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The project to extend the Light Rail Transit to PNC Park and Heinz Field is about half finished, and the twin tunnels beneath the river and the shell of the underground station next to the baseball stadium just await finishing work.

Subway tunnels almost finished

All is quiet in the nearly completed subway tunnels 66 feet below the surface of the Allegheny River. (Today)

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	Tunnel 1
	Tunnel 2
	Tunnel 3

Jazzing it up, summer school style

Because only a fraction of struggling middle-grade readers sign up for summer school, Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are trying something different to lure them in next year. (Today)

Hill responds to proposed school closings

About 40 parents, educators, pastors, school volunteers and other Hill District stakeholders gathered yesterday at Pittsburgh Milliones to begin writing a blueprint for the future of the neighborhood's schools in light of a new round of proposed closings by the board of Pittsburgh Public Schools. (Today)

A ministry to orphans

Mary Blandino was reading her Bible seven years ago when James 1:27 stopped her cold. "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress ... ." (Today)

Driver flees car before train hits it on North Side

A driver whose vehicle got stuck on train tracks in Manchester last night managed to escape from the car before a freight train crashed into it. (Today)