Second Lieutenant Edward French, missing in action since 1943, was finally laid to rest here in Erie this weekend. He was lost when his B-24 crashed in New Guinea. Welcome home. Ed Palattella had a good story in yesterday’s paper about Greg Rubino and his Tecnica Development Corporation. A state grand jury is looking into [...]

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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong has been found competent to stand trial.  Officials in Texas where Diehl is being held in prison have cleared Diehl as competent and will return her to Pennsylvania where Judge Sean McLaughlin will hold a hearing to make a final decision as to her competency to stand trial. Edinboro University hasn’t publicly released [...]

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Hopefully, you had a chance to dig out a bit yesterday. Saturday was intense and the city is still clearing the streets, especially the side ones. We’ve found the key is to make friends with whatever neighbor has a snowblower. Our friend did ours in time for us to get wings before the Steelers game, [...]

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Sometime during the early morning hours Friday, the website of WICU 12 was hacked and text described as “offensive” was added to a story about Sarah Palin. The WICU 12 website was designed and is hosted by Velocity Networks. A commenter put it this way. It’s not surprising. We all know that the local stations [...]

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We here at ErieBlogs.com missed you yesterday. An Expedient router went out somewhere and internet service to many local businesses were offline for much of the morning yesterday. Work will finally begin next week on the airport runway extension. All told the project will cost nearly $80.5 million. The Erie Regional Airport Authority also gave [...]

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Presque Isle Downs received a slot machine operating license from the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. Let’s see if I can write about this without getting a phone call at work like I did at the end of September because of this post. It took me a week to get over the apprehension of starting my [...]

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Former Erie Mayor Rick Filippi, his former campaign manager, Eric Purchase; and law partner, Rolf Patberg were found not guilty of all charges in their public corruption case. The case did what it intended to do. It got Filippi out of office. The charges were filed two months before the primary in which Filippi finished [...]

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Jury selection begins today in the trial of former Erie Mayor Rick Filippi. The trial will be held in Washington County, 130 miles south of Erie. Filippi and two friends are accused of using inside info to profit on a land deal. The company the three formed, Aiko Acquisition, purchased parcels near the former IP/Hammermill [...]

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As expected, the Baylor University Board of Regents named Baylor Distinguished Alumnus and University of Nevada, Reno President Dr John M Lilley as the University’s 13th president. The son of a Louisiana Baptist pastor, Dr Lilley, 66, majored in music at Baylor, earning bachelor’s degrees in 1961 and 1962 and a master of music degree [...]

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