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Pa. cops hope ‘forecast’ includes arrest of robber

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Pa.

Police in northwestern Pennsylvania are hoping some video shot by the Weather Channel will precipitate an arrest in a local bank robbery.

State police say a Weather Channel crew was in the area shooting video on heavy snows Tuesday morning when the Community National Bank of Northwestern Pennsylvania was robbed in Springfield Township.

Police tell the Erie Times-News the robber stole a bank employee’s vehicle to drive away and say they found the vehicle abandoned near the area where the Weather Channel crew was shooting video, near Route 6N and Interstate 90.

Police say they don’t know yet whether the video includes any images of the robber or the abandoned vehicle.

The bank is about 15 miles southwest of Erie, near the Ohio border.

Would-be copper thief in W. Pa. spooked by sparks

PULASKI, Pa.

Police in one western Pennsylvania township believe a would-be copper thief might have been spooked by sparks.

Chad Adams, the officer in charge of the police in Pulaski Township about 40 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, says police found a pair of 36-inch bolt cutters Saturday — still attached to a 480-volt power line that leads to a former school building.

Adams tells the New Castle News that selling copper for scrap is becoming common, so he’s guessing that when someone tried to cut down the wire, “he saw a big spark and that scared the hell out of him.”

Adams says the power line was cut about half-way through.

Police have the bolt cutters but still are searching for the person who used them.

Couple finds $4,500 wedding ring in dog’s stomach

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

A couple has found a suspect in the disappearance of their $4,500 wedding ring — their 10-month old basset hound.

KOB-TV reported Wednesday that a veterinarian recently removed the ring from the dog named Coraline after X-rays showed it was lodged deep in her stomach and wasn’t coming out on its own.

Albuquerque resident Rachelle Atkinson says she and her husband, Scott, had searched everywhere for the ring before beginning to suspect the dog ate it.

The vet said basset hounds have a tendency to eat rocks.

Atkinson says she now hides the ring while Coraline is off munching away at anything she can find.

Associated Press