[naviga:h3]School stabbings suspect mulling guilty plea[/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — A man charged with stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard at his suburban Pittsburgh high school will spend the weekend mulling whether to plead guilty.

The Tribune-Review first reported the development, which grew out of a pretrial hearing in Westmoreland County on Friday for 20-year-old Alex Hribal.

Defense attorney Patrick Thomassey confirmed the development for The Associated Press but wouldn’t comment further.

District Attorney John Peck says he previously offered Hribal 30 to 60 years in prison for slashing his way through the hallways of Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville on April 9, 2014.

[naviga:h3]Students protest over racist carved pumpkins[/naviga:h3]

COATESVILLE — Several hundred students at a Chester County high school walked out to protest the second race-related incident at the school in just over a week: a Facebook photo showing current and former students posing with pumpkins carved with racist symbols.

The Coatesville Area High School students walked out around 7:30 a.m. Friday.

The school district says it appears Facebook photo was taken off school grounds and after school hours. Superintendent Cathy Taschner says the district will “exercise its full authority” to send a message that the carvings aren’t acceptable.

The pumpkins included one with a swastika, and another with the letters KKK. Four young people posed behind the pumpkins.