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PITTSBURGH — Police are seeking a court order to remove four pit bulls from a Pittsburgh home after the dogs attacked and injured two men.

Pittsburgh Police Lt. Reyne Kacsuta said it is the second time in a month the dogs have attacked people walking by. Police declined to identify the owner, but said she refuses to hand the dogs over to authorities.

Police said the dogs ran off a porch where they were being fed Monday evening and attacked a man walking across the street, biting his legs. Police said another man who tried to pull the dogs away was bitten in the arm.

Kacsuta said investigators will press criminal charges against the owner and seek a court order to remove the dogs from her home.

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — A 70-year-old man has gotten his criminal record from 1958 expunged through a little-used Pennsylvania state statute.More than 50 years ago, Clifford Orton Moon Sr., now of Hereford, Ariz. was sentenced to three years' probation for stealing a steering wheel and a carburetor from junk yards in Philadelphia. That criminal record kept him from getting a gun permit or a hunting license.Now a Chester County judge has signed an order expunging his record after prosecutors said they would not oppose it. The order came under a provision in Pennsylvania's expungement statute that permits people who are at least 70 years old and have been crime free for at least 10 years to have their records erased.

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities expect enrollment this year will reach or exceed a record-breaking 115,000 students.State System of Higher Education officials said the increase could be between 2 percent and 3 percent above last year's enrollment of 112,500 students. Gains are in new freshmen and transfer students.The state system schools are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester universities.

THOOKSTOWN, Pa. — A western Pennsylvania coroner said she's not prepared yet to say how a 4-year-old boy found stuffed in a septic tank died.An autopsy was performed Sunday on Wyatt Smitsky, but Beaver County Coroner Teri Tatalovich-Rossi said Monday more tests are needed.Smitsky's body was found Saturday after searchers drained a septic tank on property near his home in Greene Township, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.State Police are calling it a homicide investigation, but say they're waiting for autopsy results before charging anyone.

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