WASHINGTON — Roxanne Hart beat President-elect Barack Obama at bowling, but apparently he has no hard feelings. The Altoona, Pa., woman and her husband, Donald James Hart, are expected to attend Obama’s swearing-in on Jan. 20. They were invited by Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey.

University police report that someone removed the glasses from the Joe Paterno statue on the east side of Beaver Stadium sometime between 11 a.m. Jan. 2 and 10:58 a.m. Jan. 3.

For 36 of the Pennsylvania Farm Show's 92 years, Gail and Lewis Biddle have come with their draft horses to compete in what's billed as the nation's largest indoor agricultural exposition.

STATE COLLEGE — Each year, home heating oil suppliers offer customers a chance to lock in prices over the summer. In most years, doing so pays off — those who opt into the early contracts generally save money when the price of home oil increases during the winter.

Dotty Ford, of State College, has visited art museums up and down the East Coast, but some of her most treasured souvenirs are handwritten notes from young students who have toured Penn State's Palmer Museum of Art.

A Bellefonte man was arraigned on charges of simple assault and recklessly endangering another person after police said he tried to run down a woman with a vehicle in the parking lot of the Benner Pike Wal-Mart on Saturday.

Search teams rescued seven people who were stranded in the "Old Kato" area south of Snow Shoe early Sunday morning after their vehicles became stuck on ice-covered roads, state police at Rockview reported.

Roger W. Pollok has sculpted clay in a two-story log house for about 25 years. The professional geologist, who digs up his own materials, appreciates the iron from the 1800s that holds the building together.

According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 66 percent of Americans are overweight, a figure that has been creeping up during the past few years.

Although Joe Paterno rarely goes without his characteristic Coke-bottle glasses, his likeness beside Beaver Stadium isn't so lucky.

A new national rating system for nursing homes is giving low marks to many facilities, including several in Centre County, prompting industry officials to question the ratings’ validity.

STATE COLLEGE — Poor economic conditions are making tough decisions harder for domestic violence victims in Centre County.

If you’re tired of all the reality shows clogging the airwaves these days and yearn for the classic television hits of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, then WJAC-TV has just the trick.

Newspaper front-page reprints reporting Barack Obama’s election as president have been hot sellers, but that’s just one measure of the national interest as we approach inauguration day.

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said Wednesday it will decide on a case-by-case basis whether other companies connected to the struggling automotive industry should be provided emergency aid from the government’s $700 billion bailout pot. President George W. Bush reversed course on Dec. 19 and announced a $17.4 billion rescue package for auto giants General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, which were burning through cash and bleeding jobs. The government last week provided $5 billion in aid to GMAC Financial Services, GM’s troubled financing arm. It also said it would loan up to $1 billion to GM as part of that initiative.