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Updated September 25, 2008 4:59 AM
A Penn State student was arrested on Monday, State College Police said, and will face charges of rape in connection with an incident that occurred in Philadelphia, according to court documents.
Despite John McCain's announcement on Wednesday he'd like to suspend his presidential campaign and postpone Friday's presidential debate so he can work in Washington, D.C., to solve the economic crisis, national debate plans will continue.
Penn State football players Brett Brackett and Daryll Clark signed autographs and posed for pictures as swarms of Paternoville residents crowded around them Wednesday night.
Aleksander Wolszczan woke up last Thursday in Poland and found himself in the headlines.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) fined Mount Nittany Medical Center $17,500 in connection with four instances in which the hospital violated state radiation protection regulations, a DEP spokeswoman said Monday.
The Graduate Student Association (GSA) delegates have nearly tripled this semester, GSA President Alfonso Mendoza said, crediting the bump in representation to a mix of bookkeeping and active recruiting.
Vice President for Student Affairs Damon Sims continued his introductory tour of Penn State student life at Wednesday's Graduate Student Association (GSA) meeting.
Gavin Keirans spelled out his goals for the University Park Undergraduate Association at Wednesday night's town hall meeting.
As part of an effort to test a paperless ticket system for next year's student football tickets, basketball season tickets will be stored on students' ID+ cards this season, athletic department officials said Wednesday.
Though Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities enacted a campus-wide smoking ban two weeks ago, Penn State officials said a similar ban is out of the question at University Park.
Cell phone keypads are getting more use than ever now that text messaging has become more popular than placing phone calls, according to a recent report.
One year ago, at the end of Ramadan, Panagiota Vasiliadis converted to Islam.
The space that formerly housed Hi-Way Pizza's College Avenue branch was open again last weekend when Inferno Brick Oven & Bar served its first meals.
The Pennsylvania Rural Water Association in Bellefonte received a grant from the Department of Environmental Protection to fund the protection of local water sources.
Updated September 24, 2008 4:59 AM
Shortly after the first weeklong Paternoville began Tuesday, about 50 students stood in a circle singing and clapping along to Penn State fight songs as some students banged on garbage cans to the beat of the songs.
Charges were filed Tuesday against a man who burglarized a Mifflinburg home and then reported to police he was stabbed in downtown State College, according to court documents.
About 15 minutes away from campus, behind biology professor Chris Uhl's suburban split-level home lies a natural, rural oasis complete with the most unlikely choice of pets -- chickens.
In the war for the dominance over State College's soft pretzel market, The Philly Pretzel Factory has fired the first shot by planning to open a new store just about a block from Jim's Soft Pretzel Bakery.
When the original Willard Preacher, Clarence "Bro" Cope, first preached at Penn State in the 1970s, he had to avoid insults and flying pies.
Criminal Mischief: An unknown person drove a four-wheeler on hole 12 of the Blue Golf Course, causing $4,000 of damage, Penn State Police said in a press release Tuesday. The incident occurred between 8 p.m. Monday and 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
Issues ranging from the components of good reporting to credibility in the media were tackled last night at the inaugural Ben Bronstein Lecture in Ethics and Public Communications.
A Minnesota company has failed to recover any files from former Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar's hard drive, current District Attorney Michael Madeira said Tuesday.
The findings of a Penn State study contradict previous beliefs that young adults are leaving Pennsylvania to settle down because of too much "fragmentation" in, and differences between, forms of local governments.
The 2008 Education Abroad Fair offered an array of people, information and stories promoting various ways to study abroad.
Jamelle Cornley said he and fellow basketball teammates plan to use "the five D's of dodgeball" to help raise money for the Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon.
Political campaigns tapped valuable resources this presidential election, including student volunteers willing to donate their time on the road to Nov. 4.
Students who say they can't keep in touch with family back home because their relatives don't use text messaging now have no excuse.
The new management of Sports Café & Grille will be changing the name of its bar and would like its patrons to help by holding a name-change contest.
As part of a pilot program with Sony Electronics, portable electronic reading devices have replaced traditional textbooks in three courses this fall.
When Dan Sepe logged onto his Facebook.com account a week ago, his reaction was "Why?"
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