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UNIONTOWN — A western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to three to six months in prison for killing his best friend in a prank by pulling the emergency brake in a moving car. The stunt caused the car to flip over.

Fifty-year-old Emmett Cooke of Dunbar was sentenced Tuesday in Fayette County Court for his no contest plea to involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

The crash killed 49-year-old Terry Kurosky, of Dunbar, in May 2007. Both men were riding in a car driven by a third man when Cooke pulled the brake.

PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh man has been convicted of killing another man whose body has never been found.An Allegheny County jury convicted 37-year-old Bryan Sedlak of third-degree murder on Wednesday in the death of 22-year-old Patrick Kenney. Kenney, of Jefferson Hills, was last seen in early February 2005.Sedlak testified that he shot Kenney in self-defense during a drug deal gone bad. He says Kenney tried to rob him and that a friend got rid of the body.Prosecutors say it was Sedlak who robbed Kenney.Sedlak faces up to 20 to 40 years in prison.

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