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BOILING SPRINGS — Police say a central Pennsylvania mother accidentally shot her two young daughters while removing firearms from her vehicle as she prepared to go to church.
State police say 50-year-old Jane Rhodes of Boiling Springs was removing two muzzleloader guns from the back seat of the vehicle on Sunday when one of them discharged, striking both girls.
The 11-year-old girl was struck in the leg and her 10-year-old sister was struck in the pelvis as they tried to get into the vehicle around 10:30 a.m.
One girl was airlifted to a hospital and the other was taken by ambulance. State police didn't release their names, and the hospital won't update a patient's condition without their full name.
STATE COLLEGE — Police say a Penn State University student has been found dead inside an off-campus apartment.State College police say the body of the unidentified 22-year-old man was discovered Sunday afternoon by a roommate returning from holiday break.Investigators say the man's death doesn't appear suspicious. An autopsy is planned.
PITTSBURGH — The Port Authority of Allegheny County board will meet Wednesday to consider 15 percent service cuts beginning in March — in hopes that will stretch out $45 million in emergency state funding.The transit agency planned 35 percent cuts because of a looming $47 million deficit before Gov. Ed Rendell came up with the emergency funding, which is meant to last through June 20, the end of this fiscal year.The transit board believes that cutting service 15 percent would enable the agency to stretch that funding through June 2012. They say that would give the incoming administration of Gov.-elect Tom Corbett more time to come up with a long-term transit funding solution.
