Coroner: Boy, 1, pulled from pool dies; autopsy slated

KUTZTOWN, PA. >> Authorities say a 1-year-old boy died after he was pulled from an eastern Pennsylvania swimming pool over the weekend.

The Lehigh County coroner’s office reports that King Reyes was found Saturday in the pool at his Weisenberg Township home.

The coroner said he was pronounced dead shortly before 4:30 p.m. at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township. An autopsy is scheduled Monday to determine the cause and manner of death.

State police at the Fogelsville barracks are investigating along with the coroner’s office.

Woman assaulted, phone stolen after possible drag race crash

PHILADELPHIA >> Police say a woman photographing a crash after a possible drag race in south Philadelphia was assaulted and her phone stolen.

A police spokesman says the 24-year-old woman told investigators she was driving shortly after midnight Saturday when a vehicle flashed its lights for her to get out of the way, so she pulled over. She said as she stood behind her vehicle, it was struck by a vehicle possibly involved in drag racing.

Police say the woman started taking photos when the other driver tried to leave the scene, but a man and woman in their early 20s approached her, began punching her and took her phone, telling her to stop taking pictures. Police say they then ripped her license plate from her vehicle and fled.

9 firefighters treated for heat exhaustion battling blaze

YORK, PA. >> Officials say nine firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion and six transported to a hospital for treatment while fighting a Pennsylvania house fire in sweltering conditions.

The Strinestown Fire Company said all of the firefighters were released and were home recovering by the time Saturday’s Conewago Township blaze was extinguished.

Fire crews were called to the scene at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday and didn’t leave the scene until 7:40 p.m. Saturday, the fire company said on its Facebook page.

About 15 fire crews assisted. WPMT-TV reported that no one was home at the time of the fire, which left the York County home a complete loss.

Mayor reverses course, will allow LGBTQ rainbow flag to fly

READING, PA. >> The mayor of the eastern Pennsylvania city of Reading has reversed course and says he will allow the LGBTQ rainbow flag to fly over City Hall for the first time.

Mayor Wally Scott last week called off a scheduled ceremony to raise the “pride flag,” calling it a political symbol, but posted a video Saturday on his Facebook page saying he had changed his mind, the Reading Eagle reported.

“I told them they can put the flag up,” he said. “I just asked them to keep the politics out of it.”

Scott said his change of heart came after a “very prominent woman” he would not name told him of her experience of realizing she was gay and telling her mother.

“What I am interested in is that the people that the flag represents have suffered,” Scott said. “Wow, to remember the very day you broke the news to your mother. You knew as a child that you were a boy in a girl’s body. I still choke up.

“Your flag is something we should support,” Scott said. “This one here, you hit home. Please put your flag up.”