Power has been restored in Clearfield County after hundreds of residents were without power earlier this morning.
This is video of the scene on 21st Street in Lawrence Township as crews were working to restore power.
It's unclear what caused the outage
There is another update in the ongoing legal battle between Penn State and one of the university trustees, who is still facing the possibility of being ousted from the trustee board.
The newest development in the case includes another hearing, which is scheduled for next month in Lackawanna County Court, where trustee Anthony Lubrano filed suit against Penn State.
Lubrano contends that the trustee leadership violated a court order in the case since the presiding judge ruled in Lubrano’s favor, saying that Penn State must stop an internal investigation of Lubrano until it pays his legal expenses.
In a court hearing, Lubrano termed the investigation as “kangaroo court,” and the judge ruled that the university bylaws, which he termed were straightforward, require that Penn State pay the legal bill.
That internal investigation, which Lubrano reportedly didn’t even know about initially, came about after a February board meeting where he proposed, then withdrew, a motion to add the Paterno name to Beaver Stadium.
Lubrano then talked to the media and was reportedly reprimanded by trustee leadership for not screening his comments with the university's strategic communications team.
The investigation could lead to Lubrano being removed from the board of trustees, which is still a possibility.
Penn State hasn’t paid any of Lubrano’s legal bill but instead filed an appeal to the judge's order with the state superior court.
Counties across Pennsylvania continue the mandatory recount in the race for U.S. Senate as our latest update takes us to Clearfield County where officials have just finished up after nearly three days of counting.
Commissioner Dave Glass says the process involved confirming a small number of ballots that were initially rejected by voter machines.
Representatives from both parties and both Dave McCormick’s and Sen. Bob Casey’s campaigns were in attendance during the recount.
Commissioner Glass says they've found very few differences across the more than 40,000
He says the recount process should give people more faith in the system.
Authorities have identified the victim of a deadly Elk County fire Tuesday in Kersey.
Elk County Coroner Michelle Muccio-Krise says 63-year-old Jamie Yeager was pronounced dead at the scene.
She says Yeager's cause of death is due to smoke inhalation and the death has been ruled accidental.
Turning now to Penndot officials discussing their Winter services and reminding drivers to be safe while driving in Winter conditions.
Throughout the colder seasons, crews look at how to best treat the roads which include using salt and anti-skid, which is crushed limestone that helps provide traction.
Penndot officials say roads will not be treated before a storm when it's projected to start as rain because it will wash away the material.
The driving tips to follow during the Winter include, turning on your low beams to make your vehicle is more visible, always wear your seatbelt and make sure your vehicle has plenty of supplies to help get you through Winter.
Some of those supplies include, a scraper, food, water, and blankets.
It's been two weeks after Election Day, and tensions are high for Centre County's Election Board on how they handled un-dated mail in ballots.
"To set the record straight, Centre County did not have any un-dated mail in or absentee ballots brought before the board of elections during the counting of ballots"
Centre County Election Board Member, Commissioner Amber Concepcion refuting reports that the county was counting undated mail in ballots which violates state election code.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Monday, ruled undated, or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots from from the November 5th election, can not be counted.
We reported on the contested status of three mail in ballots, with date issues, in centre county that ended up being the subject of a court suit.
"Of the three, one ballot had too many characters in the date boxers, and another voter had changed a one to a zero to symbolize the month as ten, both challenges to these ballots were withdrawn in litigation, the third challenge
related to where the voter wrote day month year, a military or European date form that the Pa. Dept. of State advised to be acceptable"
The State Supreme Court decision is the latest in a series of rulings about mail in ballots which came about through Act 77 in 2019.
Since then confusion, court suits, and controversy.
"I will make another plea to our state legislators and the governor to please clean up any language you can from act 77, so we can move on, not have the courts, either days before an election, or during an election count,tell us
how to do business"
In Centre County, the required two percent recount of the General Election results are now completed with the state mandated recount of the U.S. Senate race expected to be done in the next few days.
In between College and Beaver Avenues in Downtown State College is Calder Way, where work is ongoing to improve pedestrian and bicycle access to shops and businesses, while also putting power and utility lines underground.
For the Downtown, the extended construction schedule causing some frustration.
"It's a project that was supposed to be completed within five to six months, and it's now eleven months in, so we have a great deal of challenges"
With phase two of Calder Way work upcoming, LeeAnn Jeffries of the Downtown Improvement Districts say they want to be a liaison with Borough, in managing the construction schedule.
State College is applying for $75 thousand dollars, from the State's Main Street Matters Program.
Up to 30 businesses could benefit by providing fifty percent matching grants to improve store fronts and similar work
"Capitol improvement because we want to work to maintain the downtown remains healthy, vibrant signage, lighting, that type of thing. we had some great projects go through this year"
Downtown State College's holiday free parking program begins November 25th with two hour free parking in parking garages, along with no charge for parking at meter spaces from
5 to 10 o'clock in the evening.
A Bedford County man is behind bars after he allegedly propositioned a teenage girl for sex
Police say on September 20th, 69 year old Austin Smith asked the girl to have sex with him at his home in Fishertown.
Police say Smith then followed the girl in his vehicle after she left the home to report the incident to the authorities.
Smith is charged with multiple offenses, including felonies for criminal attempt and endangering the welfare of children.
He is being housed in the Bedford County Correctional Facility
A Gold watch gifted to the ship captain that rescued more than 700 passengers and crew from the Titanic, has sold for nearly $2 million.
The 18 carat Tiffany Pocket Watch was given to Captain Arthur Rostron by the widows of three wealthy businessmen who died when the Titanic sank in 1912.
Rostron changed the course of his steamship RMS Carpathia during a journey from New York to the Mediterranean in 1912, after hearing distress calls from the sinking Titanic.
The watch went up for bid Saturday at Henry Aldridge and Son Auction House.
The winning bid for $1.97 million. A record breaker for Titanic related auction items.
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A Centre County man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison after being convicted on multiple charges of attacking police during the January 6th Capitol riot.
Terry Allen, of Spring Mills, has also been ordered to spend two years on supervised release, and pay nearly $1500 in fees and restitution.
A federal judge rejected Allen's request to delay his sentencing because President-elect Donald Trump previously stated that he would pardon Capitol rioters once he takes office.
The Ferguson Township Police Department in Centre County says they need your help in identifying any of the people in these pictures.
Police say they are persons of interest in a graffiti incident that happened in the area of the 900 Block of West College Avenue.
If you have any information on this incident, call the Ferguson Township Police Department at 814-237-1172.
