Erie County Council approved a $29.65 million bond issue. Included is $4 for improvements at Jerry Uht Park, $14 million for a public safety building, $3.7 million for the pre-release center, $1.8 million for work at the Erie County Courthouse and $3 million for for land acquisition for the Greater Erie Industrial Development Corporation (GEIDC). [...]

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Lindsey Myers and Kevin Jesteadt were identified as the victims as the victims of the Friday plane crash that claimed 3 lives. There has been no recovery yet but debris and an oil slick have been spotted in Lake Erie. Myers was a graduate of Edinboro University and Jesteadt was a senior at the school. [...]

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Buffalo air traffic controllers lost contact with a small plane shortly before 10 pm last night. The US Coast Guard searched Lake Erie near Dunkirk for signs of the aircraft. The two passengers boarded the plane in Meadville, PA. It’s the 2 year anniversary of the Brian Wells pizza bomber death. Wells was a pizza [...]

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Northwestern Pennsylvania experienced another small plane crash, the thrid of the month. A Cessna crashed on approach of the Corry-Lawrence Municipal Airport just before 4 pm. A man from Erie died in the crash. The pilot and a teenage girl survived. I was in Corry about 90 minutes after the crash and everyone in town [...]

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