A former Pennsylvania mayor is avoiding jail time after pleading guilty to accumulating Wild West artifacts he bought with public money for a museum that was never built. Former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed was sentenced Friday to two years of probation in a courthouse around the corner from his one-time mayoral offices. He also noted that Reed has stage 4 cancer and no criminal record. Reed pleaded guilty earlier this week to 20 counts of receiving stolen property. The seven-term Democrat lost the 2009 primary, in part because the millions of dollars he spent on museum-related items had drawn criticism.

Source: ABC News January 27, 2017 05:38 UTC