ErieAlert.com, a site set up to alert local residents of crime and other news, has started feeding their updates to a Twitter account, which you can follow here. We’ll re-tweet the really important ones to our account, @erieblogs. Kudos to whoever set this up.

Police were out in force yesterday on I-79 and 90 hoping to reduce speeding and reckless driving. State police in Ohio and New York also took part in their states. If you were on the highway in PA, NY or OH yesterday, did you notice more police then usual?

Following a string of recent home break-ins in the Glenwood Hills area, residents of the area are forming their own neighborhood crime watch.

Jim Dible has been retained as the president and CEO of the Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership.

Mark Neidig has been hired as the executive director of the John Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation. One of his main charges will be fundraising to continue testing the radio devices and get the project to human trials.

The Manufacturer & Business Association will be hosting the 2009 Employer Associations of America (EAA) Conference from Sunday, July 26 through Wednesday, July 29, with workshops being held at the Association’s Conference Center, 2171 West 38th Street in Erie, on Monday, July 27 and Tuesday, July 28.

GE Transportation and PT Kereta Api (PTKA), Indonesia’s state-controlled railway, announced today that PTKA has confirmed an order for 20 C20-EMP locomotives with deliveries scheduled for 2010 and 2011. The Companies have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that commits the parties to developing a long-term plan for the purchase or lease of up to 150 additional locomotives that will be specifically designed for Indonesia. The 20 locomotive kits will be built at GE Transportation’s state of the art locomotive manufacturing facility in Erie, and final assembly will be completed by PT INKA, an Indonesian manufacturing company with locomotive assembly expertise.

Kristan Wheaton, J.D., associate professor of intelligence studies at Mercyhurst College, recently returned from delivering two presentations at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tenn. ORNL is the Department of Energy’s largest science and energy laboratory.

Graduating Students from the McDowell High School Tolerance 101 class Julie Hawthorne, Lindsay Young, Katie Morton and Erin Dakus were selected and participated in the Jordan 2009 Leadership Conference in Amman Jordan.

There’s a lot of stories that we don’t cover here, so I had the idea to pull in headlines from other local news sites. What do you think of it?

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Junior Scott Pitt of the Mercyhurst College men’s hockey team has been invited to the Carolina Hurricanes annual conditioning camp, set to begin on July 15 at The RecZone in Raleigh, N.C.

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