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HARRISBURG — A judge is allowing former Penn State President Graham Spanier to travel outside state lines but won’t permit any foreign trips.

Spanier lawyer Ed Spreha said he was notified of the order Monday. It requires Spanier to provide five days’ notice of any travel outside Pennsylvania. Spanier is facing charges that include obstruction and perjury for allegedly covering up complaints in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.

Spanier was also ordered not to have any contact with current or past members of the Penn State board of trustees, or with any witnesses in the case against him.

Spanier wanted permission to travel to Europe for work and family matters.

Railroad calendar reaches destinationSCRANTON — A newspaper in northeastern Pennsylvania has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year — except the year is 1950.The Times-Tribune of Scranton reported that a mail carrier delivered the item, 63 years late, without explanation on Friday.The large tube contained a 1950 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar addressed to James Flanagan, former general manager of The Scranton Times.The calendar includes a holiday greeting from a railroad executive dated December 1949. Flanagan died the same month.A Postal Service spokesman says lost mail is sometimes found when a machine is dismantled or office space is renovated.

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