State News-Saturday, Sept. 9th

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission says will conduct a public hearing on media ownership issues in Los Angeles on October third. The agency is considering whether to eliminate a ban on cross-ownership of broadcast stations and newspapers. It's also considering whether to increase the number of radio and television stations a company may own in a single market and other rules. In 2003, the F-C-C loosened the limits on media ownership. An appeals court in Philadelphia invalidated the rules and sent them back to the agency for reconsideration. The public has until September 22nd to file comments with the commission.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia police say a badly decomposed woman's body was found Friday in a garbage bag in a trash-strewn and overgrown vacant lot. Police say the body of a woman who appeared to be in her 30s was discovered this morning by a man who smelled a foul odor as he walked by the lot. A spokesman for the Medical Examiner's Office says the body, which was not immediately identified, will be examined tomorrow.

CARROLL, N.Y. (AP) - Ralph "Bucky" Phillips is in police custody after walking out of a Pennsylvania cornfield with his hands up. Phillips is suspected of fatally shooting one New York state trooper and wounding two others. He'd been on the run for more than five months. The arrest came after a day of searching that started with troopers firing at Phillips then squeezing him into a tighter and tighter circle just south of the New York-Pennsylvania state line. As news of the arrest was received at two nearby police barracks, cheers went up. Police had feared a violent end to the manhunt, since Phillips was said to have threatened "suicide by cop."

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pummelled by critics and art aficionados, Rocky Balboa has rallied again. The underdog boxer's long road back to the Philadelphia Museum of Art is over. Sylvester Stallone commissioned the statue for a scene in 1982's"Rocky Three" and donated it to the city afterward. The statue was first placed at the top of the museum steps,where it appeared in the movie. But art devotees panned the statue as a movie prop not suited for the renowned institution. So the statue was quickly moved to the city's sports stadium complex in South Philadelphia. Twenty-five years later, construction at the stadium complex left the statue in a warehouse. The city's Art Commission voted toput it near the museum this week.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Senator Rick Santorum is airing a new ad in southwestern Pennsylvania, and it features some unusual stars --his six children. They defend their dad's parental judgment amid criticism of his use of Pennsylvania taxpayers' money to pay for their education. The ad underscores the Republican senator's sensitivity about a flap over the use of Penn Hills School District money to help pay tuition for several of his children when they lived in Virginia.The school district paid for them to enroll at an Internet-based charter school between 2001 and 2004. The children are now home schooled after Penn Hills officials raised questions about the tuition payments.