Mercyhurst College News

Tehya Worthy, 5, of Erie, plays with the Hula Hoop she received Saturday as a gift at Mercyhurst College's Christmas on Campus celebration in the Carolyn Herrmann Student Union.

Robert Heibel, executive director of the Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies, was among a group of U.S. and Irish speakers who addressed the challenges of police and prosecutors in increasingly global societies during a recent conference in County Waterford, Ireland.

The War at the Shore V wrestling event scheduled for tonight at Tullio Arena has been canceled because of the weather.

Tucked away behind the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' home on Erie's lower east side is a well-tended veterans' cemetery whose rows of uniform grave markers resemble a miniature Arlington National Cemetery.

Michael Federici, a political science professor at Mercyhurst College, thinks President Barack Obama's jobs creation plan could win at least tepid support on both sides of the aisle.

Joseph "Jay" Connor helped double the number of children attending kindergarten in the poorest neighborhood in Minneapolis, and worked toward creating a bus route in Hamilton, Ontario, that enabled inner-city residents to travel to jobs with higher wages.

In the first version of his Pearl Harbor address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Dec.

For composers, world premieres are wonderful events. Charged with excitement and surrounded by gala trappings, they are the public validation of what can be a very solitary profession.

Man, that Santa is busy. He's attending events all over the region this weekend.

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Santa makes an appearance during the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which ran in November at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh and closes this weekend.

Mercyhurst College heads to West Liberty, W.Va., today for a top-20 Division II wrestling showdown with the Hilltoppers at 7 p.m. Mercyhurst is ranked 11th and West Liberty 16th in the Division II Wrestling Coaches Association poll.

We love our superlatives, so here's a good one: Did you know that Edinboro University has the largest liberal arts undergraduate degree program in art in the entire Northeast? The school also has a pretty good start at a superlative art collection, a large sampling of which can be seen at the Erie Art Museum until Jan.

A fire set at a vacant Cecil Township home earlier this month and the two pig carcasses placed inside it may help set standards for recovering remains from fatal blazes while saving crucial evidence.

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.