Erie County News

Vince Palermo, president of the Erie Summer Festival of the Arts, is asking Erie County officials to appoint an advisory board to oversee daily operations of the festival's soon-to-be reorganized board of directors.

For months leading up to March 9, 2009, Len Jefferson had been watching the stock market with a wary eye.

A 63-year-old man died during the early morning hours Saturday after his car collided with a telephone pole at West 12th Street and Weschler Avenue.

The Erie County Coroner's Office is looking for relatives of a man who died in February and remains unclaimed.

An Erie County judge on Friday ordered a conservator to take over the files of a lawyer whose license has been under a temporary suspension.

About 130 Erie County residents are currently being sued in Erie County for not paying their credit card balances, said Anthony "Buzz" Andrezeski, a former state senator and an Erie attorney who specializes in consumer law.

The Erie County Library wants to be more than just books. Videographer Jude Shingle, appointed as the first library artist-in-residence, is teaching eight classes on animation for teens and adults.

I'd sooner hibernate through this month and wake in mid-April to the promise of spring, but that wasn't one of my available options.

Police and prosecutors have long been grappling with uncooperative witnesses and victims, whose failure to appear or recantations of earlier testimony hamstrings criminal prosecutions.

A northwestern Pennsylvania man will spend life in prison for fatally beating his crack cocaine supplier with a baseball bat, after the dealer took $500 - nearly all of the defendant's pay check - to settle a drug debt.

A 15-year-old northwestern Pennsylvania girl who was driving more than 100 mph when she crashed an SUV that killed her 8-year-old brother and injured three other children must spend at least 30 to 60 days confined to a juvenile facility.

An Erie man was held for trial this afternoon on most charges in a New Year's Day shooting that wounded two people at an eastside tavern.

A Millcreek Township man was arraigned this morning on charges in the robbery of a Huntington Bank branch in the township on Thursday.

Lee P. Gabor, 37, of the 500 block of West Eighth Street, was arraigned Thursday on felony counts of criminal conspiracy, burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.

Michael Roman's lawyer told an Erie County judge Thursday that his client, at 35 years old, finds himself "in a full-blown heroin addiction" that can be blamed for fueling a burglary spree throughout Erie County.

Charles B. Edwards told Erie County President Judge Ernest J. DiSantis Jr. he could not apologize for a crime he did not commit.

Council on Tuesday night will hold second readings on ordinances related to the jobs, and council has the power to change the salary requests by amending the ordinances, which were on County Council's agenda for a first reading on Feb. 25. The jobs include two that have gone unfilled since Dahlkemper took office Jan. 2 -- director of administration ... (more)

Democrat Kerith Strano Taylor, seeking her party's nomination for Congress in the May 20 primary, brought her campaign to Erie County today.

Turning right onto the first dirt road after the "four-way" and then left onto the next dirt road is not how you'd expect to get to one of Pennsylvania's most exclusive restaurants.

An Erie teenager will appear in Erie County Juvenile Court this morning to be sentenced for her role in a crash that claimed the life of her 8-year-old brother in August.