Free college tuition. Free books. Free laptop. Even free day care. It's no illusion, but a pioneering push by the Community College of Allegheny County and Allegheny General Hospital to help some of the region's most impoverished women join the high-in-demand ranks of biotechnology technicians.

New high tech gear is spurring the growth of "satellite ministries," in which smaller offshoots revolve around a bigger church, sometimes hundreds of miles away. Some see themselves as "campuses" of one congregation. Others as separate churches networked together.

Beaver's eighth annual "Support the Troops" rally offered a special tribute to those who served in the Korean War, sometimes called the "Forgotten War," which claimed nearly 37,000 Americans between 1950 and 1953.