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NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- A former Norwin homecoming queen accused of attacking her sister with a prosthetic leg and threatening to burn down a neighbor's trailer was ordered on Wednesday to go to rehab. Donna Sturkie-Anthony showed up for her preliminary hearing before District Judge Douglas Weimer, but the 41-year-old woman's hearing was continued so she can go to Greenbriar Treatment Center. Police said Sturkie-Anthony's sister came to visit her at Lincoln Mobile Home Park on Route 30 in January, and the two started arguing about her alcohol abuse. Then, police said Sturkie-Anthony pulled off her sister's prosthetic leg and...

Bomb plot figure dies in prison EX-DE ANZA COLLEGE STUDENT FOUND HANGED IN CELL, AN APPARENT SUICIDE By Patrick May Mercury News Former De Anza College student Al Joseph DeGuzman, serving an 80-year sentence for trying to hatch a Columbine-style assault on the Cupertino community college campus, has hanged himself, prison officials said Friday. DeGuzman, 22, was discovered hanged by a sheet in his Folsom State Prison cell at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, said prison spokesman Lt. Robert Trujillo. An attempt to resuscitate the inmate was unsuccessful. Prison officials sounded an alarm and called an ambulance. Emergency medical personnel pronounced DeGuzman...