TODAY'S NEWS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2011

UPDATE: COP TRIAL 1:00pm

JURY SELECTION CONTINUED AFTER 9:00am. TWENTY NEW POTENTIAL JURORS WERE BROUGHT IN THIS MORNING, BUT NOT SWORN IN. JUDGE CAPUTO WILL ONLY CALL ON THOSE JURORS IF NECESSARY.

JURY SELECTION TO RESUME IN TRIAL OF FORMER SHENANDOAH COPS

JURY SELECTION CONTINUES THIS MORNING IN THE TRIAL OF THREE LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS. WPPA'S BRITTANY REPORTS.

TUESDAY'S JURY SELECTION

MAN TRAPPED IN BREAKER

RESCUE WORKERS FROM SAINT CLAIR AND POTTSVILLE WERE CALLED TO THE WADESVILLE BREAKER ON READING ANTHRACITE PROPERTY AT 9:36AM MONDAY MORNING FOR A INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT. AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN WAS TRAPPED IN A BUCKET TRAP. EMERGENCY PERSONNEL EXTRACTED HIM WITHIN ABOUT TEN MINUTES. THE MAN WAS INJURED AND LIFE FLIGHTED TO LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL.

HAMBURG DOMESTIC DESPUTE

AFTER A DOMESTIC INCIDENT IN BERKS COUNTY SUNDAY NIGHT, TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD. 62-YEAR-OLD JOAN MARIE WAGNER WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE DRIVEWAY OF HER HOME SHARED WITH HUSBAND 65-YEAR-OLD CLAYTON WAGNER JUNIOR. 40-YEAR-OLD JEREMY KRIEGER ALSO LIVED WITH THE COUPLE AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FIRING SEVERAL SHOTS AT STATE AND LOCAL POLICE BEFORE BEING SHOT AND KILLED DURING A STRUGGLE WITH CLAYTON WAGNER INSIDE.

STATE NEWS:

LATROBE, PA. (AP) - A WOMAN HAS BEEN ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND LAST MONTH. LORENZA SWIGER IS BEING HELD FOR TRIAL ON A CRIMINAL HOMICIDE CHARGE IN THE DECEMBER 2 SHOOTING DEATH OF MARK ANDROSTIC. SWIGER INITIALLY TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT A HANDGUN SHE WAS HOLDING ACCIDENTALLY WENT OFF, BUT LATER SHE SAID THEY HAD BEEN FIGHTING.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A SENIOR U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE WILL RECONSIDER WHETHER A MAN REMAINS IN JAIL ON CHARGES HE BIT TWO FBI AGENTS WHILE THEY WRESTLED FOR HIS LOADED GUN DURING AN ARREST LAST WEEK. THE AGENTS WERE TRYING TO QUESTION EMERSON BEGOLLY, OF NATRONA HEIGHTS, ABOUT ANTI-SEMITIC AND PRO-TERRORIST INTERNET POSTS CREDITED TO BEGOLLY.

DELMONT, PA. (AP) - A STATE TROOPER HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN A VEHICLE CRASH WHERE TWO MAJOR HIGHWAYS CONVERGE IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, AND MAY HAVE BEEN INJURED. OFFICIALS AT THE KISKI VALLEY SUBSTATION SAY THE CRASH HAPPENED ABOUT 3:20 P.M. MONDAY AT ROUTE 66 AND U.S. ROUTE 22, AND INVOLVES A TROOPER FROM THE GREENSBURG BARRACKS.

HARRISBURG, PA. (AP) - GOVERNOR-ELECT TOM CORBETT PLANS TO NOMINATE A CHESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONER AND THE FORMER EXECUTIVE OF A MOBILE-CART MANUFACTURER TO HIS CABINET. CORBETT SAID MONDAY THAT
HE WILL NOMINATE CAROL AICHELE AS SECRETARY OF STATE AND DAN MEUSER AS SECRETARY OF REVENUE. BOTH WILL REQUIRE SENATE CONFIRMATION. CORBETT, A REPUBLICAN, IS BEING SWORN IN JANUARY 18.

NATIONAL NEWS:

PHOENIX (AP) - THE FIRST FORMAL COMMUNITY GATHERING FOR MOURNERS SINCE SATURDAY'S DEADLY RAMPAGE IS BEING HELD AT A TUCSON CHURCH TONIGHT. SIX PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND 14 INJURED WHEN A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE ON CONGRESSWOMAN GABRIELLE GIFFORDS AS SHE WAS GREETING CONSTITUENTS OUTSIDE A GROCERY STORE. GIFFORDS REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BEING SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD, BUT DOCTORS SAY SHE HAS BEEN MAKING "PURPOSEFUL" MOVEMENTS INCLUDING A THUMBS-UP SIGN.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - PARTS OF THE SOUTH ARE DEALING WITH SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW AND ICE THIS MORNING. MEANWHILE, THE WINTER STORM THAT'S CAUSED THE TREACHEROUS CONDITIONS IS HEADING NORTH. FORECASTERS SAY IT'S HEADED TOWARD OHIO AND COULD HIT THE NORTHEAST LATER IN THE WEEK. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH FOR NEW YORK CITY STARTING THIS EVENING, SAYING AS MUCH AS 12 INCHES OF SNOW COULD FALL.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) - VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN REVIEWING EFFORTS TO PREPARE AFGHAN FORCES TO TAKE OVER FROM THE U.S.-LED COALITION IN AFGHANISTAN. ON AN UNANNOUNCED TRIP TO THE COUNTRY, BIDEN VISITED A MILITARY TRAINING CENTER IN THE CAPITAL, KABUL TODAY. BIDEN IS ALSO IN AFGHANISTAN TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT HAMID KARZAI.

BEIJING (AP) - HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SAYS CHINA HAS FAILED TO DELIVER ON ITS FIRST HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION PLAN. THE RIGHTS GROUP SAYS CHINA DESERVES PRAISE FOR OPENLY PUBLISHING A HUMAN RIGHTS PLAN AT ALL, BUT ITS CONTINUED USE OF TORTURE, ILLEGAL DETENTION AND CENSORSHIP ADDS UP TO A FAILURE THAT REDUCES THE PLAN TO "A SERIES OF UNFULFILLED PROMISES."

WASHINGTON (AP) - JOB BIAS COMPLAINTS HIT RECORD LEVELS LAST YEAR. THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION SAYS WORKERS CLAIMING DISCRIMINATION BASED ON DISABILITY ROSE 17 PERCENT, WHILE OVERALL COMPLAINTS WERE UP 7 PERCENT. THE SPIKE IN DISABILITY CLAIMS FOLLOWED CHANGES TO THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT THAT MADE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE WITH TREATABLE CONDITIONS LIKE EPILEPSY, CANCER OR MENTAL ILLNESS TO CLAIM THEY ARE DISABLED.