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An Erie County jury heard opening statements and early testimony Wednesday in the trial of Dawaun D. Carson, accused in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Justin Wiley in July 2015.

The first ever Erie's Choice Awards banquet will be held Wednesday night and the event is sold out.

EDINBORO -- H. Fred Walker, president of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, is speaking to students at this hour in the university's Cole Auditorium as members of the Edinboro faculty are walking the picket lines, part of a statewide strike by faculty at 14 Pennsylvania state universities.

The Pennsylvania State Police will help kick off the annual Toys for Tots campaign in the Erie area by parking a patrol vehicle outside of the Toys R Us store at the Millcreek Mall on Saturday.

A northbound lane of Greengarden Boulevard is closed between West 36th and West 38th streets for street repairs, according to city of Erie officials.

Faculty at 14 Pennsylvania state universities went on strike Wednesday morning, affecting more than 100,000 students, after contract negotiations between the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and its faculty union hit an impasse

Faculty at 14 Pennsylvania state universities including Edinboro went on strike Wednesday morning, affecting more than 100,000 students.

A woman was taken into police custody and faces criminal charges in a reported shooting on Erie's east side on Wednesday morning.

Erie police are looking for the person who fired a gunshot inside an eastside apartment building Tuesday night, sending a bullet through an occupied apartment.

Faculty at 14 Pennsylvania state universities went on strike Wednesday morning, affecting more than 100,000 students, after contract negotiations between the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and its faculty union hit an impasse