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

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Have you seen this little girl?

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Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA) has received her House subcommittee assignments. Small Business Committee Chair, Subcommittee on Regulation, Health & Trade Member, Subcommittee on Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship Science & Technology Committee Vice Chair, Subcommittee on Investigation and Oversight Agriculture Committee Member, Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy and Research Member, Subcommittee on Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and [...]

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Police have charged 31-year-old Jermaine Vaughn with beating to death a man on the morning of New Years Day. Passing motorists attempted to help 27-year-old Brent Carey of Erie who was beat unconscious at the corner of 38th and Ash, and later pronounced dead at Hamot Hospital. Vaughn apparently knew the victim but a motive [...]

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Lots of stuff going on this weekend: Key West Phest, the St. Paul’s Italian Festival, Footloose at the Erie Playhouse, and so much more. Get out there and have some fun. Yesterday afternoon, a few funnel clouds were spotted over Lake Erie. Meterologist Ray Petelin has some pictures on his blog. More news from National [...]

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The Greater Erie Board of Realtors released the January 2008 property transfer figures for Erie County PA. The reports shows that 243 properties were sold for $41,202,807. This compares to January 2007 when 280 properties sold for $44,849,368 and January 2006 when 254 changed hands for $26,951,813. The figures include residential, commercial, investment properties as [...]

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled (press release) that employers may take Medicare benefits into account on voluntary health care to their retired workers. This was a response to a 2000 court decision in the case of Erie County Retirees Association v County of Erie. Erie County was spending more on workers under age 65 [...]

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Unless you want to pay $25 to read “Carbon nanotube-enhanced thermal destruction of cancer cells in a noninvasive radiofrequency field” that was published online on Oct 24, wait till the December issue of Cancer in sitting on a table in a doctors waiting room. Here’s the basic info from the article. This is the first [...]

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The Erie Times-News repoted today that Dr Chuck Rosenthal and his brothers, Peter and James, have filed a lawsuit against former Mercyhurst College President William Garvey and Mercyhurst board of trustees chairwoman Marlene Mosco. Chuck Rosenthal was the first to publically accuse Gavey of sexually assualting him. A number of others, think the number is [...]

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RentWay (NYSE: RWY) reported financial results for the quarter. For the third quarter, the Company reported revenues of $135.4 million versus $128.3 million in the same quarter last year. Revenues from the Company’s core rental business (which excludes the Company’s dPi Teleconnect unit) were $131.5 million versus $124.2 million in the same quarter last year, [...]

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National Fuel Gas has some big balls. National Fuel Gas Company announced that they filed a request with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) to increase annual operating revenues by $25,892,000 to cover increases in the cost of providing service to the Utility’s customers in northwestern Pennsylvania. It’s not the fact they asked for an [...]

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The Erie Gauge War ended on this date 152 years ago, February 1, 1854. Unlike today where all trains run on a standard width of track, different railroads and different states had separate track gauges. Being a county sandwiched between New York and Ohio, Erie County profited – at least for awhile. The first railroad [...]

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Erie Police Officer Aaron Wassell had his cheek bone broken when he responded to a domestic disturbance. David Wassell was charged with assault and a probation violation. Yes, they are related. David is the son of officer Wassell. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board today released an updated preliminary list of the entities and individuals who [...]

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Erie based Spectrum Control has purchased the former Murata Erie plant near Harrisburg PA for $1 (but Murata received $5.1 for the property with the state footing the bill). They will initially hire 130 workers. The Murata plant will become Spectrum Control’s ceramic operations design and manufacturing center, replacing a New Orleans plant that was [...]

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