PITTSBURGH — The attorney for some of the 88 former students allegedly abused by a Franciscan friar who worked as an athletic trainer at a Catholic high school says the claims have settled for $8 million.

Altoona attorney Richard Serbin represents 13 former students of Bishop McCort High School in Johnstown. The students claimed they were abused by Brother Stephen Baker, who worked at the school from 1992 to 2001.

Baker committed suicide in January 2013 after the Youngstown, Ohio diocese disclosed abuse settlements with 11 former students at a school in that state, which prompted many of the alleged McCort victims to come forward

Serbin says the 88 victims will get different amounts from the settlement, depending upon the duration of the abuse and its impact on them.

PITTSBURGH — The Allegheny County district attorney has dropped charges that a New York man raped two Pittsburgh women in 1992 because the statute of limitations has expired.Arthur Fryar, 62, of Brooklyn was arrested in September 2013 after Pittsburgh police say a DNA sample he submitted to a national database after an unrelated New York arrest linked him to the Pittsburgh attacks.Fryar's public defender challenged the charges because the statute of limitations was five years when the rapes occurred. The Legislature changed the statute of limitations for rape to 12 years in 2002, but did not make it retroactive.

PITTSBURGH — Lawyers in the trial of a University of Pittsburgh medical researcher charged with killing his neurologist wife with cyanide have picked eight men and four women to serve as the jury.Allegheny County prosecutors and attorneys for Dr. Robert Ferrante, 65, are expected to complete the jury panel today by choosing four alternate jurors. Opening statements in the trial, which is expected to last more than two weeks, are set for Thursday.Ferrante is charged with criminal homicide for allegedly lacing an energy drink with cyanide to kill 41-year-old Dr. Autumn Klein in April 2013 after telling her the drink would help them conceive another child. Their daughter, Cianna, was 6 when her mother fell suddenly ill and died three days later.