Have you seen this little girl?

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Breaking news this morning. There is an active manhunt going on in the area between West 21st to 26th streets and from Greengarden to Brown Avenues (area north of Topps Grocery market). There were gunshots reported this morning and a home set on fire in that area. People living in the area are asked to [...]

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GE Transportation announced it is entering into a strategic partnership with Tülomsaş, an industrial company in Turkey that currently produces locomotives of its own. The partnership will allow GE to supply the European, Middle East and North African markets.  Tülomsaş has a number of photographs of the event which seems to have been well covered [...]

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If you haven’t finished, or even started, your holiday shopping, you’ve got one chance left. Is it us, or do stores stay open on Christmas Eve until way later then the used to. Tomorrow is the drawing for the ErieBlogs holiday gift certificate giveaway. We’re giving away three $25 gift certificates – two to Latino’s [...]

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Yesterday was both the first day of winter as well as the first day of Hanukkah. Happy Hanukkah to everyone. By the way, we own at dreidel. As for winter, don’t get us started. Winter pretty much started right after Halloween this year. We’ve got to be on track for some kind of snow fall [...]

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The Federal Reserve has formally approved PNC Bank‘s plan to purchase National City Bank based out of Cleveland, Ohio. With the acquisition, PNC will be the 8th largest depository institution in the U.S. As we blogged last week, PNC is required to sell 61 National City branches, including locations in Erie, Crawford and Warren counties. [...]

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The Department of Justice is telling PNC they need to sell 61 National City bank branches as a condition of their purchase of the struggling bank.  11 branches in our area will be sold, including 6 in Erie County, 1 in Warren County and 4 in Crawford County. 6 local schools have been included in [...]

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PNC Bank has announced they will acquire National City Corp for $5.6 billion. National City has been in trouble for awhile. CNN also reports: Making the announcement before Friday’s opening bell, Pittsburgh-based PNC said it would also get a capital injection from the government by selling $7.7 billion worth of preferred stock as part of [...]

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