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[naviga:h3]School scare delays graduation[/naviga:h3]

ARMAGH — Graduation ceremonies postponed at a high school due to a security scare are now scheduled for Monday, but officials say eight students will not be allowed to take part.

State police in Indiana County say 10 seniors at United Junior-Senior High School in East Wheatfield entered a restricted area of the school Friday. Eight of them, including one student wearing a backpack, were seen on surveillance video entering a crawlspace.

State troopers and Pittsburgh K-9 and bomb squad units responded and searched the school but found no threats.

Superintendent Barbara Parkins said she anticipates some criminal charges.

[naviga:h3]Man charged after remains found[/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — A man has been charged with criminal homicide in connection with severed human remains found at a Pittsburgh home.

John Robert Dickinson, 42, is also charged in Allegheny County with abuse of a corpse, evidence-tampering and other crimes.

A Pittsburgh newspaper reports that police found evidence of a violent struggle in the home of 46-year-old Kevin Thompson.

Plastic bags containing a severed head and limbs were found in the shed and bags containing a torso in the basement.

Fingerprints identified the remains as those of Thompson.

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