State News-Monday

HOUSTON (AP) - A Lafayette College student whose luggage contained a stick of dynamite is to appear before a federal magistrate in Houston today. Twenty-one-year-old Howard McFarland Fish had gotten off a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday when the explosive was found in his luggage at a security check in Houston. Fish told authorities he works in mining and often handles explosives. There isn't any indication of terrorism, but the discovery highlighted concerns that there's a weak link in aviation security.The concern is that security at airports abroad might not be as good as that in the United States.

MARSHALLS CREEK, Pa. (AP) - In Monroe County, the owner of a trucking company is accused of killing an employee who had come to his home to discuss a dispute over worker's compensation and medical bills. Two other employees told police that the three of them went to the Jackson Township home of 34-year-old Ray Anthony Velez on Friday afternoon to discuss the ongoing dispute. Police say anargument ensued and Velez pulled a sawed-off shotgun out of his desk and fatally shot Armando Guardiola of New York City. Velez told the Pocono Record as he was led out of court before dawn Saturday that the shooting was self-defense. Police say Velez initially told investigators that it was an accident. Velez is charged with criminal homicide and possessing and using a prohibited offensive weapon.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Police seized more than a million dollars in cash along with guns and drugs after pulling over a pickup truck in a traffic stop near Harrisburg. A 31-year-old man from upstate New York and a 20-year-old man from nearby Cornwall Island, Ontario, were pulled over before dawn today on Interstate 81 in Susquehanna Township. Trooper Greg Miller says he became suspicious because of statements made by the men and alterations to the truck and the dual-axle flatbed trailer it was towing. Police say the men consented to a search of the truck and the trailer -- and a drug-sniffing dog indicated the presence of controlled substances. Police took the trailer to headquarters, where they found the one-point-one million dollars in cash, plus 20 pounds of marijuana and a variety of guns.