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Former Gov. Jon Corzine owes New Jersey taxpayers $127,000 - the amount of state funds he spent on a legal fight to hide his e-mails with former lover/labor leader Carla Katz. Corzine said he had no relationship with Katz when his administration negotiated a new state contract with her union, the 37,000-member Communications Workers of America. But recently published e-mails confirm the public's suspicions that an embarrassing conflict of interest was playing out behind the scenes.

Leonard P. Luchko, the former aide to indicted State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo who pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of trying to thwart the probe of his old boss, implicated himself in a series of e-mails that the FBI later recovered. Prosecutors had charged Luchko and another indicted aide, Mark C. Eister, with a concerted campaign to clean computers used by Fumo, his aides and associates. They say even as the pair demanded that Fumo staffers delete e-mails from their computers, they failed to cleanse their own devices - an oversight the FBI exploited to obtain copies of hundreds of e-mails.

Prosecutors continued yesterday to mount their obstruction-of-justice case against former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, even as his lawyer said he was buoyed to get hold of a "treasure trove" of e-mail that he hoped would ultimately benefit Fumo. Defense attorney Dennis J. Cogan told U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter that the defense had been combing through thousands of pages of newly discovered e-mails from computer technician Leonard P. Luchko. In them, Luchko, who worked in the once-powerful Democrat's South Philadelphia office, regrets agreeing to testify against Fumo and contradicts his own guilty plea by insisting he had done nothing wrong.

SOME OF THE bad words that readers used on me after Monday's Michael Vick column: Hypocrite. Elitist. Hater. Neo-Con. Socialist. Judgmental. And the all-purpose tool of the all-around fool: Racist . Oh! Also God , but not in a good way. Here are some excerpts from the hate mail, with answers. (Since I can't verify the sender's identity, first names only.)   "I was wondering if Rick Pitino has your respect," asks e-mailer Rochkar. "He paid for the MURDER of an unborn CHILD.

Call it the many moods of Vince Fumo. In an e-mail war with federal prosecutors, the defense lawyers for former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo released their own selection Friday of Fumo's electronic messages from prison. The defense team said the messages show him to be a different and far more attractive man, or least a more sympathetic one, than the vengeful figure sketched out by prosecutors in their Fumo e-mail dump. In the new round of e-mails, Fumo worries about his weight and his mortality.

An official nose count has started in the Phoenixville Area School District. Big white envelopes marked "Important Census Information Enclosed" are scheduled to arrive in mailboxes this week, according to Al Funk, district business manager. Although school officials keep a running tally of births, deaths and people who have moved in and out of the borough, a census has to be conducted about every four years, Funk said. "We have to confirm (the figures) for tax purposes, especially for the occupation tax," he said.

Question: I'm married with a child and another on the way. I've seen a couple of e-mails on my wife's phone related to dating websites, like eHarmony.com. After a little investigation, it appears that there is no way to sign up to receive those e-mails without posting some type of profile. I am suspicious that she is or was out looking for alternatives. I just don't know what to do. Should I approach her or, because I don't know for sure, just let it go? And I don't know what I'd do if she were out there trolling, as it were.

A computer-savvy hatemonger used a practically untraceable hot mail account to send threatening e-mails to black, Latino and Asian students at Penn State University, investigators said. Who that person is, or where they were sending them from, still is a mystery, officials said. The e-mails appeared to originate at a unsecured computer lab at Temple University in Philadelphia, "meaning that anyone could use it," said Terrell Jones, Penn State's vice provost for education equity.

A private e-mail chat among Evesham officials during the review of a controversial helipad project violated the state's public meetings law, the Burlington County prosecutor said in a written opinion released Friday. After a nearly six-week investigation, Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi found that a series of smartphone e-mail exchanges March 22 and 23 involved township business and should have taken place at a public meeting. "In short, the e-mails represent an active dialogue between members of council that sometimes occurs in almost real time.

Graham B. Spanier, former president of Pennsylvania State University, has sued the school to obtain old e-mails he says he needs to prepare for the investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh into the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal. Without the e-mails, Spanier will not agree to be interviewed by the Freeh investigation, according to documents filed with Spanier's complaint Friday afternoon in Common Pleas Court in Centre County. The university said it would not provide the e-mails to Spanier at the request of the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, which is concerned about compromising its own investigation.

A Tredyffrin Township mail-processing center that employs 733 will be closed and its operations consolidated in Philadelphia, but a second center in Horsham was spared in this nationwide round of cutbacks announced by the U.S. Postal Service, which faces billions of dollars in losses. One hundred forty postal facilities are slated for closure, according to a list released Thursday night by the Postal Service. An additional 89 are expected to be announced in the future. The 229 closings will eliminate 28,000 jobs and are expected to save the Postal Service $2.1 billion a year.

CONTRARY TO what you may have heard, I don't enjoy kicking people when they're down. The U.S. Postal Service is down — in employees, post offices, revenue and first-class mail it moves — but I'm not kicking here. I'm reporting on the minority of USPS employees who don't seem able to put on a hat without instructions. Most people I asked (through Facebook and personal conversations) are satisfied with the post office, and some say they have warm relations with their letter carriers.

WASHINGTON - Saturday postal delivery could continue for at least two years. And the closing of post offices in smaller communities might not happen as quickly as advertised. The Senate on Wednesday approved legislation that would slow the Postal Service's effort to make such changes. By a 62-37 vote, it sent a bipartisan message that, though the system is ailing, it's not good politics, especially in an election year, to take a scythe to popular parts of the Postal Service. All area senators voted for the legislation, except Robert Menendez (D., N.J.)

LONDON - News Corp. executive James Murdoch's behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign spilled out into the public domain Tuesday, casting a harsh light on the British government's Olympics czar. Murdoch was speaking before the media-ethics inquiry set up in the aftermath of the country's phone-hacking scandal, which has shaken the British establishment with revelations of journalistic misdeeds, police corruption, and corporate malpractice. Some of Murdoch's testimony revisited his own role in the scandal, but far more explosive were revelations about how senior British ministers went out of their way to smooth the path for one of his biggest-ever business deals.

Question: I'm married with a child and another on the way. I've seen a couple of e-mails on my wife's phone related to dating websites, like eHarmony.com. After a little investigation, it appears that there is no way to sign up to receive those e-mails without posting some type of profile. I am suspicious that she is or was out looking for alternatives. I just don't know what to do. Should I approach her or, because I don't know for sure, just let it go? And I don't know what I'd do if she were out there trolling, as it were.

PITTSBURGH - Campus police, federal authorities, and experts are stumped by more than 20 bomb threats since mid-February that have prompted building evacuations on the University of Pittsburgh campus, caused some professors to move classes or offer them online, and led some students to stay off-campus. Although the threats received more attention after a gunman fatally shot one person and wounded several others before he was shot dead by campus police at a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center psychiatric hospital on March 8, the string of threats actually began on Feb. 13. At first, the threats were scrawled on bathroom stalls.

The phone call to Keith W. Eckel, a longtime member of Pennsylvania State University's board of trustees, was succinct. "The coach died. And you will, too," the male voice said. The Lackawanna County farmer said he wasn't afraid and didn't report the call to police, but was saddened that someone would stoop to an anonymous threat over the board's decision to fire iconic football coach Joe Paterno in November after his onetime top assistant, Jerry Sandusky, was indicted on child-sex-abuse charges.

There are two local connections to the widely discussed case of a Montana judge who forwarded a disgusting e-mail about President Obama. On Feb. 20, Richard Cebull, Montana's chief U.S. district judge, was in his chambers when he received an e-mail from his brother with a subject line reading: "A MOM'S MEMORY. " The message began as follows: "Normally I don't send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this.

Not long ago, "I was probably the biggest distracted driver on the road," Angela Donato said. "I was reading e-mails. I was sending e-mails. I was calling people. I thought that I was invincible. " Then came the evening of June 1, 2011, when Donato, 22, and her close-knit family in Washington Township got the call that changed everything. Her oldest sister, Toni Donato-Bolis, who was nine months pregnant, had dialed their mother, Mary, desperate for help. She was trapped in her car on Pitman-Downer Road after becoming involved in a horrific accident less than a mile from her home.