More Erie businesses are lining up to challenge the zoning for the $250 million tires-to-energy plant proposed for Erie's east side. And the Erie County Medical Society also has concerns about the plant.

The Fayette Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has filed a juvenile complaint against a 12-year-old boy in connection with the hanging death of a cat in Brownsville.

If the critic isn't dead, his postmodern cousin is on life support. Certainly, a book titled The Death of the Critic is meant to turn heads, as is the book's already controversial thesis: that in order for the critic to complete his responsibilities to

Iwao Hakamada, Japan's longest serving death row inmate, has insisted for 40 years that he is innocent of the four murders he was convicted of. The evidence was suspect, he says, and his confession was coerced.

An emotional Renee Jones explained the death of Abby Friday before members of the media at Flomaton Town Hall. Jones, who serves as the cruelty to animal’s investigator for the Escambia County Humane Society, said the death of the show horse was intenti