WASHINGTON The federal economic stimulus is providing more than $3.7 million to Pennsylvania for emergency food and shelter programs.

Most of the money is going to local governments based on measures of unemployment and poverty. Those grants range from a little over $6,000 for Potter County to more than $488,000 for Philadelphia. Also, Pennsylvania is getting more than $724,000 to serve areas that do not qualify based on this formula.

The money can be used for mass shelter, mass feeding, food banks and one-month assistance with rent, mortgage and utility payments to prevent evictions. It can also be used for transition assistance from shelters to stable living conditions.

HARRISBURG Pennsylvania's new open records law says government records are public unless specifically exempted, but a newspaper says the head of the state's open-records office isn't finding this to be the case.The Philadelphia Inquirer says in Friday's editions it has obtained a three-page letter that executive director Terry Mutchler of the state Office of Open Records has written to Gov. Ed Rendell.Among other things Mutchler says she has yet to get meetings she requested with cabinet secretaries concerning the law that took effect Jan. 1. And she says state agencies have been told not to speak with her about any open-records appeal that is pending before her office, but to get everything in writing.Mutchler says she's asking the governor to send a memo asking all agencies to work with her office.

JOHNSTOWN A man charged with killing two people and robbing a west-central Pennsylvania sandwich shop was a military veteran home on a temporary medical retirement status.Nicholas Horner, of Altoona, faces charges including criminal homicide following the fatal shootings that started Monday at a Subway shop.Friends say the 28-year-old Horner joined the Army in 2000 and trained as a cable system installer. He was promoted to sergeant in 2006.Horner earned commendations for service in Iraq. He was taken off active duty in February.An Army spokesman says Horner's status allowed a soldier's health to be reviewed periodically to determine fitness to return.