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HARRISBURG — Health officials say three Pennsylvanian residents who were on an Oct. 13 flight from Cleveland to Dallas with a nurse who later tested positive for Ebola continue to show no signs of the virus.

A Department of Health spokeswoman said Tuesday they continue to be monitored, along with about 100 others who spent time in Ebola-stricken West African nations before arriving in Pennsylvania.

Spokeswoman Aimee Tysarczyk says none have tested positive for Ebola and that their risk of getting Ebola is very low.

Travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and New Guinea who come to Pennsylvania are being asked to track body temperatures and symptoms, and to check in with officials twice a day for three weeks. Tysarczyk says the department is in touch with each person daily.

BEAVER — A jury has convicted a man of first-degree in the slaying of a couple in their home four years ago while their young children were locked up nearby.Jurors in Beaver County deliberated for more than six hours Tuesday before convicting 37-year-old Robert Burgess in the June 2008 murders of Richard and Demetria Harper.Authorities said the victims were tied up and shot in the basement of their Beaver Falls home while their 8- and 10-year-old daughters were locked in a small furnace room.Jurors will return today to hear arguments about whether Burgess should be executed or spend the rest of his life in prison.Twenty-seven-year-old Devon Shealey of Pittsburgh was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive life terms.

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