Penn State, State College Weekend News & Features: Saturday, June 25

State College, Penn State and Centre County are in the news – locally, nationally, internationally and in cyberspace – over the weekend, too. We post the latest sampling of stories of note, with links, from our site and across the Web on weekends in Noon News & Features.

Here is this weekend’s offering:

News

• Penn State Funding Cut Could Be Eased under House Legislation (StateCollege.com)

• Spanier Shares Thoughts on Athletics, Collegiate Challenges at Land-Grant Conference (StateCollege.com)

• State College Area School District: New Math Plan Comes to Fruition (Centre Daily Times)

• Penn State Hershey Medical Center Website Simplifies Reporting Child Abuse (Lebanon Daily News)

• Penn State Schuylkill Puts Fun into Physics (Pottsville Republican Herald)

• State College Weekend Plans: Friday, June 24, to Sunday, June 26 (StateCollege.com)

Columns/Opinion

• Rich Kerstetter: Missing A Favorite Player . . . and The Little Gray Guy (StateCollege.com)

Sports

• Spikes Find Hitting Spark, Split with Jammers (State College Spikes)

• Track and Field: Loxsom, Borchers Through to USATF Final (GoPSUsports)

• Condon Named Penn State Basketball Director Of Operations (GoPSUsports)

• Talor Battle Goes Undrafted (Onward State)

• Fredette Could Have Been PSU Wide Receiver (Lost Lettermen via Onward State)

• Penn State Golfer Plays for Second Conn. Amateur Golf Title (Norwalk Patch)