Owner of fatal-fire  apartment fined

Sherman Hills eyes security

<b>First Posted:</b> 12/8/2008<br><br>PHILADELPHIA 
Cops&amp;rsquo; families offered   counseling after deaths

Philadelphia police families are being offered psychological help after the on-duty deaths of five officers.
The counseling comes as officers say they are more concerned about their children&amp;rsquo;s fears than their own.
About a dozen parents and children attended a first-of-its-kind counseling session in Northeast Philadelphia this weekend. More will be held if needed.
The five on-duty deaths since October 2007 came from both gunfire and traffic accidents.
GAP 
Firefighter injured,  owner dies in blast
A cabin exploded in Lancaster County, killing the homeowner and injuring a firefighter battling the intense two-alarm blaze that engulfed the structure.
Shortly after neighbors called 911 at 4:50 p.m. Saturday, firefighters arrived to find &amp;ldquo;heavy fire throughout&amp;rdquo; the single-family cabin in Salisbury Township, said Gap Fire Co. Chief Brad Kurtz.
 
PITTSBURGH 
Fundraising focus: 1915 gun barrels
A fundraising campaign is under way to bring a pair of 66-ton gun barrels removed from the USS Pennsylvania battleship to a central Pennsylvania museum.
The 53-foot barrels sat for decades in a field at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va., waiting to be melted down, until the Navy approved a deal to send them to the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Centre County.
Built in 1915, the USS Pennsylvania survived Pearl Harbor and a Japanese torpedo. The gun barrels, once capable of hurling a 1,500 pound armor-piercing shell 20 miles in less than a minute, were removed in 1945 during an overhaul and were not on the ship when it was scuttled in 1948.
WILLIAMSPORT 
Paper&amp;rsquo;s new publisher comes from Altoona
An executive at the Altoona Mirror has been named publisher of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette.
Bernard A. Oravec takes the helm in Williamsport on Jan. 1.
The Pennsylvania State University graduate has been Altoona&amp;rsquo;s advertising sales director and director of the Central Pennsylvania Newspaper Network in Centre County.
 
 Bethlehem  
Brew Works closed a few days after fire
A kitchen fire Saturday night left the Bethlehem Brew Works with smoke and water damage that will likely keep it closed for at least a couple days during the busy holiday season.
 The fire, at 569 Main St . in the Main Street Commons building, started in the Brew Works kitchen around 5:30 p.m., said Bethlehem Fire Commissioner George Barkanic . No one was injured.
 
PHILADELPHIA 
Cops: Argument leads to fatal stabbing
A fight over an admission fee to a party after a punk-rap concert led to the fatal stabbing of a 33-year-old man at a popular South Side restaurant early Saturday, police said.
 John Piso of the South Side Slopes was found shortly after midnight, lying on a landing between the second and third floors of Paparazzi Restaurant, 2100 East Carson Street.
 Police charged a Brookline man, Brian Schaub, 25, with one count of criminal homicide.

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