Saturday 4th September, 2010
No decision on starting QB yet
Now that Byron Leftwich is injured and likely out two to four games, and Ben Roethlisberger's suspension has been cut to four games, Dennis Dixon appears to be in line to start the season at quarterba...
MLB hands Morgan 8-game ban
Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan is an easygoing guy, unless there's a game on the line. Then his scrappy side comes out. By channeling his competitive nature, Morgan, a 33rd-round draft ...
Vets struggle to land jobs
Thomas Blair of Crafton is part of a group he wants no part of -- one of the more than 1 million military veterans who are out of work. "Veterans as a group disproportionately have higher unemploymen...
White House weighs business tax breaks
Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewWASHINGTON -- With less than two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks -- potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars -- to ...
Jobs data stagnant, but offers optimism
Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewWASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate went up slightly to 9.6 percent in August as employers shed 54,000 jobs during the month, the Labor Department said Friday in a jobs report that nonetheless provide...
Music companies eager for Google to vie with iTunes
Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewGoogle Inc., which is developing a digital music service, is winning over record companies that are hoping the technology company can loosen Apple Inc.'s grip on the digital music market. The talks c...
Regal CXL Buick's drive to get back in mainstream
Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewWith the 2011 Buick Regal CXL, Buick takes a giant step toward relevance, desirability and--can it be? -- excitement. The Regal's tidy dimensions, athletic shape and excellent handling inject some ba...
Stocks celebrate winning streak
Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewStocks rose Friday, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index gaining a fourth day and the Dow Jones Industrial Average erasing its loss for the year, as better-than-estimated growth in private payrolls ea...
High School Playbook: Week 1 Football Scores, Highlights
The Pittsburgh ChannelHigh school junior, Kealey Oliver, helped police catch a criminal by tackling him at the mall. Hear what she was doing at the time and what she was thinking when she slammed him to the ground.
obituary: Michael Cherubino / Expert on optical equipment and tireless fundraiser
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMichael Cherubino had all the elements that make a good salesman: an ability to connect with people, plus tenacity, curiosity, knowledge and enthusiasm about his product. Certainly, he got results: A...
St. Vincent College priest-professor says school defamed him
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAn ousted Catholic priest and professor at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe on Friday filed a defamation lawsuit against a number of administrators at the school, claiming that his reputation was ruin...
Welcome to Light Up Night. Please pay $100
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAs the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Light Up Night, the organization is stepping up enforcement of its trademark rights to the annual event. Letters w...
South Side battle over grocery ends; building demolished
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAn excavator lurched over the remains of a building on East Carson Street Friday, clearing debris from the 19th-century structure to make way for a grocery and marking the end of a lengthy battle betw...
Eat'n Park, Rite Aid staying through McKeesport construction
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMcKeesport won't lose Eat'n Park or Rite Aid when it installs a $5.7 million fly-over ramp to improve access into an industrial park. City officials announced Friday that both the restaurant and the ...
Panel gives short leash to track-casino developer
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteHARRISBURG -- A $425 million racetrack-casino in Lawrence County is still in the race, but now it has two major hurdles to clear or the state Harness Racing Commission may put it out of its misery. O...
Hits just keep on coming for Hilton
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe other shoe has dropped for the owner of the former Hilton Pittsburgh. BlackRock Financial Management Inc. has begun a foreclosure action against Shubh Hotels Pittsburgh LLC, one day after the pro...
State university workers jump at retirement bonus
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteA retirement incentive program intended to lessen budget strain across Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities drew more takers than expected, a total of 257 employees from janitors to a university...
Police officer-bodyguard faces contempt hearing
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe Coraopolis police officer who works as Ben Roethlisberger's bodyguard must appear in court on Sept. 24 to explain to an Allegheny County judge why he should not be held in contempt for failing to ...
Boy, 11, fatally shot in Ligonier Township
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAn 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in rural Westmoreland County Friday evening, a county dispatch supervisor said. Someone called 911 around 6:50 p.m. to report that a boy had been shot in the head ...
Woman tells police man raped her, held her captive
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAn Evans City man was jailed on charges that he held a woman captive in his mother's basement, where he beat and raped her, leaving her with several broken bones. Jeremy Michael Flood, 34, was arrest...
Penn Hills boy, 16, dies in car-bus crash
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteA Penn Hills teen was killed after the car he was riding in crashed into a school bus. Robert Chamber, 16, of Penn Hills, was pronounced dead at 4:05 p.m. at UPMC Presbyterian, the Allegheny County m...
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