National and State News-Friday, April 13th

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A doctor says it will be several months before New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine can walk normally after a serious car accident. Corzine has undergone surgery and is hospitalized in critical condition with a broken leg and other injuries. Authorities say an S-U-V that Corzine was riding in was struck by a pickup truck.

NEW YORK (AP) - The chief executive of C-B-S says he sees the firing of radio host Don Imus as changing the culture that allows people to say hurtful and demeaning things. Imus was let go over racially derogatory and sexist remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team after it played for the national championship.

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - A Minnesota family vacationing in Acapulco, Mexico, say they "flew out of bed" when an earthquake struck early today. The quake knocked out power in parts of the resort town and Mexico City but there have been no reports of deaths, serious injuries or major damage.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Some legal experts say three former Duke lacrosse players could have a case if they choose to sue the prosecutor who pursued a rape case against them. The players have been exonerated. One law professor says prosecutors probably don't have protection from comments they make outside the courtroom.

SEATTLE (AP) - Regulators in Washington state say pharmacists cannot prevent women from getting "morning-after" birth-control pills. The state Board of Pharmacy says drug stores have a duty to fill lawful prescriptions even if an individual pharmacist has personal objections.

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) - Falconi Field, the home of the Washington Wild Things minor league baseball team, will be known as Consol Energy Park for the next ten years. Officials with the team's owners and Consol didn't disclose financial terms. Consol has headquarters nearby in Upper Saint Clair.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - American Asbestos Control Company in Butler County pleaded guilty yesterday to willful violation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations. Saul
Martinez, a Mexican national from High Point, North Carolina, died in April 2005 when he fell 48 feet through a skylight.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A Western Pennsylvania school board member who owned a jewelry store is accused of stealing two Rolex watches and an automatic winder from a customer. Westmont Hilltop School Board member Thomas Robert Kirby, who is from Westmont, is charged with theft by deception and related offenses.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A judge has approved a nine (m) million dollar settlement of claims made by P-N-C Financial Services against an accounting firm. The claims stem from a scandal that required Pittsburgh-based P-N-C to restate nearly 155 (m) million dollars in earnings.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh say a man took 66 colonoscopes from hospitals and sold them to medical equipment distributors. Michael Marburger, whose hometown prosecutors did not release, is charged with transporting stolen goods across state lines. They were taken from hospitals in Pennsylvania and several other states.