In Case You Missed It: Recapping This Week’s Headlines

We get it. Keeping up with the news can be difficult, especially when you’re busy with work, school, children, and everything else life throws your way during the week.

With that in mind, we’ve decided to debut a new weekly feature to help catch you up on everything you might have missed from the previous week. 

Fittingly titled “In Case You Missed It,” this post will run every Friday afternoon with a breakdown of the most important headlines from each day of the week. 

You can scroll through, read a brief description for each article, and decide what’s up your alley instead of scrolling through our daunting homepage with tens of new stories after a week away.

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MONDAY:

Cat Rescuer Plans Retirement, Seeks Good Homes for Kitties: Shirley Fonda has been waging a one-woman war on behalf of homeless cats for years out of her own State College home. After saving over 1,600 cats over the years, Fonda is retiring and looking to find good homes for about 50 cats still in need of their “forever family.”

Police Investigating Alleged Anti-Gay Assault: An alleged anti-gay assault went viral on social media over the weekend after a post on Facebook and a tweet with pictures of the victim spread like wildfire. Police launched an investigation into the assault, locating a suspect and witnesses the following day. 

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TUESDAY:

Pencils Down: State High Project Moves Out of Design Phase: Nearly a year and half after State College voters voiced their support for renovating State High, the State College Area School Board is taking offers from contractors for the bulk of the ambitious project.

Freeh Fires Back at Spanier for Attempts to ‘Unnecessarily Complicate’ Lawsuit: In new court documents filed Monday, former FBI director Louis Freeh accused former Penn State president Graham Spanier of trying to “unnecessarily complicate” the defamation suit Spanier first initiated back in 2013.

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WEDNESDAY:

Penn State Football: Anthony Zettel Reflects, And Moves Forward From Father’s Death: “Me and my family went through a hard time but I think when you got a group of guys in the locker room like I have and a group of guys at home, family friends that surround me with support, I think that really takes the edge off everything and makes me be able to fight through it and deal with it better,” Zettel said. 

Bruce Heim: Shedding Light on the Second Mile’s Decision Making: The former Second Mile board member who worked closely with Jerry Sandusky for years penned an opinion piece for StateCollege.com on some of the decisions made by the charity regarding reports of Sandusky showering with boys. He also took time to opine on the scandal as a whole, including Joe Paterno’s firing.

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THURSDAY:

Defendants Ask Court to Dismiss Parks Miller’s ‘Irrelevant, Scandalous’ Lawsuit: “[Parks Miller’s lawsuit] is a procedurally and substantively flawed document in which it appears that the voluminous irrelevant, immaterial and scandalous allegations comprise an attempt to literally ‘throw everything at the wall and see what might stick.’”

Former Coaches Hall, Anderson Suing Penn State for Unpaid Wages: Galen Hall and Richard “Dick” Anderson filed suit in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on Tuesday, alleging that the university owes them an additional six months of wages and benefits that it didn’t pay the coaches.

North Atherton Walmart Closes Again After Fourth Bomb Threat: For the fourth time in two weeks, the N. Atherton St. Walmart was evacuated and temporarily closed due to a bomb threat, according to a store employee. Walmart employees were cleaning up the mess left by the threat for over an hour, emptying abandoned shopping carts.

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FRIDAY:

Penn State Football: Previewing The Opponents: Indiana: Penn State and Indiana are in for a good old fashion Big Ten battle this Saturday. Our own Ben Jones took a look at the Hoosiers and offered his prediction for the matchup.

McQueary Declares Impasse With Penn State in Whistleblower Lawsuit: “Plaintiff’s counsel…has communicated with Defense Counsel…on a number of occasions…in an effort to resolve this dispute, but despite good faith efforts to do so, counsel are at impasse with respect to the issue of the sufficiency of Defendant’s response.”

Fire Leaves Penn Tower Apartment ‘Uninhabitable’: “It is always a bad idea to put water on a grease fire,” fire director Steve Bair said. “Thankfully, he next used dry chemicals, which slowed the fire down but was unable to extinguish it.”