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Drake Well by Moonlight Saturday, Oct. 1, 6 p.m. Drake Well Museum, 202 Museum Lane, Titusville nighttime living history tour, bonfire, music, more. Cost 10, adults 6, children ages 3-11. Info httpwww.drakewell.org.

There is reason to be optimistic about steelhead fishing. Daily temperatures have dropped, as has the water temperature. Rain on Thursday was not enough to have any significant effect on the Lake Erie tributaries, but with rain in the forecast for a few days, hopes are up.

Cigarette smoke, paint, cleaning supplies and candles can all affect the quality of the air inside your home.

The Pennsylvania Senate can no longer rest comfortably on the rationale it offered for gutting historic legislation that would have permitted child sexual abuse victims to seek civil remedies for acts committed decades ago.

The percentage of Erie County school children who are overweight or obese increased slightly in 2015, reversing a recent trend, according to new reports issued by the Highmark Foundation.

A musket belonging to a member of a Pennsylvania militia unit that guarded Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's Erie shipyards during construction of his American fleet in 1813 will be on display for the first time to the Erie public on Sunday.

Erie firefighters extinguished a small blaze Thursday night on the first floor of a two-story, two-unit apartment house at 318 W. 17th St.

WARREN - A Ludlow man died from injuries he suffered in a vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on Route 6 in Warren County, about 1 mile from the McKean County line, state police said.