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PHILADELPHIA — A Hungarian tourist group has headed home nearly a week after a duck boat accident that killed two of their own in Philadelphia.
The tour boat had 37 people aboard when it was struck by a barge and sank in the Delaware River last week.
Thirteen students and two teachers from Hungary were aboard; two of them drowned.
On Friday, the bodies of 16-year-old Dora Schwendtner and 20-year-old and Szabolcs Prem were recovered from the river.
Jackie Kennedy is youth director of the Marshallton United Methodist Church, which sponsored the group.
She said the departure of the 11 surviving students and the two teachers was bittersweet and emotional.
PITTSBURGH — Authorities said a sheriff's deputy shot a man in the arm while serving an arrest warrant just outside Pittsburgh.It happened around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in Penn Hills.Police said the Allegheny County Sheriff's deputies were trying to take two men into custody, but one of them resisted.Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said a scuffle ensued and one of the deputies fired one shot, hitting the man in the left arm.The suspect was treated at a hospital.Sheriff William Mullen said the shooting is under investigation.
HARRISBURG — Republican Pat Toomey is reporting more than twice as much cash on hand as his Democratic opponent heading into the last four months of Pennsylvania's race for U.S. Senate.Toomey's campaign said Tuesday he raised $3.1 million in the April to June period, leaving him with more than $4.6 million on July 1.He reported the same amount of cash on hand in late April.Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak raised almost $2 million in the quarter and had a little more than $2 million at the end. A spokesman said Sestak raised most of it in June.The Senate seat is open after Sestak beat party-endorsed incumbent Arlen Specter in May's hotly contested Democratic primary.Former U.S. Rep. Toomey is endorsed by the GOP. He beat a little-known primary opponent.
MURRYSVILLE — Authorities are trying to identify skeletal remains found in a wooded area.The human remains were found Monday near Murrysville by two men who had been clearing the area.Authorities have called in a forensic anthropologist to help with the identification.The remains were found not far from where a 74-year-old man disappeared in 2008.Authorities say it's too early to know how long the remains had been there or even if the person was a man or a woman.
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh officials have agreed to pay a $27,000 settlement to two women who claimed they were mistreated by police during an anti-war protest.De'Anna Caliguiri claimed she was shot with a stun gun and Carole Wiedmann said she was bitten by a police dog during the 2005 protest in the city's Oakland neighborhood.The women claimed they obeyed police officers but were mistreated anyway.The women had filed a lawsuit against the city in federal court alleging their constitutional rights were violated.Pittsburgh City Council approved the settlement Tuesday.
