State News - Sat. April 28, 2007

EMPORIUM, Pa. (AP) - A Cameron County man has died after his house in Shippen Township caught fire yesterday morning. County Coroner Ted Walters says 88-year-old Armand Venture died of asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation. A state police fire marshal has ruled the fire an accident. He says the failure of a 30-amp electrical circuit caused the 7:14 a-m fire.

MEDIA, Pa. (AP) - Threatening e-mails sent to two Delaware County Community College campuses prompted the school to shut downall five of its locations until at least Monday. Police say college departments at the Exton and Downingtown campuses in Chester County received about a dozen e-mails yesterday threatening "violence against numerous persons." Officials say they will use a search warrant to find the sender,whom they believe may be a student. The investigation is focusingon the Exton campus. The college, which serves about 10-thousand day students, also has campuses in Marple, Sharon Hill andBroomall. A college official says the campuses were closed in part because of the massacre at Virginia Tech, when 33 people died in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U-S history.