,h3>Police: KKK flyers, candy hearts found on residents’ lawns[/naviga:h3]

HATBORO — Residents of a Pennsylvania town say they awoke to find bags of candy hearts attached to pamphlets advocating the Ku Klux Klan strewn over their lawns.

Hatboro Police Chief James Gardner said Saturday police are investigating the incident that occurred sometime over the weekend. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the flyers reference the Loyal White Knights, a North Carolina group that considers itself an active chapter in the KKK.

Plastic bags of candy hearts were attached to the flyers.

Gardner says he knows of no racial tensions in Hatboro that could have triggered the incident, describing the flyers as “distasteful at a minimum.”

Gardner says police are investigating seriously because they have concerns about “someone going in the middle of the night and putting things on people’s lawns.”

[naviga:h3]Supreme Court lets suit to go forward in trooper’s shooting[/naviga:h3]

WASHINGTON — The mother of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper accidentally shot by a firearms instructor can go forward with her lawsuit against the instructor after the Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear the case.

The case stems from the September 2014 shooting death of 26-year-old David Kedra. Kedra was attending firearms training when he was accidentally shot by instructor Richard Schroeter.

Schroeter pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of another person and was sentenced to two weeks in jail, followed by three to 18 months of house arrest and other penalties.

A court initially dismissed a lawsuit against Schroeter by Kedra’s mother. But an appeals court allowed the lawsuit to go forward.

[naviga:h3]Police: Woman critically injures mom on Mother’s Day[/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — Authorities say a Pittsburgh woman beat and seriously injured her elderly mother — who has dementia — at their home on Mother’s Day.

Police say Rose Bynum told them she hoped her mother dies and asked them to kill her mom. She’s charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and other counts.

Police responded to Bynum’s home around 7:30 a.m. Sunday and soon found her mother on her bedroom floor with swelling around her eyes, bruising and serious cuts on her face and neck.

The mother is hospitalized in critical condition.