Today in PA | A PennLive daily news briefing with Claudia Dimuro

Legislators have turned down Governor Tom Wolf’s request to create a bill that would instill mask mandates for schools and childcare facilities. A group of students at North Allegheny Senior High School walked out in protest of such a mask mandate. Center Sean Couturier has just signed an eight-year, $62 million contract extension with the Flyers. Plus, one man decided to use a scoreboard at a Rubber Ducks-Harrisburg Senators game to break up with his girlfriend.

 

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After three years, Pennsylvania’s opioid disaster declaration has ended. Governor Tom Wolf has asked the state legislature to create a bill requiring masks in classrooms. The Hanover Township woman who spat in a supermarket while claiming she had COVID-19 has landed a two-year prison sentence. And a 4-year-old from Butler County makes a strange—and beyond ancient—discovery in a forest.

 

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A police officer in Butler was stabbed multiple times before he managed to fatally shoot his assailant. The Bryn Mawr company that’s been buying up public utilities throughout suburbs in Philadelphia is looking to increase water and sewer bills by a lot. Deer hunters in the state will face new regulations that look to mitigate the spread of a chronic wasting disease reported in deer, elk, and other related species. Finally, dogs rescued from South Korea that were almost eaten are finding new homes in Pennsylvania.

 

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Allegheny County-based Shuman Juvenile Detention Center has had its license revoked by the state Department of Human Services. An arrest has been made in the vicious beating of a delivery driver in Philadelphia that has left the victim in a coma. Amtrak has estimated that the proposed route between Scranton and New York would bring in millions of dollars per year. And, ironically enough, this stop sign in Cheltenham is inspiring people to keep going.

 

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A Philadelphia man severely wounded a “Good Samaritan” who was protecting the girlfriend he was chasing before getting fatally shot by police. U.S. Senator Bob Casey has estimated that Pennsylvania will receive over $11 billion from the pending bipartisan infrastructure bill. Individuals and organizations alike continue to help refugees from Afghanistan find places to live in the state. And 100-year-old linden trees are saved in Bethlehem.

 

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The man who shot a Bucks County police officer is now facing an attempted murder charge as well as others. Mayor Jim Kenney has shot down the call by activists to bring in the National Guard in order to help handle the city’s spike in gun violence. Lockheed Martin announced that it will close its Sikorsky helicopter plant in Coatesville. And if you’re looking to live in a state that has some of the cheapest pepperoni pizza around, look no further than Pennsylvania.

 

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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia publicly urged priests not to help parishioners to get religious exemption from getting the COVID-19 vaccine. For the second year in a row, Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade has been cancelled. That Christopher Columbus statue will remain standing in South Philly. And was that a…baby kangaroo spotted hopping around Lebanon County?

 

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The fire that destroyed two portable classrooms at an Allentown elementary school in July has been ruled as arson. Three men and one juvenile were busted in Pittsburgh while they were at a hotel with “large quantities of narcotics.” A flash warning is currently in effect and will end early tomorrow. Plus, a Vietnam vet finally had the chance to pay back a debt to his fallen comrade over 50 years later.

 

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A passenger at Lehigh Valley International Airport was caught with a loaded gun for the third time in less than a month. A former West Penn Hospital employee who secretly filmed nearly 60 of his coworkers and patients undressing has been sentenced. The Port Authority has (finally) rolled out its smartphone payment system for bus riders. Plus, this deer got more trick than treat when a Halloween candy bucket got stuck to its face.

 

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Healthcare workers as well as college employees and students in Philadelphia must get the COVID-19 vaccine by mid-October or submit to regular testing and other requirements. About half a million state residents will see their extra federal unemployment money end by early next month. The identity of the victim whose head was kept in a Lancaster man’s freezer has been confirmed. And a lost puppy found at a Centre County state park isn’t all it appears to be.

 

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