DONORA — A woman was accused of taking a 12-year-old boy to two houses of prostitution and paying for him to have sex there.

Linda Van Pool, 36, of Donora, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minors and other crimes.

Van Pool is the second person charged in the case. In May, Kathleen Waggoner, also of Donora, was arrested on the child endangerment and corruption charges.

Waggoner, a bartender, gave Van Pool the money to pay for his time with at least two prostitutes, police said. Van Pool is charged with actually taking the boy to the prostitutes.

HARMONY, Beaver County — A man remained in critical condition with burns as authorities continued to investigate the house explosion that injured him.David J. Green, 44, of Harmony, Beaver County, was being treated for burns Friday at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. Contrary to initial reports that said two people were injured, Green was the only person hurt when the explosion buckled the walls of his home Wednesday about 3:45 p.m.Columbia Gas officials said they were cooperating with a state police fire marshal's investigation, but have not confirmed that natural gas caused the explosion.

GREENVILLE — Teachers in a Western Pennsylvania school district will get a pay raise and pay more for their health care under a new contract.The union representing 110 full- and part-time teachers in the Greenville School District and the school approved the five-year deal Friday. The teachers have been working for one year under a contract extension.Teachers will get an average 3.64 percent pay increase over each of the five years. The teachers had sought a 3.87 percent raise, while the district had sought increasing their pay 2.87 percent.

PITTSBURGH — A man seen running in and out of highway traffic and later heard yelling "I want to die" collapsed and died after being zapped by a police officer's Taser.Chad Cekas left his vehicle on an Interstate 279 entrance ramp and was seen crawling near the mouth of near the Fort Pitt Tunnel at about 8:45 p.m. Thursday, said John Novelli, the tunnel's supervisor."I got there and a group of people was holding him down," Novelli said. "A young mother was trying to calm him down. He was yelling, 'I want to die, I want to die."'After police officers arrived, Cekas jumped up, city police Sgt. Robert Jurich said."He started swinging at the officer and reaching toward his gun belt as if he was trying to grab his gun," Jurich said. "The officer used a Taser several times."