NORRISTOWN, Pa. A retired pastor from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley accused of sexually propositioning a 15-year-old girl over the Internet has pleaded guilty.

Penn State is looking at buying another piece of property on West College Avenue near the former O.W. Houts & Sons site that the university purchased last year.

STATE COLLEGE — A regional government authority Thursday approved a State College school board proposal for Welch pool that will curve a controversial bike path around trees on authority-leased land behind the South Sparks Street home of Ginny Suhey.

Clarence Eckstein grew up in Ohio, when a great summer day meant driving 2 1/2 hours with his dad to see Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine.

WASHINGTON House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life.

BELLEFONTE — Gov. Ed Rendell told an audience of about 125 people gathered in Bellefonte Area High School’s lobby that his proposal to raise the personal income tax from 3.07 percent to 3.57 percent would better serve school districts, students and taxpayers than the alternative.

BILLINGS, Mont. The Montana Highway Patrol has released the name of a 65-year-old Pennsylvania woman who was killed when the motorcycle she was riding was struck by a semi tractor-trailer on a frontage road in Billings.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Environmentalists using park service rock anchors scaled Mount Rushmore on Wednesday and unfurled a banner along President Abraham Lincoln's face challenging America's leaders to stop global warming.

PITTSBURGH An Allegheny County judge says a new Pittsburgh law that requires gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms is "so vague on its face that it's useless."

CARLISLE, Pa. A summer enrichment camp at a central Pennsylvania college is closing down after a flu outbreak that includes one confirmed case of swine flu.

State police used bomb-detecting dogs to search the Linnwood development in Rush Township Wednesday after a resident set off two unexploded mortar-type fireworks while mowing his lawn Tuesday.

UNION CITY, Pa. State police continue to search for clues to the death of a 79-year-old man who was found bludgeoned on the sofa of his home in northwestern Pennsylvania.

ERIE, Pa. Erie police are trying to determine who has accosted three women in the last month and a half and tried to force them to undress while threatening them with weapons.

EFFORT, Pa. A man accused of killing his girlfriend and their 2-year-old son in Pennsylvania did not fight his return from New Hampshire for an expected arraignment on Thursday.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. Health officials in suburban Philadelphia say a 19-year-old woman with swine flu has died.