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HAS HISTORY HOW OFTEN DO YOU SEE A DEAD PIRATE WALK A DOG? ALIQUIPPA
Cops: Man
molested
Officers
boy on reject
cruise ship
Judge orders him contract
held until trial
J.D. Prose
Times Staff
offer
PITTSBURGH — An Indepen-
dence Township man with a Larissa Theodore
checkered past in Beaver Times Staff
County will remain in jail
while awaiting trial in feder- ALIQUIPPA — Aliquippa
al court on allegations that police recently rejected a
he traveled to Florida to contract proposal that the
molest a boy on a cruise ship. city administrator says
Sherwood Stevenson, 72, would have helped to bring
of 762 Bocktown-Cork Road, Times photo by LUCY SCHALY the city out of a financially
has been held in the distressed designation.
Allegheny County Jail since City Administrator Tom
his arrest in June on a sin-
gle charge of travel with
intent to engage in illicit
sexual conduct.
A spooky stroll in Ambridge Stoner said the Sept. 30
police vote to reject a five-
year bargaining agreement
is frustrating at best.
A detention hearing took Aliquippa has been clas-
place Wednesday in U.S. Dana Pazzanita of Brighton Township, dressed up like a dead pirate, walks her dog Binx on Wednesday through sified as “distressed” since
District Court in Pittsburgh the streets of Ambridge. Dana owns Elderberry Court Life Enrichment Center in Ambridge and says she dress- 1987 under the state’s Act 47
before U.S. Judge Gustave es up for Halloween all month to entertain her clients. protection program, which
Diamond, who denied a gives the state complete
defense request seeking oversight and control over a
bond and ordered that municipality’s operations.
Stevenson remain behind Aliquippa has to follow a
bars, said court spokes- recovery plan and has a
woman Margaret Philbin.
The FBI charged Steven-
son for crossing state lines in
carrying out the assault in
December 2009 aboard a
Father’s pain v. free speech coordinator through the
state Department of Com-
munity and Economic
Development assigned to
oversee the city’s compli-
Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Court hears case Albert The Does the father’s emo- ance.
Federal prosecutors claim Snyder Rev. tional pain trump the Stoner said no city
that video surveillance of lawsuit against says he Fred protesters’ free speech employees have received
shows Stevenson getting into church protesting was Phelps’ rights? wage increases since 2004, a
a Jacuzzi in a water-amuse- robbed church The difficulty of the stipulation of the recovery
ment area on the ship on military funerals constitutional issue was plan requirements. But
of his protests
Dec. 18 and placing a 6-year- palpable in the court- Stoner said he’d been work-
old boy on his lap. Mark Sherman only military room as the justices ing with DCED officials on
Stevenson, FBI agents Associated Press Writer chance funerals weighed the case of an exit strategy to rid the
have said, admitted to to bury his son, Matthew. across the country. Albert Snyder. His son city of the Act 47 status and
fondling the boy and forcing WASHINGTON — Supreme died in Iraq in 2006, and that those officials were
the boy to touch him as well. Court justices, in a rare members of a family- receptive to the contract
Stevenson released the boy public display of sympathy, against fundamentalist Left unresolved after dominated church in proposal.
when other people strongly suggested Wednes- church members who pick- an hourlong argument Topeka, Kan., protested The agreement offered
day they would like to rule eted his son’s funeral — but that explored the limits
See MOLESTED, Page A6 for a dead Marine’s father aren’t sure they can. of the First Amendment: See COURT, Page A6 See ALIQUIPPA, Page A7
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