[naviga:h3]Teacher: School fired her over pregnancy[/naviga:h3]

EDGEWOOD — A Pennsylvania woman who is pregnant says she was fired from her teaching job because the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg was upset that she isn’t married.

Naiad Reich says she has taught at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School in Edgewood for the past four years, but was fired Friday after informing administrators that she was expecting a child with her significant other. The News-Item reports that she said she was told she was fired because she has no immediate plans to marry her partner.

The 31-year-old woman says she informed school administrator Sister Mary Anne Bednar earlier in the week. Bednar did not respond to requests for comment. The diocese says it does not comment on personnel matters.

Reich says she plans to appeal her firing.

[naviga:h3]Woman pleads guilty to killing boyfriend[/naviga:h3]

ERIE — A woman has pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend by stabbing him, hitting him with a table leg and crushing him under the weight of her roughly 300 pounds.

Windi Thomas of Erie faces a sentence of 18 to 36 years after pleading guilty to third-degree murder. She had been scheduled for trial next week, but instead will be sentenced Dec. 21.

The 44-year-old Thomas admitted killing Keeno Butler last March, partially by lying on top of him. Thomas weighs about 300 pounds, while the 44-year-old Butler weighed about 120 pounds.

The Erie Times-News reports Butler’s sister said her family is still coping with her brother’s death and had been hoping for a longer prison sentence for Thomas.