State College News

A State College Borough Public Works Crew makes repairs to a section of sanitary sewer line on South Sparks Street on Monday.

Investigators pulled the images from surveillance video at the Meridian apartment building in the 600 block of East College Avenue.

The chaos at the University of Massachusetts over the weekend during a pre-St. Patrick's Day celebration brought renewed attention to an old problem affecting colleges nationwide: how to deal with alcohol-fueled revelers during the March festivities.

S&T Bancorp is using business lending to quietly ramp up geographic expansion. S&T opened an Akron, Ohio, office in 2012, will have a Columbus, Ohio, office up and running by the end of March, and now is deploying that Ohio strategy to move deeper into central Pennsylvania.

RNS Pope Francis, politically the surest-footed pontiff in many a long century, stumbled pretty badly last week in discussing the crisis that has engulfed Roman Catholicism these past dozen years.

First-place finishes from Adrian Bak and Nobuo Bravo led Penn State fencers at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/Southern Regionals, which concluded Saturday at Lafayette College.

Space pioneer, entrepreneur and author Peter H. Diamandis will deliver the keynote address, "The Impact of Innovation."

Submitted photo from Centre County Gazette David Francey will make his first appearance in central Pennsylvania on March 22 as part of the Acoustic Brew Concert Series in Lemont.

Lockheed Martin's Missiles and Fire Control in Archbald earned the Governor's Award for Safety Excellence, one of 10 companies to receive the honor, from the state Department of Labor and Industry's Health & Safety Division.

The pediatrics unit has new exam rooms, a centralized nurses station, expanded waiting room, staff lounge, physicians work area and more parking.

If State College Area School District soon has the funding for a new high school, it will have done something only one district ever has in Pennsylvania - convinced voters to pass a referendum.

Penn State Board of Trustees member Alvin Clemens, left, looks at documents with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett during the lunch break of the regularly scheduled Penn State Board of Trustees meeting in State College, Pa., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012.

By adopting, pet owners save the life of a dog or cat that might otherwise be euthanized.

There are a lot of names for the recent weather we've had -- The snow zone, The deep freeze and The-never-ending-winter, -- or worse.

The next phase of the Route 2001 road improvement project in Lehman Township has been put on hold due to the discovery of pyrite, an acid-bearing rock.

The Chamber of Business and Industry of Centre County will hold its annual gala Thursdayat the State Theatre in State College.

Kurt Gooding, left, and Harold Wamboldt, right, temporary patch pot holes. PennDOT workers are filling pot holes along N. Atherton St., in State College, Pa., March 6, 2014.

Ready for the weekend? Of course you are. If you don't have plans yet be sure to take a look at the weekend planner.

The Penn State Board of Trustees approved an increase in room and board fees at its public meeting Friday in Hershey.

Photo by Steve Bauer/StateCollege.com Student apartment buildings that line East Beaver Avenue.