luigi Mangione, questioning him about a fake ID and recovering evidence later linked to the fatal shooting o...
CNN has obtained newly unsealed police body camera footage showing the arrest of Luigi Mangione inside a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, days after he...
ALTOONA, Pennsylvania -- In Virginia Lee Burton's classic 1939 children's book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel," Mulligan often boasted that his steam sh...
Among the 2025 Firehouse Valor & Community Service Award winners are Valor Grand Prize winners Cameron Sunderland and Nicholas Wuckovich III of the Altoona,...
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For decades, two families in Washington County, Pennsylvania, mourned their daughters while the answer to who killed them remained a mystery. Now, nearly 50...
READING, Pa. — A few days before he won re-election by 22 points, Gov. Josh Shapiro was barely mentioning his Republican opponent anymore. He’d share his...
Trifectas in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are a big deal for climate action.
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Altoona is in Blair County, Pennsylvania.
Region: Central Pennsylvania
16601, 16602, 16603
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For decades, two families in Washington County, Pennsylvania, mourned their daughters while the answer to who killed them remained a mystery. Now, nearly 50...
READING, Pa. — A few days before he won re-election by 22 points, Gov. Josh Shapiro was barely mentioning his Republican opponent anymore. He’d share his...
Trifectas in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are a big deal for climate action.
In 1849 David Robinson sold his farm to Archibald Wright of Philadelphia, whose son John A. Wright laid out building lots and became one of the town's founders. That year the Pennsylvania Railroad founded Altoona as the site of its shops and maintenance complex at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains. The origin of the name is uncertain: explanations include the Latin altus, "high," the German city of Altona, and Allatoona, Georgia, a name Wright believed meant "the high lands of great worth."
Altoona became a borough on February 6, 1854, and a city in 1868. Its population grew from about 2,000 in 1854 to 20,000 in 1880. The railroad built its Mechanic's Library in 1853, now the Altoona Area Public Library, and set up the city's fire departments. Its Horseshoe Curve carried trains over the Allegheny Ridge and is now a National Historic Landmark; during World War II it was a main target of the eight Nazi saboteurs of Operation Pastorius. In late September 1862, Altoona hosted the War Governors' Conference of 13 Union governors, which gave early support to the Emancipation Proclamation. At their early 20th-century peak, the Altoona Works employed about 15,000 people and stretched three miles, with 122 buildings, and the railroad built 7,873 locomotives there, the last in 1946. After World War II, falling demand for rail brought a long decline, and landmarks such as the Logan House Hotel were lost. Sources Wikipedia: Altoona, Pennsylvania
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