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HARRISBURG — A college student was convicted of making a post to his MySpace page in which he threatened to copy last year's Virginia Tech shootings.

Steven Voneida, a student at Penn State University's Harrisburg campus, was found guilty in federal court Monday of a single charge of transmitting communication containing a threat to injure.

Voneida, 24, threatened that he would someday "make the Virginia Tech incident look like a trip to an amusement park" in a posting two days after the April 2007 shootings, acting U.S. Attorney Martin Carlson said.

The posting also included a photograph of shooter Seung-Hui Cho and a poem paying tribute to Cho, who killed 32 people and himself, Carlson said Tuesday.

MERCER — A 45-year-old Mercer County man has pleaded guilty to sexual assault charges and filming nude girls in his bathroom.Prosecutors say Jeffrey Craig Bowser of Pine Township abused a boy several times and videotaped it.Prosecutors say Bowser also abused a mentally-impaired teenage girl and used a hidden camera to record girls in his bathroom.Bowser was charged last year after one girl informed a school official about a video of Bowser abusing the boy.Police say some DVDs seized from Bowser's home were marked with the girls' names and showed them fully or partially nude.

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