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BC-PA–Pennsylvania News Digest, PA

E.Wright3 months ago

Good afternoon! 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. Ron Todt 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A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change.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.

Some TV and radio stations will receive shorter APNewsNow versions of the stories below, along with updates.

PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Jim Kenney, looking for ways to bring the city’s ethnic enclaves together, has asked his recreation staff to come up with a plan to begin a citywide soccer cup pitting teams from various leagues. By Natalie Pompilio. UPCOMING: 400 words.

NEW YORK — A new exhibition explores the prolific career of Ukrainian-American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky, a master of intricate woodcuts and paintings depicting an array of stylized flora and fauna. By Ula Ilnytzky. SENT: About 540 words, AP Photos.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Prosecutors are rarely held accountable for misconduct and mistakes that have left innocent people imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit, according to report Tuesday by a nonprofit group that investigates possible wrongful convictions. By Michael Kunzelman. SENT: 357 words.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — An upstate New York man and two Pennsylvania men have admitted to conspiring to bilk banks out of $2.5 million. SENT: 158 words.

NEW YORK — A rare 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence is coming to a New York City auction next week. SENT: 130 words.

— Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are organizing in Pennsylvania as some Republican Party leaders are shifting their support in the contested primary.

ABORTION-PROTESTS — Three opponents of abortion are asking a federal judge to throw out a Harrisburg ordinance that keeps protesters at least 20 feet from any health care facility, including two clinics that perform abortions in the central Pennsylvania city.

— Authorities say a tractor-trailer burst into flames at a Pennsylvania Turnpike toll booth at the bridge to New Jersey, but no injuries were reported.

— A rare 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence is coming to a New York City auction next week.

— Police are trying to figure out who owns some jewelry found inside a brand-new purse a woman purchased from a central Pennsylvania department store.

— Authorities say a man wanted in a triple shooting that left two people dead in Staten Island was wounded by police as they tried to arrest him in Pennsylvania.

— Parents and community members have met to discuss alleged hazing that has prompted a suburban Philadelphia high school football coach to resign.

ROAMING ROOSTERS — Police say a woman killed two roosters who kept coal miners company in central Pennsylvania because their crowing woke her up.

— The number of drunken driving arrests dropped 18 percent in the Pittsburgh-area last year, the first that ride-sharing service Uber was allowed to operate in and arond the city.

— Vice President Joe Biden will be in Pittsburgh next week to address the issue of campus sexual assault.

— A prosecutor says a man sold marijuana from an apartment above a day care center that his wife owns in central Pennsylvania.

— Pittsburgh police are looking for three people who ran from a car that crashed after one person inside fired shots at another car being chased.

— Philadelphia police say a man who was shot in both of his legs isn’t cooperating with investigators.

— Police say a 19-year-old man escaped custody during a court hearing, leading to a two-hour standoff with police as he threatened to jump from a rooftop in central Pennsylvania.

— Temple University has selected an architect for a proposed football stadium on its north Philadelphia campus.

— Taxi, limo and Uber Black drivers are threatening to boycott the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this summer unless lawmakers address Lyft and UberX services that have been operating illegally in the city since 2014.

— Teachers are striking at a school district in northeastern Pennsylvania.

— Police say a 20-year-old man kidnapped a 12-year-old western Pennsylvania girl and raped her five times before police located him by tracking the man’s cellphone signal.

— Police say a boy playing with matches set a fire that damaged two houses and left nine people homeless in central Pennsylvania.

HKN–SABRES-PENGUINS

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins try to close in on a playoff spot on Tuesday night when they host Buffalo. The Penguins have won seven of their last eight. Game begins at 7 p.m. EDT. By Will Graves. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos.

BBO–YANKEES-PHILLIES

CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Phillies host the Yankees in Grapefruit League action. 500 words. Starts 1:05 p.m.

BBO–PIRATES-YANKEES (ss)

TAMPA, Fla. — A New York Yankees split-squad hosts the Pittsburgh Pirates in a spring trainibg exbhibition. By Mark Didtler. UPCOMING: 500 words, photos. Game starts at 1:05 p.m. ET.

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