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News roundup: Plane crash

By Philip Anselmo

Check out WBTA for these and other stories:

• A single engine Cessna plane crash on a flight from Batavia crashed in the town of Sweden near Brockport around noon yesterday. Nothing is yet known of the cause of the crash. Flight instructor Davy Merritt of Caledonia and his student Benjamin Bruce were hospitalized with serioues injuries. For more information and video coverage of the crash site, see News 10-NBC.

• Twenty-seven-year-old Maria Mitchel of Batavia pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempted murder after being arrested Friday. Mitchel was seen on video surveillance allegedly trying to suffocate her 7-month-old baby girl at  Buffalo's Women and Children's Hospital.

• Nearly 100 parishioners of St. Paul's Lutheran Church took to the community yesterday with paintbrushes, baked goods, quilts and garden tools to help clean up and show their appreciation for their neighborhoods.

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