School security guard faces chargesMUNHALL — A fired school security guard is facing charges he shoved a middle school student’s head onto a cafeteria table.Shaun Thomas, 28, was charged Wednesday with simple assault and harassment. Court records indicate that Thomas yelled in a student’s face at Steel Valley Middle School on Monday and pushed the student’s head when an administrator tried to separate the two.Police said Thomas told them he approached the student because a group was making noise. He said the student swore, grabbed his pant leg and made faces at him. That’s when he says he grabbed the student’s shirt and pulled him to the table.Thomas was escorted from the school and the district’s contracted security firm fired him.

Law school dean to lead Duquesne,/b>PITTSBURGH — Law school dean and legal scholar Ken Gormley will become the new president of Duquesne University next summer.Gormley will become the 13th president of the 137-year-old private, Catholic school after the current president, Charles Dougherty, retires June 30. Dougherty announced his intention to retire in February, after 15 years as president.Gormley was hired as a law professor at Duquesne in 1994 after first teaching at the University of Pittsburgh while also in private practice. He spent 15 months as interim dean before being named to the post permanently in March 2010.Gormley is an expert on the Watergate scandal and its legal ramifications, including a biography of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. His latest book, “The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History,” is set for publication next year by NYU Press.Gormley, 60, grew up in Edgewood and Swissvale and served as mayor of Forest Hills from 1998 to 2001.AG says she’s met Sandusky requestHARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s attorney general says she’s complied with a judge’s order to turn over any information she has about prosecutors or a judge disclosing grand jury information from the Jerry Sandusky investigation.Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s spokesman said Wednesday she provided information under seal to Judge John Cleland.Cleland last week ordered Kane to detail who and what was involved, and when and how it was disclosed.Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, is appealing his conviction for sexually abusing children.Sandusky’s lawyer said leaks were used against Sandusky as a prosecutorial tool. He wants Cleland to give him subpoena power to look into that and other issues.Judge disputes Kane having his e-mailsHARRISBURG — A former state grand jury judge says the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office illegally or unethically got into his personal e-mail account.Judge Barry Feudale’s allegations Wednesday are his latest against Attorney General Kathleen Kane.He said the attorney general’s office accessed at least some of his e-mails after he had sent them to a state prosecutor’s account months after that prosecutor had resigned. Feudale’s also accused Kane or her agents of stealing files from his office in 2013.Kane’s spokesman says Feudale has no evidence to support his allegations.Kane’s office last week released three e-mails of Feudale’s from 2013 that she said showed a breach of secrecy involving sealed court documents, although it’s unclear from the e-mails what, if anything, Feudale leaked.Feudale is now a senior judge in Northumberland County.Casey asks oil trains to slow downPHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania senator is asking two freight railroad companies to reduce the speed of trains carrying flammable crude oil.Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey wants CSX and Norfolk Southern to reduce speeds to 35 mph for oil trains traveling through major urban areas. His letter to the railroads Wednesday called it a common sense stop to reduce the threat of derailment.Gov. Tom Wolf made the same request earlier this year. Neither railroad has agreed to slow their trains, saying their current safety approaches work.Pennsylvania has seen a huge increase in the number of oil trains from North Dakota. As many as 70 trains rumble across Pennsylvania each week.BNSF Railway has committed to a 35 mph limit in cities with populations greater than 100,000.