A western Pennsylvania woman has been jailed on charges she bonked two police officers with beer thrown from an upstairs window when they answered a domestic dispute call at her home.   

Online court records don’t list an attorney for 48-year-old Diane Pusateri, of Butler Township.

Police say Pusateri was arguing with another woman as three police arrived at their home about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh one Sunday night. That’s when police say she threw a 30-pack of beer out a second-floor window, hitting two of three responding officers in the head, shoulder, neck and thigh with the cans.

Pusateri remained jailed days later, unable to post bail. She faces a preliminary hearing on charges including aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest.

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Faulty Parking Brakes?

Police don’t plan to cite the drivers of a truck and school bus which crashed in western Pennsylvania.

But only because neither vehicle had a driver when they wrecked.

Police in Patterson Township tell the Beaver County Times the incident happened just before 10 a.m. when the parked bus began to roll down a hill. Police aren’t sure why that happened, because the driver had engaged the parking brake.

The bus rear-ended a parked truck, which also began rolling down the hill alongside the bus, until the truck flipped onto its side. The bus continued on, shearing off one utility pole and hitting another before rolling to a stop a few feet from the porch of a home.

Nobody was hurt.

Patterson Township is about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

Source: Beaver County Times, http://www.timesonline.com/

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Hang In There

A 63-year-old hunter will be OK despite hanging upside-down after his tree stand broke in the western Pennsylvania woods.

Brush Valley assistant fire chief Al Pluchinsky says James Yoder, of Johnstown, was hunting with a partner in Brushvalley Township when the stand broke. Yoder’s feet got tangled and he was dangling about 15 feet off the ground, though his partner helped Yoder by trying to hold his head somewhat upright while they yelled for help.

One of Pluchinsky’s firefighters, who lives nearby, heard the distress calls and called 911. Others arrived to search and they found Yoder and his partner a little after 6 p.m.

Yoder was treated and released for minor injuries at Conemaugh Memorial Hospital in Johnstown.

Brushvalley is about 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

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Perfect Attendance Award

Robert Kirk has spent 52½ of his 85 years doing one thing exceptionally well: attending Rotary Club meetings.

The northwestern Pennsylvania man is being honored by the service organization’s international magazine, The Rotarian, for never missing a weekly meeting in those 52-plus years.

Kirk lives in Bradford, about 130 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, but has taken advantage of a rule that allows members to attend meetings in other states and countries.

A world traveler who enjoyed free trips because of his son’s employment with a major airline, Kirk has attended Rotary meetings in all 50 states and 33 foreign countries. He estimates he’s kept his perfect attendance streak alive by attending 400 to 500 meetings in other locations.

The Bradford Era reports Kirk also braved a blizzard in Denver, and checked out of a hospital to attend meetings.

Source: The Bradford Era, http://www.bradfordera.com

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That Takes the Cake

A Pittsburgh woman is suing Democratic state Rep. Jake Wheatley, saying he only coughed up half of the $200 prize he promised the winner of a community day cake-baking contest.

Fifty-five-year-old Democrat Denise Robinson says the dispute isn’t about the $100, it’s about the principle.

The paralegal says, “If my state rep will breach a contract for $200, then what is he doing for $200,000.”

Wheatley tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the whole thing is a misunderstanding.

Wheatley acknowledges fliers for the Sept. 8 event touting a $200 prize, but says contestants were told the prize would depend on the number of entrants who paid $10 each. He says the prize was smaller because fewer people entered than expected.

Robinson says Wheatley should honor the flier.

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Everybody On the Ice

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League will again allow the national anthem to be played before all high school hockey games in central and western Pennsylvania.

KDKA-TV reports PIHL commissioner Ed Sam got about 4,000 emails — including many from other states — when the plan to ban the anthem was reported by the station.

Sam says the move was never meant to be disrespectful.

He says high school teams often play back-to-back games on rented ice and some anthem performers stretched out the song and created scheduling delays that prompted some games to be curfewed — that is, ended before time ran out. That’s why the league decided to do away with the song before all games.

To remedy that, the league is distributing a one-minute-15-second instrumental version of the anthem to be played before all games.