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Town police chief to retire

BLOOMSBURG -- The town's longtime police chief is retiring to take over as head of campus security at a small private school in Lancaster County. Leo Sokoloski announced Wednesday he would retire from Bloomsburg at the end of June to take a position at Elizabethtown College, a school of 1,900 students. Sokoloski, 50, has headed the town police department since 2001, when he took over after Chief Larry Smith retired. He has been an officer with the town since 1980, according to newspaper archives.

Ex-cop sought in Mount Carmel shooting killed by Philly police

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A former police officer being sought in a central Pennsylvania shooting was shot and killed during a confrontation with law enforcement officers at a Philadelphia-area hotel, authorities said Tuesday night. Police in Mount Carmel had earlier announced that Anthony Galla, 32, was being sought in a shooting in the Northumberland County borough and should be considered "armed and extremely dangerous."

Pa. state police report 13 dead in weekend crashes

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania state police investigated crashes that killed 13 people and injured 245 over the long Memorial Day weekend. The number of fatalities matched last year's total, while injuries declined from 311 in 2012, the agency reported Tuesday. Troopers responded to 760 crashes on Pennsylvania roadways between Friday and Monday. Last year, state police investigated 817 accidents over the four-day holiday weekend, a time of heavy travel. Other Memorial weekend traffic statistics reported by state police:

Census: Six major Pa. cities grow in population

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- It's hardly a boom, but the population of six major Pennsylvania cities increased modestly between 2010 and 2012, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Last week, the Census Bureau released a list of population trends in 729 U.S. cities with populations over 50,000, from those with the strongest population growth to the weakest. Philadelphia had the strongest growth in Pennsylvania, at 1.4 percent, or just over 21,600 people.

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