AP-PA–Pennsylvania News Digest, PA
Good morning! Here’s a look at AP’s general news coverage today in Pennsylvania. For questions about the state report, contact the Philadelphia bureau at 215-561-1133. Joe Mandak is on the desk. Editor Larry Rosenthal can be reached at 215-446-6631 or [email protected] .
A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change. Expected stories may not develop, or late-breaking and more newsworthy events may take precedence. Advisories, digests and digest advisories will keep you up to date.
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MILFORD — The trial of an anti-government sharpshooter charged with killing a Pennsylvania police trooper in a 2014 ambush at their barracks is set to resume hours after the suspect was taken to the hospital. By Michael Rubinkam. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 600 words by 5 p.m., developing from afternoon testimony.
JILTED LOVER-AIR GUN
ALLENTOWN — The district attorney says an eastern Pennsylvania man used a homemade, high-pressure air gun to fatally shoot a neighbor with whom he had an affair. SENT: 419 words.
STUDENT’S TOOTH KNOCKED OUT
PITTSBURGH — The Allegheny County district attorney is reviewing allegations that a police officer assigned to a suburban Pittsburgh school knocked the tooth out of the mouth of a 14-year-old student accused of stealing another student’s cellphone. SENT: 440 words.
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania woman accused of “gifting” her young daughters to a man who considered them wives has pleaded guilty to child endangerment. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 250 words by 4 p.m. EDT.
NEW YORK — Comcast will start selling cellphone plans in the coming months, using a network it’s leasing from Verizon. By Anick Jesdanun. SENT: 547 words.
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — Authorities say a 19-year-old man being held in a Pennsylvania jail faces a dozen arson charges for fires he set in two western New York communities last month. SENT: 139 words.
DETROIT — Canadian officials are requesting more information from a company that wants to store waste from nuclear power plants underground less than a mile from Lake Huron. SENT: 137 words.
KINSHASA, Congo — The United Nations mission in Congo says the bodies of American and Swedish experts have been repatriated to their countries of origin. SENT: 94 words.
—— Bon Jovi needed more medicine than prayers when it cut its Pittsburgh concert short because the band’s namesake blamed a cold for his sore throat.
—SHERIFF-IMPEACHMENT — A resolution that could lead to the first impeachment of an elected official in Pennsylvania since 1994 is advancing.
—— Temple University plans to hold a shelter-in-place drill Thursday to test plans, policies and response capabilities in such things as severe weather or environmental hazards such as a chemical release.
—— The Humane Society is offering a $1,000 reward after a cat was found tied up and doused in gasoline before being put into a plastic trash bag that was nearly crushed in a Pennsylvania garbage truck. With AP Photos.
—CALL CENTER LAYOFFS — A call center in Pennsylvania that services customers of business machines is laying off 149 of its 300 workers.
—— Penn State University’s president says the school is opposing efforts by graduate students to form a union to protect their bargaining rights as teachers.
——The lawyer for a rector charged with embezzling more than $500,000 from a priest retirement home near Philadelphia says his client is remorseful and remains on the job.
—— A man who was high on marijuana when his vehicle was hit by a train in Pennsylvania, killing his fiancée and injuring their young daughter, must spend four to eight years in prison.
—SUNOCO-7-ELEVEN — Sunoco is selling most of its convenience stores to 7-Eleven in a deal valued at $3.3 billion as it looks to focus more on its fuel supply business.
—— A coroner says the drowning death of a California woman in a central Pennsylvania creek is suspicious.
—— Officials at a central Pennsylvania high school say they’ve found a loaded gun in a student’s backpack.
—— Pittsburgh police say two women have died following a crash involving a wrong-way driver on one of the city’s busies highways.
—MAN DEAD ON ROOF — A Pennsylvania man reported missing was found dead hours later on the roof of his home, and now authorities are trying to figure out why.
—— State police are investigating a one-vehicle crash that killed a young western Pennsylvania woman.
—— The coroner has identified a man who killed himself ending a four-hour standoff with police at his eastern Pennsylvania home.
BBN–PHILLIES-REDS
CINCINNATI — The Phillies and Reds wrap up their season-opening series. Clay Buchholz makes his Phillies debut, while Cincinnati’s Rookie Davis makes his major league debut. By Joe Kay. UPCOMING: 600 words, AP Photos developing from at 12:35 p.m. EDT start.
BOSTON — The series finale between the Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates scheduled for Thursday has been rained out. SENT: 341 words, AP Photos.
HKN–PENGUINS-DEVILS
NEWARK, N.J. — The Pittsburgh Penguins will try to move closer to securing home ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs when they face the New Jersey Devils. By Tom Canavan. UPCOMING: 700 words, AP Photos developing from 7 p.m. EDT start.
HKN-OLYMPICS-MALKIN
MOSCOW — Evgeni Malkin wants to go to the Olympics next February and he hopes the Pittsburgh Penguins will allow him. SENT: 125 words, AP Photos.
