It’s a day to support nonprofits in our area!

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I put my bra in the freezer to help me cool down. The newspaper told me to do it.

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TGIF

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We hope you enjoyed the great weather this weekend. Okay, it rained but it was warm. We’ll take that any day. By the way, if you didn’t set your clocks ahead this weekend, you’re late for work. From the you’re doing it wrong department, James Eppley has been charged with conflict of interest and tampering [...]

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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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From reading the local blogs yesterday, it seems a lot of people had trouble getting their cars going in the sub-zero temperatures. Ron struggled, and Michael managed to get his car going but he locked himself out of his running car. We broke the story yesterday that Lord Corporation has laid off 46 employees. The [...]

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The big news yesterday was the early morning manhunt in Erie around the 26th Street and Brown Avenue area.   Police responded to a call around 4 a.m. only to be confronted with gun shots and a home set on fire.  Robert Daniels, 42, is suspected in causing the mayhem.  Daniels’ remains were found in the [...]

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Tonight is Erie’s downtown d’Lights beginning at 6 p.m. The annual lighting of downtown Erie kicks of the Christmas Season with a number of events.  If you take pictures of the event and upload them to your Flickr or some other image repository, let us know and we’ll link to your pictures in tomorrow’s news [...]

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It was a busy day yesterday in the court system. Teri Rhodes was sentenced 9 to 18 years in a state correctional facility for the murder of her newborn child.  Rhodes’ lawyer, Philip Friedman, does not agree with the length sentence and plans to appeal.  Judge William Cunningham made a just and sound decision under [...]

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Teri Rhodes will appear before court today for sentencing. Rhodes pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter this past August for the murder of her own child whom she gave birth in her Mercyhurst apartment and immediately suffocated to death. Rhodes was a sophmore attending Mercyhurst when she gave birth to the full-term baby girl on August [...]

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Indianapolis Colts DB and Erie native Bob Sanders was profiled by WISH-TV in Indianapolis. The station traveled to Erie to interview Bob’s parents. Stephan Koller of GE Transportation in Erie had his letter to the editor of the Jakarta Post published in today’s edition.  He responded to the newspaper’s previous coverage of Erie and the [...]

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In case you missed it, we’ve received word from a few sources that Gov. Sarah Palin will be campaigning in Erie on Thursday. No details as to where and when the event will be, but when we know, we’ll post the info. MTR Gaming, which owns Presque Isle Downs & Casino, took a hit when [...]

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Erie County has posted the 2009 Budget Proposal for review. We’re don’t understand why this wasn’t posted weeks ago when it was announced. MTR Gaming is moving ahead of schedule with installing Robert Griffin as the new president and chief executive of MTR, beginning November 1 instead of January 1, 2009.  MTR did not explain [...]

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15-year-old Daquan Crosby was murdered by an unknown assailant earlier this week. Daquan’s brother, Jovon Johnson, is returning to Erie from Winnipeg, Manitoba where he plays for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. An arrest has yet to be made. Majorie Diehl-Armstrong is now refusing psychotropic drugs as part of her treatment [...]

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MTR Gaming Group alluded that a major announcement may come during its October 31st conference call when it reports third-quarter results next month. Specifically, it was mentioned that the status of work by the board’s Succession Committee would be reported. Chief Executive Officer Ted Arneault has indicated he could step down at year’s end, with [...]

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First on the docket today, several local companies announced earnings reports yesterday. Here’s a brief recap: Erie Indemnity Company, parent company of Erie Insurance, released their quarterly earnings report yesterday. Net income per share was $0.71, down from $1.11 compared to the second quarter of last year. ERIE shares closed yesterday at $45.14. If you [...]

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Orson Welles cause near paic with a radio broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ in 1938 when people thought it was a real alien invasion. The Northwestern Pennsylvania Emergency Response Group 2 terorism drill yesterday in Franklin was halted when a citizen called 911 in Erie to report a bombing. It resumed later when it [...]

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The loud flushing sound heard in Erie PA on Thursday was a campaign going down the toilet. Gubernatorial candidate Bill Scranton made a campaign stop in Erie and made national news firing his campaign manager James Seif for making racial remarks about Lynn Swann. Seif appeared late Wednesday on a television call-in show about the [...]

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Ian Murray wants the job he was fired from nearly 12 years ago. No private business would re-hire someone who has been fired from their job for wrongdoing but Erie County might. Murray wants a position in the Erie County Public Defender’s Office. Murray was fired for having coerced a client of the Erie County [...]

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The Erie Police raided a home on Erie’s lower Eastside and seized 4 pit bulls that were suspected to be involved in dog fighting. This story could get interesting. The applications for the slot machine licenses had to be in the hands of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday. The applications weren’t measured in [...]

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Erie City Council passed it’s $54.8M 2006 budget on Wednesday. Current City Councilman and mayor-elect Joe Sinnott, Jim Thompson and Pat Cappabianca fought till the end for a higher property tax increase. What a bunch of bastards. Only a token effort was made to cut costs throughout the entire budget process. Fiduciary responsibility is a [...]

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Seems that one of the last things that County Executive Rick Schenker will do before leaving office is ignite a firestorm of controversy. Schenker sent out a letter on official county stationary soliciting funds for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries so they can start chapters at the local Erie colleges. Schenker paid for the stationary, envelopes [...]

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MTR Gaming (Nasdaq: MNTG) announced that the Special Committee of the Board of Directors established to consider the previously announced management-led acquisition proposal or alternatives has retained CIBC World Markets Corp. and Lazard Freres as its financial advisors to assist the Committee in its evaluation of the proposal, alternatives, and determination of what is in [...]

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MTR Gaming Group received a takeover offer from two of the company’s executives, in a deal that valued at about $258.4 million. The company’s shares soared $1.84 or 23 percent to close at $9.73 on Friday. MTR Chief Executive Ted Arneault and Executive Vice President Robert Blatt propose paying $9.50 per share in cash for [...]

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Deer season opens Monday in Pennsylvania. The deer know somethings up. It’s hard to go 5 miles without seeing cross a road or one that tried unsuccessfully. Be very careful driving. Final numbers for 2005 aren’t in yet but in 2004, the Pennsylvania Game Commission sold 885,637 licenses. That was down 13 percent from 1982 [...]

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Erie City Council will work on the 2006 City of Erie budget this week. There are reports that the mayor’s proposed budget call for over 60 more layoffs. Interesting how it calls cuts to the Streets Department, Parks Department, Bureau of Police and the Fire Department but few at city hall. A week ago, Mike [...]

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Erie City Council held pre-budget talks last night trying to figue out how to cut approximately $8 million. Here are a couple of the suggestions: The elimination of Traffic Court. Parking tickets will go back to the District Courts where they can’t be fixed or traded for votes. One clerk in Traffic Court has been [...]

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Erie County Executive candidate Dale McBrier held a press conference at the site of the future Presque Isle Downs saying that MTR Gaming shouldn’t be getting a taxpayer subsidy. Former used car salesman and point man for MTR, Greg Rubino, showed up and said the opening of the race track and slot’s casino could be [...]

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MTR Gaming is now asking for $29 million from the Summit Township Development Authority, down from the previous amount of $37.5 million, from intrastructure improvements for the building of Presque Isle Downs. If it means MTR build build more buildings to add to th tax base and hire more people worth $29 million, give them [...]

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The City of Erie laid-off six people on Tuesday and as many as sixty more could be gone by Friday. The city is running about a four million dollar deficit this year. The drop in the bucket action of laying off people should save around a half million to one million dollars. Almost 40 percent [...]

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