MEDIA — A suburban Philadelphia man will serve house arrest for falsifying 18 voter-registration cards.

Jemar Barksdale worked briefly this year for the voter-turnout group ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The 34-year-old Chester man must serve six to 23 months of home confinement after his sentencing Monday in Delaware County.

STATE COLLEGE — A long-delayed stretch of Interstate 99 in central Pennsylvania is finally complete. Workers put the finishing touches this week on an eight-mile stretch of the four-lane highway in the State College area.The project had been delayed for years because of concerns about acid-producing rock displaced in the path of the highway.Federal, state and local transportation officials hope the $700 million project will help with economic development in the region.The highway now links the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Bedford to Interstate 80 at Bellefonte.

MEADVILLE — A group of Western Pennsylvania college students is hanging 350 bras, underwear and socks as part of an environmental message.The environmental science students at Allegheny College in Meadville are hanging out the undergarments as part of their "350 Project" meant to raise awareness about the danger of carbon emissions.The project represents the number 350 parts per million, the level of carbon emissions the atmosphere can handle before it suffers irreparable damage. Part of the message is that even something as simple as hanging out clothes to dry can be helpful.

HARRISBURG — The state Insurance Department says it will get $40 million in a settlement with an auditor connected with the failed Reliance Insurance Co.Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario said Monday that the money from the settlement with auditor Deloitte & Touche will benefit Reliance's policyholders.Ario said the state's total recovery from Reliance parent companies and former officers and directors is nearly $145 million.The Insurance Department sued in 2002. It accused Deloitte of hiding Reliance's poor financial condition from regulators while owner Saul Steinberg drained cash from the company to support a lavish lifestyle and his own business debt.