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The defense is taking center stage this week in a groundbreaking clergy-abuse trial in Philadelphia.
Monsignor William Lynn is the first Roman Catholic official in the U.S. charged for allegedly helping the church bury abuse complaints.
The 61-year-old Lyn...

A woman arrested in the daytime stabbing deaths of two Canadian tourists near an Atlantic City casino laughed, frowned, grimaced and repeatedly asked where her lawyer was Tuesday as she was charged with murdering the women, one of them 80 years old.
Antoinette Pelzer sta...

Jury deliberations begin Wednesday in the case of two men charged with murder in the deaths of a woman and three young children struck by an out-of-control car fleeing a Philadelphia robbery scene nearly three years ago.
The Philadelphia Daily News (http://bit.ly/Kx8kM4 ...

A second township has rejected the city of Allentown's latest offer to settle a lawsuit over construction of a downtown hockey arena.
Hanover Township officials joined their counterparts in Bethlehem township on Tuesday night in saying that a 2009 state law that uses som...

A central Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison in a stabbing death almost three years ago.
The (Lancaster) Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era (http://bit.ly/JQhXdr ) says Lancaster County Judge Jeffery Wright imposed nearly the maximum ...

A western Pennsylvania man is on trial in the beating death of the elderly grandfather of his estranged wife a year ago.
Thirty-six-year-old Jason Kuhns of the Pittsburgh suburb of Brentwood is charged with criminal homicide, robbery and burglary in the April 2011 death ...

A central Pennsylvania man has been convicted of first-degree murder for the second time in the strangulation slaying of his wife eight years ago.
Jurors in York County deliberated for less than an hour Tuesday before convicting Brian David Hummert, 55, of murder and hin...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America says its leader has died.
The church says in a statement that 75-year-old Metropolitan Constantine died on Monday morning after a serious illness.
He was a life-long resident of Pittsburgh and had led the church sin...

Joe Paterno earned a state pension of $13.4 million for his 61-year coaching career at Penn State.
Paterno's family said Tuesday through a spokesman that Paterno's widow, Sue, would receive an initial payment of $10.1 million by the end of May, with the rest to be paid o...

A central Pennsylvania man has been convicted of first-degree murder for the second time in the strangulation slaying of his wife eight years ago.
Jurors in York County deliberated for less than an hour Tuesday before convicting 55-year-old Brian David Hummert of murder ...