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MEADVILLE Jane Harris Davies Shafer, the widow of former Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond P. Shafer, died Monday at age 92.
Shafer's daughter, Diane Shafer Dominick, said her mother died after extended treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
Her husband served from 1967 to 1971, when Pennsylvania governors were limited to one term. Gov. Shafer, a Republican, succeeded Gov. William Scranton after serving a term under Scranton as lieutenant governor. Shafer and her husband met at Allegheny College in Meadville and married in 1941.
The family plans a memorial service May 13 at the Patricia Bush Tippie Alumni Center at Allegheny College.
PITTSBURGH A federal lawsuit is being filed over a motorist fatally shot by a state trooper in Pittsburgh.Nicholas Haniotakis was shot March 15 by Trooper Samuel Nassan III and a Pittsburgh police sergeant. An autopsy showed Nassan's shot was the fatal one.Nassan is the same trooper who shot an unarmed 12-year-old Uniontown boy in 2002. That family's lawsuit was settled last year for $12.5 million.A lawyer for Haniotakis' family, Geoffrey Fieger, said state police helped Nassan cover up the facts in the 2002 killing.Pennsylvania State Troopers Association lawyer Eric Stoltenberg said the case remains under investigation and needs to be examined separately from other cases.
SWISSVALE Five 13-year-old boys face expulsion from Woodland Hills Junior High School after they were caught with alcohol, including one so drunk he was hospitalized.Woodland Hills School District spokeswoman Maria McCool said two boys on separate buses took alcoholic beverages to school March 24 and shared them with at least three other students.McCool said it isn't clear if the boys planned to bring the alcohol to school on the same day.All five students were cited for underage drinking and are suspended. They could still be expelled.
