STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) _ A central Pennsylvania man is behind bars and a Penn State student is in the hospital with stab wounds after what police say was an insult over a hat.
Twenty-eight-year-old State College resident Terence Robert Cane is accused of stabbing the student twice, once in the torso and once in the upper arm.
The 24-year-old student underwent multiple surgeries and is expected to recover. His name wasn’t released.
Witnesses say the stabbing happened during a fight early Wednesday that started when Cane and his friends began making fun of a hat the student was wearing.
Cane is charged with aggravated assault and related counts.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Convicted former state Sen. Vincent Fumo of Philadelphia has made another bid in his effort to avoid going to prison Monday.
Fumo is asking a federal appeals panel to let him remain free on bail while he appeals his 139-count conviction and sentence.
The trial judge had denied the request.
The 66-year-old Fumo was a wealthy Democratic power broker during his 30-year senate career.
He is due to serve about 4-1/2 years in prison for defrauding the senate and two nonprofits of several million dollars.
Federal prosecutors say they will oppose the appeal filed late Wednesday with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The federal government is releasing $101 million in economic stimulus money to help finance an expansion of weatherization projects in Pennsylvania.
The payment was announced by the Department of Energy on Wednesday. It is in addition to $22 million in stimulus funds that had been previously approved.
It’s all part of the $253 million the state expects to receive to weatherize the homes of nearly 30,000 low-income families over the next two and a half years.
The money had been held up by the ongoing state budget stalemate between Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell and Republicans who control the Senate. That obstacle was removed last month, however, when lawmakers passed - and Rendell signed - a partial budget to keep the state government running while budget talks continue.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Dozens of people testifying at a Philadelphia hearing were warning of a disastrous winter for low-income families if there are cutbacks to a statewide home heating program.
The hearing was held Tuesday by the state Public Welfare Department on proposed changes to its Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP.
The proposed changes include a shortened eligibility season for cash grants and emergency grants.
Income eligibility would be changed from 200 percent of the federal poverty level to 150 percent.
Another hearing is scheduled for Thursday in Pittsburgh.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State says tailgaters who like drinking beer in the grass parking lots before games will have to can it.
A new policy announced Monday bans glass bottles from its field lots.
That also means pouring the contents of a bottle into a cup is a no-go. Bottles won’t be allowed anywhere in the grass lots, even if they’re empty and in a recycling bag.
Officials say it’s a safety issue for children, students and animals that use the field the rest of the year.
Those who tailgate on concrete will still be able to drink from glass - the rule applies only to the grass lots.

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - The U.S. Postal Service is marking the eighth anniversary of Flight 93’s crash in southwestern Pennsylvania with a special pictorial cancellation on letters handled at a nearby post office.
The Shanksville Post Office will offer the cancellation for 30 days starting Sept. 11, the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that included a hijacked jet that crashed in a field about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
The image on the cancellation will honor the 33 passengers and seven crew killed in the crash by depicting the “Memorial Chapel Station” near the crash site. The National Park Services is in the process of turning the crash site into a national memorial by the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Gov. Ed Rendell said Monday that negotiators were nearing agreement on the critical question of how large Pennsylvania’s state government budget ought to be.
The Democratic governor described the sides as being “relatively close” to settling on a figure somewhere around $28 billion.
He also said there had been “concessions” on identifying new sources of recurring revenues to plug the state’s multibillion-dollar budget gap - meaning new or higher taxes - but added there were “none that I think the sides would want me to make public at this point.”
Pennsylvania is nearly two months into its fiscal year without a comprehensive budget agreement in place, although state workers have been getting paid since stopgap budget legislation was signed into law earlier this month.

By Joe Mandak, Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A former Nevada casino worker who accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of rape in a civil lawsuit should drop the case because her own e-mails and text messages prove she wasn’t assaulted, his attorney said.
The woman “should abandon her lawsuit immediately and admit that Ben Roethlisberger did not rape her,” Roethlisberger’s attorney W. David Cornwell said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. “We believe that (the woman’s) own words directly refute the scurrilous allegations made in her complaint.”
The woman contends in the lawsuit filed last month in Washoe County District Court in Reno, Nev., that Roethlisberger raped her in his room at Harrah’s in Lake Tahoe in July 2008 when he was there to play in a celebrity golf tournament.
The woman never went to authorities; her lawsuit says she didn’t file a criminal complaint because she feared Harrah’s would side with Roethlisberger and she would be fired. She also accused Harrah’s officials of orchestrating a cover-up.
Cornwell provided the AP and other news outlets with 18 pages of e-mails and texts purportedly between the 31-year-old woman and a male friend.
Cornwell wouldn’t say Wednesday how he obtained the e-mails and texts, but said he has a “good faith basis” to believe they are legitimate. Some of the e-mails were sent within a day of the alleged attack, including some just a couple of hours later, Cornwell said.
In an e-mail two days before the alleged rape, the woman tells her friend that she has been chosen to take care of the resort’s celebrity guests, including Roethlisberger, Cornwell said. She also tells him that he and the quarterback look alike.
On July 12, less than 24 hours after the alleged rape, the woman writes about how much she has enjoyed entertaining the celebrities and VIPs.
“The golf tournament has been really fun … I am really excited because we are all going to see Journey tonight and that will be soooooo much fun. Speaking of which I need to head over to dinner with your lookalike and a few others before heading out,” the e-mail said, according to Cornwell.
The Associated Press does not generally identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted.
The woman’s Reno-based attorney, Calvin Dunlap, didn’t return a message left by The Associated Press on Wednesday. Cornwell wouldn’t comment beyond his e-mailed statement.
In her lawsuit, the woman said she was distraught and left work after the assault, going to cry in her pickup truck.
But in an e-mail sent from her work station two hours after the alleged attack, she sounds as if nothing has occurred, Cornwell said. “Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh I finally got away,” she writes. Nine minutes later sent him a cute note filled with mock baby talk, Cornwell said.
In text messages sent in December, the man asked her what would happen if they broke up, Cornwell said.
“I would date Ben Roethlisberger,” she answered. “hahahahah.”

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The University of Pittsburgh says it’s not interested in an estimated $225,000 estate from the gunman who committed suicide after killing three women and wounding nine others at a Pittsburgh-area health club.
Court papers of the intended gift were filed Friday by the brother and executor for 48-year-old George Sodini, of Scott Township. A university spokesman rejected the offer on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, two women injured in the Aug. 4 shooting at the L.A. Fitness club in Collier Township intend to sue Sodini’s estate. Lisa Marie Fleeher and Ashley Ferragonio filed notices Tuesday in Allegheny County court. A message left for their lawyer wasn’t returned.
Sodini graduated from Pitt in 1992 and named the school as beneficiary in a 2007 will.

By Marc Levy, Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - State Senate Republican leaders say they will try to override some of the spending items vetoed by Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell in a seven-week-old partisan budget impasse that is weakening the state’s social safety net.
Senate Republicans said a session scheduled for Wednesday might include votes on nearly $2.2 billion in spending for everything from money for college tuition grants to food bank aid.
The move comes as closed-door talks between top legislators are said to be making achingly slow progress toward a compromise on how to resolve a multibillion-dollar revenue shortfall.
Meanwhile, day-care providers are laying off workers and nonprofit providers of services for the poor, disabled and elderly are struggling to stay afloat while state government runs on a bare-bones budget.
A successful veto override requires two-thirds majority votes in the House and Senate. Such an effort would face an uphill climb in the Senate, where cooperation from four Democrats is necessary, and an even tougher time in the House, where 37 Democratic votes are necessary.
In a statement Tuesday, Republicans accused the Democratic governor of using college students, rape victims and the needy as hostages to get his way in the stalled budget talks.
“The governor’s decision to veto funding for line items such as food banks shows a lack of compassion for Pennsylvanians who are struggling with record-high unemployment rates,” said Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware.
Rendell said he expects Democrats will defend his vetoes and sought to put the onus back on the Legislature to produce a budget proposal that is acceptable.
“The answer isn’t to override specific lines,” Rendell said. “The answer is,