Sydney Roach
Reporter/HostSydney Roach is a reporter and host for WPSU with a passion for radio and community stories. She's a graduate of Northern Cambria High School and Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.
LGBTQ+ topics, environmental conservation, animals and video games are some of her biggest interests.
If you have a story idea in the Central/Northern Pennsylvania region, email sydroach@psu.edu.
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Art education researchers from across the country are gathering this week at Penn State’s University Park campus for a symposium, as universities nationwide grapple with federal funding challenges for research. -
Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam, the State College man whose conviction for first-degree murder was overturned after he spent more than 40 years in prison, is now in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after his release from state prison. -
The State Correctional Institution at Rockview will close in a few months, and a Penn State spokesperson said they're interested in how the property will be used in the future, given its proximity to the University Park campus. -
The Centre County District Attorney's office announced Thursday that it will not retry Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam, the State College man who had been convicted of first-degree murder and has been in prison for more than 40 years and who will now be released. -
Following the state’s decision to close Rockview state prison and the Quehanna Boot Camp, area lawmakers say they’re going to introduce legislation to improve the transparency of the sale of Pennsylvania prison land. -
Centre County prosecutors are not appealing a judge’s ruling to overturn the conviction of Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam, a State College man accused of murder who has been in prison for 42 years. -
A piece of North Central Pennsylvania history is once again available to the public, years after it had been removed because of vandalism. The “Colossal Black Cherry," a 60-foot-long log cut from a black cherry tree that grew in the nearby Tionesta Scenic Area, was rededicated last month at the Wilds Sonshine Factory in Kane, an environmental museum and distillery. -
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections announced Friday that it will immediately begin a four month closure process for SCI Rockview in Centre County and the Quehanna Boot Camp in Clearfield County. -
Rural community members, including from central PA, appointed to state's Commission on LGBTQ AffairsNew members of the Shapiro administration’s Advisory Commission on LGBTQ Affairs met for the first time this week, and several of the volunteer commissioners are from rural areas in central Pennsylvania. -
Expanded Sunday hunting in Pennsylvania starts this weekend, but state parks won’t be open to hunters until later this year. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is taking a phased approach to when and where it will allow Sunday hunting on state lands.
