NORTH VERSAILLES — Allegheny County police said they’ve charged a Pittsburgh-area man with homicide in the death of his 2-month-old son, who died of head injuries.
Police said they responded to a call Sunday night at the North Versailles apartment of 54-year-old Michael Lewis and found him suffering from a possible overdose and the infant, DeCarlos Lewis, unresponsive.
The boy died a short time later at UPMC McKeesport hospital. An autopsy showed he died of blunt force trauma to the head.
Police charged Lewis with criminal homicide, endangering the welfare of children and resisting arrest on Tuesday.
He’s being held at the Allegheny Count Jail.
Ex-pastor sentenced for soliciting teen
NORRISTOWN – A retired pastor from eastern Pennsylvania will spend at least 10 more months in prison after being sentenced for sexually propositioning a 15-year-old girl over the Internet.
Sixty-three-year-old former Allentown minister Paul Marmon was sentenced to up to five years in prison on Monday and must register as a sex offender under Megan’s law upon his release. Marmon has been behind bars since his arrest.
Prosecutors said Marmon posed as a 19-year-old man.
Man pleads in teen pole-dance party case
EASTON – An eastern Pennsylvania man accused of hosting a teen drinking party at which students danced at a stripper pole has pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts of selling alcohol to minors.
Thirty-seven-year-old Steven Russo of Bethlehem Township pleaded guilty Tuesday in a deal in which prosecutors dropped more serious charges.
Russo was sentenced in Northampton County Court to six months to a year in prison.
He was previously sentenced to three to 23 months for stalking his ex-girlfriend. Both sentences will be served concurrently.
Russo was charged after racy photos surfaced online of students drinking and dancing at a stripper pole during a 2008 party at his house.
Striking teachers to return today
PENN HILLS – More than 400 striking teachers in the Penn Hills School District near Pittsburgh say they’ll return to class today in a gesture aimed at settling a contract impasse.
The teachers went on strike Feb. 4.
The state Department of Education had previously ordered the teachers to return by Thursday so students can receive a state-mandated
180 days of instruction by June 15.
The teachers want a five-year contract with annual raises of about 6 percent and lower health premiums for some teachers. The district offered a three-year deal with raises above 3 percent in the last two years and increased health premiums.
