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Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly, one of the key players in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case, yesterday announced the filing of a series of felony charges against a Butler County, PA man accused of using Facebook to operate an elaborate and disturbing false identity scheme that was used to solicit young girls for explicit photos ... (more)

A married father used phony Facebook profiles to pose as two different Florida surfers to solicit sexually graphic messages and photos from seven teenage girls in western Pennsylvania, and two of the girls eventually agreed to meet for sex with the surfers' middle-aged "friend" - yet another fake persona he used, the state attorney general said ... (more)

Across western Pennsylvania, an increasing number of school districts are hiring private contractors to take care of school security, but state law still requires districts to make sure those guards have clean criminal records.