State News-Wednesday, Dec. 6th

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Governor Ed Rendell plans a news conference in Philadelphia today to call for revenue-raising proposals for the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Rendell and House Speaker John Perzel have both pitched the idea of leasing the highway to private investors. A number of other states and cities have done that.

RADNOR, Pa. (AP) - A manhunt is under way in suburban Philadelphia for a man who fired numerous shots at police this morning. Authorities say police went to an area in Radnor near the Villanova University campus about 4:30 a-m after receiving a call about a man acting suspiciously. He fired about ten shots at them and then fled. No one was injured.

CHERRY TREE, Pa. (AP) - In Indiana County, a small town's borough council is to consider an ordinance today requiring a gun in every household. Councilman Henry Statkowski says Cherry Tree doesn't have a crime problem, but he wants to scare off would-be criminals. Opponents say the measure would increase gun violence.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A Taco Bell spokesman says all nine of the company's restaurants in Montgomery County are being sanitized following an E. coli outbreak. Officials are trying to determine if this outbreak is connected to an outbreak in New York and New Jersey. Three of the four people who got sick in Montgomery County had eaten at Taco Bell.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A man who pleaded guilty in July in connection with the killing of a doctor on the Ohio Turnpike has pleaded guilty to a simple assault count in a separate case. Damian Bradford was sentenced to one year probation for allegedly elbowing a McKeesport police officer on January fifth.