FREEPORT — An Ohio woman expects to finish her quest to swim the 325-mile Allegheny River when she arrives in Pittsburgh sometime Wednesday.

Twenty-one-year-old Katie Spotz of Mentor, Ohio, has already made it to Freeport.

She began her quest July 25 in Raymond in north central Pennsylvania, where the river is not deep enough to swim. She walked 16 miles to Coudersport where the river deepens. The river flows northwest into New York before turning southwest toward Pittsburgh.

Spotz tries to swim 10 to 15 miles a day. A friend is following her in a kayak.

ERIE — Swimmers will soon have fewer beaches to choose from at Presque Isle State Park along Lake Erie.A lifeguard shortage will close four or five beaches each weekday starting Monday.Beach 1, Beach 1 West Extension, Stone Jetty and Beach 9 will be closed weekdays. The Short Jetty beach will also be closed Mondays and Wednesdays.

ROCHESTER — A nonprofit agency that benefits low-income people has closed now that the senator's wife who headed it has been charged with stealing from the agency.The Voluntary Action Center in Rochester, Beaver County, closed Friday, a day after 68-year-old Darla LaValle was charged with stealing thousands of dollars by inflating her salary and denying retirement benefits to two employees. She resigned as executive director last year.She is the wife of Sen. Gerald LaValle, D-Beaver, who is retiring at year's end.