PITTSBURGH — A Western Pennsylvania man faces sentencing for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his former company by submitting invoices from a phony company.

Forty-five-year-old Peter Kalemon, of Aliquippa, was scheduled for sentencing Wednesday before a federal judge in Pittsburgh.

He pleaded guilty Monday in September to mail fraud in the theft of almost $360,000 from Matthews International Corp. The losses have since been calculated at $415,000.

Authorities said Kalemon was hired in 2007 as traffic manager and had approval of invoices as part of his duties.

STATE COLLEGE — Organizers have voted to ban toy weapons from the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.The festival is from July 9-12 in State College, but also includes Youth Day on July 8, when kids 8 to 18 are invited to sell handmade arts and crafts on the sidewalks downtown.But executive director Rick Bryant said that toy weapons — ranging from rubber band guns to Nerf weapons and light sabers, and anything that launches a projectile — will be banned.

PITTSBURGH — A former southwestern Pennsylvania police chief serving more than 11 years behind bars for extorting nearly $8,000 from undercover FBI agents he thought were drug dealers is scheduled to be resentenced.A federal appeals court in September ordered the news sentence for 58-year-old Donald Solomon, finding a judge wrongly calculated federal sentencing guidelines.Prosecutors and defense attorneys now agree that Solomon faces between seven years, three months and nine years in prison. Prosecutors are seeking the maximum penalty in that range, while the defense is arguing the Solomon has found God and is a changed man, deserving a lesser sentence.

DOYLESTOWN — The grandson of Oscar Hammerstein has scaled back his plan for a museum honoring the Broadway lyricist to get zoning approval.Will Hammerstein needs variances to build the project on his grandfather's former farm in Doylestown, outside Philadelphia. The proposal includes construction of a 400-seat theater. Township supervisors and neighbors oppose the effort, saying it's too much development for the parcel. The site known as Highland Farm currently operates as a bed-and-breakfast.Highland Farm was Oscar Hammerstein's primary residence during his musical partnership with Richard Rodgers.