PITTSBURGH — Organizers plan to unveil plans for a memorial monument to three Pittsburgh police officers who were fatally shot responding to a disturbance call nearly a year ago.

Community leaders on Friday plan to unveil plans for the monument that will be built at Immaculate Conception-St. Joseph Church where one of the officers, Paul Sciullo II, attended Mass.

Sciullo, Stephen Mayhle and Eric Kelly when gunned down when they responded to a disturbance reported by 22-year-old Richard Poplawski's mother on April 4. Poplawski is awaiting trial on charges that he shot the officers and fired at several others who responded that morning.

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is endorsing state Sen. Anthony Williams for governor.Nutter and state Rep. Dwight Evans of Philadelphia — the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee — announced their support for Williams on Thursday.All three men share a political base among African-American voters in heavily Democratic Philadelphia.Williams was a late entrant into the Democratic primary race for governor. He advocates an expansion of alternatives to public schools, including government vouchers to pay tuition at private schools.Former congressman Joe Hoeffel — the only other Democratic gubernatorial candidate from southeastern Pennsylvania — said it was ironic that a public-school advocate like Nutter is backing a candidate whose policies could threaten public education.

SHARON — County officials in western Pennsylvania are feuding with Verizon over a $50,000 bill for phone service and late fees.Mercer County commissioners claim the county has been overcharged because Verizon allegedly kept charging the county for phone service under an old, higher rate even after the county signed a new deal with a lower rate in November 2007.But Verizon officials say the dispute centers on when that 2007 contract took effect. The company says Verizon and county officials are trying to hammer out a solution.Commissioner Brian Beader says he's trying to get Harrisburg to help out. But he says the Public Utility Commission and the state Attorney General's office both told him that the other agency should be the one to handle the situation.

CORAOPOLIS — Investigators say they won't know how the homecoming queen at Robert Morris University near Pittsburgh died until they receive toxicology results that could take weeks or months.Police say 21-year-old Amanda Werkmeister of Bethel Park was in cardiac arrest at her off-campus apartment Monday in Moon Township. She died a short time later at Sewickley Valley Hospital Monday afternoon.The Allegheny County Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy but couldn't pinpoint a cause of death without the toxicology results.Werkmeister was the 2009 homecoming queen at the university, also in Moon Township, about 10 miles west of the city.She was to graduate in May with a degree in business.

PUNXSUTAWNEY — State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth "resuscitation" to a long-dead opossum along a highway.Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe of Brookville near the animal along Route 36 in Oliver Township Thursday about 3 p.m. The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance, while another saw the mouth-to-mouth attempt.Levier says Wolfe was "extremely intoxicated" and "did have his mouth in the area of the animal's mouth, I guess."Oliver Township is about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

NEW CASTLE — Police say a fugitive fatally shot himself Thursday as U.S. Marshals tried to arrest him in western Pennsylvania. New Castle police say the marshals had an arrest warrant for 31-year-old Heath Moffatt from neighboring Shenango Township. Court records show they filed theft and stolen property charges against Moffatt last week.The Lawrence County coroner scheduled an autopsy. U.S. Marshals in Pittsburgh say the incident is being investigated by New Castle police.