http://www.post-gazette.com/ All News en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:30:13 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041457-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Four points need to be made after the Steelers had a busy Monday, re-signing safety Ryan Clark to quarterback their secondary, bringing back Super Bowl XL star Antwaan Randle El as a fourth wide receiver and likely punt-return specialist, and bringing in wide receiver Arnaz Battle, safety Will Allen and offensive tackle Jonathan Scott to provide depth and special-teams help. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041882-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml HAMDEN, Conn. -- Robert Morris forward Dallas Green blocked a shot and sank two free throws all in the final minute as Robert Morris beat Quinnipiac, 52-50, in the NEC championship game tonight. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041903-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- Notre Dame easily handled Pitt without its best player two weeks ago. Now the Fighting Irish will face the Panthers with their superstar looking like he's 100 percent healthy again. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041888-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADENTON, Fla. -- Luke Scott's two-run single in the first inning sparked the Orioles past the Pirates, 3-2, tonight at McKechnie Field. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041700-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Hockey Canada has found the missing Olympic equipment Penguins center Sidney Crosby used to score Canada's overtime goal in the gold-medal game Feb. 28 in Vancouver. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041453-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Whether it happens or not, the Flood of 2010 already is historic in one sense. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041698-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penguins winger Matt Cooke had a phone hearing this afternoon with NHL chief disciplinarian Colin Campbell regarding his hit Sunday on Marc Savard of the Boston Bruins. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041811-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- The stage is set for final House passage Monday of legislation aimed at increasing education for teens and school teachers, in hopes of stopping or at least decreasing the potential for violence on dates. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041750-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Coraopolis police officer and a Pennsylvania state trooper were part of Ben Roethlisberger's retinue in Milledgeville, Ga. last week when the Steelers quarterback allegedly sexually assaulted a college student in a nightclub. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041791-355.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jim and Madelyn Wissenbach, of Brentwood, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on February 6. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041676-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- Defense attorneys in the Bonusgate trial this afternoon rested their case after calling about two dozen witnesses. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041704-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Duquesne University today announced plans to build a residence hall to meet growing on-campus housing needs. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041683-389.stm?cmpid=news.xml Wine tastings come in many guises. After decades of participating in verticals, horizontals, blind and other tastings, I thought I'd tried them all. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041582-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today declared a state of emergency as the city prepares for flooding expected to occur on the weekend Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041664-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's annual spring football game next month will be televised live by ESPN2. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041583-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Penn Hills woman believed to have been smoking in bed died this morning when her bed caught fire and burned part of her house. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041459-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Not long after wide receiver Limas Sweed was walking out of the Steelers office, Antwaan Randle El came strolling in, wearing a straw fedora and the look of a man happy to be back home again. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041656-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh City Council tentatively approved studying the worth of the city's parking garages and meters today, over the objections of investment advisors tied to the parking authority and the Ravenstahl administration. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041654-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ray takes your questions live from New York City, site of the Big East Tournament Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041587-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml An autopsy today was inconclusive in determining the cause and manner of death of a Lower Burrell man found dead Tuesday along the Allegheny River banks in New Kensington Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041631-126.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pirates Q&A with Dejan Kovacevic Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041609-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Hill District man today was ordered to stand trial on charges that he fired bullets at police responding to a fight between the suspect and the boyfriend of his neighbor Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041598-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Emmanuel I. Osagie, who had been chancellor of Penn State Fayette since February 2007, died unexpectedly Tuesday of complications from an illness. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041607-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADENTON, Fla. -- Three of the Pirates' top pitching prospects -- Colton Cain, Zach Fuesser and Brett Lorin -- will be out until mid-season because of injuries. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041606-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Allegheny County is on track to complete a full-scale reassessment of all 570,000 real estate parcels by 2012, officials told Common Pleas Judge R. Stanton Wettick Jr. this morning. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041608-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Trial began this morning in the death penalty case against a Braddock man accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041597-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former state treasurer and auditor general Barbara Hafer this morning announced she is dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination to succeed the late U.S. Rep. John Murtha Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041601-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dr. Cyril Wecht's chief autopsy technician in his private practice appeared in court Tuesday on federal tax charges and was released on bond pending trial. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041600-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml In a sure harbinger of spring, PennDOT announced today that it has begun using hot mix asphalt to patch potholes Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041599-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Port Authority riders might have noticed a large police presence at times over the past few weeks, as authority police and federal Transportation Security Administration officers conduct saturation patrols Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041592-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml ALTOONA, Pa. -- A man has been convicted of theft for not returning more than $280,000 mistakenly deposited into his bank account Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041591-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml ERIE, Pa. -- A man was found fatally stabbed after a reported break-in at an Erie apartment Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041590-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml ERIE, Pa. -- An Erie man has pleaded guilty to robbing five women at gunpoint, including two he forced to undress Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041589-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Police have arrested a second man in the stabbing death of a Honduran man in Canonsburg Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041588-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The retailer Wednesday morning reported profits of $59.3 million, or 28 cents per share, in the three months ended Jan. 30, compared to $32.7 million, or 16 cents, in the previous year. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041535-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml For nearly a century, the J.E. Corcoran Co. has hawked fruits and vegetables from the Strip District's iconic produce terminal. But a proposed redevelopment could end its long run. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041474-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml TAMPA, Fla. -- One of Garrett Jones' many small spring goals is to hit better against left-handers, and he began to address that in a large way Tuesday. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041586-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Presston Volunteer Fire Department now is officially part of the McKees Rocks Volunteer Fire Department. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041585-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml North Fayette officials are calling for owners of private sanitary sewer systems -- such as trailer parks and industrial parks -- to pay for video inspection of their sewer lines. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041584-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Monroeville council recognized the memory of teen slaying victim Demi Cuccia during last night's meeting by supporting an anti-violence bill named in her honor. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041411-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Public radio stations don't scramble for advertising revenues like their commercial counterparts, but they still compete for donors, ratings, public and grant support. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041397-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml Need to find a hotel in Starkville, Miss.? Find one with confidence at TripAdvisor.com, or any number of online websites. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041562-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml WHEN the world was young, there was a phenomenon loosely referred to as the Magical World of Television. Pains were taken to dazzle the eye. Chandeliers appeared extra-prismatic, with mescaline auras. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041563-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml AROUND the time I graduated from college, my parents sold the house I grew up in. It came as a shock to me to learn that my bedroom, which I had always assumed would be preserved for future generations to visit -- sort of like a Presidential library with a Bobby Sherman poster on one wall -- was being dismantled. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041564-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml LIKE millions of Americans, Marisa Tomei used to play with a Hula-Hoop as a child. And like most of those same Americans, she hadn't hooped since. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041565-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041566-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- The wall is pitch black, yet as eyes adjust to the dark, outfits appear like cats in the night: the gleam of satin on a lapel, the sheen of a button, the outline of "le smoking" -- the tuxedo suit. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041567-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Let's say you are a boy who collects frogs and snakes from a neighborhood bog and who keeps a spectacled caiman and boa constrictor as pets. Further, you take the boa into the family pool to cavort, although the human swimmers might have used a different verb. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041568-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- China and India formally agreed Tuesday to join the international climate change agreement reached in December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041569-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml FOUR-BEDROOM TWO-AND-A-HALF-BATH HISTORIC HOUSE IN SURREY Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041570-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml HEBER CITY, UTAH Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041571-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml JOHANNESBURG -- Adam Levy was a teenager growing up in Melrose, a whites-only suburb in northern Johannesburg, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison 20 years ago. Today Mr. Levy -- much like the city itself -- has traded the racial restrictions of the apartheid era for a far more colorful (and cultural) urban existence. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041572-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A conservative advocacy organization in Washington, Keep America Safe, kicked up a storm last week when it released a video that questioned the loyalty of Justice Department lawyers who worked in the past on behalf of detained terrorism suspects. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041573-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml CHICAGO -- This place is desperate to shed its political reputation for cronyism, insiders and backroom deals, a way of life once boiled down by a ward boss this way: "We don't want nobody nobody sent." Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041574-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- A Pennsylvania woman who called herself JihadJane was tied Tuesday to an alleged assassination plot against a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Muhammad atop the body of a dog. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041575-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml MIAMI -- The movie "Bait Shop" had too much boozing to earn the extra rebate from Florida's "family friendly" program of incentives for film production. "Confessions of a Shopaholic" was, well, just too violent. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041576-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rafaela Espinal held her first poolside chat last summer, offering cheese, crackers and apple cider to draw people to hear her pitch. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041577-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml For a few days last fall, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood celebrated a big victory: the tiny advocacy group had successfully pushed the Walt Disney Company to offer full refunds to everyone who had bought the company's popular Baby Einstein videos from June 2004 to September 2009. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041578-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml One of the world's foremost experts on comparing national school systems told lawmakers on Tuesday that many other countries were surpassing the United States in educational attainment, including Canada, where he said 15-year-old students were, on average, more than one school year ahead of American 15-year-olds. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041579-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml HONG KONG -- The ruling military junta in Myanmar announced a new election law Wednesday that will likely prevent Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's leading opposition figure, from participating in upcoming parliamentary elections. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041580-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041581-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERUSALEM -- Having been removed in favor of Israeli nationalist Jews, members of the Palestinian Ghawi family have been sheltering this winter in a tent on the sidewalk opposite their home of more than five decades in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041537-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml An attorney for Ben Roethlisberger said Tuesday his firm has assembled a team of investigators to gather information about sexual assault allegations that have been raised by a 20-year-old college student. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041460-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Had he signed a contract with the Miami Dolphins, Ryan Clark said he was going to wear No. 43 for his new team, a salute to his safety partner for the past four years with the Steelers -- Troy Polamalu. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041539-113.stm?cmpid=news.xml Allegheny County has hired a consultant to conduct energy audits in 104 municipal building all over the county as part of its Energy Efficiency & Conservation Program, a part of a broad energy conservation policy that County Executive Dan Onorato implemented last year. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041481-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sylvia Pressler, a trailblazing New Jersey judge whose 1973 ruling opened Little League baseball to girls, has died. She was 75. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041480-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jerry Hale Owens, the son of a small-town West Virginia newspaper publisher who grew up to travel the world working on high-stakes newspaper acquisition deals, died Saturday after a long bout with Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1036264-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two points of consolation for any Olympics fans who find themselves in the wrong Vancouver - Vancouver, Wash., instead of Vancouver, British Columbia: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041165-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml Special events: Community Care, which is part of UPMC, is sponsoring its annual spring conference, "Creating Hope: Developing Communities of Care for Children, Youth, Young Adults and Families." Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041166-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml Events: The American Cancer Society is sponsoring a Daffy Workout, include toning, strength training, aerobics, water aerobics, spin, yoga and ta'i chi, from 8:30 to 11 a.m. March 20. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041174-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml Artist Jason Forck uses as his studio the Pittsburgh Glass Center, where he is also an instructor. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041381-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml If, for whatever reason, the league doesn't suspend Matt Cooke, do you think the Penguins' organization should? Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041383-290.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt basketball Q&A with Ray Fittipaldo Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041398-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml Early last week, Walter Breidigan felt tired and had a funny sensation of dizziness, like his blood pressure was plummeting down. The symptoms were familiar. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041399-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml "I'm no longer afraid of a buffet," said Antoinette Jucha, 70, of Scott. "I've made my peace with food." Ms. Jucha has been overweight all her life. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041406-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Music preview: Here are two facts you might not know about the mandolin: It's not merely for folk and bluegrass but also a classical instrument, and people tend to play it in very large ensembles. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041407-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Music preview: As nicknames go in classical music, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3, "Polish," has one of the most misleading. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041410-348.stm?cmpid=news.xml Andy Richter, Conan O'Brien's sidekick at "The Tonight Show," is acknowledging some ill will toward NBC and Jay Leno in the wake of the network's late-night upheaval. "Why wouldn't I?" Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041412-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Five million dollars. That's how much money seven arts groups have saved by sharing the costs of marketing, advertising, ticketing, theater programs and collectively purchasing everything from Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041413-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml The real work of preserving WDUQ-FM as an independent public radio station is going on behind closed doors, as the group trying to preserve WDUQ and keep its programming intact begins a long, hard fundraising and public awareness task. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041414-374.stm?cmpid=news.xml We and the rest of the world ought to leave the Somalis to their own devices Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041415-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml An excerpt from Newsweek on the volatility of the tea partiers Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041416-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Fear-mongering has always been with us, but it never wins in the end Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041419-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml The success or failure of an art exhibition is often as much attributable to the curator who organizes the show as it is to the artists represented. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041421-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml The award ceremony to honor the local winners of the 2009 Jefferson Awards for Public Service has been rescheduled for April 21 at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Natural History, Oakland. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041423-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Maybe part of the reason that "Human Target," tonight at 8 on Fox, doesn't appeal to me is that Christopher Chance has chosen a path "Burn Notice's" Michael Westen rejected -- being smart muscle for hire. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041427-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Seniors at The Residence on Fifth assisted-living facility in Oakland were notified Monday that the facility would close on May 8, with a sale of the property to Carnegie Mellon University pending this spring. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041428-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Three weeks after Saxonburg-based optical instruments maker II-VI had its unsolicited $169.4 million takeover bid for Zygo Corp. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041429-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Martin + Osa clothing chain has run out of time to keep looking for that elusive formula for winning over grown-up customers. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041431-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml LifeLock Inc. agreed to pay $11 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $1 million to 35 state attorneys general, including in Pennsylvania, to settle charges that the company used false Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041434-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml Lincoln, America's "other" storied luxury brand, which was almost dead five years ago, has gained new life with new models, new commercials and new customers. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041437-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml A late blast of cold, snowy weather around the country may have had commuters grumbling but it was refreshing for Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., which Tuesday reported a 10.7 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041439-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml On March 23, 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593, flying from Moscow to Hong Kong, inexplicably plummeted from the skies over Siberia. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041440-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml New credit rules that kicked in last month will give consumers more control over their cost of borrowing, and more improvements are on the way. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041441-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Parking is tricky. A space seen from half a block away may wind up being too short to meet the driver's needs. Or it might be beside a fire hydrant. Or somebody might get to it first. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041442-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ron Cook hit the nail on the head in his March 7 column ("Roethlisberger Guilty of Poor Judgment"). It is time for Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to grow up and act appropriately. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041461-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml The price of watching the Steelers play has gone up. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041464-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- State transportation officials stressed Tuesday there is no "plan B" for funding road and bridge improvements if federal officials fail to approve tolls on Interstate 80. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041466-178.stm?cmpid=news.xml Republican Alex Dubart of Reserve will face off against Adam Ravenstahl in the May 18 special election to fill the unexpired term in the state Legislature's District 20. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041467-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen. George Meade rode during many of the Civil War's most infamous battles. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041468-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group will hold a strategy session for neighborhood block watch activists from 9 to 11 a.m. March 20 at its Hill District offices, 1901 Centre Ave., Suite 200. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041469-58.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Bethel Park man was charged last week with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of construction tools and equipment from sites throughout the South Hills, Washington County and elsewhere. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041470-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml A former secretary at the Moon Area School District was sentenced to serve up to 23 months in jail for stealing from her employer. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041471-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Carnegie Mellon University and La Roche College are among eight colleges nationally being singled out for awards by NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, the Washington, D.C., organization announced Tuesday. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041473-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml A guide to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette coverage of the allegations involving Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and a Georgia college student. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041475-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml Three major roadwork projects that start on Monday will affect drivers on Route 65, Route 8 and Route 28 in the northern suburbs. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041482-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Willie Davis, a speedy center fielder who collected two World Series rings, three Gold Gloves and was a two-time All-Star during his 14 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died. He was 69. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041483-178.stm?cmpid=news.xml State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler County, is joining the already crowded field of candidates for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041484-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former Speaker of the House Bill DeWeese Tuesday avoided testifying in the corruption trial of his onetime right-hand man, former state Rep. Mike Veon, while defense attorneys tried to chip away at investigators' tactics in the case. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041486-258.stm?cmpid=news.xml Maple syrup season is late due to unseasonably cold days, but the recent rise in temperatures is giving producers some hope. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041487-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Thousands of liberal public-option backers and conservative tea partiers launched last-chance campaigns Tuesday in the nation's capital to persuade Congress to pass -- or reject -- sweeping health care legislation. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041488-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041489-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml EL CAJON, Calif. -- James Sikes bought his Toyota Prius in 2008, and 53,000 miles later, the car was driving fine. But Monday afternoon, when he accelerated to pass another vehicle on Interstate 8 east of San Diego, the car kept going. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041492-135.stm?cmpid=news.xml ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. -- There were no answers, only a bitter and stern reality. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041494-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- The first four games of the Big East men's basketball tournament took place Tuesday afternoon and evening. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041495-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert Morris has had an on-again, off-again relationship with focus. The wins have been consistent, but the effort and the intensity have not. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041500-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml The five-game road trip that ended barely more than a year ago still resonates for the Penguins. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041502-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARTFORD, Conn, -- It was a different night, a different opponent and different set of circumstances for top-ranked Connecticut but, in the end, it was the same old story. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041511-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml Merissa Morgan's putback with three seconds to play capped a comeback from a deficit as large as 13, and Peters Township edged Erie McDowell, 49-48, in a PIAA Class AAAA girls' basketball Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041512-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Stephen Strasburg battled some nerves and location issues during his spring training debut but was impressive. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041517-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A conservative advocacy organization in Washington, Keep America Safe, kicked up a storm last week when it released a video that questioned the loyalty of Justice Department lawyers who worked in the past on behalf of detained terrorism suspects. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041518-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year cleared a key hurdle Tuesday that guarantees that it will soon pass the Senate. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041521-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml When Castriota Chevrolet in Dormont found out it wasn't one of 2,000 General Motors dealerships slated to close last year, the outfit printed signs and bought billboards proclaiming, "GM is here to stay and so is Castriota Chevrolet." One went up next to a shuttered GM dealership. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041524-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml An unusual study done in 49 remote Hutterite farming colonies in western Canada has provided the surest proof yet that giving flu shots to schoolchildren protects a whole community from the disease. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041525-294.stm?cmpid=news.xml My volunteer service for the Meals on Wheels program is filled with many rewarding moments, an experience that for years has connected me with recipients who appreciate the delivery of a hot lunch five days a week. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041526-154.stm?cmpid=news.xml At the Academy Awards presentation the other night, it was noted that the last time 10 films had been nominated for best picture was in 1943, the year "Casablanca" won. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041528-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml LONDON -- A chip for Spot? In a country where guns are tightly controlled, and even carrying a kitchen knife can bring prison time, some thugs use dogs to menace their victims. Now, the British government is proposing that dog owners be forced to have microchips embedded and take out insurance for their pets. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041530-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERUSALEM -- Hours after Vice President Joseph R. Biden vowed unyielding U.S. support for Israel's security here Tuesday, Israel's Interior Ministry announced 1,600 new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem, prompting Mr. Biden to condemn the move as "precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now." Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041531-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- Is the Middle East about to go officially nuclear? Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041532-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local U.N. staff, according to a new Security Council report. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041533-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- China and India formally agreed Tuesday to join the international climate change agreement reached in December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041534-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A top police official has warned city officers not to take any action on the job in response to a magistrate's decision to drop criminal charges against a Homewood teen who says he was beaten during his arrest in January. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041536-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml PHILADELPHIA --She has an American passport, so Colleen R. LaRose of Montgomery County, who called herself "JihadJane" online, decided that she was an ideal candidate to carry out a terrorist attack in Sweden, federal prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041543-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml U.S. Route 30 will be closed in both directions this weekend near the Greensburg Pike overpass in North Versailles. The closure, from 8 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10069/1041545-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Kevin Williams, who sued the National Football League over leaked drug-test results, testified Tuesday that he never took steroids. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041546-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:48:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041402-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Bethel Park man has been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of construction tools and equipment from sites throughout the South Hills, Washington County and elsewhere. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041455-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARTFORD, CT. - As expected, top-ranked Connecticut beat No. 9 West Virginia, 60-32, in the Big East Women's Basketball Tournament championship game tonight at the XL Center. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041456-135.stm?cmpid=news.xml OLEAN, N.Y. -- Duquesne (16-15) could not withstand a rush forward by St. Bonaventure (15-15) through the core of the second half and the Dukes fell, 83-71, in a first-round Atlantic 10 Conference tournament game tonight at Reilly Center in Olean, N.Y. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 21:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041448-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml County police are investigating after a man was shot in the abdomen in Stowe, a county emergency dispatch supervisor said. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 20:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041404-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two Pittsburgh-area campuses are among eight colleges nationally being singled out for awards by NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, the Washington, D.C., organization announced today. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041430-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Attorneys representing the alleged victim in the Ben Roethlisberger sexual assault investigation released a statement on her behalf today, urging the media not to identify her and to respect her privacy while the investigation runs its course. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:21:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041243-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADENTON, Fla. -- Steve Pearce has gone from being Baseball America's 2007 Minor League Player of the Year to a near-afterthought in the Pirates' camp this spring. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041426-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml Lincoln, America's "other" storied luxury brand, which was almost dead five years ago, has gained new life with new models, new commercials and new customers. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041425-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml A late blast of cold, snowy weather around the country may have had commuters grumbling but it was refreshing for Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., which Tuesday reported a 10.7 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041424-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim beat out Pitt coach Jamie Dixon for Big East coach of the year honors today. It's the first coach of the year award for Boeheim since 1991. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041219-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Streets Run gurgled peacefully through Pittsburgh's Hays neighborhood on Monday, well within its banks. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 18:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041409-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board will hold a public hearing Tuesday, March 30, in Washington to gather evidence and testimony on the application by The Meadows to add table games. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041405-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ending months of speculation, South Side retailer American Eagle Outfitters Inc. this afternoon announced it is giving up on its experiment in clothing an older clientele. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041396-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler County is joining the already crowded field of candidates for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041393-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Retired city policeman Robert Conroy will be the grand marshal for this year's St. Patrick's Day parade. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041395-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml TAMPA, Fla. -- Garrett Jones hit a three-run home run that left George M. Steinbrenner Field, and the Pirates beat the New York Yankees, 12-7, this afternoon Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041353-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Wandering the exhibits proved better than the movie Saturday for Night at the Museum, the Mt. Lebanon JuniorWomen's Club benefit at the Senator John Heinz History Center for Angels' Place Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041394-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- A former assistant to Mike Veon told jurors today that an investigator screamed at her and drove her to tears during an interview that was part of a government corruption investigation Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041368-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former Speaker of the House Bill DeWeese today avoided testimony in the corruption trial of his onetime right-hand man, former state Rep. Mike Veon, by invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, sources said Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041370-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rescuers were working to retrieve a car as they searched for possible occupants today from the Shenango River in Pulaski, Lawrence County Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041389-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- Pennsylvania's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate is no longer a two-man race Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041387-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Castle Shannon Police are warning residents about an unauthorized door-to-door solicitor who has been operating in the borough and surrounding towns Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041365-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Safety Ryan Clark said he was intending to agree to a deal with the Miami Dolphins when he visited with them Monday because he did not have a contract offer from the Steelers Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041380-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A popular Downtown hair salon will be moving several blocks to the Piatt Place development this summer Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041378-126.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pirates Q&A with Dejan Kovacevic Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041364-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Army Corps of Engineers said today that its network of 16 reservoirs is drawn down and ready to receive runoff from melting snow and rain forecast for the rest of the week. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041361-58.stm?cmpid=news.xml In this video, courtesy of CBS News, legal analysts talk about the sexual assault allegations leveled against Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041369-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Not long after wide receiver Limas Sweed was walking out of the Steelers offices, Antwaan Randle El was walking in, getting ready to sign a three-year contract to rejoin his former team Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041367-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- It's not too often that a governor faces a loud revolt by members of his own party, but Reps. David Levdansky of Forward, Greg Vitali of Delaware County and a dozen others are trying to block one of Gov. Ed Rendell's revenue-raising ideas for fiscal 2010-11. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041366-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Perrysville's July 4th Parade and a summer fishing derby are back on the Ross community calendar Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041350-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pittsburgh Film Office celebrated a double anniversary -- 20 years and 10 Lights! Glamour! Action! Oscar parties -- at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041363-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Plum officials Monday night voted to move the closing date for the borough's police dispatch center to Aug. 1 Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041362-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- Three top state transportation officials had discouraging words today on how road/bridge improvements and public transportation systems could be funded if the federal government rejects the proposed tolling of Interstate 80. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041352-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The CLO Ambassadors 13th annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction began in the Duquesne Club's exclusive La Cave wine cellar Friday night Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041356-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Opening night for the 17th annual Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival Thursday drew nearly 400 guests to the SouthSide Works Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041360-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Indiana, Pa.-based Superior Well Services, Inc. posted a fourth quarter loss of $15.2 million, or 58 cents per diluted share, on revenues of $95.9 million, compared with year-ago profits of $11.1 million, or 48 cents per diluted share, on revenues of $161.7 million. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041357-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Construction Industry Evening of Excellence hosted by the Master Builders' Association at Heinz Field Club East Lounge Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041351-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Party With the Presidents was the biggest of the Jewish Community Center's Big Night benefits at the JCC's Irene Kaufmann Building Saturday. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041359-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Three weeks after Saxonburg-based optical instruments maker II-VI had its unsolicited $169.4 million takeover bid for Zygo Corp. rejected by Zygo's board of directors, II-VI officers announced today the company will cease its acquisition efforts and withdraw its proposal to acquire Zygo for $10 per share Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041237-155.stm?cmpid=news.xml A long trek through the American West can bring out the John Wayne in a man. So it's no surprise when Greg St. Clair, eager to get back on his motorcycle on a steaming hot Kansas morning, growls, "We're burning daylight." Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041268-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Demolition crews began the sad task of demolishing 111 years of history that lay tipped over in the Ohio River as a clamshell scoop tore into the upper decks of the Becky Thatcher, a steamship to the same waters she once surveyed. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041358-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. this morning announced sales grew 10.7 percent in the holiday quarter, helping the Findlay retailer report a better performance than a year earlier in the depths of the 2008 financial downturn Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041300-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041299-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml A friend says he doesn't know anyone who was more organized than Paul Kuzmich of McKees Rocks. Mr. Kuzmich had to be organized. He was a vice president of Columbia Gas, where he worked for 31 years, and took leadership positions in a host of civic activities. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041290-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Hampton woman is suing Bank of America, saying one of its contractors wrongly repossessed her home, padlocked the doors, shut off the utilities, damaged the furniture and confiscated a pet parrot, though her mortgage payments were on time. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041355-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nearly 200 showed up at Oakmont Country Club Friday night for the annual Kerr Memorial Museum's Antiques Show Preview Party. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041354-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Seventh Annual Glass Slipper Ball hosted by Zonta Three Rivers North raised funds for scholarships for women in need Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041348-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml When New Jersey tells you not to use a handheld cellphone to talk or text while driving, they mean it. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041349-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml The past 18 months or so haven't been easy for General Motors, here or abroad. In Europe, GM endured much tense talk about its Opel brand, and the Kroymans Group fell prey to the global economic meltdown, leaving GM without a European distributor in over the half the markets it serviced. Now, a new company called Cadillac Europe has been created specifically to manage Cadillac distribution across the pond, and this go-round, GM is setting more realistic expectations for its luxury brand than we'd previously Tue, 9 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041232-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Antwaan Randle El isn't the only former player the Steelers would like to bring back to their roster. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041241-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml For most of their 18-year-old daughter Hannah's life, Russell and Robalee Bruesewitz have been engaged in legal battle over compensation for her seizure disorder, which they believe was caused by a vaccine. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041347-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A ridge of high pressure that has brought the pleasant weather with little wind over the past few days also has created conditions that allow air pollution levels to rise. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041346-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml While the record-setting snowfall from February may be melting, it is not forgotten, particularly at Monday night's Jefferson Hills council meeting. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041345-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A new direct revenue slots sharing program forged by the state Legislature earlier this year couldn't come at a better time for Washington County's most populous municipality. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041344-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Moon Area school board Monday night approved the Parkway West Career and Technology Center budget on a 6-3 vote, despite some misgivings. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:41:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041343-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Ambridge Area school board will vote Wednesday night on a proposed Baden charter school and if the school directors listen to their administrators, the vote will be a foregone conclusion. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041248-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sidney Crosby didn't have to come up with the top 10 reasons he couldn't accept an invitation to appear on the "Late Show with David Letterman" last week. It took only one. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 03:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041223-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- Police investigators Monday said they are arranging to interview Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger about sexual assault allegations lodged against him by a young woman, and that they will seek a DNA sample. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 03:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041323-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic translation service that the company had licensed. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041324-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- France Télécom's new management must move quickly "to take charge and encourage radical change" if it is to put an end to a suicide crisis, according to a study commissioned by the company. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041325-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml OAKLAND, Calif. -- Tim Westergren recently sat in a Las Vegas penthouse suite, a glass of red wine in one hand and a truffle-infused Kobe beef burger in the other, courtesy of the investment bankers who were throwing a party to court him. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041326-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- Rivals of Microsoft's market-leading Web browser have attracted a flurry of interest since the company, fulfilling a regulatory requirement, started making it easier for European users of its Windows operating system to switch. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041327-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml ARE social networking sites bringing us together, or only fake bringing us together? Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041328-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml There was a time, not all that long ago, when luxury fashion was found only in a magazine's glossy pages or a trip to Avenue Montaigne, Bond Street and the like. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041329-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- Sometimes a fashion moment is defined as much by what is not on the runway as by the catwalk favorites. And with only one more day of autumn/winter 2010 in Paris before the season's close, dressy evening clothes are fading from the limelight. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041330-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Paris Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041331-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- Over the years, the designer Andrew Gn has built up his own fashion universe of opulence and elegance that he inhabits so easily. This season, his inspiration came directly from his own home and a Louis XV commode in his study, as well as the book "Persian Letters" by Montesquieu. With those keystones, there is always a risk of going overboard on the gilding -- but that did not happen to Mr. Gn. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041332-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Paris Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041333-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the Iranian desert, at a sprawling industrial site ringed by barbed wire and antiaircraft guns, a shift in the enrichment of uranium is producing global jitters because it could shorten Iran's path to the acquisition of nuclear weapons. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041334-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml It was "Mad Men" meets "Flash Gordon." Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041335-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Leading Congressional Republicans are arguing that getting tough on terrorism means trying all foreign terrorism suspects before military commissions. But national security officials who served in the Bush administration say that taking away the criminal justice option would weaken the government's hand. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041336-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml BOSTON -- Days after President John F. Kennedy was killed, Dr. Ira Seiler sat at his desk and wrote a letter of condolence to his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041337-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the father of a Marine killed in Iraq may sue protesters who picketed his son's funeral with signs that read "God Hates You" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers." Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041338-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml SALT LAKE CITY -- Every person's life is a mix of the things revealed and unrevealed, secrets spilled or kept. Ted Gardiner, who committed suicide last week, was no exception. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041339-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- For two years in a row, Kwame Yankson, a business school student at the University of Virginia, has sent a flurry of résumés to investment banks. He has cold-called Wall Street recruiters. And he has landed coveted interview slots. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041340-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Seeking to step up enforcement of civil rights laws, the federal Department of Education says it will be sending letters in coming weeks to thousands of school districts and colleges, outlining their responsibilities on issues of fairness and equal opportunity. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041341-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml At a time when some colleges are favoring applicants who do not require financial aid, Hamilton College in upstate New York has decided to swim against that tide. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041342-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BERLIN -- To get Berliners arguing, bring up the new $3.4 billion airport rising just beyond the limits of this hip but economically strapped metropolis. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041172-369.stm?cmpid=news.xml Learning to read is serious business. But that doesn't mean it can't be done in a fun way. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041295-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARTFORD, Conn. -- West Virginia's youth and inexperience is supposed to be its Achilles heel, but the Mountaineers certainly have not played like a team that doesn't know how to win Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041322-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml A South Carolina man has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in Mercer County. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041218-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml For a team that historically has tiptoed into free agency, the Steelers dived headfirst and unleashed a flurry of activity that began with the quick signing of two unrestricted free agents and ended Monday with a new four-year contract for free safety Ryan Clark and a possible three-year agreement to bring receiver Antwaan Randle El back to his former team. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041231-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml The prosecutor described to the jury a childhood filled with abuse, isolation, molestation and horror. The victim, who says he was abused from the ages of 9 to 17, is now a grown man. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041264-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh City Council members plan to launch an independent study of the worth of Downtown's public garages as city officials weigh competing proposals to tap their value to shore up the city's wobbly pension fund. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041271-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Residents of Perrysville Plaza, a high-rise for senior citizens in Perry South, have been nettled for years by children who, while waiting for the school bus in the morning, punch apartment numbers, play drums on the walls, curse and clog the vestibule so residents cannot pass. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041269-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml What makes an effective teacher? That is the question facing administrators in the Pittsburgh Public Schools and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers as they go about implementing a performance pay plan that is part of the $40 million grant that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the school district last year. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041266-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A judge's decision on whether the Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board has the right to arrest reports and other matters from the G-20 summit could ultimately determine how much power the board has. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1036262-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml NAPOLEONVILLE, La. - In 1983, Keith Marshall sat in the office of his New Orleans art-supply company pondering an electric bill for his family's country house. The latest statement was $450 higher than ever before. ... Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041155-290.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt basketball Q&A with Ray Fittipaldo Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041161-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml Has a team ever won the Stanley Cup when its goaltending tandem did not post a single shutout during the regular season? Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041171-369.stm?cmpid=news.xml Capsule reviews of recent children's book releases. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041175-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sunday night's Academy Awards broadcast captured the biggest audience for ABC in five years, the company reported Monday. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041177-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Scott Broom turns his tripod toward the wall of gray mailboxes, adjusts the camera, walks into the shot and delivers his spiel. "Here's how bad it is for the U.S. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041178-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml She was supposed to be a lawyer. This lanky, toothy New York girl, a poli-sci grad out of Duke with a rich mind but shaky self-esteem, was "going to take the more accepted path." Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041180-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Patty Hewes, the Machiavellian lawyer played by Glenn Close on FX's addictive "Damages" (10 p.m. Mondays) loves to go after the rich and powerful. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041181-348.stm?cmpid=news.xml Maybe it went semi-unnoticed because they were accepting one of the night's lower-profile awards, but the personal tiff between "Music by Prudence" producer Elinor Burkett and director-producer Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041182-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker" to the screen. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041183-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Everyone has a theory about the financial crisis. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041184-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pennsylvania needs the money to keep its roads and bridges in good repair Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041185-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ask a kid how a bill becomes a law and she'll explain that Congress takes a vote and, if a majority supports the bill, the bill goes to the president. Not really. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041186-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Main Street families will not soon recover from a deep and unrelenting Great Recession which has triggered pink slips galore and a national unemployment tally now near the double digits. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041187-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml When Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger does something stupid in the off-season, which the latest news suggests is becoming a habit, that knife plunges straight into the heart of Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041188-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The New York Times reported over the weekend that, while the U.S. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041189-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml On Oscar night, the unworldly violence of "The Hurt Locker" trumped the other-worldly civilization of "Avatar." Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041190-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sins of omission are oftentimes more dangerous than sins of action. The PG editorial board and a good deal of the mainstream media have a penchant for committing these sins. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041192-436.stm?cmpid=news.xml DEAR CAT: Sometimes I feel like everyone uses me as a therapist. I feel like I should charge my friends a fee for hearing all their problems all the time. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041193-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Buy a sofa, save a life. That's the premise behind the "Feel Good Twice" program going on all this month at Weisshouse furniture store at 324 S. Highland Ave. in Shadyside. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041194-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Saturday-Sunday: Lintons at the Waterfront will hold a prom trunk show to preview the newest prom fashions from Beyonce's House of Dereon, Jovani, Aidan Mattox, Sean, Nicole Miller and Xeniya by Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041195-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jerusalemites will soon have their world turned upside down -- in the reflective stainless-steel surface of a sculpture by Anish Kapoor that will stand in the grounds of the renovated Israel Museum set to reopen in July. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041196-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml Places: The building that burned on West Carson Street last week illuminated more than the night sky. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041197-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml LAS VEGAS -- Glitz, glamour and no gilt! That statement could be as easily applied to Sin City (with a slight spelling change) as Jane Seymour's new collection of furniture, Hollywood Swank. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041199-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041200-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Only a couple of weeks after being furloughed from his longtime job, Leo Conklin was one of the lucky ones to make the cut at the Sheraton at Station Square, earning a spot in the school set up to train dealers for the Rivers Casino. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041202-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Toyota gave detailed evidence Monday that it says disproves claims that electronics may cause the unwanted acceleration that led to the recall of more than 8 million cars and trucks. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041203-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml The West Penn Allegheny Health System is considering changing its name, and it is re-evaluating services at its Suburban Hospital facility in Bellevue. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041208-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml A college student whose body was found in a Carnegie Mellon University fraternity this weekend had been drinking vodka inside the house before his death, city homicide detectives said. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041211-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml A fire that destroyed the historic Wendell August Forge near Grove City over the weekend has been ruled accidental. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041214-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml You know what they're saying about you in Baltimore, don't you? "You people in Pittsburgh really have a lot of nerve calling us 'Baltimorons' ... " They're right. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041215-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera threw 34 pitches in his first batting practice session Monday in Tampa, Fla. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041217-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml State troopers seized more than 100 grams of raw heroin after pulling a car over on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday night near Somerset. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041220-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Longtime dreams of new Allegheny riverfront housing, commercial spaces, bike paths and other recreational amenities are a step closer to reality, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is set to announce today. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041221-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml Four people were taken to a hospital after a fire Monday morning at a residence in the 400 block of Campbell Street in Wilkinsburg. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041222-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A man who was 14 when he witnessed a homicide in Lincoln-Lemington again refused to testify Monday morning in criminal court. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041225-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Women of all races bring home less income and own fewer assets, on average, than men of the same race, but for single black women the disparities are so overwhelmingly great that even in their prime working years their median wealth amounts to only $5. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041227-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mara Jo Knox of Windgap lay mortally wounded in her bedroom Sunday when she told police "Anthony" had stabbed her. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041229-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Butler County couple on Monday filed a lawsuit against Target, claiming that an improperly marketed wicker trunk that they used as a toy chest trapped their 18-month-old daughter's neck, leaving her in a persistent vegetative state. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041230-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml The 101-year-old St. Athanasius Catholic School in West View will close in June because declining enrollment has made tuition too expensive for most families. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041233-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's not as though Jay McKee has made a habit of playing 82 games a season. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041234-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt did not have anyone who made first-team All-Big East, and a Pitt player will not win conference player of the year when that award is handed out this afternoon. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041239-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- Women who drink moderate amounts of alcohol don't gain as much weight in midlife as those who abstain, according to a study released Monday. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041240-153.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ben Roethlisberger and pre-season disaster go together like peanut butter and chocolate. It seems like only yesterday that Pittsburgh Steelers fans were rushing to defend the honor of their young, Super Bowl-winning quarterback after a near-career-ending motorcycle accident. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041247-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penguins left winger Matt Cooke has "reached out" to Boston center Marc Savard, according to Penguins coach Dan Bylsma. Odds are the NHL office will do likewise with Cooke soon. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041251-135.stm?cmpid=news.xml A familiar travel route awaits -- north on Interstate 79 and then a right turn into New York state. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041263-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- The first sitting lawmaker to testify in the Bonusgate trial took the stand Monday as the defense began to make its case that former state Rep. Mike Veon and three former aides committed no crimes. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041267-181.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former congressional aide Mark Critz on Monday won the Democratic nomination for the special election to succeed his former boss, the late U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Johnstown. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041273-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL -- The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan pledged Monday to retake the symbolic Taliban home ground of Kandahar in a campaign that builds on early signs of progress from the huge infusion of American and foreign forces. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041275-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml GLENSIDE, Pa. -- President Barack Obama began an important political week for his health care legislation with a passionate argument for its urgency Monday at Arcadia University in Glenside, blasting the insurance industry for skyrocketing premiums, canceled coverage -- and suffering Americans. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041276-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Millions of Americans have been forced to rely on unemployment payments for extended periods as the nation struggles through its longest high joblessness period in a generation, and critics are taking aim, saying the Depression-era program created as a temporary bridge for laid-off workers is turning into an expensive entitlement. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041277-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERUSALEM -- Israel and the Palestinians agreed Monday to resume indirect peace negotiations mediated by the United States, said President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy, George Mitchell. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041278-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Northrop Grumman Corp. announced Monday that it won't compete against Boeing Co. for a $35 billion contract to build refueling tankers for the Air Force because Northrop doesn't think it can win. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041279-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml LAGOS, Nigeria -- The victims of Sunday's sectarian massacres in central Nigeria were buried in mass graves Monday, as survivors told horrific stories of Christian villagers being trapped in nets and hacked to death by Muslim herdsmen. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041280-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the outer limits of free-speech protection for protests and to rule on whether a dead soldier's family can sue fringe religious protesters who picketed near their son's funeral, carrying signs that read: "Thank God for dead soldiers." Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041281-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Monday nominated a new head of the Transportation Security Administration, a retired Army general and intelligence expert who would oversee the nation's airline passenger screening system. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041284-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml LAHORE, Pakistan -- A suicide car bombing at a building that houses terrorism investigations in Lahore killed at least 13 people and wounded 80 others Monday, the first terrorist strike to hit a major city in the country's heartland this year. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041285-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml SANTIAGO, Chile -- From outside, there is no sign that the century-old building where Cecilia Painaqueo lived with her four children was damaged by one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041286-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml OKCULAR, Turkey -- Hundreds of earthquake survivors in eastern Turkey huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041287-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after historic parliamentary elections that the top U.S. commander said would let all but 50,000 American troops come home by the end of summer. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041294-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARTFORD, Conn. -- No balloons fell from the rafters, no confetti rained on the court, no over-the-top celebrations were held. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041306-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader Monday urged state Attorney General Tom Corbett to file charges against attorneys who "knowingly joined or aided" in the Bonusgate government corruption trial, including at least one attorney from Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith LLP. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10068/1041307-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml One month after the New Orleans Saints' first Super Bowl championship, the team and city were holding yet another party. Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500