PITTSBURGH — Attorneys for three Western Pennsylvania newspapers have argued to the Pennsylvania Superior Court that the media and general public have a constitutional right to attend a juvenile court murder trial for a boy who was just 11 when he was charged with shotgunning his father's pregnant fiancee.

But the boy's defense attorney is trying to convince the same three-judge panel that a Lawrence County judge didn't abuse his discretion under a law that allows the court to close trials for juveniles younger than 12.

Attorneys for the New Castle News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Jordan Brown, a Wampum boy who is now 14, spent about a half-hour arguing their positions before the appeals panel in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.

PITTSBURGH — The American Civil Liberties Union says the city of Pittsburgh has agreed to pay $88,000 to 11 people who claimed they were falsely arrested after the Group of 20 Summit in 2009.The ACLU says in a statement Tuesday that the lawsuit by 13 other plaintiffs who rejected the settlement offer of $8,000 per person for damages and attorney's fees will go forward.Diane Richard, a spokeswoman for the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl's office.

PHILADELPHIA — An appeals court says that a former Pennsylvania judge convicted in the “kids for cash” corruption scandal is entitled to taxpayer funding of his appeal.Two judges with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled Monday that former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. is indigent and thus entitled to court-appointed legal counsel.The former juvenile court judge was sentenced last year to 28 years in prison following his racketeering conviction.