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BLOOMFIELD, Pa. (AP) -- A 33-year-old central Pennsylvania man is facing criminal homicide charges after a 3-month-old girl died from head trauma. State police said Thursday they charged Joshua Michael Gross of New Bloomfield for the death of the girl. An ambulance crew was called to a home in Bloomfield on Saturday after the girl wasn't breathing. Police say the child's injuries showed "abusive head trauma consistent with shaking." Gross, engaged to the girl's mother, had previously been charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and endangering a child's welfare.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A University of Utah student says he paid his tuition bill with 2,000 one-dollar bills as a silent protest against the rising cost of college. Luq Mughal brought a metal case full of greenbacks to the school Tuesday, the deadline for payment. He says he collected the cash from several banks. Mughal tells The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/1kY4Rij ) he spends weekends working to pay for his electrical engineering degree. The 21-year-old says he gets a discount because his father is a faculty member and acknowledges his situation is far from the worst on campus.

NEW YORK (AP) -- More than 30 years after the crime, a reputed mobster was indicted Thursday in the $6 million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport that was dramatized in the Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas." The wide-ranging indictment naming Vincent Asaro, his son Jerome and three other defendants alleges murder, robbery, extortion, arson and bookmaking. Asaro was accused of participating in the Dec. 11, 1978, armed robbery -- one of the largest cash thefts in American history.

FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) -- A northwest Ohio shelter hopes to find a permanent home for an orange cat that drew widespread attention when it was rescued after spending days in a drainpipe during some severely cold weather. Officials at the Hancock County Humane Society say they're accepting adoption applications and donations to help with medical bills for the male cat, now named Piper.