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HARRISBURG, Pa. - A woman was sitting on the ledge of a 23rd-floor apartment when she decided she wanted to touch her feet to a window one story below. Little did she know that would be the last decision she would ever make. The woman, 23-year-old Rachel Kozlusky, asked her boyfriend Kevin Eckenrode to help her reach the lower window. "He grabbed (her) under the armpits from behind with his hands and lowered her to the window below," police Detective Donald Heffner wrote in the court papers. "During this time she slipped out of his hands and fell to her death." Not surprisingly, the pair had been drinking before the incident Saturday evening. Eckenrode has been charged with homicide and was being held without bail Tuesday morning.

NEWARK, N.J. - A 70-year-old substitute teacher who was once a man and is now a woman has won her right to keep her job in rural New Jersey. Six years ago, 65-year-old William McBeth began teaching at Eagleswood Township schools for five years, and then underwent the sex change procedure to become Lilly McBeth. She reapplied for her old job back, and the school board voted 4-1 in favor. But there was an outcry from some parents in the town of 1,600 people. At a public meeting Monday night in the school auditorium, McBeth answered questions and said she would never talk to children about sexuality at school, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. "Children are wide open to change. It's the fear in the parents, not in the children," she said. "Am I a threat? Hardly." After the meeting, school board attorney Paul Carr told reporters the board was unmoved by the opposition.  

MCKEESPORT, Pa. - What at first appeared to be a horrifying act of self-mutilation at a Pennsylvania convenience store turned out to have been an attempt to foil a drug test. The incident at a GetGo in McKeesport began when a couple entered the store. The man went into the restroom and emerged soon after with something wrapped in a napkin, which he asked the clerk to heat in the microwave. The object began giving off a foul odor and, as the clerk opened it, she saw something that looked like a penis. The couple grabbed the object and hurried away as she called police. Police now say that the object was a fake used to cheat in urine tests. The man allegedly went into the men's room to fill it with his own urine and then asked to have it heated so it would be body temperature when the urine was given up for analysis.