PITTSBURGH — A woman accused of starving to death her quadriplegic brother pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter but will serve no more jail time.

Allegheny County Judge Kevin Sasinoski on Wednesday sentenced Kimberly Loebig, 39, of Shaler Township, to two to 23 months in jail, but ordered she be paroled immediately. She had already spent two months in jail.

Sasinoski threw out a murder charge against Loebig two years ago and the state Superior Court upheld his decision.

Loebig was charged in the December 2003 death of her brother, Scott Olsen, 29. Loebig was Olsen's sole caretaker.

Police said they found Olsen's body in a near-fetal position on a bare mattress in a filthy bedroom in Loebig's home. He weighed 63 pounds, about 50 pounds less than he his last medical exam three months earlier, authorities said.

An autopsy showed Olsen died from starvation and dehydration. Olsen, who was fed through a tube, had been in a semi-vegetative state since huffing butane in 1990.

HARRISBURG — A divided House State Government Committee on Thursday endorsed a plan to move Pennsylvania's presidential primary up by 10 weeks to Feb. 12, while reserving a day in May for referendums in school districts that require voter approval for large property-tax increases.The Democrat-dominated committee approved the proposal by a vote of 16-13, sending it to the full House for consideration, according to a spokeswoman for Rep. Babette Josephs, D-Philadelphia, the panel's chairwoman.As amended, the bill sponsored by Rep. Harry A. Readshaw, D-Allegheny, would set the date of Pennsylvania's general primary as the second Tuesday in February, or Feb. 12 next year. Nomination contests for other top offices, including Congress and the Legislature, also would be held that day.The proposal would reserve the third Tuesday in May — the day Pennsylvania holds its primaries in non-presidential election years — for referendums in school districts where tax increases that exceed inflation must be submitted for voter approval. That day falls on May 20 next year.

PITTSBURGH — A man stole more than $12,000 from a church where he was deacon, federal prosecutors said.Euthumn Napier, 65, of McCandless Township, was charged with 15 criminal counts accusing him of diverting church funds. Napier was deacon at Allegheny Alliance Church and in charge of a benevolent fund to help people in need, prosecutors said.Napier is accused of using fictitious names to get money to pay his personal bills, including credit card accounts and home equity and car loans.

HARRISBURG — The state House of Representatives voted Thursday to double the maximum fines for all criminal offenses and tack on a fee to raise millions of dollars to pay for the salaries of county district attorneys.The maximum fine for murder or attempted murder would rise from $50,000 to $100,000, for example. For summary offenses, the maximum would rise from $300 to $600. The bill also would raise money from a $50 cost-of-prosecution assessment.A law passed in July 2005 requires the state government to pay 65 percent of the salaries for full-time district attorneys, an amount estimated at $5.6 million for the coming fiscal year. The bill that passed the House would create a dedicated funding source.