Erie County News

An Erie man is in jail this morning on charges of robbing a man and threatening him and others after entering a westside residence on Sunday morning.

If cooperation had a scent, it would smell like what has been going on at a trash-hauling business at East 17th and Wallace streets.

Fifteen road maintenance projects are to take place across Erie County this week, according to Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials.

No allegations of criminal behavior triggered the complaint as they did, for example, in all of the judicial ethics cases filed in 2013 -- most of which centered on Philadelphia judges who faced indictments in a ticket-fixing scandal.

Mixed signals: Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper supports the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Erie police officers on patrol heard four to six gunshots in the area of East 10th and Parade streets at 12:55 a.m. Friday.

An Erie man accused of fatally shooting another man and injuring three others during a party at the former East Erie Turners building sidestepped a trial and pleaded guilty today in Erie County Court to third-degree murder and aggravated assault.

Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper has asked that her signature be removed from a letter sent to President Barack Obama last week that requested a religious exemption from his planned executive order banning federal contractors from discriminating against gays and lesbians in terms of hiring.

Erie police accused a city man of having inappropriate contact with two young boys at an eastside park on Wednesday night.

Nine pairs of young female hands poured soil into plastic containers, then added basil, parsley and cilantro plants that will be used to make pesto.

The state Judicial Conduct Board is targeting Erie County Judge Stephanie Domitrovich because of her personality, her lawyer, Leonard Ambrose, said.

Approximately 1,235 Windstream customers in West Springfield Township are without land line 911 service today after an aerial cable suffers a fiber cut.

About Erie County Most Wanted: The Erie Times-News each Thursday publishes information about suspects sought by the Erie County Sheriff's Office.

A Bethel Park woman trying to help her son struggling in the water drowned Wednesday afternoon in Lake Erie off Shore Haven Beach along Shore Drive, just west of Barcelona Beach, authorities said.

The city of Erie's Design Review Committee is the next step for Scott Enterprises' proposed multimillion-dollar Harbor Place project on the east bayfront.

Legislation that would help spark development along Erie's bayfront, by providing developers with tax breaks, is one step closer to reality.

A Millcreek Township man pleaded guilty this afternoon to arson and recklessly endangering charges in a Feb. 14 fire that heavily damaged a house.

The Erie teenager accused of shooting another teen near Strong Vincent High School in April 2013 is scheduled to plead guilty in the case on July 31. The District Attorney's Office and the defense today set the plea hearing for the defendant, Jakwaris Robison, who was 16 at the time of the shooting.

An Erie man faces up to 17 years in prison after he pleaded guilty this morning to three charges in an Aug. 7 traffic accident on Peach Street in Erie that seriously injured a construction worker.

A local railroad historian and rail transit author has published his take on the shuttered intermodal rail terminal project that had been planned for Harborcreek Township.