Friday, October 06, 2006

State News-Friday, Oct. 6th

GEORGETOWN, Pa. (AP) - There'll be another funeral in Lancaster County's Amish country today. Twelve-year-old Anna Mae Stoltzfus, the last of the five girls killed in the schoolhouse shooting Monday, will be buried. Men in black suits and women in simple dresses and bonnets mourned the four other girls in burial services yesterday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Representative Curt Weldon, a ten-term Republican, will debate Democratic challenger Joe Sestak for the first time today. Weldon got a big campaign boost Wednesday when first lady Laura Bush stumped for him. Former President Bill Clinton campaigned yesterday for Sestak.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former presidents George H-W Bush and Bill Clinton have been awarded this year's Liberty Medal for putting politics aside to help raise more than one (b) billion dollars for disaster relief efforts. Rocker Jon Bon Jovi received the City of Brotherly Love Award, given to individuals for humanitarian efforts in the greater Philadelphia region.

MARS, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say two girls who died in a grisly western Pennsylvania accident intentionally jumped their sport utility vehicle over a hill. The 17-year-old driver of the S-U-V and a 17-year-old passenger died of massive head injuries after the vehicle slammed into a tree and rolled over several times July 13th in Adams Township. Four other girls were hospitalized.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - An 80-year-old Pittsburgh man convicted of dealing crack cocaine is on parole after spending three nights in jail. Police say Felix Cocco will wear an ankle bracelet so authorities can monitor his activities. Arrested in November and again in February, Cocco pleaded guilty in July to possessing cocaine with intent to deliver.

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