http://www.post-gazette.com/ All News en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:29:38 -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/09326/1015627-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jeff Brooks scored 12 points to help Penn State hold off Davidson 59-57 today in the third round of the Charleston Classic. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015617-132.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jimmie Johnson was chasing much more than a championship. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015616-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Will Harris scored 22 points and Tim Ambrose added 15 points to lead Albany (N.Y.) to a 71-66 victory over Robert Morris in the third round of the 2K Sports Classic today. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015593-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who left today's game in overtime after taking a blow to the head, appeared to be lucid in the Steelers locker room after their 27-24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015430-362.stm?cmpid=news.xml HERSHEY, Pa. -- Sometimes, soccer results -- particularly if one side appears to have a clear edge -- can be unjust and downright cruel. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015575-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The lowly Kansas City Chiefs pulled a stunner today when they upset the Steelers in overtime 27-24, putting a serious dent in the Super Bowl champions' chances of repeating. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015569-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml MIDDLETOWN, Pa. -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sending investigators to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant after a small amount of radiation was detected there. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015574-100.stm?cmpid=news.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=news.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/09326/1015573-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Special notes -- PennDOT driver license and photo centers will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015420-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml It is unlikely any of the Steelers who will play in Kansas City today have heard of Dave Smith, a former wide receiver who played three of his five National Football League seasons with the Steelers, beginning in 1970. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015572-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Duquesne junior Damian Saunders was named the Atlantic 10 co-Player of the Week for the second consecutive week following his performance in Duquesne's 52-50 win at Iowa on Nov. 17. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015571-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml ERIE ??? Fire officials say an infant was hurt when part of a ceiling collapsed over a crib at home. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015570-100.stm?cmpid=news.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=news.xml Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015549-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml "AREN'T you going to check out the terrace?" Madian al-Jazerah said to me. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015550-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml DUSK was descending softly on Athens as the sounds of bass-heavy noise pop drifted across Karitsi Square, a tucked-away cobblestone oasis near the city center. In the outside seating area of Use Bar (Karitsi Square 5; 30-210-323-5993), two tables of artist types were discussing a recent show by the local dark-wave band Phoenix Catscratch. Later, throngs of young men and women sporting skinny jeans and asymmetrical haircuts would fill the square and seep down winding Kolokotroni Street into a slew of new bar Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015551-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml To the Editor: I enjoyed the article "Rare Books Don't Always Live in Glass Cases" (Nov. 1) on lesser-known libraries with extraordinary collections. I was reminded of the detour-worthy art collection housed in the library of my hometown, Charles City, Iowa, population about 7,500. The public library was bequeathed an important collection of works on paper in 1941. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015552-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml Q. You recently became pregnant and expect to continue working through the pregnancy and after maternity leave. Although the initial reaction has been positive, is it possible you will face negative repercussions in the office? Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015553-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015554-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Almost a year from the day the Chicago Police Department unleashed a sweeping crackdown on gangs, its efforts crashed into stark reality Wednesday in a gritty area of the South Side that many in the neighborhood call "Kill Town." Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015555-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml MIAMI -- The office of Mayor Manny Diaz smelled of fresh paint and departure. He had only a few hours left before term limits pushed him out, but when the city's planning director mentioned a development by a large Spanish bank, the mayor's eyes lit up. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015556-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- When Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic leader, heard a few weeks ago that the House took less than an hour to approve an unemployment bill that had languished for a month in the Senate, aides said he did not know whether to laugh or cry. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015557-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml In a Loop restaurant, David Axelrod smiles when shown a photo of the two of us as long-haired reporters hovering near a fur-coated female who resembles a polar bear with blond hair during a rough Chicago winter. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015558-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml ACHIN, Afghanistan -- American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015559-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml ISTANBUL -- Few here doubt that the case began with something threatening: in June 2007, 27 hand grenades and fuses were found in the attic of a house in an Istanbul slum. Investigators claimed they were stashed there by an ultranationalist retired officer and they were later linked to an elaborate coup plot. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015560-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml VATICAN CITY -- In 1512, Raphael finished his ruminative portrait of Pope Julius II, who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1999, the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan produced "The Ninth Hour," a wax sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015561-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chávez is heaping praise on Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the Venezuelan better known as Carlos the Jackal and implicated in hijackings and terror attacks across Europe in the 1970s and '80s, describing him in a speech here Friday night as a "revolutionary fighter." Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015562-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MOSCOW -- President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia accused the governing party, United Russia, of "backwardness" on Saturday, warning its leaders that they must learn to win elections honestly if it is to survive. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015563-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml ROME -- Prosecutors in Perugia, Italy, asked Saturday for life in prison, Italy's stiffest sentence, for an American college student and her Italian former boyfriend accused in the death of her British housemate in 2007. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015564-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml ROME -- The Italian police on Saturday arrested two Pakistani men accused of helping to send money to finance the terrorist attacks that killed 163 in Mumbai last November. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015565-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Three suspected militants blew themselves up on Saturday as police officers chased them in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, government officials said. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015566-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml VATICAN CITY -- A month after the Vatican announced the creation of a new Anglican rite within the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday held "cordial discussions" with the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, the Vatican said in a statement. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015548-53.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015469-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml He was "the nicest guy in the world," except that when she lost her disability claim and money got tight, the beatings got worse: He pulled her up by her neck, pointed a gun at her, tried to break her hand and told her he would like to kill her. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015545-53.stm?cmpid=news.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=news.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=news.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=news.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=news.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=news.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=news.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/09326/1015537-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Paul K. Martin, the son of Pittsburgh residents Jean and George Martin, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as inspector general of NASA. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015433-87.stm?cmpid=news.xml You wonder what they talked about during the long, hot summer nights, the two roommates, alone in their South Side apartment. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015474-143.stm?cmpid=news.xml EAST LANSING, Mich. -- As the final seconds wound down yesterday in Penn State's 42-14 victory against Michigan State, the Nittany Lion mascot held an orange up in the air. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015527-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nathan Horton, Jordan Leopold and Steven Reinprecht scored goals and Tomas Vokoun made 32 saves as the streaking Florida Panthers defeated the host New York Rangers, 3-2, last night. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015421-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml QB Matt Cassel has had to run an offense that lost its top running back and wide receiver. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1012276-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml They're almost like an endangered species: The elusive male TV watcher. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014774-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014869-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml In "2012," doomsday is the draw. In "The Road," the post-apocalyptic world is simply the canvas to see how people behave. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014870-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml CLEVELAND -- The great Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin was equally scandalous in his art and in his personal life. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014871-323.stm?cmpid=news.xml ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Forget the turkey, the silly Pilgrim hats and the buckles. Forget Plymouth Rock and 1621. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014872-325.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society presents the Brentano String Quartet in a program of Schubert's "Quartettsatz" and his String Quartet in G-Major, with Britten's String Quartet in G-Major. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014873-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml A gala launch of "The Art Institute of Pittsburgh," an illustrated history of the 88-year old college, will be held in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of historic photographs, films, art and artifacts at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 11 at the Institute, 420 Blvd. of the Allies, Downtown. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014875-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Terverius Black believes in hip-hop gospel so much he sold his first home to get the money needed to start his Christian-themed entertainment company. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014877-34.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robyn Gioia, a fifth-grade teacher at Bolles School, a private school north of St. Augustine, has a mission: Spread the word about the nation's first Thanksgiving. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014879-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Bed-and-breakfasts are starting to man up, doing away with the lace bedspreads and trading high tea for brewskies. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014881-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml A new guide to Vancouver is just out from Lonely Planet's pocket-sized Encounter series. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014894-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml 1. The "Lacuna." Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $26.99. 2. "The Help." Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95. 3. "Under the Dome." Stephen King, Scribner, $35. 4. "The Lost Symbol." Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014896-148.stm?cmpid=news.xml Stephen King's "Under the Dome" is so richly detailed -- some will say overly detailed at nearly 1,100 pages -- that you come to know the people of Chester's Mill, Maine, the way you know an Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014897-74.stm?cmpid=news.xml Thousands are buying "Going Rogue" because they believe Sarah Palin is Ronald Reagan returned to Earth in a dress. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014898-148.stm?cmpid=news.xml As readers of John Irving know, terrible things happen to his characters; not just terrible things but comically far-fetched terrible things. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1014899-148.stm?cmpid=news.xml Franklin Roosevelt probably engendered more words about his career than any other 20th-century president, but I wager Woodrow Wilson isn't far behind. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015091-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml They call the conclusion of a chess match the end game, and it takes special skills to master that part of the contest. In the stock market, we have the end-of-the-year game. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015092-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Now that we've got Fred Rogers memorialized, let's not forget one of Pittsburgh's brightest stars, pleads former PG columnist BARBARA CLOUD Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015093-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rover has a bigger carbon paw-print than you might think ... and he isn't keen on turning vegetarian, writes humorist JUDY GRUEN Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015095-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml On ducking court court orders, taxing pro athletes, commies making a comback, Obama's evil spawn and more Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015096-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml But buy now, before it's too late, urges TINA DUPUY Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015097-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Even if everyone gets health insurance, they won't get the health care they need unless we have enough primary-care physicians, says DR. BASIM KHAN Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015098-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml What the West has most, and what the Arab world most needs, is education, says PAUL SALEM, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015099-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml Hiking, winter activities, shoots, hunter safety courses, educational programs, volunteer opportunities and more Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015102-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml In what amounts to a redistribution of personnel resources, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will soon initiate a series of field inspections of some active Marcellus shale gas drilling sites. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015103-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml When the unexpected happens, be ready for an unplanned overnight stay in the wild Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015104-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml Hardly a summer-only facility, the environmental center on Presque Isle is mostly about the geography and wildlife of Presque Isle, but it's more than that, too. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015105-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml Estimated number of white-tailed deer killed by hunters in Pennsylvania in 2008-2009 seasons (122,410 antlered 213,440 antlerless). Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015106-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml I have a new favorite bird: the northern saw-whet owl. Until last week, I had never seen one in the wild. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015108-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml Most serious outdoor emergencies do not occur during wilderness expeditions to remote areas, which are generally well planned. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015121-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml Where's the outrage? Some pseudo-government organization is dictating to all women how and when they should/can proactively screen for breast cancer. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015122-373.stm?cmpid=news.xml He puts the country at risk to embarrass the Bush administration Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015123-149.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mesmerized by the land, you can almost forget about 'the situation' Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015124-372.stm?cmpid=news.xml We have much to learn from modern China, including traditional American values Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015134-467.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you're not one of the 1.5 million registered users of Google Voice, you might not yet understand its possibilities. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015136-468.stm?cmpid=news.xml You should consider the logistics of transferring thousands of VHS tapes, audio cassettes and vinyl records to disc. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015137-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml With the year winding down, it is time for readers of the TechMan column to be recertified. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015138-323.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mario, the potbellied Italian plumber with a penchant for rescuing princesses, collecting golden coins and gobbling magic mushrooms, has been around for nearly three decades. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015142-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Where's the beef? For the most part, it's been that kind of season. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015144-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Community College of Allegheny County, 9 a.m., CCAC West Hills Center, 1000 McKee Road, Oakdale. Skilled trades and services fair. Call 412-788-7500. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015145-318.stm?cmpid=news.xml Michael R. Ruck, tax manager, joined Malin Bergquist. Kline, Keppel & Koryak P.C. hired Aaron M. Powell as a staff accountant. Elias/Savion Advertising Inc. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015148-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the springs of 2000 through 2003, the Pennsylvania Game Commission collected reproductive data from 3,180 road-killed female deer from across the state. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015149-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml A whitetail buck grazed on a hillside in Washington County. Two does nipped grass just above him. The driver of a red pickup truck spotted the deer, 150 yards away, and braked. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015151-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml Among white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania, the rut takes a differential toll on bucks and does. Bucks are on call 24/7 from October through January. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015153-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Teams were allowed to begin signing free agents on Friday. A breakdown of the free-agent pool: National League PIRATES ---- None. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015172-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Facts that speak for themselves Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015179-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml At 4 a.m. on Black Friday as shoppers are lined up at other stores, the doors will be locked at Altmeyer's Bed, Bath & Home stores. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015180-435.stm?cmpid=news.xml A year after Barron's named him the best equity-income managed based on his five-year performance, Chris Wiles left Federated Investors in 1997 to launch his own investment firm, Rockhaven Asset Management. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015182-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml As a welder's assistant on pipelines, he follows the work -- sometimes to New York or West Virginia, sometimes Pennsylvania or Ohio. He gets paid more than if he works in Illinois. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015183-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml While there will be more than a dozen H1N1 vaccine clinics taking place across Pennsylvania this weekend, some people are questioning the process that the state has used until now to distribute the doses. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015201-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml A few months after she was arrested for wearing pants, Lubna Hussein was lounging around her home in a shady, upper-class neighborhood in this capital along the Nile River. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015202-298.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015203-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico's top cop was supposed to help clean up the country's long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of its members themselves didn't pass, and a supervisor was rigging results to make sure others did. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015206-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Smoking pot isn't what it used to be for Joe Lee, 62, a vintage-record dealer in suburban Rockville, Md. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015208-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml From Ronald Reagan's shining city on a hill to George W. Bush's shining moment on an aircraft carrier, from Bill Clinton's place called hope to Barack Obama's audacity of hope, the last 25 years in politics have provided rich fodder for the cartoonist's pen. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015213-294.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015214-155.stm?cmpid=news.xml Henry Posner III owns railroads from Iowa to Peru, but, with his buttoned-down, deadpan delivery, he seems more like Bob Newhart than Cornelius Vanderbilt. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015222-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml DAWN CREEPS over the mountains one sunbeam at a time. And sanity comes to the selling of beer more conveniently in the Pittsburgh area one Giant Eagle at a time. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015223-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Heavy-set Americans are starting to throw their weight around in the health-care reform debate. If that sounds ridiculous, it's because it is. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015224-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml For the past 30 years, I have had the pleasure of taking colleagues from an array of German universities to the shores of the Ohio to visit the last of the three homes of the Harmony Society in Old Economy Village. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015251-54.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015371-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Never mind that it was 5:58 a.m. and the sun would not rise for another 47 minutes. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015412-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml DETROIT -- A Cleveland Browns fan held up a sign that read "No Fun Losing" during their latest loss. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015416-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Few NFL teams have the kind of history combined with a large fan base as do the Steelers. One comes close: the Green Bay Packers. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015417-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the so-called Miracle at the Meadowlands, New York Giants coach John McVay calls for a handoff from quarterback Joe Piscarcik to running back Larry Csonka on third-and-2 at the Philadelphia 29, leading 17-12, with less than 30 seconds remaining. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015419-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml T Although he already owns a "deer cam," this model, at $599, would enable him to retrieve field images with his cell phone. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015422-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Suddenly, the big pass play has disappeared from the Steelers offense. After torturing opposing secondaries with long passes in the first six games, the Steelers are finding them harder to come by than swine flu shots. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015424-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's the time of year in baseball for courting and bluffing -- sometimes simultaneously. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015426-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml Lee Westwood maintained his two-shot lead at the Dubai World Championships in the United Arab Emirates after shooting a 6-under 66 yesterday in the third round. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015428-362.stm?cmpid=news.xml HERSHEY, Pa. -- While they say only goalkeepers can put their hands on the ball, Justin Weathers turned the single exception to the rule into a nightmare for Hampton. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015429-362.stm?cmpid=news.xml HERSHEY, Pa. -- Having watched plenty of Christopher Dock video, Michael Thomas knew what the Pioneers wanted to do whenever the ball hopped into their offensive end. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015431-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml John Napier practically grew up on the bobsled track at Mount Van Hoevenberg. For one day, he owned it. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015434-132.stm?cmpid=news.xml CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- For Hendrick Motorsports, this NASCAR season might seem easy as 1-2-3. OK, maybe it only looked easy. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015435-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert Morris' defense harassed Monmouth quarterback Kyle Frazier all day and led the Colonials (5-6, 5-3) to a 23-9 victory against the host Hawks (5-6, 4-4). Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015441-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATLANTA -- When Atlanta traded Marian Hossa to the Penguins in 2008, the Thrashers insisted that Colby Armstrong be part of the package coming back. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015444-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sometimes, it's a pretty easy call. Even if five dozen guys had worn No. 66 for the Penguins, the unanimous choice as the top player to pull on that sweater would have been Mario Lemieux. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015445-53.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015446-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Italian police yesterday arrested two Pakistani men accused of helping to send money to finance the terrorist attacks that killed 163 in Mumbai last November. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015447-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a large-scale tribal rebellion against the Taliban. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015448-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml A month after the Vatican announced the creation of a new Anglican rite within the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday held "cordial discussions" with the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, the Vatican said in a statement. The 77-million strong worldwide Anglican Communion includes the Episcopal Church in the United States. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015450-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev yesterday accused the governing party, United Russia, of "backwardness," warning its leaders that they must learn to win elections honestly if it is to survive. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015451-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Freshman Andre Dawkins scored a season-high 20 points and No. 9 Duke matched a school record with 18 3-pointers in a 104-67 romp against visiting Radford yesterday. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015453-150.stm?cmpid=news.xml So with his college career at its infancy, you look at Dante Taylor, potentially the most impactful athletic presence to descend on Pitt basketball in nearly a quarter century, and you don't see quite what you expect. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015464-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml No one might ever have learned of the auto accident in the early morning hours of Feb. 21 along a rural road in Mercer County. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015465-122.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015468-56.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015470-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Scafuris of Shaler -- Amy, her husband, James, and daughters Jamie, 15, and Jesse, 5 -- are among the millions affected by the country's economic downturn, but their concerns are for others less fortunate. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015471-176.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015472-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two former county judges accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send juveniles to private detention facilities are partially immune from civil lawsuits, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015475-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dozens of families grew larger yesterday as Allegheny County Family Court judges finalized the adoptions of 49 children. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015479-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Terrelle Pryor is thankful he chose to play at Ohio State, instead of for Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015482-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Florida International made the trip to Gainesville to play No. 1 Florida yesterday and knew it had an uphill climb. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015485-53.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015487-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The gleaming glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 has been auctioned off for $350,000. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015488-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds, his attorney said yesterday. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015489-176.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Senate voted last night to begin full debate on major health care legislation, propelling President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative over a crucial, preliminary hurdle in a formidable display of muscle-flexing by the Democratic majority. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015490-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station yesterday. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015492-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml By the time four H1N1 vaccination clinics opened at 10 a.m. yesterday, Allegheny County Health Department officials already were nervous, even scared. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015498-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Considering that Madden NFL 2010 cover boy Troy Polamalu will miss time today because of his second knee injury of the season, it's fair to say that if you didn't believe in such jinxes before, you're at least taking the time to reconsider your stance this morning. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015501-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground today as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine jumped to 87. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015507-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILWAUKEE -- Before the NBA season began, the buzz around the Milwaukee Bucks was that there wasn't any buzz. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015508-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml No matter how bleak things look for the New York Knicks, they can take comfort knowing worse basketball is being played 10 miles away. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09326/1015511-455.stm?cmpid=news.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/09326/1015519-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATLANTA -- No one bought a ticket to this game because Martin Skoula was playing in it. Not even if he had blood relatives in the crowd. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015497-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATLANTA -- Defenseman Martin Skoula scored two goals to lead the Penguins to a 3-2 victory against Atlanta at Philips Arena tonight. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015404-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml A crowd of more than 1,500 was lined up outside a Washington County big box store late this morning as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began signing her memoir,"Going Rogue," on one more stop in a cross country book tour. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015423-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml EAST LANSING, Mich. --- No. 13 Penn State kept alive its hopes for a BCS berth today by finishing off Michigan State with a big second half. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015409-455.stm?cmpid=news.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=news.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=news.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/09325/1015408-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON ??? Democrats have hit the magic number of 60 to move ahead on historic health care legislation. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015407-455.stm?cmpid=news.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=news.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=news.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/09325/1014797-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Besides a down payment, options are just what a first-time home buyer needs. That's exactly what the Victorian-era house at 613 Chestnut St. in Coraopolis (MLS No. 79066) offers. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015403-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml With a line extending almost a quarter mile around Chartiers Valley High School, health officials said they fear they won't have enough vaccine for everyone who showed up at an Allegheny County Health Department clinic for immunization against the H1N1 virus. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:20:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015402-100.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015401-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Greene County man has been charged with killing a 37-year-old woman in her home yesterday, apparently by strangulation. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015359-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Football Summaries: Game by Game Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015374-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml A marvelous painting of a gourmand at his table hangs in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris -- a portly, pink-faced figure happily gorging on a regal casserole, with a bottle of wine at one elbow and a luscious-looking soufflé at the other. It is traditionally believed to be a portrait of Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de la Reynière, an aristocrat notorious in Napoleonic France for gratifying his palate with the same abandon as his contemporary the Marquis de Sade showed in indulging ca Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015375-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml "The big empty" is how my seatmate describes the landscape as our plane makes its descent to El Paso. To me it is the opposite: this is a place I've visited and lived in for the last 13 years, and it is a land filled with memories, adventure and possibility. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015376-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml INDIA is modernizing rapidly, sometimes too fast. You have giant malls, but grandmothers afraid to use the escalators. There are villages in the middle of nowhere, with ornate temples soaring into the hot sky. Still, old Rajasthan endures, evoking rulers with giant mustaches, harems of beautiful women in the finest colored silks and some of the most spectacular palaces ever built. They can be found in the state's three biggest cities: Jodhpur, Jaipur and Udaipur. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015377-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml BED-and-breakfasts are starting to man up, doing away with the lace bedspreads and trading high tea for brewskies. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015378-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml A hotel tapas bar located smack in the middle of one of Madrid's busiest tourist hubs? Easy to pass up, perhaps. But then I took a closer look. An artfully stylized pattern of filigree mantilla combs -- the restaurant's logo -- covered the ceiling and swept down the wall. The menu promised the classics, but with more than a whiff of innovation. I was hooked. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015379-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml WHEN I broke up with my live-in girlfriend of five years, we divvied up our things, helped each other move into our new apartments, and then stopped seeing each other altogether -- a cold-turkey breakup that I was sure was for the best. We didn't send e-mail messages, call or meet for coffee, and we certainly didn't go out for drinks. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015380-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Los Angeles Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015381-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml AS far back as "Father Knows Best," television has been an unintentional teaching aid for parents. To watch Mike and Carol Brady labor tirelessly to boost Jan's wobbly self-esteem, or Cliff and Clair Huxtable corral Denise's rebellious impulses with affection and wisdom, was to learn how to raise happy, healthy children. After all those hours in front of the set, you couldn't help but absorb the lessons. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015382-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml BABY boomers have lived during an era of unparalleled prosperity. So when this deep recession hit -- at a time when boomers were advancing to middle- and late-middle age -- much was written about them being too spoiled to cope. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015383-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml While finishing a meal at a French restaurant that we frequent, I spotted a three-inch water bug making its way down a wall, inches from my 14-year-old daughter's head. Happily, the bug ducked into a crevice. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015384-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015385-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Physicists returned to their future on Friday. About 10 p.m. outside Geneva, scientists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, succeeded in sending beams of protons clockwise around the 17-mile underground magnetic racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most expensive physics experiment. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015386-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml Milford, Mich. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015387-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- The Trixie Telemetry company believes in hard, quantifiable truths. It believes that there is a right time and wrong time to breast-feed a baby. It believes that certain hours and rooms are better for a child's naps than others and that data can establish this, too. It believes that parents should track how long their infants have gone without soiling a diaper and devote themselves to beating this "high score." Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015388-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The Senate ethics committee on Friday issued a sternly worded rebuke to Senator Roland W. Burris, Democrat of Illinois, saying he had made misleading and inaccurate statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment by Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich. But it made no recommendation for further punishment. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015389-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml BERKELEY, Calif. -- The day after the University of California Board of Regents approved a 32 percent increase in fees that are the equivalent of tuition, protests continued on several campuses, with students occupying buildings at Santa Cruz and Berkeley. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015390-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- A report by Republicans in Congress about the Obama administration's firing of a government agency's internal watchdog suggests that the school chancellor in Washington intervened on behalf of her current fiancé, who was under investigation by the watchdog. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015391-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Baghdad Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015392-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, building tens of thousands of hospitals, water treatment plants, electricity substations, schools and bridges. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015393-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml With the European Union's top new jobs going to two low-key bridge-builders, the bloc appears to have set its sights on smoothing over internal divisions before trying to construct a bigger global role. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015328-143.stm?cmpid=news.xml EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Penn State and Michigan State are headed to bowl games, but the winner of today's regular-season finale likely will receive a bigger prize. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015330-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml Vince Carter scored 26 points, Rashard Lewis had 16 points and 10 rebounds, and the Orlando Magic beat the Boston Celtics, 83-78, last night at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015332-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml One of the greatest runs in WPIAL football history was ended last night by some great runs. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015337-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rushel Shell's past week epitomized that of his Hopewell team last night. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015323-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson yesterday agreed to a one-year extension of his contract, which now runs through 2016. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015335-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Woodland Hills kicker Sam Scifo was at home sick during the Wolverines' playoff game against Central Catholic last week. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015336-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml City League champion Schenley (10-1) routed Punxsutawney, 54-0, last night at DuBois in the first round of the PIAA Class AAA playoffs. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015297-53.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015361-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Football Leaders: Rushing, Passing, Receiving Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:57:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015331-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Facing a midnight deadline last night to set their 40-man roster, the Pirates announced yesterday that they waived starter-reliever Jeff Karstens and officially added hard-throwing reliever Ramon Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015245-454.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015343-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Rochester defense let one seven-point lead slip away. It did not allow a second one to get away from it. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015320-450.stm?cmpid=news.xml The numbers are frightening. Mount Union College has won 18 consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference titles, is 10-0 this season, has the nation's longest winning streak at 25 games, has won 43 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015341-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Clairton got its revenge against Laurel and earned a shot at another WPIAL title as the Bears routed the Spartans, 33-0, last night in the Class A semifinals at Center. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015340-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml The victory earned Greensburg Central (10-2) its third title shot in five years. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015339-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml North Hills' luck did not run out last night. Instead, that was Brandon Felder, Dayonne Nunley and the rest of the Gateway Gators running out, over and past them. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015342-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml For much of the WPIAL playoffs Aliquippa coach Mike Zmijanac has been telling just about anyone whole will listen that his Quips are not that good. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1006966-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml VIENNA -- Sachertorte. Magnificent palaces. ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1012575-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml CONCORD, N.H. -- The New Hampshire tourism department has started offering special deals to fans of its Facebook page. ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1014795-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml A prime location for the Villa of North Park neighborhood helped builder Carl J. Spagnolo weather the dual effects of high interest rates and recession in 1979. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1014796-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Real estate news in brief. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1014799-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ceramic tile is one of the most versatile and attractive finishes for countertops, shower and tub walls, and floors. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015069-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml ABC says the final season of "Lost" will begin in February with a night devoted to the drama. An hourlong special recounting the story line so far will air at 8 p.m. Feb. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015071-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying "prayer and careful thought" led to her decision. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015074-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml When the "Beatles" took the stage at Heinz Hall on Thursday night, it turned a lot of '60-somethings into teenagers in an instant. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015075-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Musicologist Mariana Whitmer and her husband, bank executive George Whitmer, have lived there happily since the summer of 1991. But the house at 838 N. Lincoln Ave. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015076-54.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015077-62.stm?cmpid=news.xml The pug's big buggy eyes stare balefully from beneath the wide brim of an orange cowboy hat. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015083-325.stm?cmpid=news.xml Financiers in handcuffs, millions in bonuses to executives of bankrupt companies, mortgages foreclosed, hunger and unemployment on the rise. It's the economy, stupid. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015084-458.stm?cmpid=news.xml Last Monday, I sat on the couch watching a football game on TV until 11:45 in the evening, then got up, grabbed my keys and drove over to the local video game store to be in line for "Call of Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015086-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two holiday house tours are scheduled Dec. 5 and you'll need to act now to get tickets for one. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015109-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rehab wasn't just a matter of healing our injuries Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015110-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Times like these remind me that I should be thankful for not only my wife and kids, my house and job, etc., but even stuff rife with unpleasantness, which also has its place in the universe. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015112-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Giveaways to the big banks make recovery harder now Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015113-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml They hired me with a busted lip, / Summer I was fifteen. / Ernie liked me, / he liked all the girls. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015116-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml "The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900" By Domenic Bradbury with photographs by Richard Powers Thames & Hudson, $65 The world's most influential houses are in this Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015147-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former Pittsburgh TV news anchor Don Cannon was expected to be released from police custody in California yesterday, according to his attorney, Patrick J. Thomassey. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015185-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015186-432.stm?cmpid=news.xml In "Highmark Executive Says Health Care Changes Are Necessary But Should Stop Short of a Public Insurance Option" (Nov. 12), Dr. Donald R. Fischer, chief medical officer of Highmark, said, "A public plan, drawing money and customers away from private insurers, also would 'decrease the opportunity for innovation that happens at private plans.'" Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015188-432.stm?cmpid=news.xml Some of the best teachers available to help young learners are now even more available -- unemployed, underemployed and just plain affected factory workers, salesmen, waitresses, shop owners and many more. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015189-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml They may be toasting with Pepsi products at the Smith Brothers ad agency. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015190-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh area real estate showed signs of a turnaround in October as last-minute buyers apparently scrambled to take advantage of the $8,000 federal tax credit that was originally set to expire in November. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015191-53.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015226-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Representatives of the 27 countries of the European Union chose respected but low-profile leaders Thursday as president of the European Council and chief foreign minister. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015227-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml It was a bad idea in 1997, and it's a bad idea now. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015228-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml For the late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most desturctive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015229-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml Concerning the article "Ravenstahl Says He Has the Votes to Pass Pittsburgh Tuition Tax" (Nov. 19 Web): Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015243-56.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015244-28.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015249-56.stm?cmpid=news.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=news.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/09325/1015252-54.stm?cmpid=news.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=news.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/09325/1015254-53.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015255-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Willie Colon belted out Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Put it this way: As a singer, he is a right oh-ffensive tackle. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015256-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Last April, upon its public unveiling, Keyaron Fox was a mite juiced. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015257-53.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015258-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The West Virginia Public Service Commission deferred action on a petition for the sale of natural gas utility Dominion Hope to a private investor group, thus delaying the sale of Pittsburgh utility Dominion Peoples to the same buyer. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015260-53.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015270-57.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015272-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- After negotiating critical last-minute commitments, Senate Democratic leaders yesterday stood on the verge of achieving the necessary 60 votes to begin consideration of the most expansive health care legislation to go before the Senate in nearly half a century. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015273-323.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015274-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Oprah Winfrey yesterday announced that she is ending her daytime talk show because "it's time to leave." Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015279-298.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015282-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml When Allegheny County Controller Mark Patrick Flaherty issued an audit this week citing a human services contractor for misusing more than $300,000, it continued a trend of providers improperly spending county funds over the past five years. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015283-58.stm?cmpid=news.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=news.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/09325/1015286-55.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015300-132.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jimmie Johnson's run for his fourth consecutive Cup title starts from the pole. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015306-298.stm?cmpid=news.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/09325/1015308-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt senior guard Jermaine Dixon will be out another two to three weeks while he rehabilitates a slow-to-heal foot injury. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015311-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Travis Moen and Tomas Plekanec scored in a three-minute span early in the second period, Michael Cammalleri added a goal in the third, and the visiting Montreal Canadiens withstood a furious Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015312-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATLANTA-- The Penguins' defense corps is slowly coming back together. Barring a late setback, Brooks Orpik expects to return to their lineup tonight against Atlanta. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015313-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATLANTA -- You know the Atlanta Thrashers, right? The team that had two winning records in its first nine seasons. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015315-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Brandon Triche and Arinze Onuaku combined for 13 points in Syracuse's 22-1 run to open the second half and the Orange went on to a 87-71 victory against No. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015316-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussion, saying that is not an Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015317-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Welcome back, Jania Sims. Sims, Pitt's enormously talented junior point guard, had appeared in only one game in the past 23 months coming into this season and looked extremely rusty Tuesday in Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09325/1015318-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500