HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is ordering most state agencies under his control to cut spending by 3 percent for the current budget year.

The Republican governor announced Wednesday the plan to save $160 million, along with $66 million from entities that are not under his jurisdiction.

The current year's revenues are running $487 million below projections, with nearly six months left in the state's fiscal year.

Some individual budget categories are being slashed as much as 10 percent. State police, prisons and other public safety agencies are being reduced by 1 percent, while the four state-related universities are facing 5 percent cuts.

The governor is describing the decision to place money into budgetary reserve as a “freeze.” He says if the financial picture brightens, the money may be released.

PITTSBURGH — Allegheny County officials say they're adding staff to deal with a flood of complaints over property assessments that doubled or even quadrupled the taxable value of some homes.Department of Administrative Services director Tim Johnson said 10 new receptionists are being added today to deal with the heavy volume of calls. The department will also double the number of phone lines for calls to 80.Property owners have until Jan. 13 to schedule informal appeals, which are handled by the county's 23 hearing officers. Johnson said more could be added if needed.Six property owners filed a lawsuit that forced the reassessments.

PITTSBURGH — A woman has been sentenced to 12Z\x years in federal prison for her role in stealing, or helping her friends steal, nearly $2.5 million from Pittsburgh’s only minority-owned bank by taking advantage of an accounting glitch.Elexa Manos-Becton, 44, of Coraopolis, was sentenced Wednesday and had pleaded guilty in June to bank fraud and money laundering.The glitch somehow enabled her and the others to transfer unlimited amounts of money from the Dwelling House Savings and Loan accounts they used to receive the loans.Manos-Becton and others used an online money-transferring service to move the money to accounts at other banks and spent it on drugs, luxuries and other “exorbitant” living, Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Hull told the judge.In the process, they looted Dwelling House Savings and Loan, which had lost $2.46 million by the time the glitch was discovered in 2009. The 119-year-old thrift was shut down and forced into receivership.