HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate crept downward in July, even as payrolls and the labor force shrank. The state Department of Labor and Industry said Friday that Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate was 4.9 percent last month, down one-tenth of a percentage point. The national rate moved up slightly in August to 4.4 percent. A survey of households survey found that Pennsylvania’s civilian labor force, employment and unemployment all shrank in August for the second straight month. A separate survey of employers showed seasonally adjusted non-farm payrolls shrank by 8,000 from a record high in July, remaining above 5.95 million. The tourism, manufacturing and construction sectors reported growth, while government, education and health sectors reported shrinking the most. Friday’s figures are preliminary and could change.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP) — Penn State’s trustees are expected to remove the name of a former administrator convicted in the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal from a campus child care center. The Gary Schultz Child Care Center at Hort Woods was dedicated in September 2011, less than two months before former football assistant coach Sandusky was arrested on child-sex charges. Schultz, the school’s former vice president, was one of three administrators later convicted of child endangerment for mishandling a 2001 complaint that Sandusky was seen showering with a boy on campus. University spokeswoman Lisa Powers says the school stopped using Schultz’s name shortly after the Sandusky scandal broke. But Friday’s vote is needed to change the name officially to The Child Care Center at Hort Woods. Sandusky is imprisoned on numerous felony convictions.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A woman has been convicted of attempted homicide of her two young children after authorities said she tried to pipe vehicle exhaust into their car in a Pennsylvania bus station parking lot. Jurors in Luzerne County deliberated for about three hours before convicting 34-year-old Melissa Ann Scholl of two counts of attempted homicide in a retrial. Jurors in her first trial deliberated for seven hours in June but were unable to reach a verdict.
EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Police say a driver’s global positioning device caused him to drive into a Pennsylvania river this week. He says the man’s GPS led him to drive along a bicycle path in a park. When the man realized he couldn’t drive on the path, he reversed course but found he couldn’t go that way either because of a tunnel under a low bridge. Police say the man was unable to stay on the bike path because it narrowed, and his car rolled off the path sideways into the Lehigh River in Easton. Police say the driver wasn’t hurt, but he was issued several traffic citations.
FAIRVIEW, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say one of two inmates who escaped by overpowering guards in northwest Oklahoma and stealing a prison transport van has been arrested in Bucks County, PA. The Major County, Oklahoma, sheriff’s office said on its Facebook page that 32-year-old Andrew Foy was arrested Friday. Details of the arrest and where it took place were not released and the sheriff did not return a phone call for additional information. Authorities say Foy and 37-year-old Darren Walp escaped Aug. 22 near Fairview, Oklahoma. The Facebook post says Walp remains at large. The van was later found abandoned and the men were last seen driving a stolen tractor-trailer rig in the Tulsa suburb of Sapulpa. Authorities say Foy was being taken to Wyoming and Walp to Kansas, both to face charges for nonviolent offenses.
PITTSBURGH – Recognizing that the hard work of family farmers and their allies is revitalizing local economies and bringing rural and urban people together, Farm Aid 2017 in western Pennsylvania, highlighted the great promise of farmers and the food they produce to grow strong communities. The annual festival took place today at KeyBank Pavilion in Burgettstown, Pa. The sold-out event celebrating family farmers brought more than 23,000 supporters together to celebrate the success and ingenuity of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia farmers. Across the country, low prices for commodity crops, including livestock and dairy, are putting farmers at risk.
Dairy is a leading agricultural product in Pennsylvania, and dairy farmers are going off the land here as a result of the downturn. Farm Aid highlighted area dairy farmers who are developing relationships with customers through direct markets. Attributes of the region’s agriculture create resilience, including Pennsylvania’s farm diversity, a focus on organic and sustainable agriculture, and, as noted, direct markets. Pennsylvania is the birthplace of organic agriculture in the U.S. and ranks fourth in the country for direct farm sales.
Conversation starters and Features
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Twelve Harvard University student groups are condemning the school’s reversal of a decision to name Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow. The groups released a statement Saturday calling for Harvard to reinstate Manning as a fellow. Harvard reversed its decision on Friday, one day after CIA Director Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned appearance over the visiting fellow designation for the soldier convicted of leaking classified information.
Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf says on the school’s website that naming Manning a visiting fellow was a mistake. He says Manning is still invited to spend a day at the school and speak to students. Manning wrote on Twitter that Harvard chills “marginalized voices under @cia pressure.” Elmendorf didn’t immediately respond to a phone call and email seeking comment on Saturday.
MIAMI (AP) — The Florida nun who became an internet sensation when video emerged of her — dressed in full habit — wielding a chain saw to clear downed trees after Hurricane Irma says she had to look up instructions on how to start the tool. Sister Margaret Ann says she had to use Google to find out how to start the saw because she’d forgotten how.
The nun, who is principal of Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High School in Miami, says several people have sent her videos on how to use a chain saw correctly after watching her online. Sister Margaret Ann laughed off the attention, saying her students are enjoying watching her on social media. Some have even asked for her autograph. She also said she was glad the video gave the public a different view of nuns.
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Seven bikini baristas and the owner of a chain of the coffee stands called Hillbilly Hotties have sued the city of Everett, Washington, saying two recently passed ordinances banning bare skin violate their right to free expression.
The suit says the ordinances deny bikini-stand employees the ability to communicate through their attire, are vague and confusing, and unlawfully target women. The lawsuit says “Just like Starbucks with green aprons, UPS with brown trucks and outfits, and Hooters with short-orange shorts, the baristas’ attire evokes a message at work.”
EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Police say a driver’s global positioning device caused him to drive into a Pennsylvania river this week. He says the man’s GPS led him to drive along a bicycle path in a park. When the man realized he couldn’t drive on the path, he reversed course but found he couldn’t go that way either because of a tunnel under a low bridge.
Police say the man was unable to stay on the bike path because it narrowed, and his car rolled off the path sideways into the Lehigh River in Easton. Police say the driver wasn’t hurt, but he was issued several traffic citations.
Sports, Scores & Skeds
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Trace McSorley threw a Beaver Stadium-record 85-yard touchdown pass to Saquon Barkley for one of his four scoring strikes and also ran for a touchdown in No. 5 Penn State’s 56-0 victory over Georgia State 56-0. A week after a shaky start against Pittsburgh, McSorley bounced back in a rare prime-time game against a non-Power Five school.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mason Rudolph threw five touchdown passes, all in the first half, and No. 9 Oklahoma State drilled Pittsburgh 59-21. Rudolph completed 23 of 32 for 497 yards before being pulled in the middle of the third quarter with the Cowboys (3-0) in full command. Rudolph did throw his first interception of the season, ending a streak of 216 consecutive passes without a pick dating to last season. It was the longest active streak in FBS.
NATIONAL SCOREBOARD SATURDAY
INTERLEAGUE
Final Philadelphia 5 Oakland 3
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Houston 8 Seattle 6
Final N-Y Yankees 9 Baltimore 3
Final Cleveland 8 Kansas City 4
Final Chi White Sox 10 Detroit 4
Final Boston 3 Tampa Bay 1
Final Toronto 7 Minnesota 2
Final L.A. Angels 2 Texas 0
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final L.A. Dodgers 3 Washington 2
Final Chi Cubs 4 St. Louis 1
Final Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 1
Final Miami 7 Milwaukee 4
Final N-Y Mets 7 Atlanta 3
Final Colorado 16 San Diego 0
Final Arizona 2 San Francisco 0
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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PRESEASON
Final OT Vancouver 4 L.A. Kings 3
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TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Final (1) Alabama 41 Colorado St. 23
Final (2) Oklahoma 56 Tulane 14
Final (3) Clemson 47 (14) Louisville 21
Final 2OT (4) Southern Cal 27 Texas 24
Final (5) Penn St. 56 Georgia St. 0
Final (6) Washington 48 Fresno St. 16
Final (7) Michigan 29 Air Force 13
Final (8) Ohio St. 38 Army 7
Final (9) Oklahoma St. 59 Pittsburgh 21
Final (10) Wisconsin 40 BYU 6
(17) Miami at (11) Florida St. 8:00 p.m., postponed
Final Mississippi St. 37 (12) LSU 7
Final (13) Georgia 42 Samford 14
Final (15) Auburn 24 Mercer 10
Final (16) Virginia Tech 64 East Carolina 17
Final Vanderbilt 14 (18) Kansas St. 7
Final San Diego St. 20 (19) Stanford 17
Final (20) TCU 56 SMU 36
Final (21) Washington St. 52 Oregon St. 23
Final (24) Florida 26 (23) Tennessee 20
Final Memphis 48 (25) UCLA 45
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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Cleveland at Baltimore 1:00 p.m.
Minnesota at Pittsburgh 1:00 p.m.
New England at New Orleans 1:00 p.m.
Chicago at Tampa Bay 1:00 p.m.
Tennessee at Jacksonville 1:00 p.m.
Arizona at Indianapolis 1:00 p.m.
Philadelphia at Kansas City 1:00 p.m.
Buffalo at Carolina 1:00 p.m.
N-Y Jets at Oakland 4:05 p.m.
Miami at Los Angeles 4:05 p.m.
Dallas at Denver 4:25 p.m.
San Francisco at Seattle 4:25 p.m.
Washington at Los Angeles 4:25 p.m.
Green Bay at Atlanta 8:30 p.m.
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MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Final Orlando 3 Atlanta 3
TODAY’S SPORTS SCHEDULE
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INTERLEAGUE
Oakland at Philadelphia 1:35 p.m.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore at N-Y Yankees 1:05 p.m.
Boston at Tampa Bay 1:10 p.m.
Chi White Sox at Detroit 1:10 p.m.
Kansas City at Cleveland 1:10 p.m.
Seattle at Houston 2:10 p.m.
Toronto at Minnesota 2:10 p.m.
Texas at L.A. Angels 3:37 p.m.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati 1:10 p.m.
N-Y Mets at Atlanta 1:35 p.m.
Milwaukee at Miami 2:10 p.m.
St. Louis at Chi Cubs 2:20 p.m.
San Diego at Colorado 3:10 p.m.
Arizona at San Francisco 4:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at Washington 8:08 p.m.
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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PRESEASON
Philadelphia at N-Y Islanders 1:00 p.m.
Vegas at Vancouver 5:00 p.m.
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WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Minnesota at Washington 3:00 p.m.
L.A. Sparks at Phoenix 5:00 p.m.
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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Cleveland at Baltimore 1:00 p.m.
Minnesota at Pittsburgh 1:00 p.m.
New England at New Orleans 1:00 p.m.
Chicago at Tampa Bay 1:00 p.m.
Tennessee at Jacksonville 1:00 p.m.
Arizona at Indianapolis 1:00 p.m.
Philadelphia at Kansas City 1:00 p.m.
Buffalo at Carolina 1:00 p.m.
N-Y Jets at Oakland 4:05 p.m.
Miami at Los Angeles 4:05 p.m.
Dallas at Denver 4:25 p.m.
San Francisco at Seattle 4:25 p.m.
Washington at Los Angeles 4:25 p.m.
Green Bay at Atlanta 8:30 p.m.
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MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Philadelphia at New York 1:00 p.m.
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