Normally, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is in full support of President Bush's policies, but not this time -- and some local political figures are wondering why.
Cell phone users calling Centre County 911 may soon be able to call in an emergency without having to know their exact location.
Yesterday's steady rain showers are a sign the warm weather State College has enjoyed over the past week will soon come to an end.
Many new students arrive at college with a touch of anxiety at the prospect of suddenly having to live with a stranger. About 800 students last fall had to adjust to living with up to seven strangers.
This year, Penn State students will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in a way they never celebrated it before -- with a day off from classes.
Driver flees from police, hitting officer
Pennsylvania turnpike officials are re-evaluating a plan to remedy the high-traffic volume in the tunnel through the Allegheny Mountains that many Penn State students use to travel to and from State College.
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Three defensive players competing in Hula Bowl
In their college years at Immaculata, Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland and Illinois women's basketball coach Theresa Grentz won three straight national championships from 1972-74.
After Sunday's heroic team performance over No. 10 Cornell, the Penn State wrestling team was hearing murmurs about a possible letdown against in-state rival Lock Haven. Last night, the Nittany Lions quashed those murmurs with a 33-7 victory.
The Penn State men's basketball team removed a giant monkey from its back last night, winning 65-61 at Northwestern. The victory marks the first Big Ten road win for the Nittany Lions (9-4, 1-1 Big Ten) under third-year head coach Ed DeChellis.
The road to a national championship is, figuratively, long and hard, paved with triumphs and difficulties, thrills and setbacks. It's filled with treacherous potholes in upsets and stiff competition and patches of smooth, flat roadway against lesser competition.
It may be January, but inside the Multi-Sport Facility the men's indoor track and field team is just starting to heat up.
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Penn State students can break away from hours of homework and classes this semester and escape to a free movie.
Country music star Martina McBride will kick off her national Timeless tour tomorrow on the night that the show's venue, the Bryce Jordan Center, begins its 10th anniversary celebration.
Each January many people feel compelled to use the new year as a way to start fresh. Students make vows to wake up for early morning classes, get homework done and limit alcohol intake.
The holiday season has come and gone, and the spring semester is now in session, but some Penn State students may still be thinking about the gifts they collected over the winter break.
Even in the heart of winter, the colors of nature can still be seen at Zola New World Bistro.
At a university with more than 500 hundred clubs, it's hard to believe an improv acting troupe did not exist until last year. Full Ammo Improv Troupe, the first club of its kind at Penn State, will present its fourth show in a short form improv performance entitled "The Angolan Independence Improv Show" at 9 p.m. Sunday in 112 Chambers.
If and when temperatures drop and snow finally makes its expected appearance this winter in State College, long johns won't be a Penn State student's only option to face the harsh elements.
There's something about a good love song that reminds us of an old flame, or maybe of a current beau. Yet, there's also something about a good old drinking song that brings friends and strangers together in a bar.
Nobody can forget the boy-band craze that took America by storm. A wave of bubbly love songs and cheesy merchandise washed over teenage girls everywhere, beginning in the early '90s and stretching to the end of the decade.
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