Erie County News

Erie County Council on Tuesday night approved four of the five administrative jobs Dahlkemper requested, including two that have gone unfilled since Dahlkemper took office on Jan. 2: director of administration and director of the Erie County Department of Health.

The National Weather Service in Cleveland has issued a winter storm warning for Erie and Crawford counties in effect from 6 a.m. Wednesday through 2 a.m. Thursday.

Incumbent Republican Brad Roae and Democrat Juanita Shutsa so far are unopposed for party nominations for 6th District state representative in the May 20 primary.

A woman wanted by the Erie County Sheriff's Office for probation violations is back in custody after she was apprehended by U.S. Marshals in Buffalo on Saturday.

The robbery took place around 7:30 p.m., according to Erie County dispatchers. The robber was described as a black male in his early 20s, about 5-foot-7 and weighing 130 pounds.

State police said a Conneaut, Ohio, man was attempting to pass another vehicle in Conneaut Township on Sunday night when the two vehicles collided, killing the man.

A driver was flown by medical helicopter to a Buffalo hospital after his vehicle hit a snowbank and sheared a utility pole in half in Chautauqua County.

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.

The splintered radio communications and outdated equipment used by many Erie County emergency responders has been a major public safety issue for years.

Emergency personnel responded to a fatal crash shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of routes 215 and 6N in Conneaut Township.

The Erie County Coroner's office has identified a man pronounced dead after a crash early this morning in Millcreek Township.

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.