JOHNSTOWN, Pa. A national group that uses DNA testing to exonerate wrongfully convicted inmates wants a Cambria County court to order tests on evidence from a 1991 Johnstown murder.

EASTON, Pa. Prosecutors are dropping the remaining charges against a former New Jersey public school teacher cleared of attempted homicide in the stabbings of three men at a Bethlehem Township party.

ARNOLD, Pa. A Westmoreland County middle school principal is being accused of soliciting sex acts in a public park from an undercover police officer.

Man charged with theft at Nittany Mall

A Philadelphia man is in jail on $50,000 straight bail after police say he stole a $275 designer purse from Macy’s at the Nittany Mall and led officers on a foot chase.

PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh police say a man used a stolen handgun to fatally shoot a police dog before he was shot and killed by the dog's handler.

WAYNESBURG, Pa. A Greene County jury has begun to deliberate in the case of a farmhand accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

BENSALEM, Pa. Police had no trouble tracking down a suspect in the robbery of three women at a Bucks County convenience store, because the women had taken the man's picture a short time earlier at a bar.

SAN DIEGO San Diego State University has suspended six fraternities after a sweeping drug investigation that landed dozens of students in jail on suspicion of openly dealing drugs on campus.

PHILADELPHIA Authorities have received more than 100 tips and a reward has swelled to $150,000 as investigators search for 33-year-old Eric Floyd, the third suspect in the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia police officer.

JACKSON, Ga. A Georgia man who killed his live-in girlfriend was executed, the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections.

McLEAN, Va. Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad is asking prosecutors in a letter to help him end legal appeals of his conviction and death sentence "so that you can murder this innocent black man."

An attorney working with the doctor who has been trying to reopen Philipsburg's hospital was charged Monday with indecent assault.

WHEELING, W.Va. A Pennsylvania man who strangled a 28-year-old mother of two in 2006 was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Wheeling.

PITTSBURGH A newlywed couple said they were drunk and joking around when they inadvertently started a fight with hotel guests who rushed to the aid of the bride because they thought she was being assaulted by the groom.

WILMINGTON, Del. Delaware State Police say a Wilmington man has turned himself to face charges that he assaulted four white men at a hotel in February while using racial epithets.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. A Bucks County musician who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl he met on the Internet faces two to six years in state prison.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. A Bucks County woman who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in a fatal crash faces three to six years in prison.

STATE COLLEGE — Borough police filed charges against three people they said each sold marijuana, in unrelated incidents, to confidential informants working with police officers.

Police: Man asking for bus fares is scammer

STATE COLLEGE — Borough police are cautioning residents of an apparent scam taking place downtown.

PHILADELPHIA One suspect was charged and a second was being sought Sunday in the killing of a Philadelphia police officer who was shot with an assault rifle while responding to a bank robbery, police said.