STATE
WAYNESBURG — A woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.
Evelyn Marie Fuller, 49, remained in a jail Wednesday unable to post bail on bank robbery and other charges filed a day earlier by police in Waynesburg, in Western Pennsylvania, where she's accused of robbing the First National Bank on Jan. 20.
Arresting Officer Tom Ankrom said Fuller explained her motives when she confessed to the crime.
“During her confession, she stated she wanted to use the money to pay for dentures she was unable to get through welfare until next year,” Ankrom said.
Police distributed a surveillance photo of the robber, who appeared to be toothless, and an unnamed witness went to police and told them he had loaned Fuller the coat the robber was seen wearing in the picture. The man told police Fuller returned the coat because the zipper didn't work, and police said it matched one the robber was wearing in the photograph.
Fuller, at her arraignment Tuesday, told a district judge she has mental health problems and lives on disability benefits, a newspaper reported.
PHILADELPHIA — Penn State's insurer wants a judge to determine if it has to provide coverage or pay for defense costs in a lawsuit over alleged child sex abuse by former football coach Jerry Sandusky, a newspaper reported Wednesday.The complaint filed by Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance in a Philadelphia court claims its coverage for abuse or molestation only pertains to a limited time period, the Legal Intelligencer reported.The lawsuit said that if the alleged acts began in early 1992, then Penn State could claim coverage under a previous policy, the paper said.Penn State has sought coverage from the company for a lawsuit filed in November by a young man who claims Sandusky sexually abused him as a boy more than 100 times and threatened to harm his family to keep him quiet.Penn State spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said the university plans to defend its rights under its insurance policies.
