Portal:Erie/news archive
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- Senator Barack Obama makes his first appearance in Erie at Penn State Behrend.[1]
- Former President Bill Clinton and actor Ted Danson campaign for Hillary at Penn State Behrend.[2]
- A firefighter with the Lawrence Park Township Volunteer Fire Department is killed in the line of duty.[3]
- Mayor Joe Sinnott and other local officials meet with the FAA in Harrisburg on the proposed runway extension at Erie International.[4]
- Road construction on Interstate 79 near Meadville is expected to begin for the summer.[5]
- Homeowners in the path of the proposed runway extension at Erie International finally move.
- Pennsylvania State Police are looking for a suspect who made threatening phone calls to WJET-TV.[6]
- A black bear was spotted in Presque Isle State Park by a park ranger.[7]
- A suspected pipe bomb is discovered and removed from the steps of the Erie County Courthouse. [8]
- Strong winds with gusts up 54 mph topple a 700-pound cross off the steeple of a church and causes Presque Isle Bay to rise 5 to 6 feet. [9]
- An employee of the Erie County "Office of Children and Youth" contracts and dies from the MRSA virus. (Erie Times-News)
- The Erie Zoo's new polar bear arrives to replace the bear that died during leg surgery in August 2006. (Erie Times-News)
- An inmate from the Albion State Penitentiary escapes with the unsuspecting help of a Crawford County hog farmer. (Erie Times-News)
- An island off the coast of Antarctica is named after researchers Chuck and Maggie Amsler from North East. (Erie Times–News)
- The season's first lake effect snowfall occurs in Erie on November 6. (Erie Times–News)
- The cause of Furhman's Cider Mill fire is determined to have been a malfunctioning adding machine (Erie Times-News)
- Charles Brandt is sentenced to life in prison for killing his 9 month pregnant wife in 2006.(Erie Times–News)
- Fuhrman's Cider Mill, a 111-year old cider mill, burns to ground. Cause of blaze is unclear. (Erie Times-News)
- The boilers of the new Lake Erie Biofuels plants were fired up for the first time causing a loud, roaring noise that could be heard for more than a mile in Lawrence Park. (Erie Times-News)
- State tourism officials are hoping to draw tourists to Northwest Pennsylvania by "touting" the region's maple syrup industry at the World Travel Market in London, England with a new 7-page brochure. (Erie Times-News)
- PennDOT is stockpiling 50,000 tons of salt, 60,000 gallons of salt brine and fitting snowplows and salt spreaders to its 43 trucks for the upcoming Erie winter. (Erie Times-News)
- A Circle K convenience store on West 26th Street is robbed...again. (Erie Times-News)
- US Airways announced plans to drop service to Erie International Airport from Pittsburgh. In 2005, US Airways dropped service to Charlotte Douglas International Airport from Erie. US Airways only remaining destination is Philadelphia. (Erie Times-News)
