Erie City Council will propose an amendment to the zoning code requiring all people giving massages to have a degree or certificate, pending a state law that takes effect in 2010 requiring all persons offering massage services to be state licensed. We’re not sure why city officials haven’t cracked down harder on several massage “parlors” [...]

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Dr. Paul W. Heberle has had nine additional counts added to previous charges of trading prescriptions for painkillers for other drugs, such as crack cocaine. Heberle has been in Erie County Prison since November.
Yesterday we asked our readers to come up with a clever nickname for the serial bank robber who has hit the Erie [...]

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Paul “The Pittsburgh Kid” Spadafora was arrested AGAIN for violating a PFA order. Police found him with Nadine Russo who has a PFA against him. He was arrested last summer for violating the same order. Spadafora served 13 months in jail for shooting Russo. He has a professional boxing record of 41-0-1 and would be [...]

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Congrats to Jenny and Mike on the birth of their son Grady Matthew. Grady was 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Both mother and son are healthy and doing great.
Me: When is the Erie Management Group going to start the move to the former Hammermill/ IP plant and have their groundbreaking?
Boss man: They have already begun to [...]

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Former Villa Maria Academy English teacher Megan Fecko was arrested for having relations with a female student of hers. The charges included involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault.
Cost zero, the buzz it’s created priceless. Tom Kennedy, president of Professional Development Associates of Erie and Prudential Advantage Realty, has placed the former Franklin Hospital for [...]

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Verizon is selling their building at 150 West 10th Street. The 200 or so workers in the building will be moved to their other Erie area locations. Verizon specifically cited high property taxes for their decision. In 2005 they paid nearly $300,000 in property taxes on the building: $92,768.37 to the city, $44,712.25 to Erie [...]

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