Thomas Giusti was arrested for the murder of Stacy Watral. Watral was found stabbed to death in Greene Township on Friday. Poilce attempted to interview Giusti on Saturday. He agreed to drive to the State Police barracks but as he was going there with the troopers following him, he jumped out of his vehicle at [...]

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On the date in 1998, 14 year old Andrew Wurst shot and killed science teacher John Gillette and wounded two others at the James W Parker Middle School graduation dance at Nick’s Place in Edinboro. Wurst is serving 30 to 60 years in prison. You would think that the price of water would be pretty [...]

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Suburban Molding Company, a plastics plant, in Union City PA was destroyed by a fire on Saturday. Thick, black smoke poured out the building. Edinboro native Michael Hall has been the Artistic and Managing Director of the Caldwell Theater in Boca Raton FL for the past 31 years. In May, the theater will break ground [...]

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The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled against surrogate mother Danielle Bimber and is ordering her to turn over the three children to James Flynn. This reverses the ruling by Erie County Judge Shad Connelly. The triplets were born on November of 2003 and Bimber has had them since that time. The court blamed both Bimber and [...]

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Edinboro University students Tyrell Ware and Marlon Gunn were found guilty of a number of charges for the beating of a man of April 2005. The two along with Urlene Boisette assaulted a fellow student who they thought turned them in to campus police. The three were busted by campus police for drugs and went [...]

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Life Line choose Jackson Township, Ohio over Erie, Pa for their new call center. Nice job by the Erie politicians and the 25 Erie area economic development agencies that have failed again. Life Line Screening, a Cleveland-based provider of preventive health screenings across the country will hire 120 employees with a starting pay of $10 [...]

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MTR Gaming Group (Nasdaq:MNTG) announced that it is pursuing the issuance of $125,000,000 of Senior Subordinated Notes through a private placement. The Company will use the net proceeds of the proposed private placement of Senior Subordinated Notes to complete construction of its Presque Isle Downs race track and slot machine facility, to pay the $50 [...]

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The City of Erie has laid-off police officers and firefighters, has millions in unpaid bills it can’t afford to pay and is generally close to the brink of financial disaster yet they are spending $30,l76 to plant 112 trees around the city. Maybe the trees will be put in the potholes on the streets we [...]

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Trout fishing season opens in Pennsylvania today at 8 am. The US Brig Niagara will be prepared for the Summer sailing season today. The tarp will be removed and the masts (118 feet and 113 feet) and rigging will be installed. The Journal of Asian Martial Arts is a publication that examines the history, culture [...]

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Erie East High School grad Goran Rahim is now a published author. His book of poems is titled “A Faded Love“. Rahim was was born just miles outside the Kurdish city of Kirkuk, Iraq. He was 5 when Saddam Hussein began killing ethnic Kurds. His family fled to Pakistan. At age 16 his family resettled [...]

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A microbrewery is being planned for the old Porter`s Restaurant in Union Station. I’m guessing they will be buying a Price-Schonstrom system. Chris Sirianni said they are planning to be open by July. The BrewErie At Union Station will be a brew-on-premises (BOP) brewpub. That I believe. The talk of a number of a number [...]

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In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Black Knight wanted to continue to fight even though he had lost both arms and legs. King Arthur said “What are you gonna do, bleed on me”? This sounds like what’s happening in Erie with members of United Auto Workers Local 832 and Steris Corporation. Steris is [...]

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Jamison Roth of Erie spent part of his 4 years at California University of Pennsylvania as a member of the California Volunteer Fire Department. The CVFD has a Student Membership Program which allows university students to volunteer while they are away from their home departments. Roth got his start with the West Ridge Fire Department [...]

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Steris officials have to be kicking themselves for how they handled the closing of manufacturing in Erie. First, they gave the workers months of advance warning that they would be laid-off so they could look for other jobs or get retrained in another field. They only had to give a 90 day notice. Now the [...]

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This week Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott cost the taxpayers of Erie hundreds of thousands of dollars to appease the firefighters union with the re-opening of the Marsh Street Garage. Erie Firefighters worked on his campaign and contributed money to his campaign fund. Mayor Rick Filippi consolidated the garages of the police department, fire department and [...]

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Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Heedless and irresponsible behavior in the midst of a crisis continues today as Erie City Council comes together for their weekly meeting. The city is over $2 million dollars over budget with a strong possibilty of not being able to meet payroll later in the year and a state takeover [...]

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There is a possibility that Randy Brewer’s name could be returning to the ballot for the Spring primary for the1st Legislative District seat in the Pennsylvania State Assembly. Approximately 40 names on his nominating petition were challenged and he is appealing. Even his own signature was challenged. He signed his name Randy Brewer. The name [...]

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The owner of a strip club in Boise Idaho plead guilty to three misdemeanor charges that he violated the Boise anti-nudity law. He tried to get around the law by giving patrons sketch pads and pencils so they could draw the dancers in an attempt to make it ‘art.’ The judge cited the City of [...]

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There was an interesting story in the New York Times on Saturday about homeless people living in their cars. One of the people mentioned in the story lived in his car for 5 months in Erie. Larry Chaney lost his trucking business and was evicted from his apartment. He “moved” to Erie to be near [...]

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Erie City Council and Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott announced they have reached an agreement to cut spending and reduce taxes. Yes, you guessed it. April Fools! Congrats go out to Erie Blogger Bobbo for breaking the story about the theft of the student newspaper, The Gannon Knight. Last weekend Miles D Rish of North East, [...]

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  The Presque Isle Downs website is now live. Not bad for a businesss that is little more than 270 acres of mud. The restaurant will be called La Bonne Vie (the good life) Steakhouse. Presque Isle Downs is progressing with the land development work and construction of the Erie racino. The Company still expects [...]

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Voices for Independence filed a federal lawsuit against Penndot claiming that the curb cuts don’t meet the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Voices for Independence is an advocacy and service organization of and for individuals with disabilities in wheelchairs. With the money the City of Erie spend doing curb cuts around the city, [...]

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No verdict has been reached in the trial of former Erie Mayor Rick Filippi and his friends and business partners Rolf Patberg and Eric Purhcase. The jury worked the case for about 7 hours on Friday. Deliberations will resume this morning. Four punks aged 20 and 21 were arrested for firing hundreds of paint balls [...]

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Closing arguments finish up today in the trial of former Erie Mayor Rick Filippi. It should go to the jury sometime this afternoon. One thing that will be stuck in the minds of the jurors is the line by Lenny Ambrose, Filippi’s attorney. “You know what MTR stands for? Money to Rubino.” Randy Brewer won’t [...]

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Erie City Council passed the 3 percent entertainment tax at last night’s meeting. All seven members of council and the Erie mayor are Democrats. The 3 percent tax will be added to all entertainment tickets priced over $5. One item about the situation did make me chuckle. There was the argument that the Tullio Arena [...]

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