There were a some odd things happening around Pennsylvania this week.

We start in Philadelphia, where customs agents seized more than two giant beetles — some the size of a child's hand — from an overseas package after postal workers heard the insects making scratching noises.

The large bugs arrived last week from Taiwan at a post office in Mohnton, about 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia, in a box whose contents were labeled as toys, gifts and jellies, officials said Wednesday.

But the postmaster suspected the package contained live organisms and notified authorities, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. The package was sent to Philadelphia, where it was X-rayed and then opened.

"The specimens were some of the largest of their kind, and some of the largest I've ever seen, averaging five to six inches in diameter," John Plummer, an agency agriculture specialist, said in a statement Wednesday. "They are highly destructive insect pests that can cause extensive damage to fruit and vegetable crops, trees, shrubs and turf grasses."

In all, authorities found 26 Hercules, rhinoceros and Goliath beetles. It is illegal to ship live beetles into the United States without a permit from the Department of Agriculture.

Seven of the beetles were in containers labeled by gender, which means they could have been intended for breeding, customs agency spokesman Steve Sapp said Wednesday.

The sender and recipient have been identified, Sapp said. An investigation is under way, but no decision has been made whether to file charges, he said.

- From Hollidaysburg, Blair County, comes word today that First Commonwealth Bank is suing a retired Altoona couple claiming they have withdrawn most of more than $280,000 mistakenly deposited into their account.

The lawsuit says Herbert and Becky Starbird have "withdrawn or depleted" more than $177,000 of the money deposited in October. The bank says the mistake wasn't discovered until Feb. 5.

The couple's attorney, Thomas Dickey, says the couple isn't to blame, although they are trying to arrange to repay the money.

Dickey says Herbert Starbird repeatedly told the bank the deposit was a mistake but that bank employees insisted the deposit was proper. The bank says it was not informed of the mistake.

Dickey says the couple eventually started spending the money after the bank insisted it was theirs.