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A sign that for years has welcomed visitors to the borough and recognized its most notable resident is noticeably absent from the local landscape.

Penn Hills police have set up a Fallen Heroes Fund in honor of slain Officer Michael Crawshaw.

Erie County's decade-long gonorrhea epidemic could be nearing an end. A new report published by the Erie County Department of Health shows that the county's gonorrhea rate dropped by almost 38 percent in 2008, and local health officials expect it to decline by another 30 percent in 2009.

GRAMBLING - Frank Pogue remembers the signs - "whites only" and "colored only." He remembers the fire hoses and dogs, the electric cattle prods pressed to human flesh and police on horses.

It's shaping up to be another winter of discontent for lovers of an old and popular borough eatery.

Penn Hills Police Chief Howard Burton, left, talks about Officer Michael Crawshaw at a news conference.

Valdosta State University art instructor Michael Schmidt continues to reveal the talents of the university's ceramics department with this weekend's Eighth Annual Christmas/Holiday Ceramics Sale.

Occupation: Shift supervisor of The Academy school's Day/Evening Program. It is a nonprofit school in Baldwin for court-adjudicated male and female students in Allegheny County.

Whether it was deliberate or not, the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System on Monday, Nov.

A college student killed in a head-on crash in Washington Township last week had been cited for alcohol and traffic-related violations just two days earlier.

The University of Louisiana System this week hired Mobile native Frank G. Pogue Jr.

The University of Louisiana System's board on Monday picked a veteran administrator who's spent decades at public universities as interim president at Grambling State University.

A recent Baldwin High School graduate was one of three Edinboro University of Pennsylvania students killed in a head-on collision a few miles from campus.

Char-les Darwin's theory of evolution has been a hot button topic for 150 years and through Jan.

A former Edinboro University student has filed a civil lawsuit in federal court claiming that C. William Chandler, a professor in the university's Department of Communication and Media Studies, sexually harassed him, the Associated Press reported on Oct.

Any person who has run for any public office before can probably tell you a variety of great reasons they are running, but many also will tell you that their real reasons for running go much deeper and reside closer to the heart.

For Ridgway native Melody Howard, the path to teaching elementary school students is a winding road full of twists and turns.

The next candidate for the University of Texas-Pan American president's position is no stranger to the institution.

Jeremy D. Brown sees potential in the University of Texas-Pan American. The university has "a terrific infrastructure, wonderful faculty, very talented students" and "great facilities," as well as good support from the state, Brown said.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? >> The search committee tasked with finding the University of Texas-Pan American's next president will accept e-mailed comments from the community though Sept.