Update: Judge rules Harrisburg corruption case will go to trial

Update: Judge rules Harrisburg corruption case will go to trial: FILE PHOTO: Reporters flank former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed after his arrest on bribery, theft and corruption charges. (Diana Robinson/WITF) (Harrisburg) -- A judge has ruled the corruption case against former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed will go to trial. Reed faces corruption, bribery, theft and other charges for allegedly hoarding city-owned artifacts and bribing people to approve public borrowings that, ultimately, nearly bankrupted the municipality. Originally, it was 499 counts, but reduced to 485 after the state Attorney General's Office tweaked its complaint at the start of Reed's preliminary hearing Monday. Proceedings went all day, and will resume at 9:00 a.m. today. For hours, evidence flashed on a projector screen, in an effort to show public money - specifically, the special projects fund maintained by the Harrisburg Authority - paid for thousands artifacts. They were meant for museums that never came to fruition. Investigators clicked through confidential memos, bank...