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PHILADELPHIA — President Barack Obama is coming to the Philadelphia area as part of his pitch for health care reform.

The White House announced Friday that Obama will speak at Arcadia University in Glenside on Monday morning.

The president has been trying to rally congressional support to push through legislation that would overhaul the health insurance system. He has called for an up-or-down vote in the coming weeks.

PHILADELPHIA — Two employees of a suburban Philadelphia school district that secretly photographed students through school-issued webcams are on paid leave amid an FBI probe.A Lower Merion School District spokesman confirms that computer technician Michael Perbix and systems coordinator Carol Cafiero are on administrative leave, confirming a Philadelphia Inquirer report.A district statement Friday says paid leave is standard during investigations and does not reflect any wrongdoing.The district admits it secretly activated webcams 42 times to find missing laptops.A Harriton High School student charges in a lawsuit that school officials photographed him at home, and later warned of suspicions he was selling drugs.The FBI is exploring potential wiretap charges.

NORTH IRWIN — A 60-year-old man has sued a tiny Western Pennsylvania borough claiming officials told him he was too old to be police chief.Glenn Young's federal lawsuit says he was 59 when he applied in June for the chief's job in North Irwin. The borough is about a half-mile square, some 25 miles east of Pittsburgh, and has fewer than 900 residents.Young, of New Brighton, says he has 34 years experience as a police officer but was told by Mayor Leonard Santimyer that he was "too old" and that the borough doesn't hire anybody over 55. Young said he got minutes from a subsequent borough council meeting which showed officials rejected his application as "standard operating procedure" because he was over 55.

PITTSBURGH — Western Pennsylvania officials are warning residents to brace for flooding in the coming weeks as warmer weather melts heavy snowfall.Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials have ordered sandbags, cots and have ready-to-eat meals on hand and are urging residents to prepare emergency kits.Werner Loehlein, of the Army Corps of Engineers' Pittsburgh district, says deep snow remains at the headwaters of the Youghiogheny River, which flows into the Monongahela, one of Pittsburgh's three rivers, and in the Cheat River basin, which also drains into the Monongahela.The National Weather Service says the flood threat will persist all month. And even though the snow will melt, reservoirs and rivers will be swollen and the ground saturated.

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