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A man driving a Honda Civic passed out from a suspected heroin overdose and hit four parked vehicles in the 300 block of East 20th Street Friday night, Erie police said.

Coaxial Cable TV, owned for years by the Times Publishing Co. and more recently by members of the Mead family, has been sold to Armstrong, a family-owned company based in Butler.

JAMESTOWN, Pa. Mercer County fire officials are investigating a Friday morning blaze that destroyed the Anchorage Bar and Grille, 1955 Williamsfield Road, in West Shenango Township, according to Crawford County emergency dispatch.

CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS The McDowell girls golf team ended Villa Maria's bid for a third consecutive PIAA championship during Friday's first day of the District 10 tournament.

CONNEAUT LAKE A Crawford County author will sign copies of her new children's book in Conneaut Lake on Saturday.

Girard School District will host the second of the season's Lake Shore Marching Band Association competitions Saturday at Girard High School.

Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper delivered her administration's 2017 county budget proposal to Erie County Council on Friday

Rising operating costs at Pleasant Ridge Manor have become a major fiscal issue within ErieCounty Executive Kathy Dahlkemper's 99.1 million general fund budget proposal for 2017.

Five people were in Erie police custody on Friday afternoon and awaited arraignment on criminal charges in the theft of a handgun from a man on the city's east side early that morning.

A fire in an east Erie duplex that killed two people in one of the apartments early Friday morning appears to have been set off accidentally, possibly by careless smoking, Erie Fire Chief Guy Santone said Friday afternoon.