LINESVILLE — A state lawmaker is fighting to preserve an odd "family tradition" in northwestern Pennsylvania: feeding bread to the carp at Pymatuning State Park.

State Rep. Michele Brooks, a Republican from Crawford County, wants a public meeting next month on the state's plan to allow only commercial fish food at the park.

The Linesville Spillway at the park has been famous for decades because carp throng so thickly for the bread that ducks can walk on the fish.

But starting Jan. 1, bread and other treats will be banned because some food tossed to the fish isn't healthy. Discarded bread wrappers and other litter is also a problem.

More than 300,000 people come to feed the carp each year.

NORRISTOWN — Police have charged a suburban Philadelphia man with swiping an ambulance outside a hospital.Authorities say the crew of the Lafayette Ambulance & Rescue squad was in Montgomery Hospital in Norristown dropping off a patient about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when someone drove off with the ambulance.About 7:30 p.m., state police spotted the vehicle westbound on Interstate 76, the Schuylkill Expressway, and pulled it over at the Route 202 exit in Upper Merion Township.Police say they charged the man driving the ambulance, 22-year-old Justin Janaitis, of Norristown, with receiving stolen property and driving under the influence.

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh City Council has unanimously approved a policy governing the use of a network of public safety surveillance cameras.Council's newly amended policy requires police to have probable cause someone has committed a crime before programming the system to flag that person.The policy also requires community groups with city-funded camera systems to get proper training from the city and abide by its policies. There also will be a panel to consider neighborhood requests to place or remove cameras.Pittsburgh plans to invest $3.45 million in the surveillance system.