State College News
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Willie Morse: Hall of Fame Comes Calling for State High Legend
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All sorts of commendations and congratulations will go to each person inducted into the Centre Country Sports Hall of Fame this Sunday. And that is altogether appropriate for these remarkable […]
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Penn State: What Have We Become and What Will We Be?
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“I don’t want Penn State to become the kind of a place where an 8-2 season is a tragedy. You can’t tell kids that a football loss is a tragedy. […]
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Arboretum’s Pumpkin Fest Brings Community Together to Celebrate Fall
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One weekend every fall, the Arboretum at Penn State glows orange with creatively carved jack-o’-lanterns as the community comes together to celebrate the season during Pumpkin Fest. Featuring food vendors, live […]
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Interim Coach Terry Smith Discusses Emotional Toll of James Franklin’s Firing and More
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For the first time in over a decade, it wasn’t James Franklin who met with the media after practice on Wednesday. Interim head coach Terry Smith took on that responsibility […]
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Mike Rhoades Previews Penn State Men’s Basketball’s 2025-26 Season
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Deep inside the Bryce Jordan Center in a revamped media room, head coach Mike Rhoades met with reporters on Wednesday to preview the 2025-26 men’s basketball season. With just weeks […]
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Phoenix Academy of Performing Arts to Offer Intensive 2-Day Circus Aerial Silks Workshop
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In its ongoing efforts to bring a performance arts presence to State College area, the Phoenix Academy of Performing Arts of Pennsylvania will present a two-day Circus Intensive Silks Workshop from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 5 and Friday, Nov. […]
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Centre County Jail Inmate Tried to Hire 2nd Hitman to Kill Informant, Police Say
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An inmate at the Centre County Correctional Facility was charged on Tuesday with attempting to hire a hitman to kill a police informant in a drug case against him for […]
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Financial Pain for Many Pa. Service Providers Will Continue After Budget Impasse Ends
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Pennsylvania has made $40 million on frozen cash during the budget impasse. But it won’t pass on interest to service providers once that funding is released.
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PennDOT Completes Road Diet Study for Next Phase of Atherton Street Work. Here’s What It Recommends
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PennDOT is considering reducing the number of travel lanes as a safety and traffic calming measure on one section of South Atherton Street as it plans for the next phase […]
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A Black Panther, a Softball Injury, Artificial Intelligence and Me
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Was it only last year that we profs were policing artificial intelligence as a newfangled form of plagiarism and buying blue books like it was 1975? Now we’re Tokyo train […]