Ex-teacher sentenced for threats at school

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A former elementary school teacher in suburban Philadelphia is getting up to two years’ confinement and 20 years probation for leaving threatening notes around the school where she worked.

Susan Romanyszyn has cancer and is allowed to begin serving her sentence under house arrest. The Bucks County judge who sentenced her Thursday said if her health improves, she will serve the remainder of her time in jail.

Romanyszyn was convicted in June of 11 counts of making terroristic threats. Authorities alleged that the 46-year-old woman orchestrated a campaign of fear at Longstreth Elementary School last year because she was angry over a classroom assignment. She denied making the threats and said she was framed.