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Good afternoon! Here’s a look at AP’s general news coverage today in Pennsylvania. For questions about the state report, contact the Philadelphia bureau at 215-561-1133. Ron Todt is on the desk. Editor Larry Rosenthal can be reached at 215-446-6631 or [email protected].

A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change. Expected stories may not develop, or late-breaking and more newsworthy events may take precedence. Advisories, digests and digest advisories will keep you up to date.

Some TV and radio stations will receive shorter APNewsNow versions of the stories below, along with updates.

Also please note: The AP is moving election test reports for the November Pennsylvania general election on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1-3 p.m. These test tables are NOT for publication, broadcast or use online.

TOP STORIES:

PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION-ATTORNEY GENERAL

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s next top prosecutor, elected to lead an office roiled by the conviction two months ago of then-Attorney General Kathleen Kane, will be a lawyer from the Philadelphia suburbs who holds elective office and has legislative experience. By Mark Scolforo. SENT: About 580 words.

CRASH-TEENS KILLED

PHILADELPHIA — Authorities say a car driver was apparently rushing to a hospital to see his injured father when he ran a red light, resulting in a crash that killed two of his passengers.

EXCHANGE:

EXCHANGE-MENTALLY ILL-JAILED

ALLENTOWN — Travis J. Kutz believes tiny robots have been implanted under his skin to control him, according to a psychiatrist’s report. He hears voices — people crying, his mother being raped. He claims he was once a Navy SEAL, and that he has met President Barack Obama and the secretary of defense. When Kutz, 24, was arrested last year, police said, he was homeless and caught climbing out the window of his father’s house in Bangor, where he had helped himself to Powerade, ice cream and a can of ravioli. “I was only breaking in to get something to eat,” he protested to police, an officer wrote in an arrest affidavit. Jails were not intended to be way stations for the mentally ill, who often see their conditions deteriorate under the stresses of incarceration. But local prisons have increasingly become just that, as the population in need of services boomed after Pennsylvania closed most of its state mental hospitals. Riley Yates, The (Allentown) Morning Call.

EXCHANGE-CHURCH-RISING ATTENDANCE

PLUM — At 50, Lee Kricher expected to spend the next 10 years making the best earnings of his life. He had been climbing the corporate ladder at an international leadership consulting firm in Atlanta, where the Northeast native and his wife, Linda, relished the warm climate and friends they had made. But in early 2003, Kricher received a call from a board member of Pittsburgh East Full Gospel Church in Plum. Lee and Linda Kricher had helped found the nondenominational Christian church in the late 1970s — and the board hoped they might return to save it from folding. Weekend service attendance at the 50,000-square-foot facility on the church’s 20-acre, hilltop campus had plummeted to fewer than 200 people, a problem many churches are facing as the number of “unchurched” Americans rises. Its physical presence had deteriorated after decades of backlogged repairs. Heating and cooling systems didn’t work. Mud and gravel lined the parking lot. The leaky roof needed replacing. Whenever a storm struck, dirty rainwater filled the grand piano. Natasha Lindstrom, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

EXCHANGE-SERVICE DOG’S LIFE

STATE COLLEGE — A dog is man’s best friend — or is it the other way around? That was the philosophical quandary at the heart of the circle of puppy raisers sitting cross-legged on the second level of the Snider Ag Arena. Small and intimate, the difference between this gathering and a meeting of your local “Mommy and Me” chapter was negligible, aside from the disclaimer at the top of the show revealing that the role of Baby Timmy will now be played by a rotating cast of yellow and black Labs, cradled like newborns in the arms of their adoring parents. The handlers and their pups had spent about four weeks in each other’s company, living together, commuting to work or school and pondering that great, unknowable mystery that is crate training. Parenting is the basic premise of Susquehanna Service Dogs, a Keystone Human Services-based organization that recruits volunteers to help shape today’s puppies into the service dogs of tomorrow. Frank Ready, Centre Daily Times.

EXCHANGE-UNSOLVED 1976 MURDER

GETTYSBURG — Kenneth Williams Jr. still thinks about the day his dad died, although not as much as he once did. He’s 82 now, living in a house in the Cross Keys retirement community, far outliving his father’s 66 years that were cut short by one gunshot. It was the country’s bicentennial. His two children, now grown with children of their own, were in elementary school. He and his wife, Alice, had only been married about five years. It was a long time ago, as Williams puts it. Forty years, to be exact. Forty years since someone shot Kenneth Williams Sr. during a robbery at a roadside fruit stand 8 miles west of Gettysburg. After four decades of interviews and dead ends, Pennsylvania State Police still do not know who killed Williams Sr. Jennifer Wentz, The (Hanover) Evening Sun.

EXCHANGE-CHANGING HISTORICAL PICTURES

PITTSBURGH – The Sept. 2 fire that seared part of the Liberty Bridge and snarled traffic for weeks thereafter is no one’s idea of an event that would provoke laughs and merriment. Just hours after it happened, though, Matthew Buchholz was able to provide some levity. The artist who lives in the Friendship neighborhood in Pittsburgh grabbed an image of black smoke pouring from the span and, using Photoshop, inserted an image of Godzilla belching flames onto it. In no time, it was ricocheting around the Web. There are plenty of other images where that one came from. Since 2010, Buchholz has made a name for himself as the proprietor of Alternate Histories, for which he mostly uses aged maps and black-and-white photos unearthed at flea markets or from the recesses of the Internet as his canvas, and the computer program Adobe Photoshop as his brush. Brad Hundt, (Washington) Observer-Reporter.

IN BRIEF:

OFFICER SHOT IN HOME — An appeals court has rejected a suburban Philadelphia woman’s challenge to her prison sentence in the shooting death of her police officer boyfriend that she initially blamed on a dog.

SANDWICH SHOP SHOOTING — A judge has declined to dismiss lawsuits stemming from a 2009 central Pennsylvania sandwich shop robbery and shooting that killed two people and injured a third.

GAS STATION SLAYING — A man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the robbery and murder of a man found shot to death in a suburban Philadelphia gas station last year

SPORTS:

FBC–PITTSBURGH-VIRGINIA

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia looks for its third victory in a row as it returns from a bye week to face Pittsburgh. By Hank Kurz Jr. upcoming: 650 words, photos. Game starts at 12:30 p.m.

HKN–FLYERS-COYOTES

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Arizona Coyotes kick off a season of increased expectations when they host the Philadelphia Flyers. UPCOMING: 750 words. Starts at 6 p.m. PDT

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