Erie County News

June 19th, 2013 The Erie Downtown Partnership is currently applying for grants to help initiate the next phase the downtown master plan.

Erie police later today expect to file additional criminal charges against an 18-year-old man investigators believe broke into about 90 vehicles across the area over the past week.

A Tennessee man faces criminal charges here for trying to sell a guitar valued at upward of $15,000 to an Erie music store, police said.

The investigation of a suspended Erie teacher has turned up evidence that he produced child pornography with multiple children, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.

An Erie County jury will be asked this week to decide between two very different accounts of a late-night encounter in a strawberry field between a tired, 71-year-old farmer and a lost, possibly intoxicated young man.

Jose Alfredo Cedeno-Solivan said he was only trying to talk to Jorge Luis Espada-Ortiz when Espada-Ortiz pulled a gun from his waistband and shot him at Lucky's Drag City in Venango Township on May 26. "As soon as I got close to him, he brought a gun out," Cedeno-Solivan testified during a preliminary hearing in Erie County Central Court on ... (more)

June 18th, 2013 New reports are showing that climate change is killing off hundreds of different species of birds.

June 18th, 2013 Concord Road is closed in Erie County from Elgin Road in Concord Township to Nash Hill Road in Union Township due to cross pipe replacement work.

A pending Erie County gun case has been dealt a potentially fatal blow by a judge who ruled that Erie police illegally searched a man and his van after a traffic stop in February.

Blame it on drought, higher feed costs or even the rising demand for corn to make ethanol.

June 17th, 2013 During the last decade, dozens of attractions have created a tourism boon in the Erie region.

With the summer comes mosquitoes, and with mosquitoes comes the chance of West Nile Virus.

June 17th, 2013 PennDOT today announced that work is set to begin on a project that will widen Route 3006 from I-79 to Fry Road in Erie County.

A 47-year-old Erie man was being held Sunday on several charges after he forced a woman into her house at knife point and demanded money, police said.

Robert Walker, of Erie, was arraigned on charges of criminal attempt at homicide, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and persons not to possess firearms in relation to a Friday night shooting, police said.

June 16th, 2013 To further educate people about the war, and its Erie ties, Erie County GOP Chairman Verel Salmon brought copies of his new book "Common Man in the War for the Common Man," which covers many topics.

The 17th annual Refuge Charity Tournament will take place Monday at Riverside Golf Course beginning with a 1 p.m. shotgun start.

Erie and Crawford counties are about to get more than 300,000 reasons why they might like Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania.

Destination Erie is a $3 million project, with the federal government providing the primary funding -- a $1.8 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A 71-year-old farmer from Fairview Township will stand trial this week on charges that he committed aggravated assault when he fired a shotgun at a 19-year-old man in a strawberry field at about 11:30 p.m. on July 20. Harold Bolkey, of the 2100 block of Avonia Road, is contending that he believed he was in danger when he fired his 12-gauge shotgun ... (more)