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MIDDLETOWN — Who won last week's Powerball jackpot? That's the $86 million question — and Pennsylvania lottery officials have the answer.

Officials plan to announce the winners at a news conference today at lottery headquarters in Middletown.

The winning Powerball ticket was sold at a Turkey Hill convenience store in Lancaster County.

The jackpot from the Aug. 2 drawing is worth an $86.3 million annuity or $42.5 million cash — minus 25 percent in federal taxes.

GREENSBURG — The family of a Western Pennsylvania teenager fatally shot with a state senator's gun is challenging the lawmaker's efforts to expunge his criminal record.State Sen. Robert Regola filed for expungement after he was acquitted on perjury and weapons-related charges last month.District Attorney John Peck charged Regola lied about how he stored the gun and whether it was ever kept in his son Bobby's room. Bobby's friend, 14-year-old Louis Farrell, was found shot to death with the gun in July 2006. A coroner ruled the shooting a suicide, which Farrell's family disputes.The Farrells' attorney says they need to preserve the criminal records for a wrongful-death suit planned against Regola.Regola's attorney calls the move vindictive.

PITTSBURGH — A medical examiner says suburban Pittsburgh police didn't use excessive force on a man who died after officers subdued him with a Taser.Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl Williams tells a Pittsburgh newspaper there was no evidence excessive force was used on 37-year-old Andre Thomas.Williams didn't characterize what excessive force meant or disclose autopsy findings.Thomas died early Tuesday after Swissvale police arrested him. His father and witnesses say an officer stomped on Thomas after he'd been stunned.Police say Thomas was acting erratically and trying to enter people's homes shortly before midnight Monday. Police say the Taser was used after Thomas made "furtive movements" toward officers.

PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh area man was sentenced to up to 2 years in prison for his eighth drunken driving offense, angering anti-drunken driving advocates who believe the sentence was too light.Brian Patrick, of Lawrenceville, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court in exchange for the lighter sentence. He could have been sentenced to more than 5 years in prison had he not pleaded guilty.The group Mothers Against Drunk Driving say the sentence should have been tougher since Patrick is a repeat offender.Patrick's license is suspended through 2025. And court officials say the plea deal also requires Patrick to forfeit his truck.

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