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A Buffalo-area man who skipped sentencing in 2020 on charges in a series of Erie County thefts was recently apprehended and charged in Tennessee

The biggest impact is that the CDC no longer urges everyone in Erie County to wear face masks in schools and other indoor public areas.

Penn State Behrend awarded 660 degrees at the college's spring commencement ceremony. The May 6 program, held at Erie Insurance Arena, also honored Behrend's 2020 graduates, whose commencement events were virtual, due to the pandemic.

The Penn State Behrend men’s track and field team won its sixth consecutive Colonial States Athletic Conference championship on May 8, finishing with 302 team points. The women’s team also won, claiming a fifth CSAC title — the team’s first since 2019.

On his first shift in the intensive care unit at UPMC Hamot, Grant Oishi, a nursing student at Penn State Behrend, saw the worst of the work ahead: He helped care for a patient who no longer had brain activity, and whose organs would soon be removed by transplant teams. But it was the 10-week rotation in the intensive care unit that had the most meaning for him, despite the rough start.

Nearly 30 Penn State Behrend faculty members and alumni will participate in the Worldwide Teach-In on Climate and Justice on Wednesday, March 30.

Innovation Commons at Penn State Behrend has helped more than 200 projects move ahead. Now, the services is being backed by a $2.13 million endowment.

Despite their distance from University Park, Penn State’s commonwealth campuses will celebrate THON 2022 in the Bryce Jordan Center, dancing with the local participants.

Pennsylvania State Police troopers are investigating a car-pedestrian crash in Girard Township on Thursday afternoon that killed a Lake City woman