[naviga:h2]‘Dance Moms’ star could get probation[/naviga:h2]

Defense attorneys for former “Dance Moms” reality star Abby Lee Miller spent the Monday trying to chip away at about $775,000 in income that federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh say she tried to hide from a bankruptcy judge.

The amount is important because it will drive the sentence Miller receives for her bankruptcy fraud plea last year.

Prosecutors want her to spend 2½ years in prison, while her attorneys are hoping the judge will impose probation later today.

The judge has already filed tentative findings essentially agreeing with the defense that Miller deserves probation because no creditors lost money once the bankruptcy fraud was discovered.

Miller pleaded guilty in both cases last year, but her sentencing has been drawn out by arguments about how much financial harm was done, if any.

[naviga:h2]3 plead guilty in 3rd-degree murder[/naviga:h2]

Three people have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in the kidnapping and slaying of a Pittsburgh man last year that authorities said stemmed from a drug deal gone bad.

Twenty-two-year-old Mitchell Coles, 21-year-old Johnnie Raines and 25-year-old Erica Harris also all pleaded guilty Monday in Allegheny County to kidnapping and conspiracy in the death of 21-year-old Saevon Scott-Ponder. His bullet-riddled body was found in March 2016 near Pittsburgh’s Beltzhoover neighborhood.

Coles was sentenced to 20 to 50 years and Raines to 20 to 45 years; Harris will be sentenced Aug. 2.

Authorities said the three were seeking the victim over a drug debt.