This week’s video of the week comes from Gannon University and details their involvement in this past weekend’s CelebrateErie.

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Teri Rhodes gave birth in her Mercyhurst College apartment on Sunday. The baby was born alive. Rhodes murdered her baby minutes later by suffocating the unfortunate child. Police found the baby in a plastic bag. Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook declared the death a homicide. Erie County District Attorney Brad Foulk has not yet filed [...]

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Mercyhurst sophomore Teri Rhodes gave birth in her campus apartment. Police found the baby dead and in a plastic bag. An autopsy was performed to see if the baby was alive at birth or if she had a miscarriage. There are many more questions than answers at this point. Pennsylvania Housing and Redevelopment Assistance funding [...]

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  Today is the final day for Celebrate Erie 2006 which ends with a massive fireworks display at 10 pm. The fireworks will be set off from Dobbins Landing. Here’s the entertainment schedule for today: Main stage at 4th and State: 1 pm Dance Connection 2:30 pm Litte’s Dance 3:45 pm Next of Kin 5:45 [...]

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Knox Mclaughlin Gornall And Sennett is buying the former United Way of Erie County building on the 100 block of West 10th Street. I heard on the news Knox will tear down the building for parking. The building has an asesed value of $600,100. The United Way is exempt from paying property taxes. Knox isn’t. [...]

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WJET-TV reported that there was a deadly crash early this morning on Route 18 in the Cranesville area. Tow people died when their vehicle crashed and burst into flames. A passerby dragged another person out of the vehicle. A motorcycle apparently ran a red light at 26 and Brandes and crashed into the side of [...]

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Rent-A-Center announced they are buying Rent-Way for $10.65 in cash per share of Rent-Way common stock. The transaction is valued at approximately $567 million. Bill Morgenstern founded the company in Erie in 1981 and built it into a 784 store chain in 34 states. Last year William Short was named President and CEO of the [...]

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WJET-TV reported that Nick Scott will drop two lawsuits and pay Erie`s Convention Center Authority $1 million in exchange for managing the Erie Bayfront Sheraton Hotel and gaining naming rights for the Erie Bayfront Convention Center. My advise – don’t do it. The Erie Convention Center Authority has spent close to a million dollars defending [...]

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Erie County Councilwoman Carol Loll and Unclue John’s Campground owner John Puline are proposing building a safe harbor and marina at the mouth of the Elk Creek Access. There is no dock or marina between Erie and Conneaut, Ohio. Loll will ask the governor to return taxpayer money for the project. The state set aside [...]

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The body of a man was found floating in Lake Erie on Saturday afternoon. It is apparently that of Fran Medwick of Washington Township who fell off his boat near Elk Creek and Trout Run on July 22. Erin Palmer, a 2006 grad of Edinboro with a degree in elementary education, asked her mom, Kathy [...]

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There aren’t a lot of employeers that would let you keep your job after you were convicted of a crime and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Being a City of Erie Police officer isn’t among them. Erie Police Detective Ed Dickens was sentenced to 30 days, followed by 90 days probation and ordered to [...]

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