Wolf to ask for $200M for public schoolsHARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf says he’ll ask the Republican-controlled Legislature for another $200 million for public schools next year, while he still fights for more money in this year’s budget.Wolf made the announcement Tuesday, a week before he delivers next year’s budget proposal to lawmakers.A $365 million increase was part of a bipartisan budget deal agreed to by House and Senate Republican majority leaders for this fiscal year. Combined, the two-year increase would bring state aid for public school operations and instruction up to $6.3 billion. That’s an overall increase of 10 percent.However, the bipartisan deal collapsed amid rank-and-file House GOP resistance to the accompanying tax increase Wolf had sought to boost education spending and narrow a long-term deficit.Billions for schools and universities remain in limbo.

Student abducted, robbed by duo at IUPINDIANA — One man is jailed and another sought for the robbery and kidnapping of an Indiana (Pa.) University student from an off-campus apartment.Police say the IUP student was abducted at gunpoint about 2 a.m. Thursday. That happened after the suspects — a friend of the victim’s friend — visited the apartment Wednesday night.Indiana borough police have charged Jamanji Beasley, 20, and Adrian Thrower, 19, with robbing and abducting the student after their mutual friend left.