PITTSBURGH Police have charged a suburban Pittsburgh man with firing a bullet at a shooting range that struck a pregnant woman as she rode on a motorcycle more than a mile away.

WILMINGTON, Del. A Wilmington man who recently worked as a camp counselor has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges.

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PITTSBURGH An animal control officer being sued for taking six kittens from a couple admits she overstepped her legal authority. But Tammy Kerr says she was just following orders from her employer, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

PHILADELPHIA Members of the largest union at The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News have voted to postpone a $25-a-week raise.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Bankruptcies in Pennsylvania shot up more than 10 percent over the past year, as a vicious mix of stagnant hiring, mounting credit card debt and rising mortgage payments spurred financial struggles.

PITTSBURGH A man who ran down a University of Pittsburgh graduate student in a stolen car last year has been sentenced to four to eight years in prison, but could serve time in a state prison boot camp instead.

PHILADELPHIA A federal judge on Wednesday signed an agreement aimed at adding Hispanic representation to a northeastern Pennsylvania school board, settling a lawsuit that alleged the district's method of electing board members was discriminatory.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. A Gettysburg woman told police she couldn't drive because of a suspended license - so she was a passenger as her 13-year-old drove.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Panelists at a health care forum on Wednesday agreed that Pennsylvania's health care system has serious gaps, but they had little consensus about how to improve it.

PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment chief Pat Ford has resigned.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Pennsylvania's health department is applying for $1.7 million in federal grants for abstinence-only sex education - even though it conflicts with the Rendell administration's philosophy.

EBENSBURG, Pa. A western Pennsylvania man awaiting trial on sex charges is accused in another case of molesting a girl in the 1980s.

HARRISBURG, Pa. A jury has awarded more than $2 million to the survivors of a central Pennsylvania man killed by a drunken driver four years ago.

EASTON, Pa. A former eastern Pennsylvania police chief is facing prostitution charges.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. An attorney says drug addiction drove a 22-year-old woman to snatch $100 from a 71-year-old man at an ATM in northeastern Pennsylvania.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. Police say a suburban Philadelphia man who drank and used drugs turned his car into a lethal weapon that killed his longtime friend in a crash.

PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh police are looking for suspects in a shooting attack that killed one person and critically injured another.

PHILADELPHIA The state has turned to aerial spraying of pesticides over more than 141,000 acres in the Philadelphia region as more mosquitoes are found infected with West Nile virus.

PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh's National Aviary is allowing visitors to get a peek at how sick birds are cared for in a newly opened hospital wing.

PITTSBURGH A 19-year-old college student in Pittsburgh is dead after collapsing while playing basketball.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. A southeastern Pennsylvania man who fired a shot at another car while his 8-year-old son was riding in his car faces one to two years in jail, and may serve part of the time in a psychiatric clinic.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. The share of Appalachians living in poverty last year increased by 114,000 to 13.3 million, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday.

PITTSBURGH A woman who had an after-hours tryst with a county prosecutor in his office has filed a private criminal complaint in which she says the sex wasn't consensual, but the district attorney called the allegations untrue.

EBENSBURG, Pa. A western Pennsylvania woman who was 17 years old when police say she fatally stabbed her boyfriend will be tried as an adult.

HONESDALE, Pa. State police continue to investigate the drowning of a 15-year-old northeastern Pennsylvania boy at band camp.

PHILADELPHIA A child and his father are expected to be OK after some quick thinking by Philadelphia house painters got them out of a burning house.

SIGEL, Pa. A western Pennsylvania toddler is dead after he picked up an unattended handgun and shot himself in the head.

PITTSBURGH Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh say a western Pennsylvania woman embezzled more than $87,000 from the United Steelworkers of America.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Voters' rights groups say they are concerned that some Pennsylvanians will be unable to vote on Election Day if electronic voting machines break down.