Pa. state police searching for 2 escaped prisoners

    Pennsylvania state police are on the lookout for two prisoners who escaped from a central Pennsylvania corrections facility.

    Police said Saturday that Timothy Earl Hostetter of Pottsville and Raymond Martinez of Reading set off a fire alarm at the Wernersville Community Corrections Center before escaping around 8:30 Friday night.

    Authorities say the men ran from a building and got into a silver minivan.

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