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16.07.2022 / 21:11

Ex-Pennsylvania police chief convicted of child rape gets 16 to 32 years

JIM THORPE, Pa. - A former Pennsylvania police chief convicted of rape of a child has been sentenced to 16 to 32 years in prison, state prosecutors said.The Pennsylvania attorney general's office said the sentence was imposed Friday on 30-year-old Brent Getz following his conviction on rape and sexual abuse charges in a jury trial in Carbon County in March.After his 2019 arrest, Getz was fired from his job as police chief in Weissport, a town of some 400 residents 77 miles (124 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia.A co-defendant who pleaded guilty to child rape in November 2020 and testified against Getz was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison. Authorities said both men were adolescents when the abuse began.

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Woman dies after fall at shuttered scenic hiking trail in Pa.

JIM THORPE, Pa. - A woman has died after she fell while hiking with a group on a scenic trail that was closed by the state three years ago due to safety concerns.State police were called to a site near the Glen Onoko Falls in Carbon County around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. They were met there by several emergency responders who had carried the 72-year-old woman down the mountain from near the first of three waterfalls at the site, a trip officials said was made over "treacherous, steep, ice-covered terrain."The woman, whose name has not been released, suffered a head injury and was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead there a short time later.

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Thorpe's scandal-tainted 1912 golds still resonate, amaze

STOCKHOLM – It has been described as the first major international sports scandal, and still resonates more than a century later.Jim Thorpe, a Native American who seemed to excel at every sport he tried, was seen as one of the world's top athletes after winning gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Some of his performances went unmatched for decades.The King of Sweden was certainly impressed.“Sir,” King Gustav V told Thorpe, “you are the greatest athlete in the world.”Thorpe was welcomed back to the United States with a ticker-tape parade in New York.

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3 sporting trailblazers light up Stockholm Olympics in 1912

STOCKHOLM – Hannes Kolehmainen was the first of the “Flying Finns.” Duke Kahanamoku was the father of modern surfing.

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