PITTSBURGH — Federal authorities in Pittsburgh say no criminal charges will be filed in connection with an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease that killed five patients at a VA hospital.

U.S. Attorney David Hickton said Thursday that investigators found no evidence of obstruction or false statements by Veterans Affairs officials or employees.

He says the nine-month probe included 30 interviews and analysis of more than 250,000 e-mails and other documents.

At least five patients died and 21 were sickened from water that wasn't properly treated at the facility in the city's Oakland section between February 2011 and November 2012.

A hospital spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment.

NORRISTOWN — A United Methodist official says she didn't want to put a pastor on trial for officiating at his gay son's wedding.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Bishop Peggy Johnson says she tried “very, very, very hard to avoid this trial.” But she says she had to follow the Methodist Book of Discipline.Johnson's remarks came Thursday after about two dozen people delivered a petition to church offices in Norristown.The petition with 25,000 signatures asks Johnson to stop holding religious trials for ministers who perform gay weddings.On Tuesday, a church jury suspended the Rev. Frank Schaefer for officiating at the marriage of his gay son.The Methodist church accepts gay and lesbian members, but it rejects the practice of homosexuality as “incompatible with Christian teaching.”

HARRISBURG — A young man who testified last year against Jerry Sandusky is suing the former coach and Penn State for what he says was nearly four years of sexual assaults while he was a child.The lawsuit by John Doe 4, known as Victim 9 in court records, was filed Thursday in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court.It claims he wouldn't have been victimized if university officials had reported Sandusky to police.The lawsuit asserts an assault and battery claim against Sandusky. The university is sued for negligence and recklessness, tortious conduct, misrepresentation and infliction of emotional distress.Six of 45 counts for which Sandusky was convicted concern Victim 9.

GREENSBURG — Attorneys for a man sentenced to death in the torture murder of a mentally disabled woman say he shouldn’t be on death row because he wasn’t given a fair chance to defend himself.A Pittsburgh newspaper reports that defense attorneys Mike DeRiso and Terrance Faye said that Westmoreland County prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that would have helped 27-year-old Ricky Smyrnes argue that another man orchestrated the February 2010 murder of 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty.