Man charged with homicide in baby daughter's death

Bill passes to alter Pennsylvania schools' seniority layoffs

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 A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change.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: PUBLIC CORRUPTION-CAMPAIGN DONATIONS HARRISBURG — John H. Estey, a prominent lobbyist and onetime chief of staff to ex-Gov. Ed Rendell, pleads guilty in a scheme to funnel illegal campaign donations to state lawmakers in return for help on legislation. UPCOMING: About 250 words by 2 a.m. EDT, with updates from 10:30 a.m. EDT hearing and about 500 words by 5 p.m. EDT. AP Photos. OTHER TOP STORIES: SENATE 2016-PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA — Republican Sen. Pat Toomey injected immigration policies into his re-election campaign, taking a shot at Philadelphia's "sanctuary city" status and his Democratic opponent Katie McGinty for supporting what he calls a dangerous and extreme practice. By Marc Levy. SENT: About 510 words. RAPE KITS BACKLOG HARRSIBURG — Pennsylvania officials want to know why only about a third of the state's roughly 1,000 police agencies complied with a new requirement that they tell the Health Department how many untested rape kits are in their possession. By Mark Scolforo. SENT: About 380 words. INMATE MURDER SUSPECT-TRIAL KITTANNING — A jury has been selected for a man charged with strangling a woman he knew after escaping from a western Pennsylvania jail. SENT: About 380 words. HIGH SCHOOL STABBINGS A judge says a young man who was 16 years old when he stabbed 20 fellow students and a security guard at his suburban Pittsburgh high school should stand trial as an adult, not as a juvenile. SENT: About 460 words. PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM-DISABLED VISITORS PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge says the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia violated the rights of severely disabled guests by forcing them to pay two entrance fees — one for them and another for their caretakers. SENT: About 200 words. AMERICAN INDIAN REMAINS SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Leaders of several American Indian tribes are due to meet Tuesday with representatives of the federal government to begin negotiating the return of remains of native children who died more than a century ago at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. The meeting will be held on South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux reservation in part because a Rosebud youth group has pushed for the return. By Regina Garcia Cano. SENT: About 750 words, photos. WASHINGTON'S ARMY-CAMP CHATHAM TOWNSHIP, N.J. — On a gently sloping hillside studded with pine trees, clues to a Revolutionary War mystery are slowly being revealed, spurred by the dogged efforts of a local historian and his teenage son. An archaeological survey last week conducted on an unspoiled swath of land about 15 miles west of Newark Liberty International Airport produced several dozen items including metal buckles, a knob from a desk drawer, a shard from a clay pot and a partial pipe bowl. By David Porter. SENT: About 800 words. BUSINESS: SMALL CAR DEALS DETROIT — Louis Cervi was looking to buy a small car for basic transportation with a monthly payment in the mid-$200 range. After six months of looking, Cervi, 41, drove off a dealer lot north of Pittsburgh in a Ford Focus for $192 a month. The dealership even accepted his 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo with a failed transmission as a down payment on his lease. By Tom Krisher. SENT: About 820 words. EXCHANGE: EXCHANGE-INJURED CHEERLEADER GRADUATES STATE COLLEGE — On Saturday, thousands of Penn State students walked at graduation. For one of them, walking at all was a miracle. Finishing college was a journey she was determined to complete. Former cheerleader Paige Raque did what seemed impossible after she fell out of a fifth-floor window of Calder Commons in October 2012. The fall broke her body in almost every way possible. It shattered her vertebrae. It broke her neck. It cracked her ribs and snapped a bone in her lower leg. The impact delivered a traumatic brain injury. Walking was something she had to relearn how to do. Lori Falce, Centre Daily Times. SENT: About 760 words. IN BRIEF: BODY FOUND-RECYCLING BIN — Prosecutors have decided against seeking the death penalty against a man accused of killing his girlfriend, stuffing her body into a recycling bin and later shooting at a police officer investigating her murder. NORRISTOWN FIRE — Authorities say a second child has died following a fire that earlier killed another child and two adults in southeastern Pennsylvania. NATURAL GAS EXPLOSION — Elected supervisors of a western Pennsylvania township have scheduled a meeting where residents can get more information about a massive natural gas pipeline explosion last month. STREETS COMMISSIONER-ASSAULT — A Philadelphia official is on leave after being arrested in an alleged assault last year. SCRANTON MALL — A struggling northeastern Pennsylvania mall will soon be the home of a satellite campus of a college in the region. BABY DIES-FATHER CHARGED — An eastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with homicide in the death of his 5-month-old daughter. CHILD ABUSE CHARGES — A western Pennsylvania man will spend five to 10 years in prison for beating his 6-year-old stepson so severely doctors said it appeared the boy was in a car accident. PICKUP-CAR CRASH — State police released three adult victims' names as they investigated how and why a pickup truck rear-ended a car carrying a family of four, critically injuring all involved. HOTEL WORKER LEAVING COUNTRY — A former central Pennsylvania hotel worker has agreed to return to India and stay out of the county where he was accused of sexually assaulting two hotel guests. CREDIT UNION FRAUD — Two former northeastern Pennsylvania police officers have been sentenced on federal bank fraud conspiracy convictions. SUSPENDED POLICE CLERK-LAWSUIT — A Pittsburgh police clerk reinstated last month after a three-year suspension is set to have her civil rights lawsuit heard by a federal court jury. OBIT-PENNSYLVANIA'S OLDEST WOMAN — A woman believed to be Pennsylvania's oldest resident has died at the age of 113. ROWHOUSE FIRES-MILLVALE — The American Red Cross is helping 13 adults and four children find shelter after a series of rowhouses burned in a Pittsburgh suburb. INMATE MURDER SUSPECT-TRIAL — Jury selection is set to begin for a man charged with strangling a woman he knew after escaping from a western Pennsylvania jail. MERCURY-TRANSIT — Mercury has begun a relatively rare move across the sun. The solar-planetary ballet got underway just after 7 a.m. on the east coast with the smallest planet appearing as a tiny black dot on the face of the sun. Philadelphia and its surrounding areas will have front row seats. AP Photos NY111-0505161041. FATAL CRASH — Officials say a man is dead following a head-on collision on state Route 65 in suburban Pittsburgh. The crash happened Sunday around 7 p.m. in Sewickley. MISSING CHILD FOUND — A high school student and a police officer have found a missing 3-year-old Pennsylvania boy following a four-hour search that included police, neighbors, firefighters and a helicopter. The mother of Kymir Woods notified police around 3 p.m. Sunday that her toddler had gone missing from his East Pittsburgh home, about 10 miles east of Pittsburgh. TRIPLE FATAL CRASH — State troopers say a New York man was one of three people killed in wrong-way crash on Interstate 81 in northeastern Pennsylvania. MORAINE STATE PARK-ACCESS — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is trying to make it easier to get to a popular state park. SPORTS: HKN--FACEOFF PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins are mulling a goaltending change as they try to close out the Washington Capitals in Game 6 on Tuesday. Regardless of who's in net, the Penguins could also use a dose of Sidney Crosby. The superstar center has just two points in the series. By Will Graves. UPCOMING: 700 words by 6 p.m. EDT. BARBARO-TEN YEARS LATER BALTIMORE — The passage of time has trickled ever so slowly for trainer Michael Matz since Barbaro's final gallop at the Preakness. A decade ago, Matz saddled the frisky Kentucky Derby winner with designs of pulling off an encore at Pimlico Race Course. Soon after emerging from the starting gate, Barbaro stumbled and broke his right hind leg. By David Ginsburg. SENT: About 790 words. ___ 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. For both national and state, you can click "All" or search for content by topics such as education, politics and business.

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