CLARION — Clarion University's president says he'll retire next year and plans to promote technology in the northwestern Pennsylvania region where the school is located and raise money for the school.

Joseph Grunenwald has worked at Clarion for 32 years and became president in 2003. He'll retire in June.

Grunenwald also has been a marketing professor, dean of the College of Business Administration and academic vice president.

Clarion is one of 14 State System of Higher Education schools. The system will search for his successor.

Other system schools are Kutztown, Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester.

ALLENTOWN — A Pennsylvania mental hospital worker has admitted giving four nails to a patient and getting her to swallow them.Athena Marie Sidlar, a former 28-year-old psychiatric aide trainee at Allentown State Hospital, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lehigh County Court to reckless endangerment.Police say that in January, she showed an 18-year-old female patient how to swallow nails. Four nails had to be removed from the patient's stomach.Sidlar says she has bipolar disorder and swallows nails and other metal objects. Her attorney, Ettore Angelo of Quakertown, said his client is trying to battle her affliction.She is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 8.

PITTSBURGH — A short-lived ban on assault weapons in Pittsburgh might get new life under legislation driven by next month's Group of Twenty summit.The ban was quashed by the state Legislature in 1994 but it's still on the city's books.A proposed ordinance by Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's administration to keep protesters from thwarting police crowd control efforts mentions the defunct assault weapons ban.The clause prohibits possession of items, including 37 "contraband" weapons listed in the ban, "for the purpose of defeating lawful removal" by police.Gun control opponents like attorney Meghan Jones-Rolla calls it "a back-door attempt at an assault weapons ban."City Solicitor George Specter says that's not the intent.

PITTSBURGH — A suburban Pittsburgh teenager has been found guilty of trying to kill his ex-girlfriend with a hammer.Allegheny County Judge Kim Clark on Thursday found 17-year-old Robertino DeAngelis intended to kill Sarah DeIuliis in the October 2007 attack in Mount Lebanon.DeAngelis' attorney argued DeAngelis hit DeIuliis with his fists, not a hammer, and didn't intend to kill her.Prosecutors argued DeAngelis wanted to kill, pointing out police also found a knife, tape and box cutter in his possession.DeAngelis has maintained he doesn't remember what happened. He was struck by a trolley after the attack in what police said was a suicide attempt.DeAngelis could face court supervision until he's 21 when he is sentenced in October.

PITTSBURGH — The number of rabies case numbers in Allegheny County and throughout Western Pennsylvania are declining.Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff says an annual oral rabies vaccination baiting program under way in 14 western counties has helped control rabies in wild animals.He says the program also has reduced the number of reported rabies cases by about 20 percent in the last six years.Only six rabid animals have been identified in Allegheny County so far this year. In 2002, the first year of the program, the county identified 32 rabid animals.The program involves spreading liquid rabies vaccine inside a sealed plastic package containing smelly fishmeal bait that is attractive to raccoons and other wild animals.