COOPERSTOWN — State police say a man who tried to climb a 280-foot cellular tower in Western Pennsylvania apparently slipped and plunged to his death.

Police in Venango County say 55-year-old William Eugene Wall of Centerville was with family and friends at a campfire in Jackson Township early Thursday when he walked to the AT&T tower about 250 yards away.

Police say he climbed an approximately seven-foot fence to reach the tower and began climbing amid heavy fog that made the structure slippery.

Police say he “is believed to have slipped” and fell to the ground, where he succumbed to his injuries shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday despite life-saving measures attempted by family members.

Police and the county coroner are investigating the case as an accidental death.

PLUM — The attorney representing a western Pennsylvania man charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment in the drowning death of his 3-year-old daughter calls the case “a horrible, tragic accident.”The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that defense attorney Casey White says 27-year-old Charles Mitchell “was not reckless nor grossly negligent,” and the case is an accident rather than a crime.Authorities say Mitchell told officers he returned to the backyard of his Plum home Aug. 1 to find Ca-Nayah Mitchell submerged in the deep end of the pool.Police say he originally said he left the girl and his 4-year-old son briefly to fix a ginger ale mixed with an apple-flavored alcohol but later said it was only ginger ale. White said his client wasn't under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people gathered to remember a western Pennsylvania graduate student killed in a mass shooting in an Ohio nightclub district last weekend.Mourners from all stages of the life of Nicholas Cumer, 25, filled every seat in Saturday’s funeral service and lined the hallways of the Piatt and Barnhill Funeral Home in Washington.“He was just infectious. He had a heart bigger than his chest,” said Pastor Brian Greenleaf of Washington Alliance Church, who officiated at the service.Cumer was among nine people killed early last Sunday by a gunman who was then killed by police shortly after he opened fire at a bar in Dayton, Ohio.Cumer was a graduate student in the master of cancer care program at Saint Francis University in Loretto and was in Dayton as part of his internship with the Maple Tree Cancer Alliance.