A few local municipalities in our region are having issues with their municipal buildings, but it sounds like elected officials in one Northeastern Pennsylvania township are certainly due for an upgrade.

For more than 50 years, government business in Pike County’s Lackawaxen Township has been done in a converted chicken coop.

Some are crying foul over the $1.6 million cost of a proposed new building, though township supervisors say it’s desperately needed. Township Administrator Shawn Roe says files are stored in boxes on a dirt floor.

The proposed complex would also include a new garage, allowing all of the township’s vehicles to be stored inside year-round. Township officials say with some stored outside now, equipment is deteriorating from exposure to the elements.

— Hey, we have a some new entries today for our stupid criminals file.

Let’s start with the guy in New Bedford, Mass., who is now facing charges for trying to break into an unmarked state police cruiser — with two state troopers sitting inside.

Trooper Paul Gifford says he and his partner were inside the vehicle in a convenience store parking lot on Monday night when they spotted a man “eyeballing” other cars in the lot.

Gifford says the man tried the door of one car, and finding it locked, moved to the idling cruiser. When he couldn’t get in the police car, he moved to a third vehicle.

That’s when police emerged from their car and made the arrest.

Gifford says his vehicle has tinted windows and it’s possible the suspect could not see that two people were sitting inside.

Jose Alvarez Nieves is charged with attempted larceny of a motor vehicle.

— A man accused of checking out hundreds of books and DVDs from libraries around the Denver area and then trying to sell them will be doing all his library borrowing from now on behind bars.

Denver prosecutors say 34-year-old Thomas Pilaar was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered Tuesday to pay $53,549 in restitution. He pleaded guilty in May.