It's a day of big restaurant announcements in State College -- first Quaker Steak & Lube and now IHOP set to open in the State College area. The popular breakfast restaurant will open at the old Perkins location at 1661 S. Atherton St. where a sign saying "Coming Soon" designed like the IHOP logo has been for the last few months.
After great success last spring, the Penn State Coaches Caravan is back for a second straight year, making 12 total stops over a 10-day span beginning with lunch in Reading and dinner in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 30th. The trip will be headlined by Bill O'Brien at every location with other coaches making appearances along the way.
Two Penn Staters -- offensive guard Steve Wisniewski and running back D.J. Dozier (right) -- will appear on this year's College Football Hall of Fame ballot, it was announced today. The two Penn State legends will hope to join 22 Penn Staters before them in the College Hall of Fame -- the sixth most all-time among college programs.
Wing fans in State College will soon have another option, as popular casual dining restaurant Quaker Steak & Lube is set to return to State College at the location of the former Cinema 6 Theatre near the Nittany Mall.
Senator John Yudichak says the Freeh Report will cost the university one-hundred fifty million dollars. "That's a lot of money to be spent on an incomplete report."