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BELLEFONTE — A proposed zoning ordinance that would ban private rooming houses — including unrecognized fraternities — from campus was written with assistance from Penn State officials, public records show.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State trustees on Friday approved final plans for construction of a $206 million Children’s Hospital in Hershey, 11 months after it put the project on hold.

UNIVERSITY PARK — A growing number of Penn State students are applying for financial aid, even as a smaller percentage of those seeking help are from low-income families.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State trustees discussed efforts to curb binge drinking, elm yellows disease and other topics during their meeting at the Nittany Lion Inn Friday.

Last summer I saw Bob Ricketts at the Tuesday State College farmers market sitting behind a table with a scale, a roll of butcher paper, piles of neatly coiled pasta — and a dream.

Penn State President Graham Spanier and presidents of the other state-related universities say further delays in passing legislation authorizing table games could mean higher tuition rates for the spring semester.

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State students and permanent borough residents filled a council meeting Monday night and voiced thoroughly opposing views on a proposal that would make hosts of rowdy parties responsible for illegal behavior of their guests.

Fifty-four fraternities and sororities performed songs from Broadway shows during Greek Sing 2009, which benefits the Gayle Beyers Scholarship Fund, at Eisenhower Auditorium on Sunday.

The School of Theatre will present "We are Dead State," a Haunted House, in the Pavilion Theatre today and tomorrow.

STATE COLLEGE — Two students and two fraternities are charged with providing Penn State freshman Joseph Dado with beer, shots of vodka and whiskey and

In Happy Valley, it can be easy to forget that not everyone is blessed with health and prosperity. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, there are an estimated 3.5 million homeless people in the U.S. In addition, about 1.2 million Pennsylvanians, almost 10 percent of the state's population, live in households at risk for hunger.

Construction on the Penn State Millennium Science Complex is advancing on the University Park campus.

Visitors to Penn State's recently opened arboretum off Park Avenue will soon be able to enter the gardens on a boardwalk.

Karl Rove and Howard Dean brought the national health care debate to Penn State on Tuesday night.

STATE COLLEGE — Scott Marion never thought selling $35 worth of marijuana to a college buddy might land him in state prison for more than two years.