Teri Rhodes, 19, pled guilty to charges voluntary manslaughter yesterday. She will be sentenced in the fall and faces a maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison or may be as low as two years. Ed Palattella of the Times-News wrote this, explaining the voluntary manslaughter charge: Voluntary manslaughter is a first-degree felony [...]

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What did the five fingers say to the face of Erie County Government? SLAP! Judge Michael ruled yesterday that Erie County government will not get its way with half of the tax revenue generated from Presque Isle Downs & Casino. Instead Summit Township along with Millcreek, McKean, and Greene townships and McKean Borough get to [...]

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Erie, Pennsylvania has been awarded an NBA Development League franchise, it was announced yesterday at a press conference at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie. The team will join Reno, NV – which was awarded a D-League franchise on Feb. 29 – for their inaugural seasons in 2008-09. “When we decided to pursue the opportunity [...]

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Karma. Former state representative Linda Bebko-Jones and her then chief of staff, Mary Fiolek, were formally charged with forging nominating petitions and submitting the fraudulent forms to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Bebko-Jones and Fiolek are scheduled to surrender next week and appear before Harrisburg Magisterial District Judge Joseph Solomon for preliminary arraignment. According to [...]

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The Associated Press first reported that former state representative Linda Bebko-Jones and her chief of staff Mary Fiolek were charged earlier today with forgery, tampering with public records and a number of other charges. A number of signatures were faked on her last nominating petition. Former state Sen Anthony “Buzz” Andrezeski wrote a letter to [...]

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  Tara Maras and Donna Kozik worked at Erie Insurance in their communications department. Tara Maras and family decided to move to Las Vegas. Boxes Packed: 143. Donna Kozik and her family decided to move to San Diego. Boxes Packed: 111. They not only left Erie and their jobs, they made a living doing so. [...]

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State Represenative Linda Bebko-Jones of Erie introduced a bill that would provide health insurance for all state residents. It would be funded with a 10 percent payroll tax on businesses and a 3 percent personal income tax. Bebko-Jones didnot run for reelection as representative for the 1st District. The City of Easton paid $3,559 to [...]

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  Linda Bebko-Jones pulled a shocker and announced will not defend her petition challenge so she will not be on the primary ballot in May. Her petitions contained a large number of signatures with people that must have had the same writing teacher as dozens of signatures were remarkably similar. Bebko-Jones is finishing up her [...]

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Linda Bebko-Jones announced she is dropping out of primary election for the 1st District seat in the state House of Representatives. Tomorrow was to be the court challenge of her nominating petition. Dennis Iaquinta who is running against her filed the challenge. Ummmm.

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I’m not sure if the taxpayers of Pennsylvania have to be blindfolded or must gouge out their eyes but were not allowed to look while the state goes into our pockets to settle a lawsuit. Yesterday, I mentioned that Representative Linda Bebko-Jones has settled with TE Kalkhof Realty on her breaking the lease for her [...]

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Representative Linda Bebko-Jones (1st Legislative District Erie County) has settled with the company that owns the office building in which she caused a fire. In May of 2004, Bebko-Jones left a cigarette burning in her office at 460 East 26th Street. It fell into a trash can and caused over $175,000 in damages. TE Kalkhof [...]

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He doesn’t want to race the truck but he does want to get into a race. Pat Harkins announced he will run against Linda Bebko Jones for the Democratic nomination for the 1st District seat in the state House of Representatives. Harkins is a driver for UPS. During his announcement he cited that Jones voted [...]

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