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MCKEES ROCKS — The state attorney general has charged a high school special education teacher with selling heroin from his Western Pennsylvania home.

Online court records don't list an attorney for Montour High School teacher Charles Schaldenbrand, who didn't answer his home phone.

School district solicitor Ira Weiss says the 44-year-old teacher was placed on paid suspension earlier this week after district officials were notified of the drug investigation. Weiss says there's no evidence that Schaldenbrand possessed or sold drugs on school property.

PITTSBURGH — The district attorney says a Pittsburgh fugitive charged with raping a child who was fatally shot by a U.S. Marshal’s-led task force was hit with seven shots fired from two different weapons.Allegheny County district attorney’s spokesman Mike Manko says a shotgun was also fired at 47-year-old Leslie Sapp III, but he wasn’t wounded by it.Pittsburgh police and the DA’s office are reviewing the Tuesday morning shooting by members of the marshal’s Western District of Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force. Investigators say Sapp confronted police with a BB-pistol before he was shot.

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