State prosecutors are dropping a rape charge against an elected district attorney in western Pennsylvania. But they're adding new felony charges of sexual assault and aggravated indecent assault. Somerset County District Attorney Jeffrey Lynn Thomas waived a preliminary hearing that had been scheduled for Tuesday.
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Officials in a rural western Pennsylvania county say the prosecutor's access to his office and the courthouse are restricted after he was charged last month wit
SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — Officials in a rural western Pennsylvania county say the elected prosecutor s access to his office and the courthouse has been restricted after he was charged last