HARRISBURG — A new poll shows Republican Pat Toomey lost ground to Democratic congressman Joe Sestak, a potential opponent in Pennsylvania's fall general election for U.S. Senate.

The Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday also shows Toomey continues to lead Democratic incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter.

Against Specter, Toomey leads 47 percent to 40 percent. Against Sestak, the former Lehigh Valley congressman gets 42 percent while Sestak gets 40 percent. Toomey led Sestak a month ago, 42 percent to 34 percent. Quinnipiac said the Sestak-Specter Democratic primary is too close to call. The election is Tuesday. Toomey is considered the front-runner for the GOP nomination.

The telephone poll of 1,161 Pennsylvania voters was conducted during the week that ended Monday. The sampling error margin is plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

ENOLA — Police accused a former church-league basketball coach in the Harrisburg suburb of Enola of trying to bribe referees to rig games in his favor.Investigators filed charges Thursday against Michael Kman, 45, for allegedly trying to get the officials to help the Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church boy's basketball team last year.Court records say Kman contacted two referees and offered them $2,500 to fix two games and promised more if they showed they could be trusted with lower-level contests. Investigators say Kman admitted to trying to influence the officials and expressed frustration that his team hadn't been getting a fair game.Kman declined to comment. He's charged with solicitation to rig a publicly exhibited contest, rigging a publicly exhibited contest and harassment.

HARRISBURG — The high number of Pennsylvania homes entering the foreclosure process isn't easing.New figures out Thursday from foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac showed more than 5,500 Pennsylvania homes received at least one foreclosure filing in April.That's down less than 3 percent, or about 150, from March, but it was one of the highest monthly totals since RealtyTrac began collecting the data in April 2005. More than 1,400 of those properties were seized.Nationally, foreclosure filings dropped at a faster rate of 9 percent from March to April.Pennsylvania's foreclosure rate is two-fifths the national rate, with one in every 1,000 homes receiving a foreclosure filing last month.

PITTSBURGH — A paramedic crew chief lost the appeal of her firing after a Pittsburgh man died of natural causes after waiting 30 hours for an ambulance during February's snow storm.The paramedic's union plans to fight the denial of the paramedic's appeal made public Wednesday.The city fired 11-year veteran paramedic Josie Dimon, who was heard on recordings saying Curtis Mitchell, 50, should walk to an ambulance that couldn't reach his home in the snow.Three other paramedics were suspended. An autopsy showed Mitchell died of heart disease and was in pain because his intestines were swollen from a poor blood supply while he was calling 911 10 times Feb. 5 to 6.

PITTSBURGH — A labor arbitrator said Pittsburgh must pay 93 public works employees $50,000 worth of overtime they were wrongly denied during the Group of 20 economic summit in September.The Pittsburgh Joint Collective Bargaining Committee claimed in a grievance the city ignored seniority and worker skills in picking workers from its construction and Redd Up crews, who work to beautify the city, to work overtime during the summit.Public Works director Robert Kaczorowski said the city did the best it could to staff the security-heavy summit and denied favoritism.Under the award, workers will receive between $239 and $790 each.