A teenage coed athlete at a Catholic college has a baby in her dorm room and kills the baby soon after it’s born and places it a plastic bag. I’m not talking about the case of 18 year old Teri Rhodes, the Mercyhurst College volleyball player that suffocated her baby, Jane Doe Rhodes, back on [...]

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  The study report on the proposed community college to be called Northwest Pennsylvania Community College is dated October 1, 2007. The figures for costs seem to be based on 1977 figures. The estimated expenses for utilities, salaries and supplies aren’t even close to realistic. The one figure that seems high is the $5,700 that [...]

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  Erie has been granted a franchise in the National Premier Soccer League. The league has not yet confirmed this. I doubt there is an ownership group in place. The NPSL is a minor league that’s equivalent to the fourth level of pro soccer in the United States. Major League Soccer is the top level, [...]

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  Great news for a local company and area high tech job growth. Zabaware’s Ultra Hal software won the “most human” computer of the year in the 17th annual Loebner Prize Competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI). The contest was held in New York City hosted by philanthropist Hugh Loebner. The Loebner Prize is an annual [...]

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MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a contagious infection that is resistant to many antibiotics. Pennsylvania doesn’t even require health care centers to disclose the number of patients that have MRSA. About 30 percent of Americans have staph bacteria living on them, including about 1 percent with MRSA, but they have no infection symptoms. MRSA has [...]

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  Two poor dogs abandoned in a mobile home in Wesleyville were rescued by police and officials with Because You Care. Neighbors said they left there alone for a week.The ‘person’ living there was either facing eviction or foreclosure and had moved away. Nice job by WJET-TV for shedding some light on the story and [...]

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