When the news broke of the devastating earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, Penn State graduate student Puhui Li couldn’t feel the shaking of the earth, but what she saw on the news literally rocked her world.

BENNER TOWNSHIP — Controversial legislation that would sell about 1,200 acres of Rockview state prison land around Spring Creek to Penn State for $902 an acre is expected to come up for a key state House committee vote in two weeks.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Starting in fall 2008, Penn State University Park students will pay a $50 per semester “facilities fee” that was unanimously approved Friday by the university’s board of trustees.

Joe Paterno was taken by ambulance to Mount Nittany Medical Center at 10:30 a.m. Thursday where he was treated for dehydration, said Guido D’Elia, spokesman for Penn State football.

This weekend, Penn State will award baccalaureate degrees to 6,670 students at its University Park campus, with another 955 students expected to receive master’s and doctoral degrees.

Thousands of Penn State students will graduate this weekend in Happy Valley, and friends and family members are visiting from afar.

WASHINGTON — When Mahmoud Abdelaal left the Marines to attend Penn State four years ago, academic scholarships helped cover the cost.

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STATE COLLEGE — A Penn State student upset with a B-was arrested Tuesday for threatening to put his professor in a wheelchair unless he got a better grade, according to the criminal complaint.

One of life’s most enjoyable and inexpensive escapes is sneaking away to a tropical island. Of course, saddling up and heading off into the sunset is also an option.

All over Pennsylvania, newspaper readers are coming up with ideas for good deeds -- the kind that will help their neighbors and friends.

Penn State’s Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils hosted the first “Fairwell” spring carnival Sunday at Central Parklet in State College.

Just two days after the elephant walk from College Township to the Bryce Jordan Center, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus opened last night.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State police are looking for a man who attacked another man with a field hockey stick at the Blue-White game Saturday in parking lot 25 off Porter Road.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Someone turned on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” — the cue for this mismatched dancing couple to practice its moves.

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Penn State students gathered Monday on campus outside Pattee and Paterno libraries for a knit-in to raise awareness of the genocide in Darfur.

The State Theatre is well into its second year, presenting a variety of entertainment in downtown State College.

WASHINGTON — Penn State trustees agreed Friday to sell as many as 159 acres for conservation and recreational use in the Centre Region.

Heavy rains that started Tuesday night swamped roads and basements in Centre County and prompted a boil water advisory on the University Park campus, but those dealing with the flooding said it wasn’t the worst they’ve seen.

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Thon shattered all records in its 36th year.

STATE COLLEGE — OK, so here’s an unpleasant thought.