JOHNSTOWN — The wife of the late congressman John Murtha will not run to finish the term of the House seat that he held nearly four decades.

The Murtha for Congress Committee said in an e-mail Monday Joyce Murtha feels it's "too soon after his death to be on the campaign trail."

A special election to fill the rest of Murtha's term will be held on Pennsylvania's May 18 primary. Murtha died Feb. 8 following complications from gallbladder surgery.

Democrats running include former Pennsylvania treasurer Barbara Hafer, former lieutenant governor Mark Singel and Cambria County Controller Ed Cernic Jr.

Prospective Republican candidates include William Russell, who unsuccessfully challenged Murtha in 2008, and Eighty Four businessman Tim Burns.

HARRISBURG — Senate candidates Joe Sestak and Pat Toomey plan to debate each other again without their opponents in the May 18 primary.Sestak, a congressman opposing Specter for the Democratic nomination, and former congressman Toomey, who is opposed for the Republican nomination by Johnstown activist Peg Luksik, staged a similar event last fall.Toomey accepted Sestak's latest challenge Monday, but no date has been set.Both men accuse the fifth-term Specter of trying to hide from his record as a longtime Republican.Specter's campaign manager said he and Sestak squared off at a Democratic Party gathering earlier this month and their planned May 1 debate will be televised statewide.Luksik campaign spokesman Steve Clark said Toomey needs to remember he is running against Luksik — not Specter or Sestak.

MERCER — An Ohio man will spend three to 23 months in jail for mailing himself more than two pounds of marijuana at the address of an ex-girlfriend in western Pennsylvania.Thirty-three-year-old Jayson White, of Youngstown, Ohio, apologized to his wife and children — and the woman to whose home he mailed the drugs — when he was sentenced by a Mercer County judge on Friday.White told police he bought the pot while visiting a friend in Texas and mailed it to the woman's home in Farrell, just across the Pennsylvania border from Youngstown. Police say White felt it was risky to drive the pot home himself and concerned it would be stolen from his porch in Youngstown if it was delivered there.