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Ex-PSU player takes battle vs. bullying to book
A former Penn State women's basketball player has written a new book to champion the anti-bullying efforts she supported during her playing days in Happy Valley. Gizelle Studevent's book, "Bridges," debuted this month on Amazon.com. It draws partly on Studevent's own experiences of being bullied in high school while growing ...
8 charged in alleged high-grade pot ring in Pa.
Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say they've broken up a multimillion-dollar drug ring that trafficked in high-grade marijuana. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman (REE'-sah VET'-ree FUR'-man) announced charges against eight suspects on Thursday. She says nearly 3,700 pounds of potent pot was sent from California to Pennsylvania over the ...
Split court in case over escort of Pa. deputy body
A Pennsylvania appeals court Thursday threw out a disorderly conduct conviction but upheld two other verdicts against a woman accused of shouting a vulgar expression about police during an escort of a slain deputy's body to a funeral home. A Superior Court panel ruled 2-to-1 in favor of Collette Champagne ...
Judge awards $7,500 to former inmate for beating
A federal judge has ruled that a former Allegheny County Jail corrections officer should pay $7,500 to a former inmate. District Judge Terrence F. McVerry ruled Thursday that former corrections officer 34-year-old Arii L. Metz should pay 26-year-old David Kipp for the 2010 beating. McVerry called Metz's conduct "outrageous" and ...
5 arrested in Conn. $4M jewelry heist, kidnapping
Five people have been arrested in the robbery of more than $4 million in jewelry, watches and diamonds from a Connecticut store in an elaborate heist that began with the kidnapping of store employees more than 40 miles away, federal authorities said Thursday. The defendants are four men from Pennsylvania ...
Wyden: FracFocus a 'constructive' tool on drilling
A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a "constructive" tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said Thursday. Wyden, D-Ore., stopped short of endorsing the website, FracFocus.org, but said ...
Defense: Ex-Pa. judge cooperating in coke case
A western Pennsylvania judge who abruptly resigned last year was charged Thursday with stealing cocaine from evidence in cases before him, and his attorney said the former jurist is cooperating with the investigation. State police filed the charges against former Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky as part of a state ...
NJ man gets life in prison for musician's death
A New Jersey man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his role in a crime that left a Philadelphia-area musician dead. Twenty-year-old Jermaine M. Jackson of Trenton was sentenced on Thursday. Authorities say Jackson conspired with four others to rob musician Danny DeGennaro in December 2011. ...
Trial delayed in alleged Pittsburgh police beating
A young black man who claims he was wrongly beaten by three Pittsburgh police officers in January 2010 is to have a new trial on two of his three civil rights claims starting Nov. 4. The retrial of Jordan Miles' lawsuit was to have begun July 8, but it was ...
Cops probe link between Pa. heist, school threats
Police and the FBI are investigating whether two high school bomb threats were phoned in to divert authorities from a southwestern Pennsylvania bank robbery that occurred at about the same time. The FBI is reviewing phone records from the Bentworth and California Area school districts, which received the threats from ...
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