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Good morning! 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. Kristen deGroot 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A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change.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.

TOP STORIES:

COMCAST-DREAMWORKS

NEW YORK — Comcast is buying DreamWorks Animation, the film company behind the Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda franchises, for approximately $3.55 billion. SENT: 125 words. UPCOMING: 400 words.

TENNIS GREAT-TILDEN-LEGACY

PHILADELPHIA — In the 1920s and 1930s, Bill Tilden was to tennis what Babe Ruth was to baseball. Honoring him with a historical marker should be an ace — if not for questions around his conduct with teenage boys. The long shadow of the Jerry Sandusky scandal makes a group’s attempt to honor Tilden an uphill battle. By Kristen de Groot. SENT: 843 words, AP Photos.

IN BRIEF:

—FORMER COLLEGE BASKETBALL PLAYER-FRAUD — Two leaders of a defunct financial holding company, including a former Villanova University basketball player, have been convicted of using a circular loan scheme in an effort to defraud the U.S. Treasury Department’s bank bailout program seven years ago.

—EINHORN TRANSFERRED — A man convicted of killing of his ex-girlfriend and hiding her body in a locked closet for years has been moved from the medium-security prison he’s been held at since his 2002 conviction to a minimum-security prison.

—STUDENT BEATEN-SETTLEMENT — Officials are considering paying $160,000 to a student who was beaten by an assistant principal in Philadelphia’s Frankford High School.

—POLICE RAID WRONG HOME — Philadelphia police plan to address how officers raided the wrong home looking for suspects in a home invasion.

—MEADOWS CASINO-GAMBLING ADDICTS — The Meadows Racetrack and Casino in western Pennsylvania has been fined $40,000 for allowing two people who excluded themselves from gambling to make wagers anyway, and cited for mailing promotional materials to other problem gamblers.

—TEMPLE UNIVERSITY FRATERNITY ROBBED — Temple University has issued an alert after a student reported being robbed by a gunman in a fraternity house.

—SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOL-FIGHT — The district attorney and police are investigating after video surfaced of two students fighting at an eastern Pennsylvania high school for children with special needs.

—CAMPUS CAFE-ILLNESSES — Carnegie Mellon University says 15 students have diarrhea, nausea and vomiting and 13 of those cases have been directly linked to a cafe on campus.

—EARTHQUAKE NEAR FRACKING — The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigation whether fracking contributed to two small earthquakes near a western Pennsylvania drilling operation.

—FATAL BURGETTSTOWN SHOOTING — A Pittsburgh-area man has been fatally shot after going to visit his ex-girlfriend in Washington County.

—NAKED SUSPECT FLEES HOSPITAL — A Pittsburgh man has been jailed after he twice ran away from police, the second time when he escaped from a hospital while naked.

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