JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former Johnstown police detective accused of having a sexual relationship with a confidential informant has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice.

SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — Two men have been ordered to stand trial in the slayings of two western Pennsylvania men reported missing almost two years ago.

Editorials from around Pennsylvania:

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SEVERANCE TAX OVERDUE, Feb. 10

We share the enthusiasm local economic development leaders expressed for Gov. Tom Wolf's plan to provide more funding for blight removal by taxing the Marcellus Shale natural gas industry.

Positioned with Johnstown's crumbling Conrad Building behind him, the governor on Wednesday pitched his "Restore Pennsylvania" initiative, which he says will help struggling communities with concerns such as blight removal and flood recovery.

SIDMAN, Pa. (AP) — Dylan Wechtenhiser admits he didn't know much about the 1977 Johnstown Flood before working on a project for his Forest Hills High School composition class project.

Interviewing flood survivors and researching news accounts and historical records gave the ninth-graders some personal perspective on the disaster.

EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Judge Norman Krumenacker III recalls Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro asking him what kind of attention the statewide investigation into allegations of abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church would bring.

"I told him to get a new tie and suit because he was going to be on '60 Minutes,' " Krumenacker said.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A snowboarder who suffered a head injury last week at a Pennsylvania resort has died.

Matthew Camacho-Cook was injured on Dec. 27 at Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Somerset County when he lost control and fell at the bottom of a trail.

The Cambria County coroner's office tells KDKA-TV that the 35-year-old Crescent resident died Thursday morning at Conemaugh Hospital in Johnstown.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Nineteen-year-old Nathan Kundrod understands the demands of being a volunteer firefighter.

Serving with St. Michael Fire Department, Kundrod completed 168 hours of "Essentials of Firefighter" at the Cambria County fire school.

It wasn't easy, but the experience was invaluable for an interior firefighter, he said.

"You learn the basics - hose lines, ladders, ropes and rigging," Kundrod said. "I would love to keep going."

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown has offered details on the cost of the clergy abuse scandal.

The latest edition of the diocese's official publication says the scandal has cost it $21.5 million since 1999.

Of that amount, $15.7 million has gone to settlement payouts and awards and $4.3 million to legal fees.

A letter from Bishop Mark Bartchak says 290 people have received settlements or counseling from the diocese.

NANTY GLO, Pa. (AP) — Once a booming coal-mining epicenter, Nanty Glo is now quiet, the silence broken occasionally by the snap of an American flag on a front porch or the creak of a barren playground swing.

EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A yellow shovel stood up straight, lodged into the ground at an Ebensburg area wetland Thursday, as a group of four students took turns reaching into a nearby hole.

From the hole, they would pull clumps of mud, which were then studied against a color chart.

The students, led by Environmental Studies Director Mitzy Schaney, were visiting from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown as part of a hands-on learning program that allowed them to inventory soil, plants and water.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is sending National Guard troops, helicopters and other specialists and equipment to help with the response and recovery efforts for Hurricane Florence.

Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday that the deployment involves more than 25 guardsmen, six technicians from the state Fish and Boat Commission and four helicopters, including two UH-60 Black Hawks and two CH-47 Chinooks.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Sweeping statewide consolidation across Pennsylvania's 500 public schools wouldn't bring the cost-savings that some lawmakers and the public alike envision, at least not without the state providing financial incentives, a recent analysis shows.

EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man was arrested in New York after authorities allege he tried to sell nearly 1,000 pounds of veteran grave markers believed to have been stolen from western Pennsylvania.

State police in New York say 29-year-old Ronald Cichinelli Jr. of Johnstown faces charges of criminal possession of stolen property.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old girl was accidentally struck and killed in the driveway of her western Pennsylvania home.

Police in East Taylor Township just northeast of Johnstown say a 34-year-old man went outside at about 10:20 a.m. Saturday to move a sport utility vehicle that was blocking another vehicle from leaving his driveway.

Officials say he didn't realize that the girl had followed him outside, and when he started backing up the SUV he accidentally struck the girl.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — JR Harris' uncle told an employee a story about the origins of the gob. He said a worker for his family's bakery was on break. They were permitted to make and eat anything they wanted to at the bakery.

"He had two small chocolate cakes and put icing in between," Harris said. "And then the company saw what he had done and started doing what he did with the gob cake."

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania teenager found in Mexico earlier this year with a 45-year-old man has been located again after skipping out of a residential program for at-risk youth.

Authorities say 16-year-old Amy Yu, of Allentown, and two other girls left VisionQuest in Franklin County early Monday. They say the girls posed no threat to the public

EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in a shooting death outside a western Pennsylvania bar more than four years ago.

The (Johnstown) Tribune-Democrat reports that a Cambria County judge on Tuesday sentenced 37-year-old Joshua Cambric to the life term plus 5½ to 12 years.

EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Jury selection has begun for the trial of a man charged in a western Pennsylvania shooting death last year.

The (Johnstown) Tribune-Democrat reports that several people were selected Monday morning for the Cambria County trial of 25-year-old Jalen Gibson.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a sanitation worker was killed when he was struck by a falling trash bin in western Pennsylvania.

Cambria County Coroner Jeffrey Lees says 19-year-old Barry Miller of Summerhill was part of a three-person crew from Pro Disposal trying to empty a trash bin shortly after 6:30 p.m. Monday outside the Alternative Community Resource Program in Brownstown.

EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two western Pennsylvania residents are accused of abandoning their 2-year-old son at a day care center last week with an apparent cigarette burn on his chest.

Thirty-year-old Chelsea Siska, of Johnstown, and 29-year-old Andrew Seese, of Ebensburg, are charged with aggravated assault and child endangerment. It wasn't know Friday if either on has retained an attorney.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — One worker was killed and two others were injured when a piece of machinery being used to repair a sewer hit an overhead power line in Pennsylvania.

Cambria County Coroner Jeffrey Lees says a 30-year-old man died Thursday after being electrocuted at a work site in Johnstown. The current condition of the injured workers is unclear.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — By the 1960s, interest in the 1889 Johnstown Flood was waning.

Few survivors of the historic tragedy were still alive. Thanks to the installation of protective walls along the Stonycreek, Little Conemaugh, and Conemaugh rivers Johnstown was thought to be free from the threat of destructive flooding.

The disaster, which claimed 2,209 lives, seemed ready to fade away into nothing more than a sepia-toned past.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Texas family is claiming in a medical malpractice case that a Pennsylvania doctor's decision to use a head wrap on their premature baby left the child with permanent head scarring.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A National Guardsman who threatened to kill Vice President Mike Pence has been sentenced to six months in prison.

A federal judge on Friday also ordered 23-year-old William Dunbar to serve an additional six months of home detention and get mental health treatment.

He pleaded guilty in December to making the threat before Pence's visit to Pennsylvania for the annual observance of the Flight 93 crash on Sept. 11.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A corrections officer beaten to death last month is being remembered as a brave Army veteran and as someone who worked to keep others safe.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf calls Sgt. Mark Baserman a loving son, devoted friend and community servant.