We asked children up to age 12, to pay tribute to their mom’s by drawing a sketch of them for Mother’s Day. Dozens responded, drawing mom with varying degrees of accuracy — lots of stick figures out there — and an abundance of love.

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.

A fire that destroyed a red barn along the Benner Pike that had stood for more than 160 years Thursday has been determined to be arson, according to state police at Rockview.

Make this Mother’s Day tuba terrific by serenading mom with some Tchaikovsky and Gershwin. It’s not time to run out and take tuba lessons, however. The State College Area Municipal Band will do the work for you.

PSU football player placed in ARD

The Navy’s newest destroyer will be named after a Penn State graduate who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his herosim in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005.

All the kid from Zion needed was one gun.

BELLEFONTE — A fast-moving fire destroyed a red barn that had stood along the Benner Pike for more than 160 years, a landmark that was actually picked up and moved two years ago to preserve it after a land sale.

A Philadelphia man who had a felony theft charge against him dropped for lack of evidence Wednesday walked out of Centre County Court and, 90 minutes later, swiped a designer handbag from the Nittany Mall, police said.

BELLEFONTE — William L. Hay, a 38-year-old software engineer at Raytheon, was appointed Thursday to be the borough’s newest councilman.

With the NHL eastern conference finals starting tonight and featuring a Keystone state Pens-Flyers showdown, our front page Friday highlights Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

HUBLERSBURG — Retired teachers and staff from Marion-Walker Elementary School no longer work at their school but they’ll always have a place there.

BELLEFONTE — A fast-moving fire destroyed the historic red barn along Benner Pike that stood for more than 160 years, a landmark that was actually picked up and moved two years ago to preserve it after a land sale.

BELLEFONTE — Penn State special teams player and backup defensive back Knowledge Timmons was placed into Centre County’s Accelerated Rehabilitative Dispostion program Thursday morning that will enable Timmons to eventually have criminal charges against him dismissed and his record expunged.

The only superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention from Centre County says she’s sticking behind Hillary Clinton despite the results of Tuesday’s primary elections in North Carolina and Indiana.

Two people were arrested Monday by Lock Haven city police on felony narcotics charges following an investigation that involved the Attorney General's Office and Pine Creek Township Municipal Police, the Lock Haven District Attorney's office announced this morning.

STATE COLLEGE — Centre County commissioners heard once more from residents about why paper ballots should replace the current touch-screen voting system during the board’s second public meeting on the topic Wednesday night.

POLL: Are you satisfied with the Centre County voting machines?

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State College Area gas prices rose again Thursday, hitting $3.69.

Three video stores — Hollywood Video, Mike’s Movies and Blockbuster — are reducing or, in one case, eliminating their local movie rental operations this month amid increasing competition in the rental market.

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In little more than a week, Matthew Allison, a Penn State senior and aspiring entrepreneur, will leave Penn State with two very expensive pieces of paper — his diploma and a check for $10,000.

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