HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration wants a British firm to extend its bid to manage the $3.5 billion Pennsylvania Lottery a day after Attorney General Kathleen Kane rejected the contract.

Department of Revenue spokeswoman Elizabeth Brassell said the administration is confident it’ll be able to negotiate a short-term extension before the bid’s expiration at 5 p.m. Saturday.

She says the extension would give both the administration and Camelot Global Services time to determine their next step.

Kane says she won’t approve the 20- to 30-year contract with Camelot because elements of it conflict with the state constitution and state lottery law.

Pa. table games revenue up sharplyHARRISBURG — Gross revenue from table games at Pennsylvania casinos rose 12 percent last month compared with January 2012, the state’s gambling regulators said Friday.The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced that table games revenue at the 11 casinos exceeded $59 million in January and generated tax revenue of nearly $9 million.The number of tables was also up to 1,026, an increase from 962 a year ago.The Sands casino in Bethlehem led the state, reporting nearly $14 million in table games revenue last month. The next highest were Parx in Bensalem, $10 million; SugarHouse in Philadelphia, $7 million; and Rivers in Pittsburgh, $6 million.

Beating in school caught on videoWILKINSBURG — Police say a 14-year-old Western Pennsylvania boy will be charged criminally after he was caught on video repeatedly punching and kicking another boy in a middle-school bathroom.Wilkinsburg Police Chief Ophelia Coleman says the teen will be charged with felony assault and two misdemeanors. She says the victim was “beaten mercilessly.” Coleman says other students could be charged, too.The attack happened during a class change toward the end of the school day Thursday. Another student caught it on video and posted it online.

Dance Marathon arrives at PSUSTATE COLLEGE — Penn State basketball coach Patrick Chambers had to leave campus for a road game, but he had a big check to drop off first.THON, the annual dance marathon fundraiser for pediatric cancer research, means so much to the Nittany Lions coach that he dropped off a $14,200 check before the grueling event even started Friday evening.Forty-six straight hours of grooving, line-dancing and two-stepping for more than 700 dancers finally ends at 4 p.m. Sunday. The fundraiser — officially the IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon — is billed as the largest student-run philanthropy in the world.Chambers and his team couldn’t attend this year because the Nittany Lions were leaving Friday night for a game Sunday at Michigan. But he did promise to donate $10 for every student who attended Thursday night’s home game, a 74-72 loss to Iowa. The game drew 1,420 students.The coach said he and his wife, Courtney, wanted to make a “powerful statement.”THON has raised more than $89 million over almost three dozen years for the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. The event took in a record $10.68 million last year alone.