State College, Penn State and Centre County are in the news — locally, nationally, internationally and in cyberspace. We post the latest sampling of stories of note, with links, from our site and across the Web every weekday in Noon News & Features.
Here is Tuesday’s offering:
News
- O’Donnell Promises a Collaborative Approach as State College Superintendent (StateCollege.com)
- Bank Targets Law Firms in State College Area School District Swap Deal Suit (Centre Daily Times)
- State College to Proceed with Welch Statue, Rain Gardens (StateCollege.com)
- St. Andrew’s Preschool Abruptly Closes After 40 Years (Centre Daily Times)
- Police: State College Car Chase Ends in Harris Township (StateCollege.com)
- 4G Smartphones, Modems and Hotspots Arrive Thursday on Verizon Wireless Network in State College (PR Newswire via Biloxi-Gulfport Sun-Herald.com)
- Penn State Receives $27.3 Million NIH Grant (Penn State Live)
- Penn State Gets $5 Million Grant to Study Food Insecurity, Food System (Penn State Live)
- Wet Spring Seriously Delays Planting and Harvesting for Pa. Farmers (Penn State Live)
- Penn State Altoona Offers Robert Crumb Exhibition (Penn State Altoona)
- Alumni Couple Create $100,000 Trustee Scholarship at Penn State Berks (Penn State Live)
- Kevin Rudy Named as Penn State Berks’ New Police Chief (BCTV)
- License Allows Faculty, Staff and Students Access to Chronicle.com (Penn State Live)
- Pennsylvania Legislators Not the Most Educated When Compared with Their Peers (Harrisburg Patriot-News)
Columns/Opinion
- Joe Bastardi: Huge Weekend for Nittany Lion Wrestling Club (StateCollege.com)
Sports
- Quartet of Nittany Lions Selected to National Football Foundation’s Hampshire Honor Society (GoPSUsports)
- ‘No. 1 Student Section’ Needs to Step Up in 2011 (Onward State)
- Penn State RB Green, QB Bolden Ready to Roll (Associated Press via NJ.com)
- A Coach-In-Waiting at Penn State (Penn Live Blogs)
- Penn State Football: 10 Football Things Joe Paterno Is Older Than (Bleacher Report)
- Chambers Wants New Pitt-Penn State Rivalry (ESPN.com)
- Ali Krieger Overcomes Some Bumps on the Road to the Women’s World Cup (Washington Post)
- Gymnastics: Libertyville’s Hernandez Taking His ‘World-class Stuff’ to Penn State (Mundelein, Ill., Review)
- Swimming: Penn State Adds Seven (CollegeSwimming.com)
