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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. Editor Larry Rosenthal can be reached at 215-561-1133 or lrosenthal@ap.org. A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change.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. TOP STORIES: PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL-AIDE NORRISTOWN — Patrick Reese, an aide and confidante of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, is set to be sentenced for illegally snooping through computer files to monitor a criminal investigation into Kane. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: Updates following scheduled 1:30 p.m. hearing, 400 words by 5 p.m. By Maryclaire Dale. BASKETBALL TEAM-ASSAULT PROBE LEECHBURG — Investigators say charges won't be filed at this time in alleged hazing-related assaults over the last decade involving a western Pennsylvania high school basketball team. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 350 words by 1 p.m. OFFICER-PERJURY CHARGE LANCASTER — A central Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with perjury for saying he arrested a man for being drunk and staggering even though surveillance video doesn't appear to support that. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 350 words by 1 p.m. MOVIE PIRATING CHARGES PITTSBURGH — A western Pennsylvania man will be arraigned on charges he pirated audio of the Cameron Diaz movie "Sex Tape" at a Pittsburgh-area drive-in. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 300 words by 2 p.m. K-9 OFFICER KILLED WILKINSBURG — Preliminary hearing for Bruce Kelley Sr., accused of fighting with police during an incident in which his son was fatally shot by officers while stabbing a police K-9. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: About 350 words, developing from preliminary hearing scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. COMATOSE SON DIES-CHARGES SAYLORSBURG — A man who put his infant son in a vegetative coma by shaking him as a 2-month-old in 1991 has been charged with homicide now that the Pennsylvania man died last year. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 300 words by 2 p.m. ELSEWHERE: NEW YORK DERAILMENT RIPLEY, N.Y. — Crews worked Wednesday to clear the site of a 16-car Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that forced the evacuation of dozens of western New York homes after ethanol leaked from two tankers. SENT: 503 words, AP Photos, AP Video. IN BRIEF: —CLERGY ABUSE-HOTLINE — A clergy abuse hotline has gotten more than 100 calls in two days since the attorney general released a scathing report on a central Pennsylvania diocese. —CONFEDERATE FLAG DAY — Groups on both sides of the debate plan to show up at Gettysburg National Military Park for Confederate Flag Day. —FATAL HIGHWAY CRASH — A coroner in eastern Pennsylvania says forensic testing will be needed to identify five people killed in a fiery crash when the vehicle they were traveling in slammed head-on into a tractor-trailer. —OFFICER CHARGED-FBI REVIEW — Pittsburgh's public safety director has upheld the firing of a police officer whose arrest of a drunken man has drawn FBI scrutiny. —OPERATING ROOM NURSE-BEERS — A registered nurse who acknowledged drinking four or five beers in the hours before assisting an operation at a veterans' hospital in Pennsylvania has resigned. —PHILADELPHIA BUDGET — Philadelphia's mayor is expected to ask for a soda tax to help fund several new initiatives including universal pre-K in his first budget address to city council. —PRESQUE ISLE CASINO FINED — A northwestern Pennsylvania casino has been fined $10,000 for not locking a room used to store table game equipment. —FATAL FIRE — Officials say one person is dead in an overnight fire in a mobile home in central Pennsylvania. —WARREN-RESEARCH FUNDING — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing legislation designed to increase funding for medical research. —MISSING TEEN ARREST — Authorities have found a missing New Jersey 13-year-old in Philadelphia and they have arrested the young Kentucky man who was with her. SPORTS: PITTSBURGH-VIRGINIA TECH BLACKSBURG, Va. — The last of Zach LeDay's 20 points on Wednesday night was not decisive, but may still have been the biggest of them all. By Hank Kurz Jr. SENT: 611 words, AP Photos. HORNETS-76ERS PHILADELPHIA — Kemba Walker picks his spots for Charlotte. At times, he's the aggressive, go-to scorer who has led the Hornets' playoff push. Other games, he's unselfish and tries to get the rest of the Hornets rolling. By Dan Gelston. SENT: 790 words, AP Photos. ___ If you have stories of regional or statewide interest, please email them to phillyap@ap.org. If you have photos of regional or statewide interest, please send them to the AP state photo center in New York, 888-273-6867. 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