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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. Maryclaire Dale is on the desk. A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change.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. TOP STORIES: WRESTLER-GIRLFRIEND'S DEATH ALLENTOWN — Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka back in court for Day 3 of a hearing to determine whether he's competent to stand trial on murder charges. By Michael Rubinkam. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 500 words developing from 1:30 p.m. hearing. GUN BUST-PLEA PITTSBURGH — A New York man has pleaded guilty to paying people to buy guns in western Pennsylvania which were then smuggled back to New York and sold on the street. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 400 words by 3 p.m. SAMARITANS THWART CARJACKING GREENSBURG — Several good Samaritans stepped in to help after police say a man tried to carjack a woman and her 4-year-old son at knifepoint in a Pennsylvania parking lot. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 275 words by 3 p.m. REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM ALLENTOWN — Pennsylvania's largest refugee resettlement program is slated to close next month, and efforts are underway to find a replacement. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 300 words by 2 p.m. ELSEWHERE: FROSTBURG STATE-FOOTBALL DEATH ROCKVILLE, Md. — A Maryland judge is considering requests to limit the evidence a jury would hear in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a Frostburg State University football player who suffered a fatal head injury during practice in 2011. SENT: 128 words. UPCOMING: 300 words by 3 p.m. IN BRIEF: —HUMAN REMAINS-LLAMA FARM — State police say remains found on a llama farm in northeastern Pennsylvania have been identified as a 17-year-old girl reported missing last month. —MOLD OUTBREAK-HOSPITAL ICU — An attorney says the family of a woman who died during a mold outbreak at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has settled their lawsuit with the hospital network —TERRORISM CHARGES-PENNSYLVANIA — Federal prosecutors don't want a central Pennsylvania terrorism suspect freed on bond, because they say he'd just return home, which is where he allegedly committed his alleged crimes. —ODD-MAYORS RESCUED FROM ELEVATOR — Three mayors walk into an elevator — but what happened next was no joke, though the officials managed to amuse themselves until they could be rescued about 40 minutes later. —SISTERS SLAIN — A jury has begun deliberating for a second day in the trial of a Pittsburgh man accused of killing his neighbors, two sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker. —BOXER VERSUS WOMAN — Former lightweight boxing champ Paul Spadafora has agreed to take anger management classes to resolve charges that he put a woman in a semi-headlock at a Pittsburgh-area bar, drank her beer and then threw her down when she went outside to call police. —NAVAL BASES-WATER CONTAMINATION — The federal government is offering free bottled water to people whose public and private wells might have been contaminated by chemicals used at two former U.S. Navy bases in suburban Philadelphia. —FAKE CANCER FUNDRAISER — A western Pennsylvania woman charged with running a fake GoFundMe page for a terminally ill cancer patient has accepted a tentative plea agreement. —FACEBOOK-HIT-AND-RUN — Police say a Facebook post led to the arrest of a person wanted in a hit-and-run accident that left a member of a road construction crew injured. —CHILD MOLESTATION — Authorities say a suburban Philadelphia man molested three children in the basement of his parents' home. —RESERVOIR DROWNING — State police have identified the body of a man who apparently drowned while trying to swim across a reservoir about 30 miles north of Pennsylvania's state capital. —FIERY CRASH-TEENS DEAD — A Pennsylvania couple faces charges after investigators say they provided alcohol to two teenagers who died last summer after a sport utility vehicle they were in hit a utility pole, flipped and burst into flames. —UNEMPLOYMENT RATE-PENNSYLVANIA — Pennsylvania's unemployment rate shot up in April for the biggest one-month increase since 2009. Payrolls also showed the biggest one-month drop since 2009. ___ 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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