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HARRISBURG — Lawyers who won a halt to Pennsylvania's law requiring voters to show photo identification are returning to court in hopes of stopping a state advertising campaign that they call false and misleading.

The Commonwealth Court filing Friday comes less than three weeks before the Nov. 6 election.

The lawyers say the state's giving false information about whether voters need to show photo ID on Election Day, and want the judge to order the state to make it clear that a photo ID isn't required to vote.

They say thousands of seniors in a state prescription drug program received a mailing last week saying they need IDs. They've also received complaints about radio and TV ads saying ID is required.

HARRISBURG — State health officials say an investigation related to a deadly meningitis outbreak now includes more than 150 facilities in Pennsylvania.The probe has grown since federal authorities expanded their inquiry into a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to tainted steroid shots.Two Pennsylvania health clinics received that medication, which has been linked to fungal meningitis. One state resident has been hospitalized with the illness. Now, the Food and Drug Administration is recommending health officials monitor patients who received any injectable product from the pharmacy after May 21.The meningitis outbreak has killed 21 people and sickened more than 270 across the U.S.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's jobless rate rose again for the fourth straight month in September, although it coincided with the biggest monthly jump in hiring since February.The state Department of Labor and Industry said Friday that the unemployment rate rose to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent, as an estimated 29,000 people started looking for work.The national unemployment rate is 7.8 percent.The steady rise in Pennsylvania's jobless rate comes after it dropped back to 7.4 percent from the recessionary peak of 8.7 percent in 2010.

PITTSBURGH — A second Ohio man has been scheduled to plead guilty to sending anonymous YouTube threats in which he claimed to have hacked into the University of Pittsburgh's computer system on the heels of a series of unrelated disruptive bomb threats.The defense attorney for 24-year-old Alexander Waterland, of Loveland, Ohio, has not returned a call on records which show Waterland will plead guilty Nov. 15 before a federal judge in Pittsburgh. Waterland's co-defendant Brett Hudson, of Hillsboro, Ohio, pleaded guilty on Wednesday.Both men worked for an online prescription drug firm near Cincinnati when they allegedly claimed to be members of the hacking group Anonymous who had obtained confidential computer information on students and faculty. That wasn't really true.

WASHINGTON — A Pittsburgh-area man has been jailed on a criminal homicide charge for allegedly shooting another man during an altercation in a suburban parking lot.Authorities say 30-year-old Brandon Thomas, of Upper St. Clair called 911 and waited for police to arrive after he allegedly shot 55-year-old Vaughn Simonelli, of Chartiers Township.Witnesses tell police the men were arguing Thursday afternoon in a strip mall parking lot — possibly over a parking space — when the shooting occurred. The lot is in Washington, Pa., about 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.

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