NEWS


2/17/2015, 1:37pm

Staying Current

Carlisle — Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, whatever you call it, today is a day for sugary pastries.


2/16/2015, 9:37pm

Congress debates military action against IS

Only five miles from Ayn al-Asad military base, a U.S. training site for Iraqi soldiers, militants of the Islamic State group (IS, ISIL or ISIS) captured a town that has been subject to numerous skirmishes, according to The New York Times (NYT). IS soldiers, numbering in the hundreds, attacked the town al-Baghdadi in two directions, according to Reuters and Fox News.


2/9/2015, 9:00pm

SU geography professors receive $1 million research grant

Shippensburg University professors received a $1 million grant to study the Delaware River Basin. Shippensburg University professors Claire Jantz and Scott Drzyzga will use the money to fund a project that will map and analyze land use in the Delaware River Basin.


2/9/2015, 8:59pm

Staying Current

Local: Wil Haygood plans H.O.P.E Diversity lecture at SU Shippensburg — Author of the best-selling book “The Butler: A Witness to History,” Wil Haygood, is scheduled to give an annual lecture at the Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University, according to Public Opinion. His lecture, “Helping Our People Excel (H.O.P.E) Diversity Scholarship Program,” will start at 8 p.m.


2/4/2015, 9:24pm

Commentary: The march goes on

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used his speech as a way to connect people of all races and take a stand for justice.


2/4/2015, 12:22am

SU English professor dies

Nathan Mao, a Shippensburg University English professor, died on the evening of Feb. 1 in the presence of family at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.


2/3/2015, 4:23pm

Staying Current

Local: Two consecutive nights with reported gunfire Shippensburg — At approximately 2 a.m.


1/30/2015, 7:24pm

Trustees approve new tuition payment plan

The Shippensburg University Council of Trustees unanimously voted to implement a change in how students will pay for their education at SU in order to offset cutbacks in state funding that have cost the university more than $30 million over the past decade.


1/29/2015, 9:53pm

Staying Current

Local: Shippensburg pastor charged with possession of child pornography Shippensburg — The Attorney General's Child Predator Section charged Keith Bell, pastor of the Church of God in Upper Strasburg with two counts of possession of child pornography, according to The Sentinel. Bell, who lives in Shippensburg, pleaded no contest to the charges, which were placed on him in June of 2013. An investigation uncovered files containing images of children participating in sexually related acts, which led to Bell's arrest.