Lisa Maas was murdered in her Pittsburgh apartment. Maas was a 2006 graduate of Harbor Creek High School near Erie. She was attending school at the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute. Terrence Andrews, who occupied an apartment in the same building as Maas, stabbed her with a pair of scissors. Andrews admitted to police he did it. [...]

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Old-fashioned type post card by the talented Ron Richardson. Click on the image for a full size view. His Flick.com photos can be seen here and his photography site can be found here. The City of Erie sent out two week notices to 26 city employees. Many were politcal appointees that will be replaced when [...]

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Ion Health announced that they are going out of business putting 90 people out of a job. The private Boston-based investment firm JW Childs Associates LP funded the Medicaid/ Medicare HMO. The company cited lower reimbursements from the state but the problem they had was signing up clients. They did a poor job marketing. Ion [...]

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Members of Erie Police SWAT team got two bank robbers before they entered the National City Bank on East 38th Street in Erie. Someone tipped off police. A dozen officers surround their vehicle in the parking lot and they surrendered without incident. The FBI is charging them today with a laundry list of charges including [...]

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Pennsylvania Act 47 is the law that allows the state to take over cities that qualify for ‘distressed city status.’ Every day that passes, this looks more likely. There are a couple of people in Harrisburg that should pack their bags and start filling out change of address forms. Yesterday, instead of working on budget [...]

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