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Sunday morning, several men were fishing in a local creek when one of the fisherman cast out and snagged his hook on the body of Dennis Merritt, who lived nearby the creek. The coroner has ruled Merritt’s death accidental. OMG.
If you haven’t had a chance to watch Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment about John Kanzius, [...]

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Here’s video from Sunday’s John Kanzius segment on 60 Minutes, in case you didn’t have a chance to watch it.

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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 [...]

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The weather outside may be colder then we’d like, and we may get a bit of rain, but scroll down to see tons of events and happenings to check out this weekend. We’ll be brief this morning so you can get your day stated.
Good news – Sunday hours will continue to be offered at [...]

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Erie native Ed Kindle, now living in Florida, blogged last week about a letter he wrote to the editors of Wired magazine. As a cancer survivor and with the recent passing of John Kanzius, he was inclined to voice his anger over Wired running cigarette ads in its magazine. Here’s a quick snip from his [...]

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We’ve not hidden our thoughts that PA’s liquor laws are woefully archaic. If you go to a grocery store in New York or Ohio, you can easily buy a 6 pack of beer, but not so in PA. However, things might be changing. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court made a ruling yesterday that now allows beer [...]

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We knew him locally as a radio and TV engineer and owner of JET Broadcasting Company. The world came to know him as a pioneer in cancer research and founder of the John Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation.
John Kanzius died this past Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at a hospital near Sanibel, Florida after a long battle [...]

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Hoping for Spring?  Keeping hoping.  You can blame the groundhog for temperatures that are not supposed to get above 30 degrees today and tomorrow, 45 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday, and back down to the 30’s on Friday.
If you’re scoring at home, that’s an error on VisitErie in their new Erie video they promoted on [...]

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Mid-day, the snow machine kicked up and Erie and Crawford Counties got dumped on. I-79 southbound was closed for a few hours yesterday after a truck jack-knifed. At one point last night, we were getting an inch and hour. We’re guessing that we’re going to break the all-time record this year.
Teri Rhodes has formally appealed [...]

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The big news of yesterday was the passing of John Kanzius. Kanzius, 64, worked at WJET for many years, including serving as the station’s general manager. For the last several years, he had been developing a technology for killing cancer cells using radio waves. He began developing this technology after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. [...]

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John Kanzius, 64, passed away today in Florida.
The former TV station owner and engineer spent the last several years developing technology that would kill cancer cells using radio waves. You can learn more about his research at his foundation’s website.

We’ll have more on this in tomorrow morning’s news post.

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Congresswoman-elect Kathy Dahlkemper at a press conference held at her future office at the Intermodal Transportation Center Rotunda located on the East Bayfront Parkway, announced  plans to provide consitutuent services across the district.  Although the main office will be located in Erie at the Intermodal Transportation Center, a regional representative will travel and set up [...]

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There will be a live telethon on WSEE and The CW tonight, with all proceeds benefitting John Kanzius’ cancer research. Operators will be available from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Telethon guests will include John Malone, Angela Bontempo, Maryann Yochim and Joyce Savocchio.
ABC’s “Good Morning America” is coming to our [...]

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Looks like there won’t be any baby Bald Eagles at Presque Isle State Park. Linda posted pictures of the nest and a write-up on her blog. She said a park volunteer told her there was an attack on the nest by a rogue eagle (or another predator).
International Paper closed it’s plant in Erie on the [...]

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The City of Erie School District preliminary budget calls for a spending increase of about $6 million to $129.3 million. All members of the school board are tax and spend Democrats. The figures don’t include money to rehab or rebuild Roosevelt Middle School which might not be funded until next year.
WSEE TV posted two video [...]

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WSEE TV will air their exclusive interview with John Kanzius in a 30 minute special on Wednesday, May 21 at 7 pm. For the station to preempt the uber popular “Wheel of Fortune”, you know it’s important. Along with word on the breakthrough with the success of Kanzius discusses how big it could be [...]

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In a WSEE TV interview with John Kanzius of Erie (not yet posted on their site), Kanzius said that researchers led by Dr Steven Curley at the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center have found a protein enzyme that will carry metallic nanoparticles exclusively to cancer cells. WSEE will run more of the [...]

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In a WSEE interview with John Kanzius of Erie (not yet posted on their site), Kanzius said that researchers led by Dr Steven Curley at the University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center have found a protein enzyme that will carry metallic nanoparticles exclusively to cancer cells. This is a monumental breakthrough. A paper [...]

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The story on John Kanzius and his radio wave cancer treatment machine by Lesley Stahl on “60 Minutes” was excellent. The transcript of the story can be found at The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure? I just hope enough people were moved to whip out their credit cards and contribute to the John Kanzius Cancer [...]

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After Tiger comes back from 6 down to win The Masters, 60 Minutes will feature the John Kanzius story of his radio wave cancer treatment machine. The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure? previews the story. 60 Minutes will air after coverage of “The Masters”, some time after 7 pm ET. At least $8 million is [...]

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60 Minutes will feature the John Kanzius story of his radio wave cancer treatment machine on Sunday, April 13. The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure? previews the story. 60 Minutes will air after coverage of “The Masters”, some time after 7 pm ET. Trials on animals have shown that the idea works. It has been [...]

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John Kanzius and Dr Steven Curley announced yesterday to a packed house at South Fort Myers High School Auditorium that Lee Memorial Health System in Southwest Florida will most likely be one of the six sites for human trials of the Kanzius radio wave cancer treatment. About $8 million is needed to raised for the [...]

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Splash Lagoon Indoor Water Park Resort revealed their planned $6 million, 22,000 sq ft expansion. It will be a wave pool on the SE section of the property attached to the main building. It will still be open every day during construction. They are holding a contest to name the pool and pick a new [...]

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Today is Veteran’s Day. The fighting in World War I ended in 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Thank a Vet for the freedoms you enjoy.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns game today at 1 pm will not be televised locally. Unless you have the NFL Sunday Ticket, [...]

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Contract ratification votes were held for two unions representing Erie County workers. The AFSCME union for clerical and technical employees accepted their contract. The AFSCME union for ‘professional’ employees reject their offer and authorized a strike. Both contract offers offered 3 percent raises for the first 3 years plus a $1 and 3.2 percent raise [...]

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Rev Theodore Jurewicz is assistant pastor at The Church of the Nativity of Christ is a Russian Orthodox (Old Rite). That’s the beautiful golden topped church on the bayfront. Rev Jurewicz is also a master iconographer, doing paintings of biblical scenes. He is currently working on the St Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church at 177 Weber [...]

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The Erie area made International news again yesterday as the area is becoming know World-wide for breakthroughs in alternative energy research. Recently, John Kanzius found a way to extract hydrogen from salt water with the same radio wave machine he is using in research to kill cancer cells. Yesterday, NanoLogix (OTC: NNLX) , a nano-biotechnology [...]

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A number of people who work at the Erie County Office of Children and Youth (OCY) attended last nights Erie County Council meeting. They complained that they are short workers saying that there are 41 case workers and 16 job openings for case workers. WTF? How did it get to the point where a [...]

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Six month old Devlin Peters died in a fire in Columbus, just outside of Corry, PA. Your heart just has to ache for the family. As soon as the 911 call was made neighbors and construction workers doing a project at nearby Columbus Elementary School tried to save the child by using garden hoses and [...]

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It was impossible to find anyone in Erie that didn’t shed a tear or get choked up a the tragedy in Waterford. Two young girls, an 18 month old and a 2 year old, drowned in a pond. An 18 year old babysitter put the girls down for a nap and she fell asleep herself. [...]

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Today is election day. Vote. The polls are open until 8 pm. Bars and the state liquor stores are closed so Democrats have no excuse not to vote. There are two very interesting races. In the 1st Legislative District (East Erie), Brandy Brewer is mounting a write-in campaign against Christine Pontoriero for the GOP nomination [...]

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