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A fire alarm at Ottawa-Glandorf High School on Thursday morning caused the brief evacuation of students and staff.

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Seventeen people were displaced by an early Monday morning fire at the Century Plaza Apartments in Killeen. Multiple calls ...

The American Red Cross Pennsylvania Rivers Chapter is assisting residents of the complex displaced by the fire. It opened an emergency shelter Saturday at Whitehall High School at 3800 Mechanicsville ...

Neighbors say the motion sensors at Iliahi Elementary School have been ringing randomly at all hours for years.

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