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Twenty-seven DHS students caught at drinking party, official says

DANVILLE -- Police will cite more than two dozen Danville students for underage drinking at a post-prom party discovered Sunday morning, school board President Allan Schappert says. The party, hosted at 118 Elysburg Road in Rush Township -- the home of Joseph and Maria Harris, according to records -- ended with one student being taken to the hospital with a high blood-alcohol content, officials said. Eight of the 27 partygoers to be cited are at least 18, Schappert said after talking with the Stonington State Police.

Probation for Pa. man who shot costumed child

BEAVER, Pa. (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania man has been placed on two years' probation in the shooting of a costumed child that police said he mistook for an animal. The Beaver County Times says 25-year-old Thomas Grant of Rochester pleaded no contest Monday to misdemeanor simple assault and reckless endangerment counts. An aggravated assault charge in the October shooting of the 8-year-old girl at a Halloween party in New Sewickley was dismissed in February.

Artery problem blamed in Pa. marathoner's death at 23

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a runner who collapsed and died during the half-marathon competition of the Pittsburgh Marathon had an inherited abnormality of the coronary artery system. The Allegheny County medical examiner's office said an autopsy Monday on the body of 23-year-old Kyle Johnson of Pittsburgh revealed the abnormality in the system that supplies oxygen to the muscles of the heart. Dr. Karl Williams said such defects are rare but are associated with sudden unexplained deaths, such as the 1988 death of NBA star Pete Maravich.

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