http://www.post-gazette.com/ All News en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:30:26 -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/10040/1034574-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The father of a 2-month-old baby who died Sunday has been charged with the infant's killing, Allegheny County police said. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034411-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml This Education Planning Guide focuses on how to improve your chance of success in higher education. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034655-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Thompson Run Road in Ross is closed due to downed power lines near the intersection of Babcock Boulevard, Allegheny County announced. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034648-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The family of Rep. John P. Murtha, who died Monday from complications related to gallbladder surgery, today announced plans for funeral arrangements. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:39:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034649-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Allegheny County and City of Pittsburgh???s Red Cross Haiti Relief Concert featuring The Clarks, Bill Deasy, Freedom Band and others has been postponed. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034647-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml State Education Secretary Gerald Zahorchak said the proposed budget for education shows the governor views education as "a cornerstone for building a strong economy." Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:15:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034580-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- Gov. Ed Rendell today proposed a general fund budget of just over $29 billion for the fiscal year that starts July 1, an increase of more than 4 percent over the current year's $27.8 billion spending package. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034638-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml An estimated 2,800 Duquesne Light customers still can???t see the light at the end of the tunnel because their power remains out. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034634-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh Parking Authority enforcement officers have been given the week off because many street meters are unreachable or temporarily inoperable, agency Executive Director David Onorato said today. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034633-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml County police and a hazmat unit are on the scene on Hickman Street in Bridgeville. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:21:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034604-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert Morris University, saying no one from the city asked it to close today, initially opened its Downtown center this morning but given the approaching storm and travel delays now plans to cancel classes there, effective midday. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034462-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml A nation of lovers, or at least many friendly people, is coming up fast on the biggest e-card sending occasion of the year, as rated by the Greeting Card Association, in Washington, D.C. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034629-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml TOKYO - Japan Airlines, wooed for months by Delta Air Lines with promises of cash and global reach, spurned the world's biggest carrier and opted to keep its alliance with American Airlines. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034609-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON - Businesses slashed wholesale inventories sharply in December, a much weaker showing than expected and a troubling sign that companies are still too pessimistic about the economy to begin restocking shelves on a sustained basis. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034620-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The panel discussion "The Future of the Book," set for Thursday at the University of Pittsburgh's Frick Fine Arts Auditiorium in Oakland, is canceled. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034621-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today said that he has called out all 630 city firefighters in preparation for an anticipated second snowstorm tonight. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034623-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Liberty Bridge will be limited to two lanes in each direction for the rest of the week, PennDOT announced today. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034622-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Just back from the Super Bowl, Ed takes your questions on the Steelers. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034608-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh Public Schools will be closed Wednesday as the district continues digging out from the weekend snow storm and braces for more snow in coming days, district spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said this afternoon. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034619-126.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pirates Q&A with Chuck Finder Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034443-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml Gk2gk.com Calculators welcome. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034615-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak will lead a council task force on the city's snow removal performance, her office announced today. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:48:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034613-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ray takes your questions on the Panthers. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034596-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034606-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRUSSELS - The euro is under siege - and the next few days will be crucial. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034605-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON - The nation's largest auto insurer said today it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warning sign to emerge about the massive recall. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034607-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml SAN DIEGO - Since World War I, the Navy has been big in San Diego - so big, in fact, that locals and tourists alike tend to take it for granted. But the Navy's footprint here is well worth examining. ... Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034602-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The state Department of Environmental Protection said water disruptions due to the heavy snow persist for customers of several public water suppliers, especially those in Washington and Greene counties. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034575-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A school bus driver will be cited for running a stop sign in a Cambria County crash with a sport-utility vehicle that didn't injury either driver or any of the four pupils aboard the bus. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034599-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Penguins have submitted a bid to the National Hockey League to have the 2011 All-Star game played at the Consol Energy Center. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034568-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml As if the 2 feet of snow over the weekend wasn't enough. The next icy blast is on the doorstep. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034597-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A McKeesport woman was sentenced to three to six years in prison this morning for the hit and run death of a North Side woman. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034582-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml For 2010, Light-Up Night will run longer than it has in the past. By a day, in fact. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034573-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml About 42,000 households and businesses in Southwestern Pennsylvania still are without electricity, four days after the weekend's paralyzing snow storm. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:57:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034584-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- The Bonusgate public corruption trial delved into the personal life of a key prosecution witness today as defense attorneys claimed an affair that continued after his marriage showed the witness is deceitful. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034444-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you fly with any regularity out of Pittsburgh International Airport, you've probably flown on a regional carrier, the smaller planes that nowadays are more often jets but still can be propeller-driven "prop planes." Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034583-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Steelers added two more players who will try to compete for a spot on their roster next season, including a punter from Pitt. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034434-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Take the procedural, case-solving elements of "House" and "Lie to Me," add "X-Files"-like skeptic-believer tension and mix in a generous dollop of reincarnation hokum and you'll get a pretty good sense of Fox's "Past Life." Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:46:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034479-153.stm?cmpid=news.xml Until I read in The New York Times Monday about Wall Street bankers turning on the Democratic Party, I didn't believe there was anything to the theory of spontaneous human combustion. Only when my shaved head caught fire did I reconsider the evidence. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034507-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Forget the winter wonderland. Any cozy feelings engendered by this weekend's monster snowstorm -- the impromptu snowball fights, the fairytale-like snowscapes, the neighborly sidewalk shoveling -- melted into a puddle of bellyaching Monday over Pittsburgh's unplowed, impassable streets. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034581-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Pennsylvania public interest group today urged the federal government to set a goal of connecting every major city in the U.S. with a network of high-speed passenger trains by mid-century. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034579-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Due to road conditions and the expectation of more snow today, the deadline for paying city of Pittsburgh property taxes with a 2 percent discount will be extended, likely until month's end. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034576-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League has extended the end of basketball season two days because of the large number of postponed games due to snow. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:32:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034578-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The death over the weekend of a Kingdom Manor personal care home resident in Canonsburg has been ruled accidental, the Washington County coroner's office said. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034416-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml You may now start your exam. Did your hands just get sweaty? Did your heartbeat quicken? Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034414-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Phil Pavlik Jr. still remembers his worst grade in graduate school. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034413-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Students applying to college know doing well on the SAT and ACT entrance exams can improve their chances of being accepted at many colleges. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034438-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Kathryn Jolley said she was 27, going through a divorce and feeling "kind of beaten down" when she set foot on the La Roche College campus as a freshman in the late 1970s. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034560-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Port Authority of Allegheny County plans to restore more bus routes and resume light-rail service to the Steel Plaza and Wood Street stations this morning. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034525-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml With a repeat blast of snow forecast for today, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl on Monday ordered a scramble to plow and salt residential streets, even as snowbound residents and traffic-tortured commuters fumed at persistently bad roads. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034572-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Greater Pittsburgh Council, Boy Scouts of America, held its 21st annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Service Award Dinner Thursday at the Senator John Heinz History Center. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034571-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nearly 300 guests attended the 11th annual Heart of Caring Auction and LuncheonFriday at the Airport Doubletree Hotel. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034570-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pittsburgh CLO Ambassadors gathered Feb. 1 at Monterey Bay Fish Grotto on Mount Washington to kick off its 13th annual Wine Tasting & Silent Auction. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034569-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The history of the Pittsburgh Courier, a newspaper by, for and about the African-American community, is the fascinating subject of a new documentary produced by Kenneth Love that premiered Feb. 1. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034522-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Andy Solomon shoveled snow from the sidewalk outside the Knights of Columbus building on Main Street Monday evening, unaware that his longtime friend and elected representative, John Murtha, had died. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 06:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034473-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- He was a fierce advocate for his state and district, a champion of the military, a Congressional powerhouse of influence, an intimidating presence with a Marine's salty vocabulary. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034502-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml With the region still reeling from a historic weekend storm, another snow-spewing system was preparing to barrel through starting this morning. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034567-55.stm?cmpid=news.xml Things have been busy beyond the normal duties for the Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Department since the weekend snowstorm, an official told borough council Monday night. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:48:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034565-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Moon Area school board Monday night opened the door to a 0.87-mill tax increase and decided to include extended-day kindergarten in whatever budget it eventually approves. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034566-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Four officers will be joining the Ross Police Department in the coming months. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034562-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Flyers have little chance of overtaking the Atlantic Division-leading New Jersey Devils, but they can try to convince themselves that the gap between the two clubs is not as wide as the Tue, 9 Feb 2010 03:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034563-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml Vince Carter had a season-high 48 points, leading the Orlando Magic back from a 17-point second-half deficit to beat the New Orleans Hornets, 123-117, Monday night. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 03:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034485-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A memorable season capped by a super title game with a record TV audience has NFL executives and fans beaming. The smiles might soon disappear. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 03:21:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034554-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Marcus Morris scored 18 points to lead No. 1 Kansas to an 80-68 victory against No. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 03:21:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034564-123.stm?cmpid=news.xml VANCOUVER -- What the Mid-Atlantic states have, they could use here. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034523-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml John P. Murtha, the powerful dean of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation who survived scandal and seismic political shifts to become the longest-serving U.S. House member from the state, died Monday afternoon in Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington from complications following gallbladder surgery. He was 77. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034515-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Days after Mother Nature dumped roughly two feet of snow on Pittsburgh, many main and residential roads remain snow-covered, making everything from a morning commute to a walk to the mailbox a slushy, icy adventure. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034538-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt's starting guard tandem of Ashton Gibbs and Jermaine Dixon hadn't exactly been shooting stars for the Panthers in recent weeks. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034520-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml It was a simple move, really, but a crucial part of a pretty power-play goal. Alex Goligoski was the pivot man. Fellow Penguins point man Sergei Gonchar steered the puck into the neutral zone. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034550-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml For 10 minutes, Robert Morris looked like a team that could compete against a Top 25 team. And it wasn't veteran leadership that put them in that position. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034537-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Frank Magid, the television "news doctor" whose survey research and advice to local television stations in the 1970s resulted in co-anchors who chatted between stories, fast-paced graphics, sports Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034536-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml During the "golden age" of American science fiction, the short stories of William Tenn were read as avidly as the works of Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1029396-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml BC-UST-HAWAIIDEALS:SE - travel, itop (1600 words) Hawaii on sale: How to find deals on airfares, hotels and car rentals (With UST-HAWAIIDEALS-WAIKIKI:SE) (PHOTO) By Carol Pucci The Seattle Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034397-290.stm?cmpid=news.xml Why is Jamie Dixon so stubborn? A few years ago,he insisted on Sam Young being a power forward. This continued for two years without any positive results.When in his junior year he let him play small forward where he wanted to play all along.We all know how he immediately thrived. Now we have Dante Taylor who I am sure does not want to play with his back to the basket, but Jamie insists whether it is at center or power forward. A recent interview with his high school coach indicates that Dante is at his bes Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034400-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml What is ailing the Pens? Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034412-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml It used to be that avoiding study distractions was as easy as finding a quiet corner of the library and hunkering down. But in the wireless age, that's no longer a guarantee. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034415-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mike Barry, a University of Pittsburgh engineering senior, was happy last fall to have a co-op job at a small manufacturing company in Leetsdale. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034417-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Depending on what technology reigned supreme at the time, the human brain has been compared to a telegraph, a TV and a computer. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034423-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Criticism by some senators of the decision to treat attempted airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in a civilian court is entirely unjustified. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034424-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml What is the expression folks use for adversity? When it snows, it snows. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034425-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ukraine's precarious place between Western Europe and the remaining sphere of influence of the old Soviet Union was illustrated by the results Sunday of its presidential election. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034426-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml On civilian trials for terrorists, Haiti's history, unsafe Bigelow Blvd., dropping the bomb and more Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034429-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Protest against cuts in our historical institutions Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034430-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml We've always known that America's reign as the world's greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034431-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Iraqis who have helped Americans are still endangered Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034432-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml They have fought for a country that for most of its history did not even recognize them Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034436-369.stm?cmpid=news.xml Celebrate Valentine's Day with one of these great new children's books: Henry's a small boy with a big crush on a classmate named Chloe. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034437-369.stm?cmpid=news.xml This essay was written during last fall's Allegheny Intermediate Unit gifted and talented journalistic writing and reporting apprenticeship taught by professor Helen Fallon at Point Park Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034439-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's hard to imagine it now, with 20 inches of snow on the ground, but there will be a summer in 2010, and there will be a summer concert season. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034441-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml Want to be romantic and practical at the same time? There are lots of ways to think outside the box this Valentine's Day. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034445-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sunday's Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of "MASH" to become the most-watched program in television history. The Nielsen Co. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034446-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml John McIntire, former host of PCNC's "NightTalk" and current "Off Q" panelist, will launch a new talk show on Comcast OnDemand. "The John McIntire Show." Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034447-325.stm?cmpid=news.xml What is the life cycle of a work of art? Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," a rare troubling prophecy heralded in its own time, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034449-436.stm?cmpid=news.xml DEAR CAT: The guy I'm dating hasn't yet asked me for Valentine's Day plans. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034450-442.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert "Ott" Bell's daily routine, like many people's, includes his favorite TV shows -- "The Price Is Right" (he still misses Bob Barker), "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy." Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034451-325.stm?cmpid=news.xml City Theatre has extended the premiere of Stephen Massicotte's "The Clockmaker" for four performances, Feb. 19-21. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034452-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml Miley Cyrus has organized an online auction to benefit the relief effort in Haiti, and Britney Spears, Hugh Jackman, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Lovato and others will Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034454-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml My Jan. 24 story about the ongoing demolition of Andrew Carnegie's former Pittsburgh Locomotive Works buildings drew nearly two dozen e-mails and phone calls from readers troubled by it. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034456-348.stm?cmpid=news.xml David Letterman's Super Bowl spot was almost home to all of the most famous names in talk TV -- including Conan O'Brien, Popeater.com reports. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034460-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034461-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml TOKYO -- Toyota plans to recall about 300,000 Prius cars worldwide over a brake problem and is likely to notify both the U.S. and Japanese governments today, news reports said, as a top executive will testify before U.S. lawmakers about defects that have tarnished its reputation for quality and safety. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034465-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATHENS, Greece -- Is there any way out of Europe's debt morass? Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034466-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp., the world's largest automaker, will push the cost of recalls linked to sudden acceleration past a $2 billion company estimate for warranty payments and lost sales, customer lawyers say. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034468-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml VALENCIA, Spain -- Having two of the fastest, most technologically advanced sailboats ever built doesn't do much good if there's not enough wind to sail them. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034469-132.stm?cmpid=news.xml DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Danica Patrick will make her NASCAR debut this weekend at Daytona International Speedway. The IndyCar star will drive the No. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034470-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Chicago White Sox are taking Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio's number 11 out of retirement for newly acquired 11-time Gold Glove winner Omar Vizquel. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034472-123.stm?cmpid=news.xml VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- If the United States Olympic moguls team is worried about the conditions at Cypress Mountain, it doesn't show. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034474-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL -- Three British soldiers have died in southern Afghanistan, officials announced Monday, raising Britain's death toll in the conflict to 256 -- breaking the number of Britons lost in the Falklands war of 1982. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034476-155.stm?cmpid=news.xml Maybe you're stopped at a light. You look out the window and see a little kid walking to school without a proper winter coat. That's a shame, you say. Then you drive on and forget about it. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034478-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BEIRUT -- As Iran moved to enrich uranium to a higher level of purity and build new nuclear-fuel plants, U.S. and French defense officials suggested Monday that sanctions were needed to force Tehran to curb its nuclear program. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034486-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Clearly exhausted from a late night of post-Super Bowl celebrations, Sean Payton leaned on a podium Monday morning, clutching the Vince Lombardi Trophy in his right hand. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034487-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Here's how New Orleans kicker Thomas Morstead spent the final 20 minutes of halftime at the Super Bowl: He sat silently at his locker. "I wasn't worried," Morstead said. "I was just terrified." Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034488-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml MIAMI -- Reggie Wayne stared right through all those reporters. He wasn't bothered by the questions Sunday night. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034495-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- Mike Manzo has answered hundreds of questions about his role in a cash-for-campaigning scheme, his admiration for his former employer, his extramarital transgressions and his ultimate decision to come clean with prosecutors in a government corruption probe. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034496-58.stm?cmpid=news.xml Before a packed room of more than 100 supporters, Greene County Commissioners Chairwoman Pam Snyder announced Monday night she will challenge embattled 17-term incumbent state Rep. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034497-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- About 25 people, some gay and some straight, gathered on the steps of the Capitol rotunda Monday and chanted, "Pennsylvania can't you see -- what equality means to me." Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034499-113.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service, reorganizing the agency so it can provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034500-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's call for a televised meeting with Republicans to discuss his stalled health care legislation comes as his party unfolds a strategy aimed at forcing the GOP to put policy ideas on the table that Democrats believe they can exploit in the fall elections. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034501-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- Michael Jackson's doctor pleaded not guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop star at a brief hearing that had all the trappings of another sensational celebrity courtroom drama. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034503-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Though he received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant for his work in paleontology, Christopher Beard doesn't consider himself a wunderkind or believe he was genetically predestined for success. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034505-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate was hauled from his office by military police Monday and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as head of the army. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034506-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KIEV, Ukraine -- Pressure swelled on Monday for Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to bow out gracefully from a hard-fought and narrowly lost presidential race. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034508-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two Pittsburgh police officers have earned honors from the state Fraternal Order of Police for their successful efforts to capture a suspected bank robber who led them on a 20-mile, high-speed pursuit. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034509-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Penn Hills School District has accepted the offer of striking teachers to return to work Wednesday. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034510-58.stm?cmpid=news.xml After the death of a Kingdom Manor personal care home resident in Canonsburg over the weekend, state officials on Monday moved up plans to close the facility and relocate nine people living there. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034512-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Hundreds of Pennsylvania Army National Guard members traversed the city's most treacherous streets in Humvees Monday to help snowbound residents -- and paramedics and police, who struggled at times to reach them. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034514-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Allegheny County and the city of Pittsburgh have announced a Valentine's Day concert featuring local artists dedicated to raising funds for American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034517-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml New Jersey Devils defensemen Anssi Salmela was taken off the ice on a stretcher Monday night after taking a hard shoulder to the face from the Philadelphia Flyers' Jeff Carter. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034521-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The snow was thigh-high Monday morning and Aria Charles had to bribe a neighbor with beer to help shovel her car out. Getting to her office at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in Duquesne wasn't an option. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034527-176.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- Because of the great political interest in the matter, Gov. Ed Rendell says he'll soon decide whether to have a special election to fill U.S. Rep. John Murtha's seat in Congress or whether to hold the election on primary day, May 18. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034532-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Norwin school directors Monday night unanimously named former Penn-Trafford coach Art Tragesser head varsity football coach, weight room and conditioning coordinator. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034533-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- With a Big Monday national television audience looking on and scrutinizing their every move, the West Virginia students behaved like perfect little angels. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034539-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- No. 4 Villanova features one of the best backcourt combinations in the country in Scottie Reynolds and junior Corey Fisher. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034542-258.stm?cmpid=news.xml Even with the snow piled at least twice as high as they are, Shawn Schaffer's two Chihuahuas love romping in and burrowing through it. "When they first run out, they love it. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034543-258.stm?cmpid=news.xml Allegheny County emergency services officials are cautioning residents to keep an eye out for their elderly neighbors who live alone and might be in trouble if they lose power, heat and phone service, as some did during the weekend snowstorm that blanketed the region. Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10040/1034544-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml Basketball Box Scores from Mon. Feb. 8 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034482-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- No. 5 Villanova used good shooting, great guard play and tough defense to beat No. 4 West Virginia, 82-75, tonight at WVU Coliseum. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034375-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml About 3,600 Duquesne Light customers still are without service this morning, company spokesman Joseph Vallarian said. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034418-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pittsburgh area could see 6 to 10 more inches of snow by Wednesday night, meteorologist Brad Rehak at the National Weather Service in Moon said this afternoon. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034467-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt hired one of his former players, Bernard Clark, to fill the job of the Panthers linebackers coach. Clark comes to the Panthers from Hampton University where he was serving as the defensive coordinator. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033926-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml Union Army Capt. Thomas Espy has long lain in an unmarked grave. But a photograph of his determined face still casts a forceful presence in the Carnegie veterans post that bears his name. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034409-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Port Authority said this afternoon that riders should expect continuing delays during the evening rush hour. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034262-129.stm?cmpid=news.xml Born in Cleveland to Turkish parents, Mehmet Oz came to our attention as a frequent guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034323-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLIV, CBS found itself ensnared in controversy over a change in policy on advocacy ads that allowed a supposed anti-abortion spot by an anti-gay organization on the air six years after the network refused to air a Super Bowl commercial for the gay-welcoming United Church of Christ. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034433-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Carnegie Science Center will be closing Tuesday because of the storm warning. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034382-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert J. Rogalski has been named chief executive officer for Greensburg-based Excela Health. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034422-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The residents of Pine Tree Village, a senior citizen apartment complex in Brentwood, say they are stuck in their apartments with no access to emergency supplies and the outside world because their complex has not been plowed since Friday when the massive snowstorm hit the region. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034421-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Following the death of a Kingdom Manor personal care home resident in Canonsburg over the weekend, authorities today are closing the facility and relocating its nine residents. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:41:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034420-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml Because of the heavy snow and freezing temperatures, many of us have been snowbound since Friday and more snow is predicted. How are you handling "cabin fever?" Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:39:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034405-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Bethel Park, West Jefferson Hills, Baldwin-Whitehall, Keystone Oaks, McKeesport Area, Shaler, South Fayette, Steel Valley, and West Mifflin Area school districts will be closed on Tuesday. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034401-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml John P. Murtha, the powerful dean of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation who survived scandal and seismic political shifts to become the longest-serving U.S. House member from the state, died today from complications following gallbladder surgery. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034410-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:21:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034377-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Clases will resume Wednesday in the Penn Hills School District after the district today accepted an offer by the Penn Hills Education Association to return to work. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034408-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034406-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Meadows Racetrack & Casino is rolling snake eyes in trying schedule auditions for table game jobs. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034407-126.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pirates Q&A with Chuck Finder Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034399-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml All schools in the Quaker Valley School District will be closed Tuesday. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034403-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Chartiers Valley has cancelled classes and activities for Tuesday. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034404-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml After risking life and limb schlepping through the snow down to D.C. and back, Shelly takes your questions on the Penguins. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034402-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you upgrade to one of today's most popular high-end smartphones—like the iPhone or a Blackberry—from a standard flip-phone, you might be surprised to find that you can no longer take advantage of some of the features in today's most technologically advanced vehicles. Even in Ford's full-featured Sync system, we've observed, you can't access features like text-message delivery or Sync's quick text-response features with the iPhone (when we could with cheaper flip phones). Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034379-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml The new name of the Post-Gazette Pavilion is the First Niagara Pavilion. The Post-Gazette did not renew its contract for the naming rights. A First Niagra executive said customers will be offered special deals on tickets and the family zone on the lawn will be expanded. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034398-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt fell two spots to No. 25 in the Associated Press poll that was released this afternoon. West Virginia moved into the top five at No. 5 setting up a meeting of two top-five teams tonight at WVU Coliseum when No. 4 Villanova visits for a nationally televised game on ESPN. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034396-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The heavy snow has forced the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium to close through Friday. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034394-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK - John Thain is getting a second chance. CIT Group Inc. tapped the former Merrill Lynch CEO to become its chairman and chief executive. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034393-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The world's tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034389-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A court today rejected a defense motion to strike all testimony given by a key prosecution witness in the Bonusgate corruption case. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:15:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034392-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Greene County Commissioners Chairwoman Pam Snyder this morning announced she will challenge embattled state Rep. Bill DeWeese, D-Waynesburg, in the Democratic primary for the seat that he's held since 1976. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034391-290.stm?cmpid=news.xml In my opinion, the Panthers need to play their best five as much as possible. To me, that would be Ashton Gibbs, Gil Brown, Jermaine Dixon, Brad Wannamaker and Gary McGhee. Nasir Robinson would be the sixth man and you could switch Wannamaker from small forward to shooting guard and Brown from power forward to small forward when rotations are needed. This way, your best five are on the floor for more minutes than they are now. Your thoughts? Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034307-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Though Pittsburgh is still digging out from more than 20 inches of snow, with more snow expected this week, National Weather Service meteorologist Lee Hendricks has already started thinking about what's going to happen when all this snow melts. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034387-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said this afternoon that city crews are scrambling to clear snow from all secondary streets today, knowing that a forecast of 6 to 10 inches of snow of new snow expected tomorrow will force them to return to primary roads. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034388-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK - U.S. consumers showed less willingness to spend money for magazines at newsstands and other retail outlets as single-copy sales fell more than 9 percent in the second half of 2009. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034383-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- Proponents of same-sex marriage will hold a news conference, rally and march here this afternoon, led by the sponsor of a bill that would permit gays and lesbians marry, state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034386-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml BEIJING - Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said today. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034385-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - The deputy fire marshal of the town where an under-construciton power plant explosion killed five people told The Associated Press that no one was believed buried in the Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034384-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034381-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml All Mt. Lebanon Public Schools are closed today and will be closed Tuesday. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033803-429.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:20:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034380-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034263-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml While he sits parked on the side of the road for a telephone interview, Barry Lopez speaks simply about the ways of writers. "It's not a job. It's a way of life. The job is to listen and then to tell an engaging story about what you heard." Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034333-152.stm?cmpid=news.xml When the ground quakes under foot and everything around us falls down, destroying those we love and everything we have worked so hard to build -- when life as we've known it ends in calamity, we ask, "Why?" Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034336-294.stm?cmpid=news.xml You want winter musings? I'll give you your winter musings. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034051-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Venus has emerged from the glare of the sun and can now be seen above the west-southwestern horizon after sunset. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034378-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml After blowing a 4-1 lead (Sunday in Washington), it seems that the Penguins need to make an effort to shore up the defense as well as the goaltending to make a run deep into the playoffs. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033871-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml When there are more than six unemployed people for every job opening, one thing is sure: the odds are better than good that you won't be the first picked for any particular job. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034318-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- If this fast-paced, riveting game served as something of an Olympic preview, NBC has to be tickled blue, yellow, black, green and red. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033811-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml Thomas Espy, a prominent resident of Upper St. Clair Township, was 50 when he enlisted in the army on July 4, 1861. He was appointed captain and given command of Company H, 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteers. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033788-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml On Memorial Day, 1905, veterans from the Captain Thomas Espy Post gathered at the Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall in Carnegie for a group portrait. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033809-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Captain Thomas Espy Post's charter was granted in December 1879. The document lists 21 members. Mansfield became Carnegie after the turn of the century. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034374-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml A power outage in Downtown Pittsburgh means the T is only able to bring riders to the First Avenue Station. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034376-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A resident of a personal care home was found dead at the bottom of a snow-covered basement staircase in a Canonsburg church Sunday. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034373-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Frigid temperatures, coupled with the nearly two feet of snow that fell over the weekend, means the start of the workweek is that much more painful. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034340-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml This weekend's heavy snowstorm turned deadly as people scrambling to replace lost electrical service by using generators or other heat sources were overcome with carbon monoxide poisoning. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034353-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml Where's the price? Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034354-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml In data-center computing, the big trend today is to move from building blocks to bundles. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034355-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- Léo Apotheker has resigned from SAP just seven months after taking over as sole chief executive. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034356-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The launching of the space shuttle Endeavour was postponed a day because of thick clouds that moved in during the last few hours of the countdown. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034357-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an infantry team leader in Iraq. But he quickly saw that his experience -- "a year of complete boredom punctuated by these very intense moments" -- lent itself to the tautness of verse. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034358-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The White House pushed back Sunday against Republican criticism of its approach to terrorism, calling it "not anchored in reality" as a national security debate that was largely muted in recent years roared back to center stage with an angry intensity. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034359-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- If the Democratic Party has a stronghold on Wall Street, it is JPMorgan Chase. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034360-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml NASHVILLE -- Sarah Palin said she would consider a run for president in 2012 "if I believe that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family," according to a television interview broadcast Sunday morning. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034361-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml RAEFORD, N.C. -- Precious Holt, a 12th grader with dangly earrings and a SpongeBob pillow, climbs on the yellow school bus and promptly falls asleep for the hour-plus ride to Sandhills Community College. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034362-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Federal stimulus money has helped avoid drastic cuts at public schools in most parts of the nation, at least so far. But with the federal money running out, many of the nation's schools are approaching what officials are calling a "funding cliff." Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034363-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml SOFIA -- Prime Minister Boiko M. Borisov of Bulgaria, a thick-necked former karate instructor, bodyguard and onetime fireman, may seem an unlikely feminist. But the former tough guy mayor of Sofia has in recent months promoted a legion of women, heralding what some are calling a sexual revolution in the politics of this abidingly macho Balkan country. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034364-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KIEV, Ukraine -- The opposition leader Viktor F. Yanukovich declared victory on Sunday in presidential elections in Ukraine, claiming what appeared to be an unlikely comeback from his humiliating defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution, when he was shunned as a bumbling Kremlin sidekick. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034365-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml SAROBI, Afghanistan -- Even in a nation beset by war and suicide bombings, you would be hard-pressed to find anything as reliably terrifying as the national highway through the Kabul Gorge. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034366-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JAFFNA, Sri Lanka -- Jaffna is a city of ruins. Some are physical, like the overgrown jumbles of mold-streaked concrete where graceful buildings used to stand. But perhaps the biggest ruin of the Tamil Tiger insurgency against the Sri Lankan government is the very thing the Tigers wanted most: any hope of self-rule. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034367-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml CAIRO -- Iran's president ordered his atomic scientists on Sunday to begin enriching their stockpile of uranium in order to power a medical reactor, a move that accelerated Iran's brinkmanship over its nuclear program by moving the country closer to producing weapons-grade fuel. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034368-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml LONDON -- In the face of mounting concern about abuse of student visa rules by migrant jobseekers and potential terrorists, Britain said Sunday that it was planning an immediate tightening of its border controls that could reduce the flow of people entering the country as students by tens of thousands a year. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034369-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BANGKOK -- "I am not a woman prime minister," Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India's leader. "I am a prime minister." Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034370-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Divisions emerged within the group of 10 Americans jailed in Haiti on child abduction charges, with eight of them signing a note over the weekend saying that they had been misled by Laura Silsby, the leader of the group. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034371-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- Iraq staggered toward a resolution of its election crisis on Sunday as the country's leaders gave an appeals court time to reconsider a ban on hundreds of candidates barred from next month's election because of alleged links to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034372-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MEXICO CITY -- Early results in the Costa Rica presidential elections held Sunday gave a decisive lead to Laura Chinchilla, a former vice president who was on the verge of becoming the country's first woman president. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034498-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt's starting guard tandem of Ashton Gibbs and Jermaine Dixon hadn't exactly been shooting stars for the Panthers in recent weeks. Both had gone through some prolonged 3-point shooting slumps, which made the Panthers' 3-point shooting percentage plummet as well as Pitt's offensive output. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 01:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034345-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- For those too young to know, this is how it was in Pittsburgh 35 years ago. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034489-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml As travelers arrive in Port-au-Prince, the devastation from last month's earthquake is readily apparent everywhere. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034260-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Undercover Boss" was this year's entrant in what is considered one of broadcast TV's plum time slots -- immediately following the Super Bowl. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034261-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- A sci-fi love story has given way to an earthbound romance at the box office, livening up typically slow times at theaters over Super Bowl weekend. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034264-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Opera singers toil to perfect the enunciation of the words they sing. But there are three syllables that roll off their tongues without any trouble at all: Met debut. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1029394-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Sandwiched between mountains and water, this college town is blessed with a heck of a front and back yard, one of the state's top cities for outdoor enthusiasts. ... Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033869-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml Question: A young man employed with our company has admitted to having a drinking problem. Although "Robbie" performs his duties well and gets along with everyone, he has a lot of absences. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033870-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml They cross a hiring manager's desk every day: resumes containing the same common mistakes. Spelling errors, for instance, are ubiquitous. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1033927-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's not the fact that Marilyn Long and Elizabeth Albright elect to spend every Wednesday reading with female inmates in the Allegheny County Jail. It's the way they go about it. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034265-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Alberto Giacometti's 6-foot bronze sculpture has been walking tall at the Carnegie Museum of Art since 1961. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034266-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml January's employment figures announced Friday presented a mixed picture, but included a thin strip of light on the horizon. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034267-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former President George W. Bush made a point of saying he followed the advice of his generals. Just as conservatives favored the notion then, they should get behind it now. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034268-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml It was with gratitude that I read of the proposed "sweeping overhaul" of No Child Left Behind ("Obama to Alter School Policy," Feb. 1) ... Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034270-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml If President Barack Obama gets to sign a health reform bill, as I believe he will, one reason may be Rep. Jay Inslee's difficult experience renovating his kitchen. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034271-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Between bites of an egg-white garden omelet at a bistro in his Union Square neighborhood, Harold Ford Jr. defended himself on pedicures and flip-flops. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034272-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Paul Ryan. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034278-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert Morris owns one of the nation's longest winning streaks in Division I men's basketball. The Colonials have won nine consecutive games to assume control of the Northeast Conference. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034280-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert Morris coach Mike Rice said he loves playing Pitt. He just hates doing it in February. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034283-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml PG Team Wrestling Rankings and High School Wrestling Standings. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034285-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml The postponement of Saturday's WPIAL wrestling team tournament title matches has set up an interesting scenario for the five teams that qualify for the PIAA team tournament. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034287-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml The NFL's party week was briefly interrupted by a sobering message about the league's labor situation. Now it could be the NBA's turn. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034290-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml In a tournament everyone expected him to win, Steve Stricker was trying not to lose. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034293-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Proposed changes to the city ordinance dealing with the keeping of agricultural animals on city properties has agitated bee and chicken keepers. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034297-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- State officials have been talking for months about a huge, looming financial problem regarding how to pay for increased pensions of retired state employees and public school teachers. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034298-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A new $5 warranty charge on monthly bills from the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority is drawing questions from ratepayers, elected officials and companies who are concerned that their customers are being charged for something some already have. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034299-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Planning has already begun for the National Veterans Wheelchair Games that will be held in Pittsburgh in August 2011. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034308-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Minivans piled high with mattresses and clothing lined up at checkpoints Sunday as hundreds of civilians fled a Taliban-controlled area ahead of a planned NATO offensive in southern Afghanistan. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034309-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she regards the greatest threat to the United States to be weapons of mass destruction in the hands of an international terrorist group. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034310-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml FRANKFURT -- Whether he likes it or not, Jean-Claude Trichet is not just the president of the European Central Bank. Mr. Trichet, 67, is also the de facto president of Europe, at least for the 16 nations that rely on the euro as their common currency. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034311-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 percent to 20 percent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034312-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml TOKYO -- Toyota said Sunday that it will soon announce plans to deal with braking problems in its prized Prius hybrid amid reports it has decided to issue a recall for the vehicle in Japan, a possible new embarrassment for the world's biggest automaker. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034313-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml They roam the city's roughest streets, where a tug at the waistband or an out-of-town license plate can stir their suspicion. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034314-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama moved to jump-start the stalled health care debate yesterday, inviting Republicans in Congress to participate in a bipartisan, half-day televised summit on the subject this month. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034317-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The Penguins' long journey from Montreal deposited them at their District of Columbia hotel a little after 2 a.m. Sunday. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034320-132.stm?cmpid=news.xml There was a tangible sense of electricity surrounding the first event of Speedweeks, a race everyone expected to be so rough-and-tumble that NASCAR's relaxed rules toward aggressive driving would most certainly be tested. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034329-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A power plant under construction in central Connecticut exploded with earthquake force that shook homes as far as 30 miles away on Sunday as workers purged natural gas lines that were to go into use this year. At least five people were killed and more than two dozen injured when a section of the plant collapsed and burned. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034330-258.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Planes were grounded, trains stood still and Greyhound buses weren't rolling in the Mid-Atlantic on Sunday, leaving stranded travelers wondering when they'll be able to escape the icy, gray mess created by a major snowstorm. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034331-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Sarah Palin said she "won't close the door" on a potential presidential bid during an interview on the "Fox News Sunday" program. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034334-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml PORTLAND, Maine -- The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034335-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- Blue whales have changed their songs. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034338-258.stm?cmpid=news.xml In less than two hours of his shift plowing city streets Sunday night, Assistant Public Works Director Kevin Quigley heard from city residents thanking him for his work, dealt with inconsiderate drivers following too closely and got his one-ton, heavy-duty dump truck stuck for 45 minutes because someone had piled snow from a driveway into the street. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034339-258.stm?cmpid=news.xml With snow crews battling more than 20 inches of snow, and more snowfall expected Tuesday and Wednesday, the city may not fully recover for days. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034341-258.stm?cmpid=news.xml As residents throughout the region continued to dig out from the biggest snowstorm in more than 15 years, utilities battled to restore power to tens of thousands of customers and road crews worked overtime to plow roads clogged with heavy snow, slush and ice. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034344-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Were he even interested in the whole dubious notion, this business of validation, Peyton Manning would have agreed that there was no better formula for putting to rest any doubt that he was the greatest quarterback the game has ever seen. ... Sports commentary by Gene Collier Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10039/1034348-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Russ Grimm dreamed of playing in the National Football League as a kid growing up in Scottdale, Pa. Making the Hall of Fame was not an idea that came until later. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500