[naviga:h3]Pittsburgh official goes to trial for charges in Detroit[/naviga:h3]

DETROIT — An elected official from Pittsburgh has been bound over for trial on felony resisting and obstructing police and misdemeanor disorderly conduct stemming from an altercation at a Detroit hotel.

District Judge Ronald Giles ruled Thursday there’s enough evidence against Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner to proceed to trial. Prosecutors allege Wagner interfered with Detroit police while they prepared to remove her husband, Khari Mosley, from the Westin Book Cadillac hotel on March 6. The couple was in Detroit for a concert.

The Detroit News reports police body camera footage presented during the hearing showed Wagner berating officers.

Mosley is charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace, both misdemeanors.

The couple’s attorneys, Charles Longstreet and Thomas Fitzpatrick, said they plan to sue the police department and the hotel.

[naviga:h3]Pa. reduces backlog of untested rape kits[/naviga:h3]

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has reduced its backlog of untested rape kits by nearly 90% in three years, according to Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, who made the announcement Thursday.

About 340 kits still await testing by crime labs, down from more than 3,200. Medical personnel use the kits to collect DNA and other evidence of sexual assault. The backlog represents the number of kits that have gone more than a year without being tested.

State police and the Philadelphia Police Department had no untested kits as of Dec. 31, while the Allegheny County medical examiner reported 94 and local law-enforcement agencies 245.

A 2015 state law required speedier testing of rape kits. Increased state funding as well as outside grant programs have helped whittle down the backlog.