Philly Police: Teenage girl shot in face, suspect in custody

PHILADELPHIA >> Police say a suspect is in custody in the shooting of a teenage girl hit in the face by a gunshot in northeast Philadelphia.

A police spokesman says officers responded shortly before 10:30 a.m. Monday to an address in the city’s Rhawnhurst neighborhood.

Officers found a girl about 14 years old with a gunshot wound to the face. She was taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, where her condition wasn’t immediately available.

Police said a suspect is in custody and a weapon was recovered. No further information was immediately released.

Police seek people who used farm tractor to kill cow

GREENSBURG, PA. >> State police are trying to find the people who used a piece of farm machinery to impale an Angus cow and then left the animal to die on a western Pennsylvania farm.

Police in Westmoreland County say the incident occurred between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Feb. 12 at a Hempfield Township farm.

Trooper Stephen Limani called the perpetrator “extremely cruel.” He told the Tribune-Review on Monday that the person also had to know how to work a hydraulic lift that was on the farm tractor.

Limani told the Tribune-Review that investigators believe that the cow was impaled by the tractor’s two forks. He said police believe the act was deliberate and more than one person was involved. Police said the cow was valued at about $1,000.

Mayor: Police officer accused of sexual assaults retires

WILKES-BARRE, PA. >> Officials say a northeastern Pennsylvania police officer has retired following his arrest last month on charges that he sexually assaulted four women while on duty and threatened the women to keep quiet.

The mayor of WilkesBarre tells The (WilkesBarre) Times Leader that 53-year-old Robert Collins submitted a letter in early February indicating that he has retired as a city police officer after a dozen years on the force.

Collins was suspended with pay after he was arrested by state police in January and charged with rape and witness intimidation.

He’s accused of assaults while on duty from August 2013 to December 2014.