State College News

Starting on Sunday, the Northeast and mid-Atlantic will be faced with severe thunderstorms and flooding downpours on multiple days before the new week ends on a more refreshing note.

Although there have been no substantial leads, police and family members continue their search for a Sykesville woman who has been missing for seven years, according to the family's Web site, findjoey.org.

Members of Battery B, 3rd Pennsylvania Volunteers Light Artillery perform a cannon salute during the Boalsburg Memorial Day service in 2013.

Re-enactment can be a thrilling hobby for those who have a passion for history and keeping it alive, but re-enactor groups often find it difficult to recruit the next generation to re-create events such as Civil War battles.

State College Area school board member David Hutchinson continues the board's losing war against its own charter schools.

Jennifer Cahill-Shadle, 48, has been missing since May 15th. She was last seen walking outside Walmart Plaza at 5 p.m. carrying a black shoulder bag.

A State College attorney argued Wednesday that his client, Justin G. Melanson, 35, of Bellefonte, never should have had his case brought before District Judge Tom Jordan for a preliminary hearing on charges of theft by deception and home improvement fraud.

Gloria Esh and Jeffrey Goss, co-founders of Singles Adult Ministry and Singles Making Connections, said they don't promote dating but prefer singles to advocate friendship with mutual respect.

Is it back? A version of what some are calling the polar vortex, last winter's favorite whipping boy, will make a rare summer cameo in the central U.S. next week.

After excelling in standup and sketch comedy performances, State College native Joe Machi faced his biggest challenge yet on this week's round of "Last Comic Standing."

Alan Matsumoto works on the sea creature sand sculpture in Sidney Friedman Park during the 2013 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

Overall, more than 100,000 people -- some of whom travel many miles -- show up for the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.

Fifty years might not be a long time for an animal like the giant tortoise, but Clyde Peeling says "it's amazing how fast the time has passed" since he opened Reptiland.

For medical, fire or police emergencies, call 911 on the nearest phone, or report to the information booths or to an arts festival official wearing a green and white badge.

The 2004 Penn State graduate tries to make it back to State College for an annual summertime gig, but the direction of his music career caused him to miss 2013.

For one thing, you'll be able to find all three in State College this weekend at Schlow Centre Region Library's BookFestPA.

Gloria McRoberts, of Watertown, Tenn., is a first-time vendor at the arts festival, but is no stranger to festivals in general.

It was at about 5 p.m. The 48-year-old woman was walking outside the Wal-Mart Plaza on North Atherton Street, a black purse slung on her shoulder.

Tropical Storm Neoguri is making its closest pass to Tokyo as it loses strength on a track into the Pacific, leaving at least three dead in its wake.

Joe Paterno is carried to the center of the field after winning his 400th game over Northwestern in November 2010.