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Pennsylvania youth football league to cancel games after threats

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Pennsylvania police have launched an investigation after bullets inscribed with the names of a youth football league's officers were found near a playing field, leading to the cancellation of the rest of its season, authorities said on Wednesday.

The Mount Pleasant Area Junior Football League called off all remaining games after bullets with the names written on them with a marker were found near the entrance to Hurst Field in Norvelt, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

“We are looking at why they are there and who put them there,” Trooper Steve Limani, a spokesman at the Pennsylvania State Police's Greensburg barracks, told Reuters.