Local post offices are cutting their hours because of a recent $1.25 billion federal budget cut, a postal official said.

An old idea is being revitalized in an attempt to solve some of the downtown parking and traffic problems.

There's no excuse for neglecting your sweetheart this Valentine's Day.

What do you do if those chocolates will ruin your mid-winter diet? What if flowers and dinner will kill an all ready ailing wallet? What if that amazing person you've been studying in class hasn't noticed you just quite yet?

A first-time census of homeless people in Pennsylvania began Jan. 28 to gather basic information to educate legislators about the homeless problem and help them to develop better programs, the director of the Centre House shelter in State College said.

Women are and have been powerful.

State Rep. Lynn B. Herman, R-Centre, is urging qualified constituents to apply for the newly established Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 15.

Does true love really mean never having to say you're sorry?

The governor's office announced yesterday enactment of a new lottery game, Wild Card Lotto," to replace the flailing Pennsylvania Lotto" in further efforts to curb a projected 1989-90 lottery fund deficit.

Tired of eggs and bacon, rock n' roll and blue jeans?

If you are thinking about making last-minute plans to catch the action at the 1988 Winter Olympics which start tomorrow in Calgary, Canada -- get ready, get set, GO!

Campus comedians will have a chance to tickle some funny bones when the second annual U.S. College Comedy Competition is held in the HUB Fishbowl this afternoon.

University President Bryce Jordan updated members of the University Student Executive Council last night on the administration's efforts to improve state funding, reduce graduate student taxation and rid the community of racial and ethnic discrimination.

Two local bands, Stolyn Hours and Vox, performed a benefit concert last night at Gatsby's with proceeds benefitting the Interfraternity Council's Dance Marathon.

Legislation co-sponsored by Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre, to aid the state's homeless and needy was passed by the Senate and now will go to the House for consideration, said Corman's spokesman Mike McGinnis.

Local dermatologists are warning people that are starting work on their tans by visiting local tanning salons and using tan accelorators or other artificial creams and pills that these methods could be hazardous to their health.

Valentine's Day is the traditional day for lovers and gift giving. The traditional gift? A rose, of course. Or is it?

Drug testing has become part of many area companies' hiring practices, and some area businesses are using a local lab's referral service to determine which lab to send their specimens to.

Greece is a cultural laboratory, a University professor told a group of students interested in spending a semester in Athens at a presentation Tuesday night.

CJSA to host South African speakers

Have you been searching for a unique Valentine's day gift for your sweetheart?

A State College oil company that has distributed an emergency phone number sticker for placement on residential and commercial phones is advising that a number was printed incorrectly on the telephone stickers.

As a 12-year veteran of the University's Board of Trustees and a 1954 Penn State graduate, Mimi Coppersmith has watched University history happen.

As a 12-year veteran of the University's Board of Trustees and a 1954 Penn State graduate, Mimi Coppersmith has watched University history happen.

Heading into the backstretch of the season, with the Eastern Wrestling League and national tournaments on the horizon, the wrestling team is hoping to fine-tune a lineup that has gone through more changes than the weather.

The women's gymnastics team hopes to get its season back on the right track when it faces Michigan at 8 tomorrow night in Rec Hall. The Lady Lions defeated Michigan, 181.65-177.45 two weeks ago at Ohio State.

The men's swimming and diving team will be looking to preserve its perfect meet record when the team invades Princeton, N.J. tomorrow at 1 p.m. to take on SMU. The Mustangs will take on Princeton tonight before tangling with Penn State.

For the rest of the season the men's gymnastics team will be competing against a team that it will not face again until next year.

The never-ending week might finally be nearing its conclusion for the ice hockey team.

The women's swimming and diving team (9-2) will wrap up its dual meet season against Boston University tomorrow at l p.m. in the McCoy Natatorium.

Tony Ward -- the second leading free throw shooter in the country - - hit two from the line with no time left in overtime last night as the Lions battled back from a three-point halftime deficit to beat West Virginia, 63-61 in an A-10 conference matchup at Rec Hall.

There's no rest for the weary -- weary fencers, that is. A contingent of Penn State fencers will travel to Cleveland, Ohio this weekend to compete in the Junior Olympic Championships.

Like every head coach that ever approached a cluster of ballgames, Rene Portland said her women's basketball team must tackle one game at a time. That should be no problem this weekend.

The men's indoor track team has a busy weekend planned, as 10 of the athletes will accompany Head Coach Harry Groves to East Rutherford, N.J., for the Olympic Invitational at the Meadowlands, while the others will remain at home to take on the University of Rochester and Shippensburg University in a tri-meet.

Last weekend the men's volleyball team solidified its claim as the No. 1 team in North America by defeating Manitoba, the No. 1 Canadian team, on back-to-back nights.

The men's volleyball team will travel to Newark this weekend for three matches in two days.

It was a blue-collar victory for the men's basketball team last night.

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The traditional ways to show your appreciation on Valentine's Day are sending cards and flowers, giving chocolates and cute stuffed animals, or going to dinner and a movie. But these are not the only gifts appropiate to give your loved one on Valentine's Day.

Tomorrow's soul-gospel music concert celebrating Black History Month promises to be a very lively show," said David Hanson, director and accompanist for the Voices of Unity.

A trip around the world sounds great, but spring break isn't long enough to make it around the country. But never fear, a solution to your problem has arrived.

The Buck Pets, a new band from Dallas, who will be performing at the Scorpion on Monday night, have a sound that has been described by their reviewers as garage metal, noisy, distorted and mean.

"Amorphic."

"Ladies and gentleman, Mr. B.B. King!" was all saxophonist Walter King had to say Wednesday night to transform Eisenhower Auditorium into an intimate Chicago blues club.

First there was Dead Head Night with Randy Hughes at the Phyrst. Then there was Crazy Daze.

Valentine, a young Christian martyr, was imprisoned in Rome in the third century for refusing to worship pagan gods. On Feb. 14, before he was beheaded, Valentine restored sight to his jailer's blind daughter. The popular legend says he sent the girl a farewell letter signed "from your Valentine", which in the current celebration of St. Valentine's Day symbolizes friendship and affection.

The traditional ways to show your appreciation on Valentine's Day are sending cards and flowers, giving chocolates and cute stuffed animals, or going to dinner and a movie. But these are not the only gifts appropriate to give your loved one on Valentine's Day.

The Normal Heart is a matter of life and death.

"Yeah, we're comin' for ya," Flesh for Lulu warns in their newest release Long Live the New Flesh.