State College News

Some Pennsylvania state lawmakers want state-owned universities to be able to leave the 14-member State System of Higher Education and on Tuesday outlined the details of a proposal to allow it.

Students making their way around the eastern end of campus, hockey fans headed to the new Pegula Ice Arena and families out for a stroll at the Arboretum at Penn State have seen the signs of construction.

NBC's "Today" show is about to air an interview with Jerry Sandusky's wife that was recently recorded at her home in State College.

On Wednesday, Jerry Sandusky's wife, Dottie, will be featured in an exclusive interview on NBC's Today Show, speaking with Matt Lauer.

Co-offensive coordinators Major Applewhite and Darrell Wyatt, the two highest-paid assistants, remain on the market.

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.