State News - Saturday Mar. 3

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A South Jersey woman is free on bail after being charged with stealing more than $1 million from an elderly Montgomery County woman who trusted her to invest her money. Prosecutors say the 86-year-old victim hired a company to manage her portfolio, and Debbie Madosky was assigned to the account. They say Madosky left the company but continued to manage the Rydal woman's estate privately. Montgomery County prosecutor Risa Ferman says over the next several years the 43-year-old Medford, New Jersey, woman siphoned one-point-four (m) million dollars from the victim. Ferman says Madosky was writing checks to herself and would ultimately leave the elderly woman destitute. Ferman says Madosky paid off her husband's bad debt of 135-thousand dollars, and went shopping at Neiman-Marcus, Coach, Saks Fifth Avenue, and other expensive stores. Madosky faces several counts of theft and related charges, and was released on her own recognizance after bail was set at 500-thousand dollars.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police are looking for three men wanted for more than a dozen robberies in the last two months in and around Philadelphia. Surveillance cameras from fast food and convenience stores show the men robbing employees at gunpoint 13 times since January Second. Now police want to catch them. Philadelphia police Lieutenant John Walker says they're sureit's the same guys. The robbers are almost always wearing the samething. Walker says one of the men is wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with the word "Aeropostale" on it, and the second man is wearing a black quilted jacket with a fur hood and a tear on the right arm. The third man doesn't always come in. Police are trying to get the word out, especially to businesses that are open late. Even though no one has been hurt, the robberies are becoming more frequent and have gone beyond city limits. In the last few days businesses in suburban Clifton Heights, Darby and Upper Darby have been targets.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The state Health Department is warning consumers not to drink raw milk from a York County dairy farm after confirming that two people who drank it last month were sickened bysalmonella. Health Secretary Calvin Johnson says the state AgricultureDepartment has also obtained three samples from Stump Acres Dairy in New Salem that tested positive for salmonella. Raw milk has not been pasteurized to kill bacteria. Proponents say it contains more vitamins than pasteurized milk and can be consumed by people who are lactose intolerant, although the Centers for Disease Control says no health or nutritional benefits have been scientifically proven. The dairy serves about 250 customers from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. But the Health Department says no salmonella cases have been found in other states.