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Youth, 16, charged in slaying of teenage Pa. girl

BRADDOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Police in western Pennsylvania say a teenager has been charged and a second suspect is being sought in the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl at a Pittsburgh-area housing complex. Allegheny County homicide investigators said police and paramedics found the girl's body when they were called to the Hawkins Village housing complex in Rankin shortly after 7:30 p.m. Friday. The county medical examiner's office identified her as Delasia Dutrieuille.

Pa. teen suspended, cited for shooting classmate with BB gun

WEST CHESTER (AP) -- Police say a suburban Philadelphia high school student was cited and suspended after a classmate was shot with a BB gun in homeroom. Investigators in Chester County allege that the 16-year-old student brought the gun to Rustin High School on Thursday and other students encouraged him to fire it at a friend. Westtown-East Goshen police said in a statement that the victim was uninjured by the plastic pellet except for a "minor red mark" on his chest. Police said school officials learned about the matter from an anonymous note from another student.

Town transfixed by teen girls' murder plot

STAR CITY, W.Va. (AP) -- For nearly nine months, the people of this small West Virginia town saw the face of missing 16-year-old honors student Skylar Neese everywhere -- beaming at them from fliers on utility poles, in gas stations, even at the local tattoo parlor. She had been missing since she slipped out of her bedroom window one night last summer, but some in this town of fewer than 2,000 people never believed she had run away.

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