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A developer wants to turn the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus into part of its golf club and create an event and conference center. The buyer may also lease the campus’ academic space to Misericordia University for graduate studies, workforce development and other learning opportunities.

The Penn State Board of Trustees voted Friday afternoon to sell the Wilkes-Barre campus to a developer who wants to expand an adjacent golf club, create an event center and offer academic buildings to a local university.

The potential sale of the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus lacks transparency, according to the state representative whose district includes the 54-acre property. Meanwhile, those connected to the property hope it’s preserved.

Penn State’s Wilkes-Barre campus may soon have a new owner, and the Pa. Department of Health has confirmed the state's fourth measles-related death.

The Penn State Board of Trustees will consider selling the Wilkes-Barre campus during a meeting this week. Meanwhile, members of the Wilkes-Barre campus’ advisory board have been kept in the dark.

Berwick native David Morris recalls working as a White House correspondent covering President George W. Bush's visit to a Florida elementary school on Sept. 11, 2001.

Newly unsealed documents from State College police say one of the alleged ringleaders of a cocaine trafficking investigation at Penn State accepted payment on Venmo for cocaine using his own name.

Pennsylvania's Attorney General says more than a dozen current or former Penn State students at the University Park campus are facing drug trafficking charges.

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