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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].
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TOP STORIES:
BILL COSBY-DEPOSITION GUIDE
A year ago, Bill Cosby’s secrets remained buried in a decade-old deposition that marked the only time he had ever testified about claims he drugged and molested women. The nearly 1,000-page deposition, released in July, showed Cosby to be a serial womanizer and perhaps more. Here, a detailed guide to the document and the picture it provides of the actor’s involvement with minors, models, mothers and other female friends. By Maryclaire Dale. UPCOMING: About 1500 words, photos.
NEW JERSEY BEACHES
BRIGANTINE, N.J. — A stormy winter chewed up New Jersey’s beaches more than usual, requiring greater efforts to restore them before the summer crowds hit the sand. In some places, erosion and beach loss was greater than it was after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, while other places appeared to come through the winter relatively unscathed. With Memorial Day crowds a week away from storming the coast, beachgoers will find the Jersey shore ready for visitors, even if some spots are narrower than they were last year. By Wayne Parry. SENT: About 1150 words.
EXCHANGE:
EXCHANGE-MOVIE MAVEN’S PITTSBURGH
PITTSBURGH — For writer-director Shane Black, the seedy, violent world inhabited by private detectives and criminals in his new action-comedy “The Nice Guys” is not a milieu at which he arrived only recently. With trademark snappy dialogue and dark humor, Mr. Black has been dealing with dicks, villains and troubled cops since bursting on the Hollywood scene out of nowhere with the script for 1987’s “Lethal Weapon.” But even long before that unlikely-detective-buddies story, he was soaking up antihero pulp fiction from the comics he found in outlets around Pittsburgh, or the novels his father liked to read in their Mount Lebanon home, or the film noir he saw in Downtown’s bygone movie houses. Gary Rotstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
IN BRIEF:
TRIPLE SHOOTING — Authorities say one teenager was killed and another was critically injured in a triple shooting outside a corner store near Philadelphia.
SLAYING OUTSIDE PARTY — A man has been acquitted in a shooting death outside an after-hours party in central Pennsylvania a year and a half ago.
SISTERS SHOT — Police in western Pennsylvania are trying to find out who shot two and injured two sisters who were leaving a party in the Fineview neighborhood on Pittsburgh’s North side.
STUDENT FALL FROM ROOF — A central Pennsylvania coroner says a Penn State student who fell off the roof of a home died of electrocution.
SPORTS:
HKN–LIGHTNING-PENGUINS
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning meet in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Sunday night. The Lightning held on for a 4-3 win in Game 4 that evened the series at 2 and opened the door for a change in goal for the Penguins. Game begins at 8 p.m. EDT. By Will Graves. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos.
BBN–ROCKIES-PIRATES
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies finish up a three-game series on Sunday. The Rockies scored four in the ninth on Saturday to beat the Pirates for the first time this season. Game begins at 1:35 p.m. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos.
BBN–BRAVES-PHILLIES
PHILADELPHIA — The Braves send Casey Kelly to the mound against Philadelphia’s Jerad Eickhoff. By Dan Gelston. UPCOMING: 650 words. Game starts at 1:05 p.m. EDT. AP Photos.
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