January 2022
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Four-Star Offensive Lineman Cooper Cousins Commits To Penn State Football
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Offensive tackle Cooper Cousins officially became the first member of Penn State football’s 2024 recruiting Saturday evening. “It’s a great day to be a Nittany Lion,” Cousins said in a Twitter post. “I am excited to be a leader of the class of 2024, as I will continue to wear blue and white for PENN…
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Penn State Men’s Hockey: Nittany Lions Fall 6-0 to Ohio State
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If Friday night was an exploration into the kind of team Penn State men’s hockey can be with its current roster – a tale of youth and relative inexperience but also promise – Saturday night was a reminder of what the team still is, the Nittany Lions falling 6-0 to Ohio State. It was a…
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Centre County Adds 1 COVID-19 Death, 134 Cases
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Centre County registered one new COVID-19 death and 134 more cases of the virus on Saturday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The death is the county’s 321st attributed to COVID-19 and 32nd reported this month. On Friday, DOH’s case data was updated late and was incomplete. The county had 268 new cases on…
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Penn State Men’s Basketball: Minnesota Game Rescheduled for Feb. 17
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Penn State men’s basketball has added its home contest against Minnesota back to the schedule. The Nittany Lions will welcome the Golden Gophers to the Bryce Jordan Center at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17, as announced Saturday morning. The two Big Ten squads were originally set to face off on Jan. 19, but that game was postponed because…
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Would State College Benefit from Offering Remote Workers Money to Relocate Here?
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What do you think? Should we offer $10,000 to persuade remote tech workers to move to State College? The concept is receiving a ton of media coverage and according to the website MakeMyMove, there are more than 50 programs with offers like this around the country. The often cited example of this perk is Tulsa…
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No. 1 Penn State Wrestling Wins 19-13 Thriller at No. 2 Iowa
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No. 1 Penn State wrestling (14-0, 6-0 BIg Ten) won six of 10 bouts to claim a 19-13 victory at No. 2 Iowa (11-1, 5-1) on Friday night in a thriller at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The Nittany Lions got big overtime wins from Nick Lee and Carter Starocci in bouts featuring the top two wrestlers in…
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Young Team Maturing as Penn State Men’s Hockey Ties No. 11 Ohio State, Wins Shootout
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According to Penn State coach Guy Gadowsky, experience has been the biggest obstacle between the team the Nittany Lions are and the team they can become. And in Gadowsky’s defense, 12 of the Nittany Lions’ 20 skaters on Friday night were freshmen or sophomores. It’s a striking change of pace for a program that benefited…
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Penn State Football: Nittany Lions Add Lineman to 2023 Class
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Three-star offensive lineman prospect Anthony Donkoh committed to Penn State’s Class of 2023 Friday afternoon. Donkoh selected the Nittany Lions over Duke, Virginia Tech and West Virginia, among other schools. “My love for football is boundless,” Donkoh wrote in a statement. “No amount of adversity will deter me from fulfilling my destiny.” In addition to…
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Centre County Adds 1 COVID-19 Death; Statewide Hospitalizations Continue to Fall
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Centre County registered one new COVID-19 death on Friday, bringing its total to 320 since the start of the pandemic, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. With 137 new COVID-19 deaths identified by the Pennsylvania death registry, the statewide total is now 40,394. DOH did not update county or statewide COVID-19 case numbers as…
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Coroner’s Office Identifies Man Killed in Crash on I-80 in Centre County
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A 42-year-old Clinton County man died in one of a series of crashes that occurred Thursday afternoon on Interstate 80 eastbound in Centre County, according to the coroner’s office and state police. Stephen Long, of Lock Haven, was driving a Nissan NV200 van when he rear-ended a tractor trailer at about 4:18 p.m. near mile…