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HARRISBURG — State authorities charged a man with propositioning his own 13-year-old daughter on the Internet.

Attorney General Tom Corbett said the 39-year-old Lititz man went onto the Facebook social networking site using the name "Bad Daddy" to locate the girl, with whom he had had no contact for about 10 years. Authorities said he proposed a meeting earlier this month and described sex acts in graphic detail.

Corbett said the girl told her mother, who contacted police. The man was arrested Wednesday at the arranged meeting place. Officials said a camera and condoms were found in the vehicle.

The man — whose name is not being used to avoid identifying his daughter — is charged with felony unlawful contact with a minor, criminal attempted incest and other counts. He is being held on $400,000 bail in the Lancaster County Jail.

PHILADELPHIA — A masked fan ejected from a Phillies playoff game is charged with stealing three World Series rings from a ballpark office.The Phillies have now had four such rings stolen since winning the title last year.Police say 22-year-old Matthew Mervine of Berlin, N.J., was videotaped taking the rings Thursday. They say he had also left his contact information on a job application.The purloined rings are cheaper models of the $11,000 rings given to players. They are worth about $1,100 and intended for scouts.Police found them at Mervine's home when he was arrested on theft charges.A ballpark janitor is charged with stealing a team executive's diamond championship ring left in a restroom last month.

ROCHESTER — A 92-year-old former teacher who died childless last year has willed $318,000 to a school district.Freedom School District Superintendent Ron Sofo says officials were surprised to learn of the gift Thursday from Helen Bodkin's estate.Bodkin was preceded in death by her husband, leaving behind $1.13 million.The school district's share of that money includes about $282,000 to fund two $5,000 scholarships to graduating seniors each year. The other $36,000 will be split between four libraries in the district.Bodkin taught at Unionville Elementary School from the 1950s until the 1980s, but continued tutoring students into her 90s.

UNIONTOWN — Police say they're looking for $40 stolen from a personal care home patient who had hidden the money in her Bible.Uniontown police say the woman's daughter gave her the money last month and she noticed it missing on Monday.The victim is a patient at the Laurel Ridge Center in the city, about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh. The woman tells police she kept the Bible with the money in her dresser drawer.

GREENVILLE — A family has abided by a judge's order to get rid of six hens they were keeping in their back yard to produce organic eggs.The Huff family of Greenville wanted the eggs because they're free of hormones and pesticides which can be unhealthy. In particular, the eggs were meant to benefit the mother, Kim Huff, who has multiple sclerosis, and one of her four children, 12-year-old Daniel, who is autistic.But Greenville has an ordinance banning farm animals from residential property. The ordinance lets people keep such animals if they can prove it's necessary for health reasons, a judge says the Huffs didn't do that.The Huffs won't appeal, and are seeking others locally with an interest in organic livestock.

EBENSBURG — A judge has scheduled a hearing on the request by two Amish families who want to re-enter their homes and a school building the judge ordered padlocked earlier this year.The families are members of the Swartzentruber Amish sect that has been cited for not bringing the buildings into compliance with modern sewage regulations.Cambria County Judge Norman Krumenacker scheduled a hearing Tuesday to consider allowing the families to return to their homes, which he ordered padlocked in May, and the school, which was locked in April.Among other things, Krumenacker will try to determine whether the children are being denied an education because the school is locked. Local school officials say they believed children are being educated at home.

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh police response to protesters of the Group of 20 economic summit will be reviewed by at least three groups.The Citizens Police Review Board plans a public hearing Oct. 20 to gather community input on police tactics. Separately, the city's Office of Municipal Investigations — which reviews allegations of police misconduct — is reviewing YouTube videos of police interacting with demonstrators to ensure nothing improper occurred.And City Council President Doug Shields plans to create a G-20 Fact Finding Committee that is expected to issue a report on the police actions by May.Nearly 200 people were arrested in demonstrations and vandalism that occurred before, during and after the summit. Some protest groups say the police response was heavy-handed.

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