Pa. man gets life in prison for drownings

BRADFORD, Pa. (AP) — A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading no contest to killing a woman and her infant in the bathtub of a home all three shared with several other people.

Forty-year-old Waide Nolf, of Bradford, avoided trial Tuesday by entering the first-degree murder plea in the March 19, 2010 death of 24-year-old Tonya Haight, and a plea to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her daughter, Tamara, who was less than a month old.

Bradford police say Nolf at first said Haight had a seizure then fell into the tub, but they say he eventually confessed to killing both by holding them under water after becoming angry that Haight walked in on him in the bathroom.

The Bradford Era reports that Nolf said nothing before a visiting senior judge sentenced him in McKean County.