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DA to speak on religious couple who lost 2nd child

Philadelphia prosecutors plan a news conference about a faith-healing couple who lost a second ill child while on probation in their toddler's 2009 pneumonia death. Lawyers for Herbert and Catherine Schaible (SHY'-bull) say they don't know of any arrest warrants being issued. However, public defender Mythri (MY'-three) Jayaraman (JI'-ya-RA-muhn), who ...

DeWeese presses appeal before Pa. court panel

An attorney for convicted former state Rep. Bill DeWeese told an appellate court panel the trial judge undercut his defense by limiting the number of witnesses who testified. William Costopoulos told the three-judge Superior Court panel Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover wrongly barred about 20 people from testifying about a ...

Game, humane groups offer $5K in bald eagle death

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and The Humane Society of the United States are offering more than $5,000 for information on whoever fatally shot a bald eagle in western Pennsylvania earlier this month. The wounded eagle was found by people riding all-terrain vehicles on May 10 in northern Cambria County, about ...

Teen fatally shot outside Philly water ice shop

Philadelphia police are interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance video after a teenager was gunned down outside a water ice shop. Authorities say it happened in the parking lot of a Rita's Water Ice in the city's West Oak Lane section around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. Police say two gunmen in hooded ...

5 things to know for Wednesday in Pa. news

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. DEMOCRATS PICK NEW MAYORAL NOMINEES IN PITTSBURGH, SCRANTON, HARRISBURG City Councilman Bill Peduto is the nominee in Pittsburgh, making him the overwhelming favorite to replace Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, who isn't running ...

Pittsburgh jitney driver charged in passenger rape

Pittsburgh police have charged a jitney driver with raping a female passenger and say his pants were still loose from the alleged attack and fell down when they stopped him and made him get out of the vehicle. Online court records don't list an attorney for 34-year-old Eric Pace, who ...

Cops: Pa. man robbed store he targeted in 2004

Police say a southwestern Pennsylvania man who didn't succeed in robbing a liquor store in 2004 should have thought twice about trying again to rob the same store earlier this month. Online court records don't list an attorney for 48-year-old Richard Heinzelman, of Monongahela, who is jailed on charges he ...

5 victims of Ill. van crash were from Baltimore

Authorities say the five men killed when their van veered off a southern Illinois freeway were from Baltimore. Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen has identified the dead as 54-year-old Emerson Baldwin, 53-year-old Andrew Canada, 42-year-old Antonie Mitchell, 52-year-old Mark William and 29-year-old Thomas Coleman. The six others in the 15-passenger ...

Man sought in slaying of Pa. student arrested

Authorities say a man being sought in the slaying of a college student in northeastern Pennsylvania has been taken into custody in New York state. The (Scranton) Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/10k4T8t ) says the U.S. Marshals Service says a task force tracked 18-year-old Ryan Harding to the Syracuse, N.Y. area. U.S. Marshal ...

Mega Millions winning numbers

Here are the winning numbers selected Tuesday evening in the Mega Millions lottery: 02-15-17-48-55 (two, fifteen, seventeen, forty-eight, fifty-five) Mega Ball: 11 (eleven) ESTIMATED MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT $12 million

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