Mercyhurst College News

Mackenzie Lynn Lainhart, daughter of Trudy and Randy Lainhart of Vestal, N.Y., is engaged to Michael Anthony Casale, son of Lucy and Bruce Casale of Erie.

Students from 23 northwestern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio high schools will open Academic Sports League competition at Mercyhurst College today.

Governments would get a break on the rates they pay to place legal ads in newspapers under a bill approved by the state House.

The 16th edition of LECOM's Student Scholarship Fund Auction 2009 was colossally successful.

From left, Kalan Lynn, Kate Rusk and Devin Rivers search for evidence in the remains of a controlled house fire in Cecil.

Ruth Alberstadt has joined the Mercyhurst Preparatory School staff as coordinator of special events.

U.S. Flagship Niagara officials expected state funding for the brig to be slashed, but when the actual cuts came, they were deeper and even more damaging than predicted.

Mercyhurst College's Dana Banda is the PSAC West women's basketball freshman of the week.

Mercyhurst College has opened an ambitious new capital campaign. The campaign goal is to raise $50 million in the next 10 years to fund college building projects, scholarships and faculty endowments.

Working as an arson investigator for the Pennsylvania State Police years ago, Robert Ryhal would just put human bones found at the scene into a bag or box and cart them away.

Christina C. Herbstritt and Paul T. Johnson Jr. exchanged wedding vows April 4 at the Chapel at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

President Barack Obama, who has drawn the ire of many Republicans since he took office, has something in common with an icon of the GOP -- Ronald Reagan.

Mercyhurst College today kicked off the biggest capital campaign in school history.

Just after 10 a.m. Saturday morning, a Mercyhurst College forensic anthropology team arrives at the scene of an abandoned mobile home in Franklin Center, burned to the ground two days earlier, and discovers what appear to be pieces of burned bone in the ashes.

Nikki Nelson has spent part of the last month running an ultraviolet light over other people's hands.

Rock collectors can bring their fossil finds to the Tom Ridge Environmental Center on Saturday, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fossil expert Scott McKenzie, a geology instructor and curator of the Sincak Natural History Collection at Mercyhurst College, will be available to answer your questions and help identify your specimens.

By S. ALEXANDER GEROULD Special to the OBSERVER RIPLEY - " On a typical Monday, Wednesday or Friday, several Ripley Central School students travel to the University of New York at Fredonia or Mercyhurst College in Erie to take college courses as part of the school's 3-1-3 program.

You could camp out at the Warner Theatre this weekend and have a stellar time. So here are ways to get tickets to Pat and Darius' shows, as well as eight other things to do during a beautiful fall weekend.

If proof is needed that independent films have begun to recognize the inherent artistic possibilities of globalization, look no further than "Munyurangabo," which will screen at Mercyhurst College on Wednesday We almost need a map or two to trace the film's geographical connections.

Local college students and alumni are invited to meet employers during Mercyhurst College's 18th annual Career and Job Fair on Thursday.