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NORRISTOWN — A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail on Thursday likened the coach's home to "a drug emporium" and questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.

"There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing Reid's son Britt to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.

"I'm saying this is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.

Earlier Thursday, O'Neill sentenced Garrett Reid, a drug addict and dealer who said he got a thrill out of selling drugs in "the 'hood," to up to 23 months in jail for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.

O'Neill noted that searches of the Reid family's home and vehicles found a long list of drugs, guns and ammunition.

He said both boys had been overmedicated throughout much of their lives and that Britt got hooked on painkillers when he suffered a football injury in high school.

Police found a shotgun and hollow-point bullets along with cocaine, marijuana and OxyContin in the vehicle Britt Reid was driving during a Jan. 30 road-rage encounter, and later found a handgun at the house that they believe he had brandished at the other driver.

They found vials of heroin and steroids, more than 200 pills and a drug scale in Garrett Reid's car the same day, when he injured another motorist.

While police found only weapons and ammunition — and not drugs — at the house, O'Neill apparently based his remarks on Britt Reid's statement that he once mistakenly grabbed a Vicodin tablet instead of health supplements out of a pill drawer at the home.

BEDFORD — A jury from Butler County will be picked for the trial of a Bedford County man accused of kidnapping and fatally stabbing a woman seven years ago.The Pennsylvania Supreme Court chose Butler County after a Bedford County judge last month ordered an out-of-county jury to hear the case against 47-year-old Joseph Clark of West Providence Township.Prosecutors accuse Clark of abducting 25-year-old Holly Notestine on April 30, 2000. Her remains were found four years later by loggers a few miles from her home.

HARRISBURG — State police officials say they may cut back on the number of troopers at each slot-machine casino after state budget negotiators deemed the costs to be excessive.As a result, troopers could end up patrolling casino floors for 16 hours a day rather than the current 24 hours, officials said. Troopers removed from the casinos would be reassigned to duties as part of the state's regular force, state police spokeswoman Cpl. Linette Quinn said.Senate lawyers who helped write the state budget, which was approved in July, said legislators felt that stationing 14 troopers at each casino was unnecessary, considering the low crime rates at the facilities.The casinos pay the tab for the state police presence, but the Legislature and Gov. Ed Rendell must approve the funding level. State police had requested $14.5 million.

GREENSBURG — A state lawmaker's son was found delinquent Wednesday on a misdemeanor charge that he illegally possessed a handgun that his 14-year-old friend later used to shoot himself, a television station reported.Wednesday's hearing for Bobby Regola, the 17-year-old son of state Sen. Robert Regola III, was not public. Westmoreland County Judge Christopher Feliciani ordered the parties involved not to comment on the case.Under Pennsylvania law, a delinquency finding is the equivalent of a guilty verdict. The judge could order Regola confined in a group home or other facility, to serve probation, or otherwise be subject to court jurisdiction until he turns 21.Sen. Regola, R-Westmoreland, is awaiting trial on charges that he lied under oath at a coroner's inquest into Louis Farrell's death. The father also is charged with illegal possession of a weapon by a minor.

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