Keystone Cops: I Don’t Think This Is What They Mean By A Press Defense

Keystone Cops is an occasional look at crime, public safety and police news.

• Former Temple hoops star Pamela Balogh — the school’s all-time leading scorer — was arrested for allegedly molesting a player while she was basketball coach of Somerville’s Immaculata High School. John Chaney continues to look more and more awesome every day. [NBC 10]

• Prosecutors argued yesterday they should be able to use Christopher Kornberger’s rap lyrics in his capital murder trial. The 21-year-old, who has also confessed on videotape, received this impassioned defense from his mother: “He was a typical boy. He didn’t have murderous thoughts. If he had those thoughts, don’t you think he would have come to his mother?” Don’t answer that. [Camden Courier-Post]

• In the continuing Week of Weird School News, Newtown Elementary School was closed today because 190 kids had been sickened with a stomach virus. The outbreak started Wednesday, coincidentally the same day as the “mystery toxic sludge lunch.” [KYW 1060]

• Police were called to a meat packing plant in Souderton after there was a work stoppage after employees were upset about bonuses being delayed. The bonuses, of course, were for the company’s championship football team that defeated the Pottsville Maroons last weekend. [AP/6 ABC]