NEW CASTLE — A judge has scheduled a hearing Dec. 10 to determine whether a 12-year-old boy will be tried as an adult or as a juvenile on charges he killed his father's pregnant fiancee.

For now, Jordan Brown, of New Galilee, is charged as an adult in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court with February's fatal shooting of 26-year-old Kenzie Marie Houk and her unborn son as Houk lay in bed.

If convicted as an adult, Brown faces life in prison without parole.

If the case is moved to juvenile court, any punishment would end when he turns 21.

District Attorney John Bongivengo opposes a defense motion to move the case to juvenile court.

Brown is incarcerated at the Edmund L. Thomas Adolescent Detention Center in Erie.

HOUSTON — A prosecutor says three men, including a former police officer, used a slot machine "glitch" at The Meadows Racetrack & Casino in Washington County to get it to pay them $420,000.Washington County District Attorney Steven Toprani said Tuesday that the men exploited a glitch in the machine's software to cause it to display a false jackpot 14 times this summer. He called it one of the biggest slot thefts in casino gaming.Thirty-seven-year-old Andre Nestor, 49-year-old Kerry Laverde and 42-year-old Patrick Loushil, all from the Pittsburgh area, are charged with theft, unlawful use of a computer and other crimes. Authorities say Laverde is a former Swissvale officer.The men were being arraigned before a district judge. It wasn't clear if they had attorneys.