http://www.post-gazette.com/ Local/regional news and features, Latest news, Education, Transportation, Mining Safety, Weather, Capitol Notes, Casino News, Casino Journal, News Obituaries, Morning File en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:29:15 -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/09327/1015645-139.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Perhaps it's no surprise that senior Ana Olander scored the winning touchdown for the Fox Chapel Area High School seniors. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015732-298.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmers and thousands of scientists. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015629-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml City police are looking for help in their investigation of a shooting early yesterday in the Hill District. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015667-294.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The following are actual statistics, newly released by the U.S. Census Bureau as part of periodic efforts to measure Americans' living standards and sense of well-being. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015642-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A female resident at a Pressley Ridge home who was missing for 17 hours over the weekend was found yesterday afternoon inside a walk-in kitchen pantry in the home. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015646-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml EAST LIBERTY: Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Farrior and friends will help Tree of Hope to distribute turkeys at 6 p.m. at the Crossroads Church, 325 N. Highland Ave. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015656-147.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The 6.8-mile HealthLine in Cleveland is a bus route pretending to be a light-rail line. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015668-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml It took $5.3 million in public money to make the Residence Inn and Schenley Gardens in North Oakland a reality. Nearly 12 years after that public investment was approved, housekeeping staff at the inn start at $7.50 an hour -- below what would be considered a "prevailing wage" under legislation that may come up for a vote today in Pittsburgh City Council. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015669-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Somewhere between mentoring a Bantu refugee with little formal education at Schenley High School to living in a mud house in a Zambian refugee camp, 2009 University of Pittsburgh graduate Eleanor M. Ott realized that if she was going to effect real change for refugees, she was going to have to change policies from the ground up. So she set her sights on becoming the United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015623-122.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml In the last weeks of her life, Anita Gevaudan Byerly put the final touches on her third book of poetry. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015628-55.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The Duquesne EMS chief collapsed and died last night just after arriving at an accident scene. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015637-454.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09327/1015647-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The Pittsburgh Promise college scholarship program has assembled a team of heavyweights to coax $50 million over 10 years from the area's movers and shakers. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015574-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml When University of Pittsburgh graduate Eleanor Ott found out Saturday that she had been picked as a Rhodes scholar, she had what many would consider a predictable reaction: "My legs starting shaking. I was in disbelief." Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:46:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015567-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A suspicious death this morning in Etna has been ruled a suicide. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015570-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Lemont Furnace man is in the Fayette County Prison on a series of charges that began with a traffic violation shortly after midnight Saturday. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015568-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015548-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The state Department of Education recognized 1,939 public schools statewide with Keystone Achievement Awards for making adequate yearly progress ??? known as AYP ??? for two consecutive years, 2007-08 and 2008-09. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015545-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Duquesne University's public safety department has been accredited by the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015544-56.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Somerset County man has been charged with attempted homicide after a fight broke out at a party in Jenner. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015543-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Allegheny County sheriff???s deputies Friday night located and arrested a fugitive wanted for sexually assauting a child who fled during a hearing earlier this week. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015541-56.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Braddock man has been convicted of third-degree murder in the shooting death of a man outside an Erie bar. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015540-54.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Police in Butler County have identified the victims of a sanitation-truck crash Friday in which the driver was killed and two passengers were seriously injured. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015539-58.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Authorities in Washington County are investigating the death of a man who had been shocked by a Taser during an altercation earlier this week with police in Washington. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:57:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015538-55.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Greene County man has been charged with killing a 37-year-old woman his wife in her home Friday, apparently by strangulation. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015445-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The drab, faded, red facade of the Mac Can Do bar squats at the intersection of Homewood's Brushton Avenue and Kelly Street, one of the most violent corners in Pittsburgh. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015511-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Bankrupted by the country he helped create and forgotten by a history he set on its course, Arthur St. Clair lies on a hillside in Greensburg, discarded beer cans littering his patriot grave. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015213-294.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml 1963 President John F. Kennedy is shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015468-56.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Oakmont's Light Up night parade came to a halt last night when the police officer riding the lead motorcycle stopped in the middle of the main street and gestured to a woman standing along the route. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015251-54.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Venango County man, injured in a one-vehicle crash in October in Mercer County, died this week in an Ohio hospital, state police said. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015465-122.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Eugene F. Connelly was a charitable, civic-minded businessman who helped create such institutions as the Gateway Clipper Fleet and the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta but later ran afoul of the law over the annual event's funds. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015485-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml One man died early yesterday in a raging Lawrenceville house fire that spread to an adjacent home and across a narrow alley to two other houses before firefighters arrived. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015202-298.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Six days a week in the wee hours of the morning, Saswati Patnaik logs into her home computer. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015471-176.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A college student home for the weekend might expect a warm bed and a hot meal. That had to wait for Addie Witt, who drove east Friday night from Ohio's Otterbein College to join her father, Kerry Witt, on a chilly parking lot sleepover next to the cinder block wall of a Sam's Club in Washington County. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015409-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Dozens of families grew larger today as Allegheny County family court judges finalized the adoptions of 49 children. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015265-85.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Sister Jan Pritchard, a longtime pastoral minister in Green Tree who battled for three years through organ transplants with the aid of fellow Divine Providence sisters, died Wednesday. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015410-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Police in Butler County have identified the victims of a sanitation-truck crash Friday in which the driver was killed and two passengers were seriously injured. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015407-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Allegheny County sheriff's deputies last night located and arrested a fugitive wanted for sexually assauting a child who fled from the county courthouse during a hearing earlier this week. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015406-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Authorities in Washington County are investigating the death of a man who had been shocked by a Taser during an altercation earlier this week with police in Washington. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015405-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Eugene F. Connelly, former president and general chairman of the Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta, died Thursday. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015402-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml One man died early this morning in a raging Lawrenceville house fire that spread to an adjacent home and across a narrow alley to two other houses before firefighters even arrived. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015297-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml To really appreciate the tradition of Light Up Night and the transformation it brings to Downtown Pittsburgh, you need the perspective of a veteran participant. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:57:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015245-454.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml In the latest fallout from a government corruption scandal, House committee assignments are being shuffled after a state lawmaker arrested last week was stripped of his post as ranking Republican on the Urban Affairs Committee. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015244-28.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Pennsylvania announced yesterday it is moving from the South Side to Lawrenceville next summer or fall. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015254-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml It took four trials before two men were convicted of killing another in Mellon Square in 2003. Yesterday, they were sentenced to prison. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015270-57.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Students from Midland, Beaver County, star in a new music video the state Department of Health has developed to teach kids ages 6 to 12 how they can prevent getting or spreading the H1N1 flu virus. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015273-323.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Santa's "elves" at the North Pole have been given their walking papers -- but they're not going quietly. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015191-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml City officials are resetting their sights on a once-spurned St. Louis-based grocery chain now that Kuhn's Market has dropped plans for a Hill District store. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015249-56.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Nine people were arrested on drug charges yesterday in the Penn Hills area, according to the Allegheny County district attorney's office. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015250-59.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml An Indiana County man was killed in a crash yesterday morning on Route 286 in Westmoreland County. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015260-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Shaler man remained free on bond after he was ordered yesterday to stand trial, charged with having been drunk in May when he drove the wrong way onto a Fort Duquesne Bridge ramp and was involved in a fatal crash. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015286-55.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml WASHINGTON -- A Carnegie construction company fraudulently received $39.4 million in federal funds meant for firms owned and operated by disabled veterans, according to a government audit. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015076-54.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The 20th annual Butler Symphony House Tour serves dual purposes: raising money for a "note"-worthy organization and giving a glimpse inside some of the historic county's more noteworthy homes. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015279-298.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's proposed 1 percent tuition tax came under attack in Harrisburg yesterday, even as students panned it at a City Council meeting. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015243-56.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A jury on Thursday found a Forest Hills man guilty of strangling his wife earlier this year. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015252-54.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A man was killed and two other people were seriously injured when a sanitation truck overturned yesterday on McCalmont Road in Butler Township. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015253-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Three men were held for trial yesterday in the fatal shooting of a Beltzhoover man during a robbery last month. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015257-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Pittsburgh police made an arrest in the stabbing of a man on the South Side early yesterday morning. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015283-58.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml What could have been misconstrued as an overzealous pig roast actually did involve dead pigs -- along with a house fire, 10 students in white work suits and a $300,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015284-55.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Despite pleas from several residents to allow the new school board that takes office next month to select the next superintendent of the West Mifflin Area School District, the board last night voted to award Assistant Superintendent Janet Sardon the job. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015306-298.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Two Pittsburgh school board members have set up their own citywide meeting for Monday so the public can comment on a school closing proposal and any other issues facing Pittsburgh Public Schools. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015318-454.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015219-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Amid protests from the public, the West Mifflin Area school board tonight appointed Assistant Superintendent Janet Sardon as the district's next superintendent. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015154-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml An effort to block Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's proposed 1 percent tuition tax has begun in Harrisburg. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015139-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The state Department of Education today recognized 1,939 public schools with Keystone Achievement Awards for making adequate yearly progress -- known as AYP -- for two consecutive years, 2007-08 and 2008-09. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015055-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Pittsburgh police have made an arrest in the stabbing of a man on the South Side early this morning. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015058-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Two Pittsburgh school board members have set up their own citywide meeting for Monday so the public can comment on a school closing proposal and any other issues facing Pittsburgh Public Schools. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015072-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The Avonworth School District will dedicate a bench and area for reflection in memory of Jacob Snively at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the middle school. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015059-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml After 23 months of negotiations, teachers in the South Allegheny School District have reached a contract settlement with the school board that will give teachers annual raises that average 2 percent. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015064-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Shaler man remained free on bond after he was ordered today to stand trial, charged with having been drunk last May when he drove the wrong way onto a Fort Duquesne Bridge ramp where his car collided with another, killing the other driver and permanently disabling that driver???s passenger. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015056-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Three men were held for trial this morning in the fatal shooting of a Beltzhoover man during a robbery in October. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:41:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015053-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A man was killed in one-car crash this morning on Route 286 in Westmoreland County. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014953-488.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml In the past several weeks, as the H1N1 flu has swept through the nation, questions have been raised about how Pennsylvania chose to handle the process of distributing the limited doses of vaccine. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015054-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Venango County man, injured in a one-vehicle crash in October in Mercer County, died this week in an Ohio Hospital, state police said. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:41:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014926-56.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Standing in ponchos and under a canopy of umbrellas, a few hundred people gathered in the rain in front of UPMC Braddock yesterday to decry UPMC's decision to shutter the hospital there, hoping their messages -- conveyed over a crackly portable speaker -- would sway the medical giant to change its mind about closing the facility. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014943-122.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Chances are, if you went to school in Brentwood before 1981, Geraldine Franz Sullivan knew you. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014940-122.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml After working an unfulfilling job upon his graduation from Duquesne University, where he helped to manage the club football team, Jon Neiderer decided it was time to get into professional sports. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014920-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A bumpy half-mile missing link on the North Shore Trail will be filled handsomely this winter by a $5 million elevated structure stretching near Millvale. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014925-455.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Downtown buildings and holiday decorations won't be the only things aglow during this evening's celebration of Light Up Night. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014922-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Don't bury Mellon Arena just yet. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1015052-100.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The proposal would have allowed a correctional organization to house more than 100 adult ex-offenders in a Penn Avenue building that currently houses a program for adolescent females. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014915-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation yesterday awarded $290 million in teacher-effectiveness grants to schools in Pittsburgh and three other cities, saying the bold initiatives they've proposed have the chance to shape the future of teaching in America. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014949-294.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml He arrived in the mail one bright and sunny December afternoon: a tiny tadpole swimming in a bag of water. He and his accoutrements came in a box marked "Grow a Frog." Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014957-59.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml An armed robber is being sought after the holdup Wednesday of a PNC Bank branch in North Huntingdon, police said. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014959-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in Oakland has received the 2009 HPCwire Reader's Choice Award for Top Supercomputing Achievement, which recognizes the center's work as part of the National Institutes of Health's Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study project. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014923-298.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A majority of Pittsburgh City Council members said yesterday that they'll vote for a tuition tax, but that won't stop the universities -- and maybe the students -- from trying to derail the effort. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014906-454.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml In recent months Pennsylvania has been in step with the nation in terms of unemployment, staying about a point behind the national rate as both rates slowly ticked up. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014955-66.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The federal government yesterday asked for former Steelers Hall of Fame cornerback Mel Blount to be held in default on more than $600,000 in back taxes that he owes. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014958-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A man who spent 19 years in prison for a rape he did not commit appears to be nearing a settlement in his federal lawsuit against the city of Pittsburgh. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014961-365.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml The Sto-Rox school board last night did not open up the head football coaching position despite rumors that the decision was a done deal. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014981-55.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml A Greene County woman was killed early Wednesday when her pickup truck was struck by a dump truck in Dunkard. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09324/1014927-53.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml Pittsburgh police and the city's Office of Municipal Investigations are looking into allegations of misbehavior by officers at Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's election night party at a North Shore sports bar. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500