Corner stores in PA can't sell booze. That's the bread-and-butter of corner stores in other states that gives them the margin and foot traffic to sell groceries. That climate is changing, with various gas stations selling beer now, but those gas stations are bars, legally. That can't be cheap to get the license for.

As far as I can tell, if he pleads guilty to Invasion of Privacy, he'll have to register as a sex offender for 15 years. If he's offered a deal that doesn't include that charge, he won't. Now maybe the DA is offering a deal that doesn't include that charge for whatever reason, but it seems just as likely that the victim's mother is mistaken or making stuff up.

You want to live in the "beautiful countryside" and work in the city, you're gonna spend time sitting in traffic. That's how it goes. The only solutions forthcoming are the ones you're complaining about being built.