A 16-COUNT GRAND JURY INDICTMENT ALLEGES FORMER NORTHAMPTON COUNTY SOLICITOR AND PUBLIC DEFENDER ANTHONY MARTINO STOLE MONEY FROM SOME OF HIS CLIENTS. D.A. JOHN MORGANELLI SAYS THESE ARE SERIOUS CHARGES. "THIS INVOLVES A BREACH OF A FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIENT AND ATTORNEY," MORGANELLI SAYS. THE D.A. SAYS IT ALL BEGAN IN 2008 WHEN MARTINO STOLE MONEY FROM THE ESTATE OF A MAN WHO HAD DIED AND WANTED HIS MONEY GIVEN TO MORAVIAN COLLEGE. INSTEAD, MORGANELLI SAYS MARTINO WROTE MORE THAN 90 CHECKS TO HIMSELF FROM THE ESTATE TOTALING MORE THAN $237,000. WHEN IT CAME TIME TO PAY THE COLLEGE, MARTINO ALLEGEDLY TOOK A $75,000 SETTLEMENT AND AN $87,000 IRS PAYMENT FROM TWO OTHER CLIENTS AND BORROWED $50,000 FROM A CLIENT TO MAKE THAT PAYMENT.
IT'S UP TO 80 YEARS IN PRISON FOR 19-YEAR-OLD URIAH O'CARROLL, WHO SHOT AND KILLED AN ALLENTOWN MAN IN JULY 2011. O'CARROLL RECEIVED 40 TO 80 YEARS BEHIND BARS, WHICH IS THE STIFFEST POSSIBLE SENTENCE FOR HIS THIRD-DEGREE MURDER PLEA. O'CARROLL KILLED MARCUS EGGLESTON IN THE MIDST OF AN ONGOING PATERNITY SUIT OVER A CHILD BOTH O'CARROLL AND EGGLESTON BELIEVED TO BE THEIR'S. O'CARROLL ALSO SHOT EGGLESTON'S MOTHER IN THE HEAD. SHE SURVIVED.
THE SNOWPLOW DRIVER WHO HIT A PEDESTRIAN BACK IN JANUARY WILL SERVE SIX TO 18 MONTHS IN PRISON. KEITH KICHLINE WAS SENTENCED MONDAY FOR DRIVING A SNOWPLOW WITH A SUSPENDED DRIVER'S LICENSE AND THEN HITTING ANDRENA POLLANTIS AT THE INTERSECTION OF LINDEN STREET AND AMERICAN PARKWAY. WITNESSES SAY KICHLINE STOPPED, SAW THE WOMAN LYING IN THE ROADWAY AND THEN DROVE AWAY. POLLANTIS SUFFERED SEVERAL BROKEN BONES IN THE ACCIDENT.
THE MAYOR OF ALBURTIS HAS DIED. 77-YEAR-OLD ROBERT MADER DIED MONDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME. MADER WAS ELECTED MAYOR IN 2009 AND HAD BEEN A BOROUGH COUNCIL MEMBER FOR THE EIGHT YEARS PRIOR TO THAT.
A FORMER VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER WILL SPEND THE NEXT ONE TO TWO YEARS IN JAIL FOR SETTING FIRES RATHER THAN PUTTING THEM OUT. 21-YEAR-OLD CORY PRASCHYK ADMITTED TO CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ARSON AND WAS ACCUSED OF SETTING ALMOST A DOZEN FIRES WITH NICOLLE BALLIET, WHO WAS SENTENCED TO SEVEN AND A HALF MONTHS TO 23 MONTHS IN PRISON. PRASCHYK HAS ALSO PLEADED GUILTY TO SETTING TWO FIRES IN NORTHAMPON COUNTY AND WILL BE SENTENCED FOR THOSE ARSONS NEXT MONTH. HE VOLUNTEERED FOR FIRE COMPANIES IN EAST ALLEN TOWNSHIP AND BATH.
TWO PEOPLE ARE IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER AN ACCIDENT INVOLVING A CAR AND A HORSE-AND-BUGGY. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED LATE MONDAY NIGHT IN MAIDENCREEK TOWNSHIP, BERKS COUNTY. POLICE SAY A CAR COLLIDED WITH THE HORSE-AND-BUGGY, KILLING THE HORSE. WE AREN'T BEING TOLD IF THE TWO PEOPLE TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WERE IN THE CAR OR THE BUGGY OR WHAT THEIR CONDITIONS ARE.
SPARKS FLEW QUICKLY IN THE FIRST AND ONLY DEBATE BETWEEN CANDIDATES VYING FOR PENNSYLVANIA ATTORNEY GENERAL. CUMBERLAND COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY DAVID FREED AND FORMER LACKAWANNA COUNTY PROSECUTOR KATHLEEN KANE MET AT MONDAY EVENING'S DEBATE IN HARRISBURG. KANE, A DEMOCRAT, SAYS SHE WANTS TO KNOW WHY THE INVESTIGATION INTO JERRY SANDUSKY TOOK 33 MONTHS AND WHY MORE INVESTIGATORS WEREN'T USED. FREED, A REPUBLICAN, SAYS HE'D CONDUCT A REVIEW SIMILAR TO ONE WHERE THERE'S USE OF FORCE BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. FREED MAINTAINS HE'S MORE EXPERIENCED, BUT KANE SAYS HE WOULDN'T BE INDEPENDENT FROM GOV. TOM CORBETT. KANE ALSO SAYS SHE'LL PRESS FOR A LOST AND STOLEN HANDGUN REPORTING LAW TO CURB GUN VIOLENCE, WHILE FREED SAYS MORE FUNDING IS NEED FOR A GUN CRIMES TASK FORCE.
PENN STATE WANTS A JUDGE TO PUT FORMER ASSISTANT FOOTBALL COACH MIKE MCQUEARY'S LAWSUIT AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY ON HOLD. UNIVERSITY LAWYERS FILED A MOTION MONDAY IN CENTRE COUNTY COURT ASKING THAT THE DEFAMATION AND WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT NOT MOVE FORWARD WHILE CRIMINAL CHARGES ARE PENDING AGAINST TWO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. THE SCHOOL ARGUES IT WOULDN'T BE FAIR TO HAVE THE CASE PROCEED UNTIL THE CRIMINAL CHARGES ARE RESOLVED AGAINST ATHLETIC DIRECTOR TIM CURLEY, NOW ON LEAVE, AND RETIRED VICE PRESIDENT GARY SCHULTZ. THEIR TRIAL IS SET FOR JANUARY ON CHARGES THEY DIDN'T PROPERLY REPORT SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE BY JERRY SANDUSKY AND LIED TO THE GRAND JURY THAT INVESTIGATED HIM. MCQUEARY TESTIFIED THIS SUMMER THAT HE SAW THE FORMER PENN STATE DEFENSIVE COACH ASSAULT A BOY IN A CAMPUS SHOWER.
THREE MORE CASES OF FUNGAL MENINGITIS WERE REPORTED OVER THE WEEKEND IN NEW JERSEY. THAT BRINGS TO 16 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES IN THE STATE THAT ARE TIED TO A RECALLED, POTENTIALLY TAINTED STEROID PRODUCED BY A SPECIALTY PHARMACY IN MASSACHUSETTS. NATIONALLY NEARLY 300 CASES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN 16 STATES, INCLUDING 23 DEATHS. IN NEW JERSEY STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY ALL OF THOSE SICKENED ARE RECOVERING. HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY THE THREE NEW PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH PROBABLE FUNGAL MENINGITIS ARE ALL FROM CUMBERLAND COUNTY, WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE NEW JERSEY CASES HAVE BEEN RECORDED.
