Cheating detailed at police academyHARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s state inspector general says his investigators found evidence of cadet cheating, instructor misconduct and training and testing problems at the Pennsylvania State Police Academy.Inspector General Bruce Beemer on Friday issued a 47-page report on the probe.The report says cheating was uncovered after an academy staff member found a folded, handwritten piece of paper in a hallway that was determined to be a cheat sheet containing 20 answers on a traffic law test.Dozens of cadets from the 144th class were dismissed.The inspector general’s office says instructors provided cadets with answers to test questions and didn’t often change the test content.

Flap arises over Biden bridge tributeSCRANTON — The City Council in former vice president Joe Biden’s hometown is trying to stop a state lawmaker from naming a bridge after Biden.Scranton Councilman Pat Rogan says he love’s Biden “as much as almost every other Scrantonian” But he says the bridge being constructed is already named for a veteran.The Col. Frank Duffy Memorial Bridge honors the city’s highest-ranking soldier killed during World War I.Democrat state Rep. Kevin Haggerty said he plans to submit a bill to call it the “Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Bridge.”But Rogan says council plans to send Haggerty a letter asking him to find another way to honor Biden.

Order limits plea in school stabbingsPITTSBURGH — A judge won’t allow a teen charged with slashing and stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard at a Pennsylvania high school to plead guilty but mentally ill.Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani concluded in an opinion and court order Friday that 19-year-old Alex Hribal “may have suffered from a psychotic illness” during the April 2014 rampage but that didn’t make him incapable of knowing what he did was wrong.

Wilson center seeks executive directorPITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh’s August Wilson Center for African American Culture is seeking an executive director to run the nonprofit as it recovers financially from near foreclosure.The director will serve as the “point-person overall” for the center and oversee an operating budget expected to grow to $2.3 million in 2017.Mayor Bill Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald helped rescue the center from a private developer who wanted to buy the property after the nonprofit struggled mightily to pay its bills.Today the center is mostly supported by grants and the taxpayer-backed Allegheny Regional Asset District.