MORGAN — A western Pennsylvania high school student is appealing his disorderly conduct conviction for recording others who allegedly bullied him, saying he wasn't trying to break the state's wiretap law but was instead trying to collect evidence against his tormentors.

The South Fayette High School student, Christian Stanfield, held a news conference with his mother Tuesday announcing the challenge.

Stanfield was charged by police with violating the state's wiretapping law — which forbids recording other people's voices without their permission — after he used his iPad to record the taunts of other students in February.

A district judge threw out a more serious charge, but convicted the 15-year-old of disorderly conduct last month.

CONNELLSVILLE — A western Pennsylvania first-grader has been moved to an alternative school for slashing school bus seats with a knife and making a girl feel threatened with the weapon.Connellsville Area School District Superintendent Dan Lujetic said the boy held up the weapon to a girl sitting in front of him and “maybe said something to her and she felt threatened.”The superintendent says the knife's blade was about an inch-and-a-half and was part of a utility device with several other tools on it.The boy was suspended from Bullskin Township Elementary School for three days and must finish the year in an alternative school.The incident happened April 7. The driver took the knife away from the boy after other students reported the incident.

HARRISBURG — A Republican Party-backed effort to disqualify the lone primary challenger to Gov. Tom Corbett is headed to the state Supreme Court.Lawyers filed the appeal Wednesday to a lower court decision that ruled that suburban Philadelphia businessman Bob Guzzardi can stay on the May 20 primary ballot.The Guzzardi campaign says it’ll vigorously defend the lower court decision.In a Tuesday decision, Commonwealth Court Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt ruled that Guzzardi had met the requirement for petition signatures, accurately represented his occupation on his nomination petition and wasn’t to blame for failing to file certain paperwork by the March 11 deadline.