HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania appeals court is reversing the sale of a widow's home that was triggered by a tax bill for $6.30.

A Commonwealth Court panel Thursday said the auction sale of Eileen Battisti's $280,000 home outside Aliquippa wasn't valid because the Beaver County Tax Claim Bureau didn't offer her an installment payment plan as required by state law.

The court opinion says Battisti struggled to cope with household finances after her husband's death in 2004.

The sale was held after the tax bill grew with interest and costs to $235 by late 2011, when the property was sold for about $116,000.

PITTSBURGH — A former University of Pittsburgh medical researcher convicted of poisoning his wife wants a judge to unfreeze his assets so he can pay his legal bills and establish a trust fund for their 7-year-old daughter.Attorneys for Robert Ferrante, 66, say a previous court order freezing his assets is merely preserving the money so his dead wife's family, and their attorney, have money to go after in a wrongful-death suit.Attorney John Gismondi who represents the parents of Dr. Autumn Klein in that lawsuit says he objects to Ferrante's request that the trust be administered by his adult son, Michael, a financial planner.