Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong spent 9 hours in court in the first day of two in a mental competency hearing. What a wast of time. Expert witnesses differed in their opinion according to who was paying them, the prosecution or the defense. I think everyone agrees she nuts, ie a wacked out bi__. The question is, does [...]

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Six month old Devlin Peters died in a fire in Columbus, just outside of Corry, PA. Your heart just has to ache for the family. As soon as the 911 call was made neighbors and construction workers doing a project at nearby Columbus Elementary School tried to save the child by using garden hoses and [...]

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Three stupid teenage boys are luck to be alive after playing in the waters of Mill Creek at the entrance of the Mill Creek Tube. The Mill Creek Tube is a nearly 3 mile concrete pipe that carries the waters of the creek under the city streets to Presque Isle Bay. One boy was rescued [...]

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Former McDowell Intermediate High School Principal Thomas J Maciulewicz Jr was sentenced to 2 to 23 months in prison for stealing district owned synthesizers, two Apple Macintosh G4 laptop computers, an elliptical exercise machine, a LCD projector, a 17 inch computer monitor, and several used musical instruments. He also used a district credit card to [...]

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The Beach Boys will be the headlining band for Celebrate Erie on Friday August 18th. The 2006-07 schedule for Gannon University’s Schuster Theatre has been announced. The list of performances is as follows: “Dining Room” by A R Gurney, Directed by Paula Barrett, Sept 28-30, Oct. 1, 5-7, 2006; “James Joyce’s The Dead” , Directed [...]

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Erie PA native Alan Baer joined the New York Philharmonic in June 2004 as Principal Tuba. He also rides a motorcycle. What else would he call his own record label but Baer Tracks Music. Baer actually straps the tuba to he back and rides. This summer he rode 2,000 miles from NYC to Vail, CO [...]

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It looks as though Lancaster PA is scrapping plans for their downtown convention center and hotel project. Bids for the $140 million project came in at $20 million over budget. Nearly $30 million has already been spent. The $95 million Erie Bayfront Convention Center is $9 million over budget. The Erie project is on schedule [...]

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Congrats to Pennsylvania Sate Police Troop E commander Kevin Dugan. Dugan was off-duty and driving over 12th Street when he heard an alarm going off. After calling in the alarm, he asked the witness of a break-in for a description of the suspect. The quickly found the guy who was making his getaway on foot [...]

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David McHenry was charged with the murder of Joshua DiBello. Police also recovered the murder weapon yesterday. Tips and details by the public along with good police work solved this crime in less than a week. I received the following: Jared Smith is an American citizen, born in Erie, PA, he is 25 years old [...]

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The review of 74 cases from the Erie County Office of Children and Youth was turned over to the county. Retired Erie County Judges Michael Palmisano and Fred Anthony conducted the review and wrote the report. It would be a shock if many of these cases weren’t repoened due to mishandling by the Office of [...]

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The search for Fran Medwick of Washington Township has been called off. Medwick apparently fell off his boat and drowned while fishing in Lake Erie in the area between Elk Creek and Trout Run. Avoid West 12th Street for the next two days. Demolition work on the former Gunite plant at 12th and Cherry is [...]

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The young girl that abandoned her baby on Tuesday evening has turned herself in. It’s up to the DA to decide if any charges will be filed. The Erie County Office of Children and Youth has custody of the baby for now. With their track record that’s a scary thought. The baby is still at [...]

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Yesterday evening around 8 pm a young woman abandoned a newborn baby at the corner of Maryland Ave and South Shore Drive. The umbilical cord was still attached. The birth giver, the term “mother” is not appropriate, faces a number of charges. Under the Safe Haven program, you can give up a baby at any [...]

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Erie based Spectrum Control (Nasdaq: SPEC), a leading designer and manufacturer of electronic control products and systems, announced that it has acquired all of the outstanding common stock of Advanced Thermal Products. ATP, based in St Marys, Pennsylvania, designs and manufactures custom temperature sensors. The total purchase price of the acquisition was $9.3 million. This [...]

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