PITTSBURGH — Authorities have seized more than 30 animals — many of them exotic — from a home where a 5-foot-long alligator escaped last week.

Among the 32 animals removed Tuesday were three more alligators, including one with a neck injury; three snakes, including Burmese pythons, a lizard and some iguanas. Multiple dead animals were also discovered in the home.

Authorities say they found many of the animals living in poor conditions when they went to Mark McGowan's home Monday to conduct a well-being check. Police and animal control officers, along with a reptile expert, returned to the home Tuesday with a search warrant.

Animals that were being properly cared for were allowed to remain. They included snakes, toads, pythons and tarantulas.

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf plans to veto legislation passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature to substantially expand taxpayer support by $100 million for private and religious schools.Wednesday's statement from Wolf's office comes a day after the Senate approved the bill on a party-line basis. The bill was sponsored by House Speaker Mike Turzai and just four Democrats voted for it in the House.Wolf ran for office pledging to boost aid for public schools. He has said that public schools remain underfunded and that the tax-credit bill is at odds with the need for accessible public education.It would nearly double the Educational Improvement Tax Credit to $210 million annually. The program lets corporations direct tens of millions in tax dollars to favored private and religious schools.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's gambling offerings are growing again.The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday cleared Penn National Gaming's plan to build a mini-casino close to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, near Reading. It's the first of five mini-casino licenses auctioned off last year to get such approval.The board also approved Mount Airy Casino Resort in northeastern Pennsylvania to offer sports betting. Sports books are already open at six of Pennsylvania's 12 casinos and two off-track betting parlors.Penn National last year bid $7.5 million for the mini-casino license and is targeting a late 2020 opening for Hollywood Casino Morgantown, about 40 miles east of Penn National's flagship casino near Hershey.

HARRISBURG — A proposal is advancing that would end mandatory annual emissions inspections for Pennsylvania vehicles less than 9 years old.Pennlive.com reports the state Senate Transportation Committee on Wednesday voted 9 to 5 to end the requirement, which costs about $40 on average.The inspections are required in 25 counties.There's evidence that less than 2 percent of vehicles in those counties fail the tests during the first eight years after they're manufactured.Democrats on the committee all voted against the bill, arguing it could violate the Clean Air Act and thereby jeopardize hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds.Lawmakers are also considering whether to require emissions tests every two years rather than annually and to eliminate emissions testing in seven counties.

HARRISBURG — Republican lawmakers aren’t committing to the money sought by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to back up his demand that Pennsylvania’s counties replace their voting machines by 2020’s presidential elections.Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Legislature say a roughly $34 billion budget counterproposal they are finalizing this week doesn’t include the $15 million Wolf requested.Wolf last year began pressing counties to buy machines with a paper-based backup that allows a voter to double-check how their vote was recorded.