In brief

April 14, 2008 11:00 pm

— Penn Highlands
raising tuition
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College is raising its per-credit tuition 1 percent for Cambria County residents, according to the 2008-09 tuition and fee schedule on its Web site.
Tuition for students living in Bedford, Blair and Somerset counties will be offered a new regional rate.
The schedule also includes a full-time tuition rate for students who take 12 to 18 credits per semester. This will allow them to pay a flat rate per semester regardless of the number of credits taken.
To see the complete tuition and fee schedule, visit pennhighlands.edu/tuition or call 262-6400.
Warnings issued for dietary supplements
HARRISBURG – The state Department of Health is warning consumers not to drink two dietary supplements – Total Body Formula and Total Body Mega Formula – in 8- and 32-once bottles due to excess amounts of selenium and chromium.
Authorities are investigating more than 100 cases of acute poisoning nationwide, including some in Pennsylvania, when the drink was consumed.
The products have been recalled by Total Body Essential Nutrition of Atlanta.
Selenium and chromium are trace minerals needed only in small amounts for good health, the department said.
Consumers may develop adverse reactions, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and joint pain and fatigue after five to 10 days of daily ingestion of the product.
The symptoms can be followed by hair loss and neurological abnormalities such as numbness in the extremities as well as kidney and liver dysfunction.
Suspected cases of poisoning may be reported to local or state health centers or by calling (877) PA-HEALTH.
Truck stolen from mining company
FRIEDENS – Thieves made off with a white 1997 Ford truck from a mining company in Friedens, state police in Somerset said Monday.
The truck, owned by PBS Coal Inc., was taken sometime between March 9 and Wednesday from its Stoystown Road location, troopers said.
The truck was carrying a white water tank and two pumps when it was stolen, troopers said.
Advocate to speak at St. Francis
LORETTO – The Rev. John Rausch, director of the Catholic Committee on Appalachia and an environmental activist, will speak at St. Francis University today as part of the school’s celebration of Earth Week.
He will speak at 7:30 p.m. at the Stokes Athletic Center.
Rausch is known for his fight against mountaintop removal coal mining, which has been referred to as “strip mining on steroids.”
His work was recently featured in the environmental documentary film “Renewal,” which will be shown at 4 p.m. in the Campus Ministry meeting room in St. Francis Hall.
Bedford man killed
in motorcycle crash
BEDFORD – A Bedford County motorcyclist was killed Sunday after he lost control on a curve and struck a tree, state police said Monday.
Justin Daniel Trail, 19, of Flintstone Creek Road, Clearville, was pronounced dead at the scene of the
1:30 p.m. crash by Bedford County Coroner Sam Gordon.
Cabin burglary
under investigation
BAKERSVILLE – State police are looking for whoever burglarized a cabin on Mike Shawley Lane in Jefferson Township.
Police said the thief or thieves entered the cabin of William Curran, of Meyersdale, sometime between 5 p.m. March 25 and 5:30 p.m. Friday and took tools, a refrigerator and a space heater.