CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) — A prosecutor says an inmate killed his cellmate at a Pennsylvania prison because he wanted his own private cell.

Forty-five-year-old Lawrence Peterson Jr., formerly of Easton, will now serve a life sentence on top of the 40- to 80-year term he had been serving for a violent robbery.

Clearfield County District Attorney Bill Shaw planned to pursue the death penalty but decided to skip the trial after Peterson said Friday he was willing to plead guilty to first-degree murder and take a life sentence for the Aug. 2, 2013, beating of 59-year-old William Keitel.

Keitel died in the infirmary at the state prison in Houtzdale nine days later.

Shaw says it would have been a “terrible waste of tax dollars” to push for a trial.

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s biggest tobacco companies say they’re ready and willing to pass along factual public health information about cigarettes.

But they say they won’t go along with being forced to underwrite an ad campaign that would have the companies brand themselves as liars.

In 2006, a federal judge in Washington ordered the cigarette makers to admit publicly that they had lied for decades about the dangers of smoking.

The companies are heading to an appeals court on Monday to argue that those ads should be set aside and new ones put in their place.

The preamble to the ads says a federal court ruled that the companies “deliberately deceived the American public.”

The companies say the statement is overbroad and misleading.

KALAMA, Wash. (AP) — The Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office says a man struck and killed by a train south of Kalama was posing for a photograph at the time.

The man had been driving from Tacoma to Portland, Oregon, on Saturday morning when he and his female traveling companion stopped to smoke a cigarette and take pictures along the Columbia River.

The man was posing between two railroad tracks while a northbound BNSF freight train was approaching. Investigators say he apparently did not see an approaching Amtrak passenger train coming from the other direction.

The victim’s identity has not been released. His companion was not injured.

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. (AP) — One is a businesswoman and an MBA graduate. Another is a corporate vice president. The third is a registered nurse.

These three mothers — all of them educated, middle-class professionals — are among the vaccine skeptics who have been widely ridiculed since more than 100 people fell ill in a measles outbreak traced to Disneyland.

The backlash has been so severe that dozens of anti-vaccine parents contacted by The Associated Press were afraid to speak out. But a handful of mothers agreed to discuss their thinking.

Michelle Moore is a businesswoman who lives in the Portland suburb of Lake Oswego, Oregon, with her 2½-year-old twin girls. She says vaccines have a place, but she regards them as a medical choice that should be researched carefully.

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — A 4-year-old Alaska boy was shot in the leg Saturday when his mother’s handgun fell out of its holster and fired.

Alaska State Troopers say they took a call on the incident near WaNN wsilla just before 11:30 a.m.

Medics were treating the boy when they arrived.

Troopers say the family was leaving a pickup when the woman’s .357-caliber handgun fell out of its holster, struck the pavement on its hammer and fired.

The shot hit the 4-year-old just above the knee.

The bullet went through the boy’s leg and lodged in a building.

The boy was transported by helicopter to Anchorage for treatment.

No one has been charged.

HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) — Police believe a retired police officer shot his two teenage daughters to death and then killed himself in the family’s suburban New York home.

Harrison Police Chief Anthony Marraccini says the deaths Saturday of 52-year-old Glen Hochman and his daughters Alissa and Deanna appear to be a double murder-suicide. He did not discuss a possible motive.

Marraccini said Sunday that a gun was found at the home in the Westchester County village of Harrison.

Hochman had worked at the White Plains police department for 22 years before retiring recently. A statement from the police commissioner there called the deaths “an unfathomable tragedy.”

Hochman last year won his department’s life-saving award for keeping an unresponsive man alive until paramedics arrived.

Marraccini says three dogs were shot to death as well.