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Good evening! 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 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 A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change.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. Some TV and radio stations will receive shorter APNewsNow versions of the stories below, along with updates. UPCOMING TOMORROW: ATTORNEY GENERAL-USING PERSONAL EMAILNew PHILDELPHIA — Pennsylvania's embattled attorney general has routinely used personal email accounts to conduct official business, including the transmission of what her office has identified as confidential information, despite an office ban on such practices dating to 2009. By Michael R. Sisak. UPCOMING: About 750 words. GOP 2016-PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATES HARRISBURG — When Republican primary voters elect 54 delegates later this month to go to the GOP national convention in July, they will help set in motion a complicated process of picking a party presidential nominee. By Marc Levy. UPCOMING: About 700 words by 2 a.m. EDT. OTHER TOP STORIES: PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL NORRISTOWN — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has withdrawn a court motion that accused prosecutors of leaking FBI recordings in her criminal case to a newspaper. By Maryclaire Dale. SENT: About 330 words. AP Photos. CAMPAIGN 2016-PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA — Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has added more campaign stops in Pennsylvania ahead of next week's primary. On Wednesday night, he is headed to Pittsburgh for a forum with labor leaders. On Thursday, he plans two town halls, the first in Scranton and the second in Reading. JUDGE-RETIREMENTS HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania judge is ruling that primary election votes cast on a constitutional amendment ballot question to change the state's judicial retirement age won't count. Commonwealth Court Judge Kevin Brobson turned down a request Wednesday by three Democratic state senators to invalidate a resolution that passed the Legislature earlier this month delaying the vote from next week until November. By Mark Scolforo. SENT: NewsNow NUN-DUI CHARGE WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A Philadelphia nun and schoolteacher was convicted Wednesday of drunken driving charges despite her assertion that she had taken a sedative and doesn't remember crashing her car into a New Jersey building. SENT: About 340 words. OBIT-RIOT VICTIM'S SISTER YORK — A black woman who watched a white mob kill her sister during race riots nearly a half-century ago in Pennsylvania — and had to wait over 30 years for justice — has died. GREAT LAKES-WATER WAUKESHA, Wis. — A push for expanded access to water from the Great Lakes is at a key point as a regional regulating group meets in Chicago this week to consider a request from a Milwaukee suburb to draw from Lake Michigan. By Greg Moore. SENT: About 700 words. DELAWARE MEMORIAL BRIDGE-REPAIRS PENNSVILLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Emergency construction on the Delaware Memorial Bridge is causing traffic delays. Construction crews on Wednesday are replacing three suspension ropes and crews have closed three of the four lanes on the Delaware-bound span that links New Jersey with Delaware. BUSINESS: COMCAST-BOXLESS TV PHILADELPHIA — Comcast says later this year you won't need a cable box to watch cable as the company follows its rivals in offering TV-watching apps. By Tali Arbel. SENT: About 330 words. CHINA-ELECTRIC CAR DREAMS SHENZHEN, China — The Chinese automaker that sold more electric cars last year than Tesla, Nissan or GM is taking a back road into the American market on a battery-powered bus. Detouring around the cost and risk of consumer sales, BYD Co. has quietly built a U.S. business supplying rechargeable buses to environmentally-minded transit agencies. Its factory north of Los Angeles, opened in 2013, is on track to deliver 300 this year. The company has its own test track for buses, modeled on the U.S. Department of Transportation's bus testing site in Altoona, Pennsylvania. By Joe Mcdonald. MOVED: 1356 words. AP Photos XHG111-0420160539, XHG110-0420160535, XHG109-0420160531, XHG108-0420160529, BKCD104-0420160505, BKCD103-0420160504, BKCD101-0420160504. SMALLBIZ-SMALL TALK-DRONES NEW YORK — That drone flying around a suburban house might not belong to a wannabe pilot — it may be a tool that's become indispensable for a small business. Many small companies have either built their business around drones or use them to do tasks they previously accomplished by regular planes and helicopters. By Joyce M. Rosenberg. SENT: About 1140 words. EXCHANGE: EXCHANGE-PASTRY CHEFS PITTSBURGH —If you think a pastry chef's job is all frilly and dainty, think again. There's a lot of hard, physical work that goes into making the pretty, delicate and elegant treats. The job typically means lugging 50 pounds of flour and sugar, lifting a huge mixing bowl with 15 pounds of bread dough to the counter, walking back and forth from the oven with a sheet tray filled with loaves of bread, using a 24-inch rolling pin to make pies and tarts, and being on the feet for an eight-hour shift, making everything from bread to pizza dough to cocktail syrups and garnishes to after-dinner chocolates to pastries. "It's definitely manual labor," says Lisa O'Connor of Six Penn Kitchen. "People don't realize all what we do." Arthi Subramaniam, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. SENT: About 1350 words. IN BRIEF: TRAIN STATION-ASSAULT CHARGES — A man convicted of beating a black man and pushing him onto subway tracks in Pittsburgh almost a year ago has been sentenced to three to six years in prison. COLD CASE ARREST — A New Jersey man has gone on trial in the strangulation deaths of two women in north Philadelphia more than a quarter-century ago. OFFICER FATALLY STRUCK — A Philadelphia man acquitted in a crash that killed an off-duty city police officer has been awarded $1 million after a jury found he was wrongly arrested. PHILADELPHIA OFFICER SHOT — A man accused of shooting a Philadelphia police officer in the leg after fleeing from a carjacking has been ordered held without bail. FATAL DUPLEX FIRE — Funeral arrangements are set for a family of five killed in a fire at their western Pennsylvania home last week. WORLD WAR II VETERAN-DIPLOMA — A World War II veteran has just gotten his Pennsylvania high school diploma and says he's grateful to have it even if it's not going to help him get a job. MARIJUANA-TRAFFIC STOP — Police say a Philadelphia man has been found with 317 pounds of marijuana in his minivan during a traffic stop in Rhode Island. HELICOPTER CRASH — Authorities say a helicopter crash at a central Pennsylvania airport left one person with a minor injury. PITTSBURGH WATCHDOG-AUDIT — County prosecutors have executed search warrants as part of an investigation into a state-created authority appointed to oversee Pittsburgh's failing finances a dozen years ago. CASINO WORKERS CHARGED — A former northeastern Pennsylvania casino official and a patron accused of defrauding the casino out of more than $400,000 have pleaded not guilty to federal fraud, theft and money laundering charges. PENN STATE STADIUM — Penn State officials are looking at renovating rather than replacing Beaver Stadium at the central Pennsylvania university's main campus. OFFICER DEATH-SUDDEN ILLNESS — A suburban Philadelphia police department says a 39-year-old officer has died from a sudden illness. PIG FARM EXPANSION — Plans to expand a pig farm in Cumberland County are moving forward. North Newtown supervisors on Tuesday advanced the proposal that would allow farmer Arlin Weaver to add another 2,400 pigs to the 2,400 swine he already has. PHILADELPHIA FUGITIVE ARRESTED — Police in New Jersey arrested a man wanted on rape, sexual assault and other charges in Philadelphia after an eight-hour standoff. RETIREMENT BENEFITS-FRAUD — A Philadelphia woman is accused of stealing more than $102,000 in retirement's benefits intended for her grandmother after the woman's 2005 death. CHINESE TESTING-INDICTMENT — A Chinese woman who admitted to conspiring to have other women take college admissions examinations so she could attend Virginia Tech has been sentenced to six months of home detention in Pittsburgh. PEDESTRIANS HIT-MEDICAL EPISODE — Authorities say a woman suffered a medical episode while behind the wheel of a vehicle and hit three pedestrians before striking a utility pole in Pittsburgh. SPORTS: HKN--CAPITALS-FLYERS PHILADELPHIA -- The Washington Capitals try and complete a four-game playoff sweep against the Philadelphia Flyers. By Dan Gelston. UPCOMING. 750 words. Game starts at 7 p.m. EDT. AP Photos. HKN--FLYING OBJECTS PHILADELPHIA — Rats! And Octopi. Even a lifeless shark. Real or rubber, NHL arenas in the postseason have a way of turning into an overflowing Animal House on the ice once fans get their arms warmed up. Angry you missed out on zoological fun? No worries, maybe some of the playoff stars will brighten the mood with the glow-in-the dark wristbands that disgruntled Philadelphia Flyers fans hurled on the ice during a game this week. By Dan Gelston. SENT: About 900 words. FBN--BROWNS-EAGLES-TRADE PHILADELPHIA — Desperate for a franchise quarterback, the Philadelphia Eagles can get their man. Soon. The Cleveland Browns will wait for their guy. The Eagles acquired the No. 2 overall pick in next week's draft from Cleveland in exchange for five picks on Wednesday. The Browns are getting Philadelphia's first-round pick this year (No. 8), a third-round pick (No. 77) and fourth-rounder (No. 100), plus a first-rounder in 2017 and a fourth-rounder in 2018. By Rob Maaddi. SENT: About 650 words. BBN--PIRATES-PADRES SAN DIEGO — Drew Pomeranz and the San Diego Padres go for their second straight win against the Pittsburgh Pirates, who counter with Jeff Locke. By Bernie Wilson. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Game starts 7:10 p.m. BBN--METS-PHILLIES PHILADELPHIA — Bartolo Colon (1-1, 2.13) starts for the Mets against Jeremy Hellickson (1-1, 4.30) as New York aims for a three-game sweep. By Rob Maaddi. UPCOMING: 650 words. With hometown lead on losing team. AP Photos. Game starts 7:05 p.m. EDT. ___ 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. For access to AP Exchange and other technical issues, contact AP Customer Support at apcustomersupport@ap.org or 877-836-9477. MARKETPLACE: Calling your attention to the Marketplace in AP Exchange, where you can find member-contributed content from Pennsylvania and other states. The Marketplace is accessible on the left navigational pane of the AP Exchange home page, near the bottom. 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