I Love Pop Radio | radioNovo News for Johnstown: May 7, 2026

RNN JOHNSTOWN 05/07/26          JURORS IN THE TRIAL OF AUSTIN KLINE, THE SOUTH FORK MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING AND DISMEMBERING AN ALTOONA CONTRACTOR IN 2023 HEARD GRAPHIC TESTIMONY FROM STATE POLICE AND THE CAMBRIA COUNTY CORONER, WHO DESCRIBED FINDING THE REMAINS OF 55-YEAR-OLD RICHARD MORGAN HIDDEN UNDER BLANKETS IN A GARAGE ON KLINE’S PROPERTY. INVESTIGATORS SAY MORGAN HAD BEEN SHOT AND BLUDGEONED BEFORE HIS BODY WAS DISMEMBERED WITH A SAW. THE PROSECUTION ALSO DETAILED KLINE’S "OVER-PREPARED" DEMEANOR DURING INITIAL QUESTIONING, WHICH LED TO GRISLY DISCOVERY. THE TRIAL RESUMES TODAY IN CAMBRIA COUNTY COURT.                      A HISTORIC JOHNSTOWN CONGREGATION IS BEING HONORED FOR KEEPING THE CITY’S BLACK HISTORY ALIVE. THE FIRST CAMBRIA A-M-E ZION CHURCH HAS RECEIVED THE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE AWARD FROM THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE. FOUNDED IN 1873 BY CIVIL WAR VETERANS AND FORMERLY ENSLAVED PEOPLE, THE CHURCH WAS RECENTLY ADDED TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES. OFFICIALS SAY THE AWARD RECOGNIZES THE CONGREGATION’S WORK SHARING A LEGACY THAT SPANS FROM THE GREAT FLOOD TO THE FOUNDING OF THE LOCAL N-A-A-C-P. IT REMAINS A LANDMARK OF RESILIENCE IN JOHNSTOWN’S KERNVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD.