Many first time candidates are overwhelmed but all the paperwork and rules around starting a political campaign. That's where Jim Wertz, Caitlin Handerhan and a few other well-known people in the political arena, come into play. They're hosting a political training session to help potential candidates make sure they know everything that will be required of them should they decide to run for office.
For many years community shelter services has been providing emergency shelter, a Christmas sponsorship program, back to school programs and so much more. On Friday the shelter opened their doors in welcoming a displaced family after the Erie Downtown Hotel was shutdown.
Some tense minutes for Erie Police after they got word of an active home invasion. Police arrived outside an apartment house in the 300 block of Sassafras street around 2 o clock this afternoon.
Kylie Kulyk is probably one of the bravest 18 year olds you'll ever meet. Years ago she began having debillitating, full-body muscle spasms that doctors could not explain. After 8 excruciating years with no answers, she was finally diagnosed with Stiff Person's Symdrome. Last year Kylie spend about 170 days in the hospital. There is no cure for her disease. Because of the unpredictable and reoccurring attacks, her medical bills continue to grow. That's why friends, family, former...
Pennsylvania State Rep John Joyce is co-sponsoring a bill to provide funding for a study of Chronic Wasting Disease. Over the last several decades the deadly illness has spread to 24 states in the U.S. A growing number of deer, elk, moose and similar animals, (of the cervid fmily), have been documented as falling ill to the disease. Some experts have also expressed a fear that the neurodegenerative disease could eventually spread to humans.
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