Centre County News

Eighteen-year- old New York City resident Chrystal Lopez says she hasn't had the best childhood, but she'll always look back on her summers in Centre County as some of her fondest memories.

Daniel Pryle, PennDOT mechanic, works under the hood of a truck in the Centre County maintenance garage in Bellefonte on Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

State legislation on a fast track for committee approval would impose a per-capita fee on nearly half of Pennsylvania's municipalities for state police services that the municipalities now get at no cost.

Submitted by voicesweb on Tue, 2009-06-30 00:55. By: Sara Blackwell July 1-5 2009 The State College Horse Show Series will be held Wednesday July 1 through Sunday July 5. The show will feature over 500 horses.

Veteran Frank Greenleaf, right, and wife Nancy talk with John McPherson at the Kimchi Korean Restaurant on Thursday, June 25, 2009.

The Williamport police chief said Thursday night that a suspect has confessed to witnessing the murder of a Williamsport woman last seen in Centre County more than 15 years ago.

A Centre County licensed firearms dealer has pleaded guilty to a fraudulently selling weapons by failing to maintain required records.

The trial of a State College man is under way on charges he repeatedly beat and raped a woman, then left her for dead in her downtown apartment two years ago on July 4. CDT file photo Michael Kuhn is escorted out of a district judge office following his arrest on Oct.

The Employee Free Choice Act will be the topic of the Centre County Democrats monthly breakfast Saturday in the Community Building at Foxdale Village, 500 E. Marylyn Ave., State College.

Interfaith Mission Executive Director Matt Hall remembers the day, years ago, that he sat in his office talking to a woman who had been a victim of domestic violence.

Teen pregnancy is admittedly not county Judge Thomas King Kistler's area of expertise.

A Vermont truck driver has been sentenced to one to five years in the death of a woman killed by his rig as he was hauling tombstones for Memorial Day in central Pennsylvania in May 2007.

A lot of people in the Centre Region are interested in getting fit, but running on a treadmill or doing mindless repetitions of weights isn't for everyone.

All five Centre County school districts passed preliminary budgets that included tax increases, but managed to stay below a cap mandated by the state.

Mary Kisner has lived in the State College area almost her entire life, but her work in curriculum development at Penn State and then as a consultant in work force education has kept her on the road for much of her adult life.

Discusses Pennsylvania Conservation Corps Funding at Centre County Nature Facility STATE COLLEGE - Labor & Industry Secretary Sandi Vito said that Pennsylvania must invest in its young people, and the initiatives that provide the education and training they need to be successful in the workplace.

A Penn State student and local boxer has been charged with conspiring with a county inmate to murder a local police informant.

A man accused of robbing the Cold Stream Uni-Mart early Wednesday morning has been captured.

Pennsylvania Department of Education and Pennsylvania School Boards Association do not have figures on how many districts run their own cyber schools, but educators have been seeing a growing trend statewide.

A Philadelphia woman has become the second Pennsylvanian to die from swine flu. State Health Department officials say the 26- year-old woman died Sunday.