State College News

In this file photo from Jan. 25, 2012, former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary arrives to the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State campus for the funeral service of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in State College, Pa.

"Sandusky's attorneys appeal to state Supreme Court after trial delay denied by Superior Court": This article appears today in The Centre Daily Times of State College, Pennsylvania.

After serving as a juror on the murder trial of Mirinda Boob and Ronald Heichel last year, State College resident Fran Gray has experience - but not advice - to share with those summoned to jury selection in the Jerry Sandusky case.

It did leave about 2,900 West Penn Power customers without power. According to a company spokeswoman, about 2,700 homes in the State College area had lost power Friday night, along with about 200 other customers in the county.

Tyler Walstrom, of Philipsburg, works on a client at Forever Sick Tattoo in Lewistown.

Lomic Inc., a State College-based company formerly located at 1358 S. Atherton St., has filed a notice of dissolution, which is a formal step in going out of business.

The National Weather Service in State College has issued a tornado watch until 9 p.m. for a number of central Pennsylvania counties, including York and Adams.

Centre County PAWS is hosting a Bingo benefit at The Elks Club . Doors open at 5 p.m., with early birds at 6:30. Bingo begins at 7. ClearWater Conservancy will hold its annual celebration of Spring Creek at Millbrook Marsh Nature Center.

The Philipsburg-based state police initiated an investigation at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday into the runaway of a 15-year-old Port Matilda girl, Saisha Ann Simco, from her Halfmoon Valley Road residence.

Calling this week a "notorious weather period" for parts of Pennsylvania, the National Weather Service in State College is expecting severe thunderstorms with a chance of hail and tornadoes in York County Friday afternoon and evening.

Local emergency officials are advising area residents that heavy rainfall combined with severe thunderstorms are a distinct possibility today.

Penn State police are investigating whether the man convicted of setting fire to two police cars and the State College Marine Corps recruiting office in 2010 may be connected to an unsolved burglary on campus in 2010.

Taylor Harris and Colin Heininger rehearse for the theater's spring gala performance Saturday at Eisenhower Auditorium.

A defense attorney for former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky applied today to postpone trial proceedings once again, this time, in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

The area bounded by Railroad Avenue, Clay Lane and North Atherton and Barnard streets would be an ideal location for an indoor-outdoor marketplace.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Their accounts of horrific child abuse shattered the idyllic facade of a prestigious university.

What is a town commons? The Oxford English Dictionary defines "commons" as: "belonging equally to more than one, free to be used by everyone, of or belonging to the community at large: common place." As landscape architecture students at Penn State, we were challenged to find three locations in downtown State College that would be suitable for a ... (more)

It's often said that food can bring members of a community together - through growing, sharing, cooking and dining with one another.

State College police said a Bellefonte man wearing nothing but socks and shoes led them on a foot pursuit early Saturday morning and now is behind bars.

Mifflin County saw substantial damage as the result of a severe thunderstorm that rolled through the area Tuesday afternoon.