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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. Joe Mandak 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A reminder this information is not for publication or broadcast, and these coverage plans are subject to change.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.
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TOP STORIES:
ENDANGERED PLACES-PENNSYLVANIA
OXFORD, Pa. —The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces its annual list of America’s 11 most endangered historic places. Among them is Azikiwe-Nkrumah Hall at Lincoln University. It’s the oldest building on the campus of the first degree-granting institution in the nation for African Americans. UPCOMING: 250 words by noon.
OPIOID REPORT-PITT
PITTSBURGH — Western Pennsylvania’s top federal prosecutor will discuss a report and recommendations on how the region should deal with epidemic levels of heroin and other opioid abuse developed by the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics. By Joe Mandak. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: Developing from 10 a.m. EDT news conference; about 450 words by 2 p.m.
ELSEWHERE:
CAMPAIGN 2016-VP DEBATE-VOTER VOICES
DENVER — It wasn’t the headliners, but some political groupies took time Tuesday to gather and watch the vice presidential candidates debate. By James Anderson and Dake Kang. SENT: 1108 words, AP Photos.
ENDANGERED PLACES
NEW YORK — San Francisco’s Embarcadero District, Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park domes and Utah’s Bears Ears area were cited Wednesday as being among America’s “most endangered” historic places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington. By Beth J. Harpaz. SENT: 552 words, AP Photos.
BLOODSTREAM INFECTION
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey health officials say they’re investigating a possible outbreak of a bloodstream infection involving patients in long-term care facilities and pre-filled saline solutions. SENT: 133 words.
3 HEISTS WITHIN 37 MINUTES
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. — Authorities are trying to find the person who robbed three gas stations in Camden County at gunpoint within 37 minutes. SENT: 71 words.
IN BRIEF:
—CAMPAIGN 2016-PENNSYLVANIA — The nation’s vice presidential candidates are coming to Pennsylvania to campaign two days after their nationally televised debate.
—SCORPION STING — A Pennsylvania man is recovering after he was stung by a scorpion that somehow got into his backpack while he was on vacation in the Caribbean.
—DEFENSE ATTORNEY-RAPE — A longtime suburban Philadelphia defense lawyer has admitted under a plea deal that he raped an unconscious client at her apartment last year.
—MOTORCYCLE HITS STREET SWEEPER — State police say a Pennsylvania motorcyclist has been killed by smashing into the back of a street sweeper which he apparently didn’t see because of the dusty cloud it generated.
—INMATE MURDER SUSPECT-APPEAL — A Pennsylvania inmate convicted of escaping from jail and killing an acquaintance while on the run is appealing his life sentence and murder conviction.
—TEEN SLAIN — An 18-year-old man who ran away from what western Pennsylvania authorities say was a drug deal that turned into a fatal shooting has also been found dead.
—BOY SCOUT LEADER-PORN — A western Pennsylvania Boy Scout leader has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography on his computer.
—GUNFIRE AT VEHICLE-FATALITY — Police are looking for whoever fired at least three shots at a car in eastern Pennsylvania, killing the 17-year-old driver and wounding the 18-year-old woman who was his passenger.
—FATAL PHILADELPHIA FIRE — Investigators are trying to determine what ignited a house fire that left two people dead in Philadelphia’s Bustleton neighborhood.
—HYDROELECTRIC PLANT-FISH KILL — A small hydroelectric power plant is operating again after hundreds of brown trout were found dead last week in a western Pennsylvania river.
—CHARTER SCHOOL AUDIT — Federal auditors say several Philadelphia-area schools are examples of schools that are susceptible to fraud, including one where they say a CEO wrote $11 million in checks to himself without board approval.
—UBER-PHILADELPHIA — The agency that oversees Philadelphia’s taxis says it will continue enforcing restrictions against unlawful ride-hailing services, including UberX and Lyft.
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