radioNovo News for Johnstown: May 11, 2026

RNN JOHNSTOWN 05/11/26          A SUNDAY NIGHT SHOTS FIRE REPORT SENT JOHNSTOWN POLICE TO THE 600 BLOCK OF NAPOLEON STREET IN THE KERNVILLE SECTION OF JOHNSTOWN LAST NIGHT AROUND 7.          POLICE SPOKE TO A WITNESS WHO SHARED INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THEY REPORTEDLY HEARD. OFFICERS SEARCHED THE SCENE AND GATHERED POTENTIAL EVIDENCE.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED AND NO ARRESTS MADE, AS THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.            A CAMBRIA COUNTY JURY HAS FOUND AUSTIN KLINE GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN THE BRUTAL DEATH OF AN ALTOONA MAN. FOLLOWING A WEEK-LONG TRIAL, JURORS REJECTED KLINE’S CLAIMS OF INNOCENCE, CONVICTING HIM OF DISMEMBERING 55-YEAR-OLD RICHARD MORGAN AND HIDING THE REMAINS IN A SOUTH FORK GARAGE. DISTRICT ATTORNEY JESSICA AURANDT CALLED THE VERDICT BITTERSWEET, NOTING THAT WHILE THE COMMUNITY IS NOW SAFER, NO CONVICTION CAN UNDO THE BRUTALITY MORGAN ENDURED. SENTENCING IS SET FOR JULY 22ND.         A CIVIL WAR VETERAN WHO WITNESSED THE END OF THE CONFLICT WAS HONORED SATURDAY AS THE LAST SURVIVING UNION SOLDIER OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. THE SONS OF UNION VETERANS DEDICATED A SPECIAL MARKER AT THE SUMMERHILL TOWNSHIP GRAVE OF SILAS D. PLUMMER, WHO DIED IN 1940 AT AGE 92. PLUMMER SERVED IN THE 81ST PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY AND WAS PRESENT AT APPOMATTOX FOR GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE’S SURRENDER. DESCENDANTS ATTENDED THE CEREMONY, WHICH IS PART OF A NATIONAL PROJECT TO LOCATE AND HONOR THE FINAL CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN EVERY U.S. COUNTY.