HARRISBURG — Students were pulled from a school van by other motorists after the van crashed into the rear of a stalled sport utility vehicle and burst into flames near Harrisburg.

Police say nine students, ranging in age from 5 to 12, were in the Londonderry Private School van when the accident occurred Tuesday morning on Interstate 81 in Susquehanna Township.

The students and van driver were able to get out before a ruptured gas tank in the disabled SUV burst into flames that engulfed both vehicles.

ALLENTOWN — The Allentown Parking Authority is going high-tech to determine who's overstaying their allotted time at parking meters.To enforce the times, the parking authority has been putting chalk marks on tires, but now officials have a new tool that monitors parking times electronically.The device uses a global positioning system to map and note where and when cars are parked. Cameras record the license plate and take photos of the parked car's tires.The information is then fed into a computer, accessed inside a parking authority car.Officials say the technology is so precise it can tell if the motorist left and then came back to the same space, just by checking the tires. Officials say the logo on the tire rim won't be in the same place.

LATROBE — A Ligonier man has been charged with starting a fire that destroyed a Westmoreland County bar.State police say 55-year-old Edgar Clinton Wiltrout was arraigned on arson, burglary, reckless endangerment and other related charges.Wiltrout is accused of starting the Feb. 23 fire that destroyed the Hollow Inn in Unity Township. Police say no one was hurt in the fire, but damages were estimated at $450,000.

PITTSBURGH — A former Seattle-area man has pleaded guilty to groping a woman on an airplane last year.Air marshals say 46-year-old Michael Lamar Holland of Montoursville groped a 39-year-old woman shortly after United Flight 917 took off Dec. 30 for Seattle from Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. The plane was diverted to Pittsburgh, where Holland was arrested.His lawyer has said Holland had recently changed his seizure medications, has a history of blackouts and doesn't remember groping the woman.Holland was living in Kent, Wash., when he was arrested. Federal prosecutors say he now lives in Lycoming County.Holland pleaded guilty Monday to engaging in abusive sexual contact while on an airplane. He is scheduled to be sentenced July 24.

PITTSBURGH — Several news organizations are appealing a federal judge's decision to shield the names of jurors in the Cyril Wecht case.WPXI-TV, The Tribune-Review Publishing Company, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have appealed U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab's April 8 decision that the names and personal information of the now discharged alternate jurors not be made public until after Wecht's retrial.The judge declared a mistrial on April 8 in Wecht's first trial after the jury deadlocked. Wecht is charged with wire fraud, mail fraud and theft for allegedly using his former Allegheny County coroner's staff to benefit his private practice.

WASHINGTON — The Washington County coroner says an angler whose body was found in a stream had drowned.The body of 19-year-old Cody Reed, of Washington, was found early yesterday in Enlow Creek in West Finley. Reed had been fishing with a friend but disappeared Sunday afternoon.An autopsy was conducted Monday. Washington County Coroner S. Timothy Warco says Reed's cause of death was drowning. State police are continuing to investigate the death.

PITTSBURGH — One of two off-duty state constables shot outside a Pittsburgh bar over the weekend has died.Authorities say 37-year-old Aaron Jenkins of Pittsburgh died Monday evening at UPMC Presbyterian hospital in Pittsburgh.Police say Jenkins and a 24-year-old constable from Penn Hills were leaving the bar early Saturday when someone shot them.Both men were taken to the hospital in critical condition. Police say the other constable is expected to survive.Investigators say they don't believe the men were targeted because they were constables.