[naviga:h3]Ex-warden faces teen sex charges[/naviga:h3]

FRANKLIN — The former warden of a county prison in northwestern Pennsylvania already on parole for stealing more than $120,000 from a social club is now charged with trying to solicit sex from a teenage boy.

Fifty-four-year-old Timothy Lewis was sentenced to nine to 23 months in jail last year for stealing from Meadville Moose Lodge 2505 between 2011 and 2014. Lewis resigned as warden of the Crawford County Correctional Facility in Meadville a few weeks after he was charged in March 2016.

On Wednesday, that attorney general announced Lewis faces charges including corruption of minors, promoting prostitution and open lewdness for allegedly exposing himself to the boy, who was then 17, inside the Moose Lodge in 2014, and allegedly offering the boy $500 then $1,000 for sex.

[naviga:h3]Defense: Widow’s testimony unfair[/naviga:h3]

MILFORD — Defense attorneys say emotional testimony by a Pennsylvania state trooper’s widow was unfair to the sniper who killed that officer and wounded another, and so the death penalty the sniper faces should be overturned.

The motion filed Wednesday in Pike County is the first by the defense since would-be revolutionary Eric Frein was convicted last month in the September 2014 murder of Cpl. Bryon Dickson II outside the Blooming Grove police barracks. Trooper Alex Douglass was also wounded by Frein who was caught after a 48-day manhunt.

Frein’s attorneys say Tiffany Dickson’s emotional testimony overrode any “logical reasoned moral decision the jury could make to spare the life” of Frein.

[naviga:h3]Court: No restitution from ex-lawmaker[/naviga:h3]

HARRISBURG — A former state lawmaker who served prison time in a corruption case will be resentenced after an appeals court ruled that he should not be required to pay more than $116,000 restitution.

The state Superior Court agreed with 67-year-old former House speaker Bill DeWeese that the restitution is illegal because the state is not considered a “direct victim” in the case. The court rejected his bid for a new trial.