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#PhillyFive Developing Stories: Oct. 28, 2014

Your early look at the day's developing stories.

Here's your look at five stories we're following today:

1. Freeh report: Penn State's board of trustees has scheduled a special meeting for this morning to again discuss former FBI director Louis Freeh's report on the university's handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse investigation.

2. SEPTA labor negotiations: Labor talks between SEPTA and its largest union are slated to resume today, a day after Transport Workers Union Local 234 president Willie Brown said the bus, trolley and subway operators are likely to strike soon, but not immediately.

3. McCaffery's retirement: Justice Seamus McCaffery has stepped down from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after he and other top state officials faced allegations of sharing pornographic emails.

4. C.B. West hazing: The Central Bucks school board is scheduled to meet tonight, and the hazing scandal involving the C.B. West football team is expected to be a major topic of discussion. The meeting comes after school district officials and the Bucks County district attorney addressed parents of football players in a private discussion Monday night.

5. Ebola quarantines: A nurse who was quarantined in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa is set to return home to Maine. Her case has highlighted a brewing controversy over quarantines for those returning from working with Ebola patients.