WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will lie in repose at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston before his funeral at a city church, a Democratic source familiar with the planning told The Associated Press. Kennedy is to be buried afterward at Arlington National Cemetery near his slain brothers, said another official knowledgeable about the arrangements.
Exact times and dates are still being determined by the Kennedy family, said the Democratic source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because details had not been publicly announced.
Kennedy’s funeral Mass will take place at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica - commonly known as the Mission Church - in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. The cavernous basilica on Tremont Street, built in the 1870s, was where Kennedy prayed daily while his daughter, Kara, successfully battled her own cancer.
Kennedy died late Tuesday after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.

VANPORT TWP. — One southbound lane of the Vanport Bridge that carries Route 60 over the Ohio Riverin Vanport Township will be closed from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday for sweeping, PennDOT said.

Northbound traffic won’t be affected.

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.

MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Danny has formed in the open Atlantic off the Bahamas.
Forecasters say the storm has top winds of 45 mph and is moving to the west-northwest at 18 mph. The storm could get stronger in the next two days.
As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, the storm’s center was about 445 miles east of Nassau, Bahamas and about 775 miles south of Cape Hatteras, N.C.
The current forecast has the storm on a path to clip the U.S. East Coast over the weekend, but a storm’s track can be difficult to predict days in advance. People in the Bahamas and the southeastern U.S. were advised to monitor the storm.
Meanwhile, far out in the Pacific, Tropical Storm Ignacio has weakened as it moves northwest with top winds of 45 mph.

Unlike in most states, a successor to fill Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat in the Senate will be chosen through a special election, not by the governor.
Massachusetts law requires a special election for the seat no sooner than 145 days and no later than 160 days after a vacancy occurs. The law bans an interim appointee.
The law was changed in 2004, when Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., became his party’s presidential nominee and Republican Mitt Romney was the state’s governor. Before the change, the governor would have appointed a replacement to serve until the next general election.
That would have created the opportunity for Romney to install a fellow Republican in office, a move that Democrats who control the state legislature sought to prevent.

WASHINGTON (AP) - New U.S. home sales surged 9.6 percent in July, rising for the fourth straight month and beating expectations as the housing market marches steadily back from its historic downturn.
The Commerce Department says sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 433,000 from an upwardly revised June rate of 395,000.
It was the strongest sales pace since September and exceeded the forecasts of economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters, who expected a pace of 390,000 units. The last time sales rose so dramatically was in February 2005.
The median sales price of $210,100, however, was still down 11.5 percent from $237,300 a year earlier.

NEW YORK (AP) - ABC is adding Kate Gosselin to the list of guest co-hosts for “The View.”
Celebrity mom Gosselin will be subbing for regular “View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Sept. 14 and 15. Hasselbeck is on maternity leave after giving birth to her third child, Isaiah, earlier this month.
Gosselin, the mother of twins and sextuplets, co-stars with her estranged husband on TLC’s reality series “Jon & Kate Plus 8.”
ABC has previously announced Meghan McCain, E.D. Hill and LaToya Jackson as guest co-hosts for the daytime talk show.

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.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - More than 1,000 Pennsylvania State Police troopers will be sent to Pittsburgh for the Group of 20 global economic summit.
That’s nearly a quarter of its total number of troopers. It’s one of the largest deployments in the history of the agency.
They’ll likely make up the largest part of a force that also will include out-of-town and out-of-state police.
The Pittsburgh Police Bureau has fewer than 900 officers. Officials hope to deploy as many as 4,000 officers during the gathering of world leaders on Sept. 24-25.
Thousands of media, delegates and protesters will descend on the city along with the heads of state. VisitPittsburgh estimates the summit will have a direct economic impact of $35 million on the city.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Carnegie Mellon University has confirmed another eight cases of swine flu, bringing the total number of sick students to 26.
CMU’s director of student health services Anita Barkin says the H1N1 flu virus hit the campus just days before classes officially begin on Monday. She says the first case was confirmed Aug. 10. Freshmen arrived Aug. 16 for orientation.
Barkin says classes have not been canceled. She says that could change if there are more severe cases of the flu, causing a high rate of absenteeism among students and faculty.
The ill students have been placed in isolation in an on-campus facility with round-the-clock nurses. An extra nurse has been hired to staff the area.