PITTSBURGH — An eminent domain commission has found the Western Pennsylvania site where United Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, was worth more than the government paid, but far less than the former owner claimed.

A three-person commission released a report Monday in Pittsburgh saying the 275-acre site is worth about $1.5 million. The Department of the Interior condemned the property under eminent domain in 2009, and paid Michael Svonavec $611,000 for it. Svonavec claimed in a lawsuit that the property was worth about $23 million.

Svonavec wanted to turn the property in to a museum, but the National Park Service built the Flight 93 National Memorial there.

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania state Senate approved another bill in a wide-ranging response to the Jerry Sandusky and Catholic clergy molestation scandals.Senators on Monday unanimously approved a bill to increase the degree of child pornography crimes.Under the bill, producing, disseminating or viewing child pornography would be considered more serious crimes if the material depicts indecent contact with a child. That would make the production of child pornography as high as a first-degree felony on a second and any subsequent offense.