EAST STROUDSBURG — A man who was repeatedly mistaken as the suspect in the killing of a state trooper now has his own car as a result of the ordeal.

James Tully was questioned by police more than a dozen times during the search for Eric Frein, who was arrested Oct. 30 after a 48-day manhunt.

Because he didn't have a car, Tully had been forced to walk back and forth from work each day along rural roads.

His plight brought him wide sympathy and led to a crowdfunding campaign to get him a car.

About $24,000 was raised, and on Wednesday he used less than half the money to buy a 2007 Subaru Outback.

Tully tells The Pocono Record he'll use the rest to pay for maintenance and insurance.

SCRANTON — A former nurse's aide has been ordered to spend six months on home confinement in the theft of a gold chain and crucifix from a dying Veterans Affairs hospital patient last year.Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin Kosik on Wednesday sentenced 43-year-old Warren Wells of Moscow to two years of probation, with the first six months on home confinement.Wells pleaded guilty to theft after VA police said he removed the chain and crucifix from the neck of a 60-year-old patient at the medical center in Plains Township in December. Authorities said the woman, who had been given the crucifix by her son, died several hours later.Prosecutors said police recovered the items from a Scranton jewelry shop where they said Wells sold the jewelry for $100.

PITTSBURGH — Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald is giving up his county-issued Jeep Grand Cherokee and reimbursing $42,700 for more than 75,000 miles he's put on it since taking office in January 2012.Fitzgerald's actions come after county Controller Chelsa Wagner, a fellow Democrat, questioned whether Fitzgerald misused the vehicle by driving it to political and personal events. Fitzgerald didn't deny that, but says it wasn't wrong because he's often conducting county business at such functions.But on Wednesday he voluntarily paid the county for “every single mile” he drove at the Internal Revenue Service reimbursement rate of 56 cents per mile.Fitzgerald is reviewing the county's policy on take-home vehicles and may require some employees to use pool vehicles instead.

PHILADELPHIA — Authorities say a man accused of having sent a red Corvette plunging into a Philadelphia river during a messy divorce has been arrested.Police said 50-year-old John Kramer turned himself in and was processed Wednesday evening.A police spokesman said he faces charges of violating a protection from abuse order, harassment and recklessly endangering another person.Police said a witness told them a man drove to the bank of the Delaware River on Monday, got out and then let the car run into the water.Marine units found the car in 30 feet of water and made sure no one was inside, and the vehicle was later lifted to shore.