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PITTSBURGH — The armored car guard accused in a $2 million heist in Pittsburgh has been ordered to stand trial on homicide and robbery charges after an FBI agent said the man admitted killing his partner and taking the money.
Kenneth Konias Jr., 22, was bound over for trial Friday on charges stemming from the Feb. 28 robbery in which fellow Garda Cash Logistics guard Michael Haines was killed.
An FBI agent who testified at the preliminary hearing said the Dravosburg man led investigators to a storage unit where he kept some of the missing $2.3 million following his April 24 capture in Pompano Beach, Fla.
The agent testified Konias said he killed Haines in self-defense.
HARRISBURG — A plan to privatize Pennsylvania's state-controlled liquor store system and liberalize beer sales laws is being scheduled for a vote early next week.A spokesman for the House of Representatives' Republican floor leader said Friday the plan would shut down the existing 620-store system and sell or auction 1,600 new licenses for wine and liquor stores.House Majority Leader Mike Turzai's plan would give the state's retail beer distributors the right to buy a license. Others would be auctioned, and it would limit the number of stores one licensee could own.It also would change beer sales laws to allow distributors, grocery stores and taverns to sell in wider varieties, from six-packs to cases of 24 bottles or cans.
PITTSBURGH — A receptionist who was one of five people wounded during a shooting rampage March 8 at a Pittsburgh mental health clinic has sued the estate of the mentally ill gunman who was fatally shot by police.Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic receptionist Kathryn Leight and her husband filed suit against the estate of shooter John Shick.Leight contends she hasn't returned to work because she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after being shot in the chest and abdomen. A sixth employee was killed.
