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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Court documents indicate a Pennsylvania man who was shot after rushing a White House security gate last month was armed and told police, "I came here to shoot people." Federal prosecutors on Friday charged 31-year-old Jesse Olivieri of Ashland, Pennsylvania, in connection with the May 20 incident. Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said Olivieri remains hospitalized.

PHILADELPHIA – Harry Olivieri, who with his brother Pat was credited with inventing the Philly cheesesteak in 1933, had died. He was 90. Despite a heart condition, Olivieri had showed up at Pat's King of Steaks almost every day until about three years ago. He died of heart failure Thursday at Atlantic City Medical Center in Pomona, N.J., his daughter Maria said. Harry and his older brother opened a corner hot dog stand near south Philadelphia's Italian Market in 1930. Three years later, they made the first version of the sandwich that helped put the city on the street food...