State News-Thursday, Feb. 1st

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Workers at the sewage plant in Johnstown found a fetus in a screening system of waste materials Tuesday night. Cambria County Coroner Dennis Kwiatkowski says the male fetus was about four months old, and the cause of death was spontaneous abruption, and appeared to be natural.

ERIE, Pa. (AP) - An Erie man has been sentenced to six to nine years in state prison for sexually assaulting a girl when she was 7 and 8 years old. Authorities say 49-year-old Donald Chaney Senior was convicted in September of aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, child endangerment and corruption of minors.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - An elderly widow from Pittsburgh has pleaded guilty to cashing her late sister's benefit checks.Eighty-five-year-old Kathleen Givens' attorney say Givens was worried about raising her two grandchildren if she lost half her income.

MOUNT LEBANON, Pa. (AP) - Mount Lebanon has paid one hundred thousand dollars to a Castle Shannon man who sued the municipality after police subdued him with a stun gun. Mount Lebanon police used a 50,000-volt Taser on 67-year-old Frank Caruso during a parking dispute near his pizzeria on July Eleventh, 2005.

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) - A man accused of beating an elderly woman in her Saxonburg home in 2005 has been convicted of three of the four charges against him. A jury yesterday found 27-year-old Joshua Goyette of New Bedford, Massachusetts guilty of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and criminal mischief for attacking the now-88-year-old woman with a glass candlestick.

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) - Financially-strapped North FranklinTownship in Washington County has agreed to pay its police chief nearly 80-thousand dollars owed him after his suspension was overturned. Supervisors agreed to initially pay Chief Mark Kavakich 20-thousand dollars now and another similar payment within 90 days.