[naviga:h3]Prison time for man who punched man with cerebral palsy[/naviga:h3]

WEST CHESTER — A man who was caught on video sucker-punching a man with cerebral palsy outside a Pennsylvania store has been sentenced to three to six years in prison.

A tearful old Barry Robert Baker Jr. asked the judge for leniency during Wednesday’s sentencing, saying he wanted to rebuild his life.

Judge William P. Mahon told Baker he was a bully, a predator and a coward. Mahon said in 18 years on the bench he has “never had such tangible evidence of someone’s moral compass being so askew.”

Baker, of Georgetown, Del., pleaded guilty to simple assault in September. The May 10 attack outside a West Chester convenience store was recorded by the store’s surveillance camera and showed Baker mocking the man before punching him in the face without warning.

[naviga:h3]Trump to nominate Carnegie Mellon professor to Fed[/naviga:h3]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going to nominate Marvin Goodfriend, a Carnegie Mellon University economics professor, for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.

The White House has announced that Goodfriend will be nominated to fill one of three empty seats on the Fed’s seven-member board. If confirmed by the Senate, Goodfriend would have a 14-year term on the powerful board that helps set interest rate policies.

Goodfriend is a highly respected monetary economist who from 1993 to 2005 was research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Va., one of the Fed’s 12 regional banks.

[naviga:h3]Court agrees with driver who feared ‘mark of devil’[/naviga:h3]

ALTOONA — A fired Pennsylvania school bus driver who believed being fingerprinted would leave “the mark of the devil” on her has won a court battle to receive unemployment benefits.

Bonnie Kaite lost her job with Altoona Student Transportation in 2015 after telling them that being fingerprinted for a background check could bar her from heaven.

The state unemployment board denied her benefits last year, saying the belief was personal, not religious.

PennLive.com reports a Commonwealth Court panel overturned that decision Wednesday, finding that her beliefs were sincerely held religious convictions, even if she practiced them only inside her own home.