— Mailing a first-class letter will cost 45 cents, a penny more than the current price, beginning Sunday.

Those who buy “forever stamps” can use those stamps no matter what the cost of a stamp is at the time of mailing.

Other first-class mail prices also will rise. They include:

• Postcards will increase 3 cents to 32 cents.

• Letters to Canada or Mexico will cost 85 cents, a 5-cent increase.

• Letters to other international destinations will increase 7 cents to $1.05.

• Prices also will change for other mailing services, including standard mail, periodicals, package services and extra services.

Additional ounces for letters are unchanged at 20 cents.

There is no effect on Express Mail or Priority Mail prices.

Suspect charged in Walmart robbery

INDIANA – Troopers said they have arrested a Plumville man in the robbery of $2,600 in cash early Thursday from the Indiana Walmart.

Jesse James Van Horne, 20, was arrested at a home in White Township and jailed in lieu of bond.

Police said the robber grabbed two blue bank bags of cash as a store employee was counting the register drawers.

Volunteers douse small fire in home

ASHVILLE – Firefighters quickly extinguished a small fire that started Friday night in the basement of a two-story home on Krug Road, one mile north of Ashville.

Ashville fire Chief Joseph Racz said Leonard and Delores Krug escaped safely. The fire was accidental, he said.

The Krugs were allowed to return after firefighters cleared the smoke from the two-story home.

Also responding to the 6:40 p.m. alarm were volunteers from Patton and Portage.

Bridge lighting up to honor river

Johnstown’s Stone Bridge is illuminated in a rainbow of colors this weekend to celebrate the Stonycreek River’s recognition as River of the Year, Johnstown Area Heritage Association said Friday.

The river was selected by online voting in a program sponsored by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the state Association of Watersheds and Rivers.

$1.4M Match 6 ticket sold in Duncansville

MIDDLETOWN – A jackpot-winning Match 6 Lotto ticket worth $1.4 million from the Jan. 19 drawing was sold at Smokers Express in Duncansville, the Pennsylvania Lottery said.

The ticket correctly matched all six winning numbers,

09-19-22-25-37-49, to win a jackpot of $1,428,129.50, less 25 percent federal withholding.

The retailer will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the ticket.

Match 6 winners have one year from the drawing date to claim prizes.

Justices rule salaries not part of court costs

HARRISBURG – The salaries of prosecutors and detectives cannot be part of the court costs that convicted criminal defendants are subject to pay, the state Supreme Court has ruled in the case of two funeral directors convicted of selling cadavers to a biomedical tissue company without the families’ permission.

A unanimous opinion issued Thursday sided with the two brothers, who sold corpses to be used for tissue and body parts. The Philadelphia district attorney’s office had sought about $90,000 from each man for the salaries of assistant district attorneys and county detectives.

“We have no doubt that, as a matter of pure policy, the notion that the costs of crime should be shifted from the public ... onto financially able wrongdoers is a legitimate one,” wrote Chief Justice Ronald Castille.

Castille wrote that if the Legislature wanted to allow regularly paid salaries of prosecutors and investigators to be assessed against defendants, it would have expressly said so in state law.

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