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Dad charged with Pa. infant's shooting death

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- A central Pennsylvania man was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter and other offenses for the shooting death of his 2-month-old daughter on Christmas Eve, and his lawyer said the man was devastated by the killing and plans to plead guilty. G. Scott Davis, 35, had been "messing with" a newly purchased 9 mm handgun and purposely pulled the trigger, accidentally hitting Kestyn as she laid in a nearby baby's swing in their apartment outside Lancaster, District Attorney Craig Stedman said.

Police probe Pa. road-rage shooting

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Police from two states plan to publicly discuss their investigation into the shooting death of a Maine man in an apparent case of road-rage. State police from Pennsylvania and Maryland plan to participate in the Tuesday news conference. Investigators are working with the FBI to find a small dark-colored pickup truck with damage to the front quarter panel or driver's side door. It also may have silver paint scrapes from the car of victim Timothy Davison of Poland, Maine.

5 things to know about the record-breaking freeze

Here are five things to know about the deep freeze that's swept across most of the U.S. over the past few days:1. COLD OUTSIDE? YOU'RE NOT ALONENearly 187 million people, more than half of the nation's population, were under a wind chill warning or advisory Monday. The winds made it feel like 55 below zero in International Falls, Minn., and parts of the Midwest accustomed to temperatures that are cold -- albeit seldom this cold. But even the coal fields of Virginia and West Virginia, the wind chill was negative 35.

Schools debate cold-weather closings

EDITOR'S NOTE: Here's the complete list of school closings for Tuesday. * Benton, CLOSED * Berwick, CLOSED * Bloomsburg, CLOSED * Bloomsburg Christian, CLOSED * Columbia County Christian, CLOSED * Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech, CLOSED * Danville Area, CLOSED * Millville Area, CLOSED * Northwest Area, CLOSED * Southern Columbia, CLOSED * Saint Columba, Bloomsburg, CLOSED

Man gets prison time for slapping toddler on plane

ATLANTA (AP) -- A man slapped a crying toddler during a flight will serve eight months in federal prison. Joe Rickey Hundley was accused of using a racial slur to refer to the 19-month-old boy, who's black, and hitting him under the eye as the flight from Minneapolis descended to the Atlanta airport last February. He pleaded guilty in October to simple assault after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors.

The PE Sneak Peek: Jan. 6, 2014

Here's a look at the stories that are keeping our reporters busy Monday: * Price of crime: Two drug suspects must give up nearly $50,000 seized from them when they were busted. * I-80 was finally reopened at 4:30 this morning after a tanker spilled about 200 gallons of fuel in a crash Sunday afternoon, officials say. ?Read our online story.* It's two DUIs in little more than two months for a rural Bloomsburg man, police say.

Pa. police seek gunman in I-81 slaying near Md.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A holiday traveler killed in an apparent road-rage shooting in Pennsylvania had reported some sort of road dispute with the pickup chasing him, state police said Sunday. Timothy Davison, 28, of Maine, had called 911 as he crossed from Maryland into Pennsylvania on Interstate 81 early Saturday. He reported some sort of problem, such as one driver braking suddenly or cutting someone off, and said a gunman inside the pickup was now shooting at him, said Trooper Rob Hicks, a state police spokesman.

Pope to nuns: Why aren't you answering the phone?

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent Happy New Year. Only he got their answering machine, instead. "What are the nuns doing that they can't answer the phone?" Francis asked in the message he left, the recording of which was obtained by Spain's El Mundo newspaper and broadcast on Italian media Saturday. "This is Pope Francis. I wanted to offer you greetings for the end of the year. Maybe I'll try to call again later. May God bless you," he said.

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