http://www.post-gazette.com/ All News en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:28:23 -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/09311/1011689-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml IN 2002, Doug Smith was bored. Korakia Pensione, his Mediterranean-style boutique hotel in Palm Springs, Calif., that attracted a celebrity crowd like Annie Leibovitz, Gore Vidal and Brice Marden, pretty much ran itself. Mr. Smith was looking for a new project -- a grand fixer-upper in an exotic locale -- where he could show off his well-honed style and settle into a life of rustic ease with his new wife, Josie. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011690-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml NASHVILLE isn't nicknamed Music City for nothing. Singers, songwriters and pickers -- not to mention their toe-tapping admirers -- have been pouring into the Tennessee capital for decades. Yes, the city's rhinestone-studded past still glimmers, especially downtown, where you'll find Hatch Show Print, the legendary poster shop, Ryman Auditorium, home to the original Grand Ole Opry stage, and a slew of honky-tonk joints. But there's more to Nashville than country music, especially in the once-sleepy neighborh Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011691-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml FOR many Americans, the fear of swine flu has made everyday acts like going to work, going to school or getting on a plane feel fraught with danger -- even more so since President Obama recently declared swine flu a national emergency. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011692-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml BY now, most high school dress codes have just about done away with the guesswork. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011693-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml SEVERAL years ago, as Labor Day approached and parents nationwide began that end-of-summer ritual I know all too well -- packing the children off to college -- I found myself facing a new and particularly fraught task: preparing to return my son not to college but to war, to the mountain passes northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011694-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml FIVE days a week, Michael Kiernan, 50, a computer network administrator, makes the 90-minute commute home from the Bronx County Courthouse, where he works, to suburban Long Beach on Long Island. Like a lot of New Yorkers, he has it down to a science. He leaves work at 4:45, walk-jogs across 161st Street, then hurries into the subway, where he gets into the first car on the D train. He stands by the door, riding two stops to 145th Street, then races up the stairs for the A train, a downtown express. Again he Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011695-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml RAPUNZEL has nothing on Avery, a 10-inch injection-molded mall princess whose flaxen hair cascades to her knees. Rapunzel might also have envied Avery's smart wardrobe and her arsenal of styling tools, from thumb-size lip gloss to a tiny curling iron. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011696-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml JAY-Z started spreadin' the news in September, and since then he has taken every prominent opportunity to remind us: he has a candidate for a new New York anthem, and he wants our votes. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011697-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml A start-up company from the Seattle area won $900,000 on Friday in a NASA contest to build a miniature prototype of a machine that could one day climb from Earth to outer space. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011698-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORKERS maintain that Los Angeles is a city with no center. But Angelenos argue that the city of freeways has its core in the Stack, a tower of overpasses -- the first four-level connector interchange, according to the California Transportation Department -- where the Pasadena, Harbor, Hollywood and Santa Ana freeways intersect. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011699-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml FOR every smartly realized hybrid like the Toyota Prius or Ford Fusion, there has been one whose combination of price, economy and practicality doesn't quite add up. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011700-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml MY mission today is to offer my clear-eyed take on the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport. But the price keeps getting in the way. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011701-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml WHEN the Ecology Center, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, released its 2009 guide to toxic chemicals in cars in September, the results held a pleasant surprise. For the first time since the center began rating vehicle interiors in 2007, a car built in the United States by a Detroit automaker had the lowest levels of toxic chemicals among all the models evaluated. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011702-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Eighty-five Army reservists from three units trained to help with combat stress were among the thousands of soldiers stationed at Fort Hood on Thursday, and some of these mental health professionals were among the unlucky ones standing inside a medical and services processing center at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday afternoon when a gunman trained as a psychiatrist went on a frightening shooting spree. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011703-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JOHANNESBURG -- An international body charged with stopping the illicit trade in diamonds that fuel conflict has decided not to suspend Zimbabwe, officials said Friday, though its investigators had concluded that Zimbabwe's military had organized smuggling syndicates with the government's permission and used "extreme violence" against illegal miners. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011704-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011705-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Israel on Friday rejected a United Nations General Assembly vote endorsing a report accusing it of war crimes in Gaza last winter, saying the resolution did not have "the support of the moral majority." The resolution, drafted by Arab member states, was approved Thursday on a vote of 114 to 18. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the Israeli Army had demonstrated "higher military and moral standards" in Gaza than any "of this resolution's instigators." Israel said the report was one-sided Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011626-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Here in the Silicon Valley, where high-tech is the hometown staple, the San Jose Sharks have gone old school. It is a simple formula. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011635-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jason Bell stood proudly on the frosted turf at Cupples Stadium last night, reminiscing about how his Schenley players were so little the previous time the Spartans played for a City League championship, they don't believe it even happened. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011637-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Class AAA: Franklin Regional cruised past Montour in a Class AAA first-round playoff game. And the Panthers owe it all to a two-minute stretch of dominance. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011647-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml CLASS AAAA: Pitt recruit Aaron Donald plays giant role as Indians shut down Upper St. Clair, QB Park Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011676-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Football Summaries: Game by Game Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011602-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jeff Gordon is on the pole in Texas. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011600-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two Western Pennsylvania women were among the victims in Thursday's shooting rampage in Fort Hood, including a 55-year-old grandmother who was one of 13 people who died in the attack. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011644-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml North Hills stood its ground and its defense shut out fifth-seed McKeesport through the final three quarters to post a 19-7 first-round upset. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011645-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Bill Arch's 6-yard touchdown run with 30 seconds left broke a 14-14 tie and lifted No. 12-seed Springdale (8-2) to a 21-14 upset at Monessen (7-3) last night. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:15:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011619-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml LeBron James scored 33 points in his only visit to Madison Square Garden this season, leading the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 100-91 victory against the New York Knicks last night. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011569-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml KILLEEN, Texas -- On Wednesday and Thursday, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan seemed in a hurry to give his worldly belongings to a neighbor. First, a Quran. Then, bags of vegetables. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011656-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- By late afternoon, Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Forest Hills, was looking weary. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011571-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tina Reiter was treating one of her Iraq War veterans when he got the text message from his mom: an Army psychiatrist with orders to ship to the Mideast, a major no less, had just shot up a room full of soldiers preparing to deploy to war. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011622-34.stm?cmpid=news.xml Fox has ordered up "Master Chef," a new reality show that will pit amateur cooks against one another in a battle for culinary supremacy. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011663-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml North Huntingdon police last night were investigating a fatal accident in which a pedestrian walking along Route 30 was struck and killed by a passing vehicle. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011426-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the very old days in Europe a musician would come to a new city with a letter of recommendation from a local patron. Beethoven had one, Chopin had one -- it was common practice. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011661-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Football Leaders: Rushing, Passing, Receiving Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011616-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml What's in a name? In the case of the newly renumbered Interstate 376, 15 years and nearly $40 million. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011617-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml For the last decade, North Siders who use Allegheny Commons Park have lamented the condition of their bridge to nowhere -- a fenced-off pedestrian span over Norfolk Southern railroad tracks that has been dropping chunks of concrete and nurturing weeds. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:41:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011580-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The national unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in October, surprising economists who had been predicting a more modest increase from September's 9.8 percent. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011623-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml If Brian Wilson were still taking stages with Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, would we have been bundling up to go see him on a November night at the Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead? Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011631-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml That hit the spot. A hallmark of the best classical music is its ability to usher in a world, taking you with it. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011563-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml No one was more surprised than Northside Urban Pathways Charter School teacher Jamilla Rice to find out a school assembly was actually a ruse to present her with a $25,000 Milken Educator Award. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011646-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Andrew Bly rushed for 179 yards on 35 carries and scored three touchdowns to lead Hampton to a 19-7 upset of Chartiers Valley in the opening round of the WPIAL Class AAA playoffs. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:21:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011611-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml For some classes, teachers can pull open a file drawer to show off student work, but the creativity of Hampton High School teacher Dan Franklin's stage technology students isn't so easily contained. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011643-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Aliquippa claimed a surprisingly easy, 27-7 victory at McGuffey last night in the first round of the WPIAL playoffs Darius Walker led the Quips with 113 yards rushing and one touchdown. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011636-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Class AA: Cody Cook and Admire Carter combined to rush for 403 yards and six touchdowns to lead Beaver Falls to a 42-14 win against Steel Valley in the opening round of the WPIAL Class AA playoffs. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011612-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml During her annual "State of Black Pittsburgh" address yesterday, the president of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh called for local black communities to rise above the weight of fatherless homes. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:15:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011614-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml At the convention of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh, which is appealing a Common Pleas Court decision that awarded its property to the smaller Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, there was laughter over the litigation and its possible consequences. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011618-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato yesterday vetoed the sale of the county Health Department building and a bill to impose county fees on nonprofit organizations, rounding out a week marked by episodes of legislative gamesmanship on Grant Street. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011639-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Class AA: QB Jones battles first-half demons in first-round win Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011576-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml To those who yearn to see the Steelers implement the K-Gun offense run by Jim Kelly and the Buffalo Bills in the late 1980s, forget it. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011542-143.stm?cmpid=news.xml UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State wide receiver Derek Moye is lean and long and he has been coming on strong. He has rapidly developed into quarterback Daryll Clark's top target. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011591-57.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the operating license for two nuclear reactors in Beaver County by 20 years each. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011584-55.stm?cmpid=news.xml A driver and four passengers were injured when their vehicle crashed into the former Coca-Cola plant building early yesterday in Washington County. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011583-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml A man was fatally shot yesterday by a someone who walked into a crowded Wilkinsburg barbershop. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011610-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penn State University plans to build a new Children's Hospital on the campus of its Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011590-181.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rep. Don Walko's election to Common Pleas Court is likely to set off an avalanche of aspirants to fill the balance of his term in the Legislature. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011597-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Shawn M. Garvin was appointed Thursday administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 3 in Philadelphia, encompassing Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011625-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml SAN JOSE, Calif. -- After Tyler Kennedy missed practice yesterday at Sharks Ice, Penguins coach Dan Bylsma confirmed that the right winger has been shelved again by his injury. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1003472-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml We motored the Zodiac into Kealakekua Bay around noon, the sun shining off what I'd been looking for: The Captain Cook monument, its ivory surface and vertical shape sharply contrasting the green foliage background. ... Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1010492-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml McLEAN, Va. -- Winter Trails will celebrate its 15th year Jan. 9 at locations throughout the U.S. with free snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. ... Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1010962-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml No one knows what the future holds for you, your family, your job or your finances. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011116-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Built around 1910, this Tudor-style stone house at 509 Clearview Ave. in Crafton boasts five bedrooms and two baths. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011120-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Real estate news in brief. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011144-214.stm?cmpid=news.xml Bob Smizik wrote in his blog that he was sitting in the press box for the Pitt-USF game -- was that the first time in a long time? And will Ron Cook ever go to a game so that he can stop bashing Pitt for just a day? Both are in love with the Big Ten, why is that? Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011395-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml I'll be blowin' in the wind over America's Most Livable City Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011396-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml There is a primal scream that lurks within all of us, awaiting the proper moment to burst forth in all of its primordial glory. I uttered one of these Monday night. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011397-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml He hasn't brought enough force to bear against the recession Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011398-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Oh pome of evil, of knowledge, of sin / plump and curved as a baby's buttocks. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011400-62.stm?cmpid=news.xml Have you ever lost money playing slot machines at the Meadows Racetrack and Casino? A small percentage of your losses are going to help homeless dogs and cats, if that makes you feel any better. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011401-113.stm?cmpid=news.xml Holy pumpkins, it's almost time to turn the rain barrel cylinder from "collect" to "bypass." Such a simple act, yet so difficult -- another acquiescence to the cold. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011403-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml When home is where the view is, the heart will surely follow. That's how it happened for Judith and Steve Thomas. Leaving the land of sun and celebrity, Los Angeles, for Pittsburgh's variable weather and rabid Steeler fans wasn't as difficult as some might imagine. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011423-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Home & Garden notes: A free seminar on "green" initiatives in home building is scheduled today from 9:45 a.m. to noon at the Crown Plaza Hotel on Fort Couch Road in Bethel Park, by South Hills Village. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011424-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml The stereotype of rock musicians paints them as flaky, unrealistic and even irresponsible. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011439-458.stm?cmpid=news.xml Homemaking: As my father got older, like a lot of men he became more finicky about certain things. One of them was his morning coffee. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011443-47.stm?cmpid=news.xml Q. We have a rather large pampas grass plant. What is the best way to reduce its size? In the past I have split it and given pieces away to be replanted by others. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011444-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml WTAE's expanded digital signal now is in operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011454-474.stm?cmpid=news.xml What happened to Tyler Urban? Lots of hype early about working him into the passing game but it hasn't happened. Sure seems like he could help out Brown. He must be frustrated as the extended tackle. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011494-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011495-432.stm?cmpid=news.xml Giant Eagle's mission and second-class shopping Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011498-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml The $23 billion, five-year recovery plan for Chrysler Group LLC unveiled Wednesday was nothing if not ambitious, with big increases in market shares and sales forecast for each of its brands by 2014. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011500-432.stm?cmpid=news.xml Business Forum: The home medical equipment industry has become the scapegoat du jour in the cost-savings debate over health care reform. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011501-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml As PNC Financial Services Group converts about 80 National City branches in the region to the PNC system this weekend, customers aren't the only ones hoping things will go smoothly. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011527-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK-- Crowds roared, church bells rang and streams of paper rained down on Broadway as the New York Yankees celebrated their 27th championship yesterday in a way only this city can, with a parade up the Canyon of Heroes. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011528-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century, would have felt right at home this week in Bedford County. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011529-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The killing of at least 13 people in the heart of America's military network in Fort Hood, Texas, is very hard to bear. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011530-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011531-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml It infuriates me that Superintendent Mark Roosevelt and his executioners might place another 15 Pittsburgh Public Schools on the chopping block (Nov. 3 story). Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011540-233.stm?cmpid=news.xml Coaches often say that every game is important, and while that is generally true, it is also true that some games are a little more important than others. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011549-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- It has been quite an eight days for -- as his head coach calls him -- "old No. 8." Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011557-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml ARCADIA, Calif. -- Life got sweeter for Life Is Sweet without her daunting stablemate Zenyatta in the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011559-450.stm?cmpid=news.xml In this day of on-field celebrations for making a tackle or recording a sack, Alex DiMichele is old school. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011560-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Florida's Urban Meyer became the first coach to be disciplined under the Southeastern Conference's new policy regarding criticizing officials. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011564-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Minnesota Twins acquired shortstop J.J. Hardy yesterday, sending speedy outfielder Carlos Gomez to the Milwaukee Brewers in a trade. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011572-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml While safety Ryan Clark is not expected to play in Monday night's game in Denver, there will be no official confirmation from him or coach Mike Tomlin on his status before the game. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011573-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tiger Woods realized that no one was pulling away at the HSBC Champions yesterday in Shanghai, so he settled into a good groove with the putter and made sure he caught them. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011575-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Indianapolis Colts suddenly have some serious holes in the secondary: Cornerback Marlin Jackson and strong safety Bob Sanders are gone for the season. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011589-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml John Dennis Ursu believed a quick wit and sense of humor could lighten almost any situation. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011593-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former Pittsburgh Public Works Operations Coordinator John Barley took his bid to return to his former job to Allegheny County Common Pleas Court yesterday, appealing a Civil Service Commission decision that reversed his June firing but allowed the city to suspend him for a year. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011594-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A trial was ordered yesterday for a man who was charged with homicide after he showed up at a hospital with a bullet wound from a shooting last month in the Hill District. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09311/1011595-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Longtime writer and editor Mark Roth of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has been named winner of the Joanie Award for excellence in journalism related to lung cancer for 2009. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011378-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Northside Urban Pathways teacher today won a $25,000 Milken Education Award. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011399-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml At least two people from Western Pennsylvania were among the victims of the shootings in Fort Hood, Texas. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:57:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011437-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penn State University plans to build a new Children's Hospital on the campus of its Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011376-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A man was fatally shot this afternoon by a man who walked into a crowded Wilkinsburg barber shop with his gun drawn Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011394-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pirates today assigned pitchers Virgil Vasquez and Eric Hacker to Triple-A Indianapolis, and catcher Steve Larud to Double-A Altoona. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011377-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml State and local officials today announced that the redesignation of Interstate 376 from Interstate 80 in Mercer County to the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Monroeville has been completed. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011391-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law today, giving tax incentives to prospective home buyers and additional jobless benefits to those idled by the business slump. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011393-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- House Democrats acknowledged they didn't yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system, and signaled they might push back the vote until Sunday or early next week. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011383-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Police are investigating the fatal shooting today of an 18-year-old man in Sharon, Mercer County. Two other people were wounded in the shooting Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011384-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate has hit double digits for the first time since 1983 -- and is likely to go higher. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011373-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A driver and four passengers were injured when their vehicle crashed into a building early today in Washington County Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011372-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml While safety Ryan Clark is not expected to play in Monday night's game in Denver, there will be no official confirmation from him or coach Mike Tomlin on his status before the game. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011370-286.stm?cmpid=news.xml You don't need me advising you to start Peyton Manning and Maurice Jones-Drew, or to bench Derek Anderson and Earnest Graham. So I???ll leave the obvious recommendations to the network bozos and focus instead on players typically on the bubble of most fantasy lineups. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011371-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A trial was ordered today for a man who was charged with homicide after he showed up at a hospital with a bullet wound from a shooting last month in the Hill District Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011272-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Southern California represents a big change for Rob Scuderi. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011369-474.stm?cmpid=news.xml Do you think that poor defensive recruiting in 2006 and 2007 is catching up with the Mountaineers? Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:57:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011368-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml PennDOT has moved up the start time for construction on the Parkway North between Interstate 79 and Bellevue-West View to accommodate Pitt football traffic Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:39:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011221-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml It was, in the end, a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011355-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Cranberry Supervisors last night gave the go-ahead to plans for a new grocery along Freedom Road Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:46:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011347-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011354-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml First Commonwealth Financial this morning said it lost more money in the third quarter than previously reported because of another soured commercial loan and another write down on an investment. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011353-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Parkway North high occupancy vehicle lane was closed today because of icy conditions Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011352-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the operating license for two nuclear reactors in Beaver County by 20 years each Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011351-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml BERLIN, Pa. -- A Somerset County man has been charged with repeatedly raping a mentally disabled woman at her apartment and, later, the nursing home where she's lived since 2007 Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:52:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011350-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Police have dropped charges against a man who was arrested with seven others last month on charges they set 12 fires in the last two years Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:48:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011248-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dr. Cynthia Ayers, a trailblazing Pittsburgh physician who broke down barriers of race and gender in the medical profession and in 2007 became the first woman to receive the Physician of the Year Award from Gateway Medical Society, died Wednesday. She was 67. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011349-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml SHARON, Pa. -- An 11-mile stretch of eastbound Interstate 80 is closed because of two crashed tractor-trailers Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011317-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml This was such foreign territory that it stung just that much more. The Penguins had not given up more than four goals in a game before last night. Then they lost, 5-2, to the Los Angeles Kings at Staples Center. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011348-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The nation's unemployment rate rose in October to 10.2 percent, as the number of those out of work increased by more than half a million people, to 15.7 million. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011296-153.stm?cmpid=news.xml Yesterday afternoon on the North Shore, a nearly 11-foot sculpture of Fred Rogers was unveiled. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011255-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ryan Clark practiced all week and maintained that he and/or Steelers coach Mike Tomlin would decide at some point whether he would play in Denver. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011188-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml The WPIAL football championship trophies have been the same for decades. They have a big wooden base with a figure of a player on the top. ¶ The player is running the football. It figures. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011288-143.stm?cmpid=news.xml Everyone seems to have an opinion about Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor these days. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011290-143.stm?cmpid=news.xml A T-shirt mocking Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor has been sacked after Penn State students and alumni complained that the design does not reflect the school's Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011278-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Who knows where the term originated? It was probably invented by some sportswriter, lending more reason as to why coaches, largely, despise it. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:57:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011287-233.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt is the second-best rushing team in the Big East. Syracuse has the conference's best defense against the run. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011328-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml Marietta, Ohio -- A DEEP current of history runs through this quiet town of 15,000 nestled in the arms of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers. Indians first left their mark here, in great earthen burial mounds. Then, as the first chartered city in the Northwest Territory, Marietta felt the nation's initial footprints as it strode west. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011329-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml WESTPORT, Mass. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011330-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml BERLIN -- European lawmakers on Thursday agreed on new protections for Internet users, striking a compromise between national governments seeking to impose tough anti-piracy laws and consumer organizations that wanted to enshrine Internet access as an unassailable right. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011331-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Among the hundreds of current research projects in the Bay Area, some may solve problems crucial to local industries, like clean tech and bio-tech. Others focus on possible disaster, like the collapse of the Sacramento Delta levees in an earthquake. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011332-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml An Army psychiatrist facing deployment to one of America's war zones killed 12 people and wounded 31 others on Thursday in a shooting rampage with two handguns at the sprawling Fort Hood Army post in Central Texas, military officials said. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011333-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml CLEVELAND -- After the third police station in a row refused to take a missing-person report about her niece two years ago, Sandy Drain took matters into her own hands. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011334-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml DENVER -- One of the most ambitious one-time mass-transit projects in the nation's history, called FasTracks -- $4.7 billion, 122 miles of passenger rail and a hectic construction schedule of only 12 years -- was approved by voters here in 2004 along with a regionwide sales tax to pay for it. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011335-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- In separate actions to address Americans' continuing economic hardship, the government moved Thursday to assist long-unemployed workers and struggling businesses, as well as home buyers and homeowners facing foreclosure. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011336-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MONG HPEN, Myanmar -- Conquering armies of centuries past avoided this remote, mountainous area along the present-day border with China, a place once described by a British colonial official as "an unpenetrated enclave of savage hills." Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011337-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- A series of internal government reviews have presented the Obama administration with a dire portrait of Afghanistan's military and police force, bringing into serious question an ambitious goal at the heart of the evolving American war strategy -- to speed up their training and send many more Afghans to the fight. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011338-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Thursday that he would not seek re-election, the latest sign that the Obama administration's drive to broker a Middle East peace accord, one of President Obama's key foreign policy goals, has fallen into disarray. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011339-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MOSCOW -- Two young people identified as ultranationalists will face charges in the January shooting that killed a crusading lawyer and a reporter, an attack that cast a pall over Russia's dwindling circle of human rights activists. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011340-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml GOMA, Congo -- It was 10 p.m. in early April when Dieudonne Masha and a neighbor were walking home along the shores of Lake Kivu after a round of drinking. As the neighbor tells it, the two were confronted by a pair of soldiers patrolling the area, who asked to see their identity cards. Mr. Masha did not have his. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011341-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BERLIN -- A young East German physicist named Angela Merkel was on her way home from her weekly trip to the sauna and a beer with a friend when she was swept up in the ecstatic crowds crossing the border at Bornholmer Street on the night of Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011342-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml NAIROBI, Kenya -- Members of the political elite in Kenya, a nation where top leaders have long escaped prosecution for corruption and other crimes, could now face an international investigation into the violence that shook the country after disputed elections last year. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011343-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL, Afghanistan -- The United Nations mission in Afghanistan announced plans on Thursday to relocate hundreds of foreign staff members, sending some out of the country, in the wake of a lethal attack on its workers at a guesthouse last week. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011344-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml SÃO PAULO, Brazil -- Fernando Lugo, the president of Paraguay, swore in new commanders of the military on Thursday, just a day after he abruptly removed the leaders of the army, navy and air force amid speculation of a possible coup attempt that had stoked memories of the country's militaristic past. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011345-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JAKARTA, Indonesia -- After mounting pressure from the public and the news media, two senior law enforcement officials suspected of trying to undermine the country's respected anticorruption agency were forced to resign Thursday. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011346-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MEXICO CITY -- A week after an accord mediated by the United States seemed to have unblocked the political standoff that had paralyzed Honduras since President Manuel Zelaya was deposed in a June coup, progress is frozen. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011679-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Football Summaries: Game by Game Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011275-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml ARCADIA, Calif. -- The Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic is missing its leading lady, with defending champion Zenyatta pitting her 13-0 record against the boys on the second day of the season-ending Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011289-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml The NCAA has rejected a final appeal to reinstate Dez Bryant and Oklahoma State has probably seen the last of its All-America receiver. The junior is considered a top NFL prospect. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011280-87.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's so easy to sit back and criticize, to second-guess, to say that Penn State linebacker Sean Lee made a costly mistake by not leaving for the NFL after his terrific junior season in 2007. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1001709-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml I'm in my seat in a dim Amtrak car, beside an aromatic guy and in front of a woman who speaks so loudly into her cell phone that she must assume everyone is interested in her conversation. ... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1004251-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml BERLIN -- The modern skyscrapers of Potsdamer Platz glisten in the sun. Stylish Berliners sip coffee in swanky sidewalk cafes. ... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1010491-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A new walking tour is being offered in Charleston based on places featured in the new Pat Conroy best-seller "South of Broad." ... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1010815-238.stm?cmpid=news.xml This week's TV Q&A responds to questions about "V," "Damages" and a fantastically funny/gross catch in a KDKA promo. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011124-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml When will Dan Bylsma realize that Tyler Kennedy is the best winger on the team? He is stuck on the third line and doesn't play on the power play or kill penalties. Although Pascal Dupuis is a very good skater with a hard slap shot, he does not have the hands to be a top-six forward and Chris Bourque looks lost out there. At the very least, don't you think that Kennedy should be on the second power-play unit? Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011129-117.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Fumbler has been called a half-wit before. Maybe it's because people look at his championship picks every year at the start of the playoffs. He's usually about half right. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011132-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jim Render said he is not fooled by Penn Hills' won-loss record. The five-loss Indians are a skilled and talented team whose only losses came against quality opponents, he said. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011133-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penn Hills and Upper St. Clair students sound off on tonight's WPIAL Class AAAA game ... Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011134-215.stm?cmpid=news.xml Is Saturday's game a bigger game for Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor or Penn State quarterback Daryll Clark? What do you think? Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011139-214.stm?cmpid=news.xml I went to the South Florida game with my teenage sons who have inherited my love for Pitt's football program. To say the least, I was disappointed with the so-called "college football" atmosphere at Heinz Field. The football game was great but I felt like I was at an NFL game, not a college game. It's not the same. Pitt is a great university. College football should be played on campus. Does anyone else feel the same? Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011141-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml Will the drought end tomorrow? No WPIAL Class AA boys' cross country team has won a PIAA title since Neshannock in 1976, but Quaker Valley appears ready to end the league's run of futility. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011142-362.stm?cmpid=news.xml They are two teams that have combined for only one loss and an aggregate 38-1-3 record this season, but the only defeat that will matter for either the Seneca Valley or Peters Township girls'. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011147-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011153-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml In an industrial state like Pennsylvania, the cap-and-trade tax would be even more harmful than elsewhere. Our state's coal, natural gas and manufacturing industries would be especially hard hit. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011154-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nicole Maddox sometimes refers to her son, Jordan, as a miracle, and it has nothing to do with his grandfather being Smokey Robinson from the Motown singing group Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011175-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml At first glance, a federal appeals court ruling last week that sent back to a lower court a city ordinance limiting the rights of anti-abortion protesters might seem like a defeat for medical Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011176-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml President Barack Obama's position on defense spending is hard to understand -- or perhaps, misleading -- at the moment. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011177-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml That crashing sound you just heard was UPMC's argument to close its latest hospital falling to pieces on Braddock Avenue. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011178-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml I welcome all the support and information from activist volunteers and others who have contributed extensively to the Carnegie Libraries. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011180-348.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rihanna says she feels ashamed that she returned to Chris Brown after he attacked her in April, leaving her bruised and bloody. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011181-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Even in a YouTube world where anyone can be a star, for some people there's still nothing quite like being on TV. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011182-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml John Lithgow was going to pass on the chance to play serial killer vs. serial killer on "Dexter," with an Italian vacation, cruise and his son's wedding awaiting him. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011183-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Precious" screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher will be among the guests at a Pittsburgh panel tomorrow tackling thorny questions at the heart of Hollywood: "Getting Started: Where Do Good Ideas, Great Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011184-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly's "The Box": Press a button on a mysterious container, they'll get $1 million, and someone they don't know will die. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011185-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller "The Fourth Kind" offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnival-like hokum. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011186-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you haven't visited or driven by the Carnegie Science Center on the North Shore lately, you might be surprised to see a large red building going up right next to it. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011191-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jim Carrey joins the legions of actors who have played Ebenezer Scrooge. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011192-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert Zemeckis may just be the father of the performance-capture, 3-D mania sweeping through Hollywood. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011193-121.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011195-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml Watching snow on an IMAX screen with 3-D glasses is like being inside a snow globe. Just lovely. Observing performance-capture characters on such an enormous canvas is something else. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011202-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml Movies about Coco Chanel are as timeless as little black dresses accented with strands of genuine pearls. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011203-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml You have to like a movie that ends with this caveat: "The filmmakers ask that no one attempt walking through walls, cloud-bursting while driving, or staring for hours at goats with the intent of Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011206-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml First Paris, now New York and, soon, Rio, Shanghai, Jerusalem and Mumbai. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011207-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Football Statistical Leaders Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011209-68.stm?cmpid=news.xml What do you do if someone in the family is pregnant and has no health insurance or an inadequate amount? Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011210-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011211-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two unions are seeking to organize thousands of employees at the Rivers Casino, about three months after the North Shore venue opened its doors. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011212-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml The nation's stores posted a second consecutive month of sales increases in October, the retailing industry's best performance in more than a year. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011215-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Philadelphia-based retail chain Five Below arrives in Western Pennsylvania through locations scheduled to open today at the Waterworks Mall, in the city near Aspinwall, as well as in shopping centers in Cranberry, Butler and Altoona. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011216-68.stm?cmpid=news.xml Wouldn't it be great if the IRS were looking for you to give you money? For nearly 108,000 taxpayers nationwide, that's exactly the case. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011224-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml St. John the Baptist Church in Lawrenceville may be no more, but its buildings live on in new ways -- the historic main church has been a popular brewpub and restaurant since 1996, and now its former rectory will become a residence for teenage students at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011225-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh City Council gave its first approval yesterday to a new ordinance that would require a chain of approvals before anyone in the 3,300-employee city work force could peek into anyone else's e-mail account. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011226-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml After 40 years of discussion and 20 years of planning, preliminary work on a $14.3 million project to widen the Wexford Flats portion of Route 19 should begin about this time next year, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials said. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011227-58.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ten years after he saved her from likely becoming the third murder victim in a day-long rampage, Squirrel Hill psychologist Barbara Vey posthumously returned the favor to Terrell Yarbrough, helping to convince jurors to spare his life. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011229-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A baby found dead yesterday in a storage bin at a Hill District apartment was not born alive, investigators said. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011230-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Police are looking for leads to a pants-sagging robber who stole money at gunpoint Wednesday night at an Oakland convenience store. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011231-57.stm?cmpid=news.xml An Allegheny County judge ruled this week that a 17-year-old Clairton boy will be tried as an adult in the slaying of an 82-year-old female neighbor. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011232-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml A judge yesterday doubled the bond for a man recently acquitted of killing a 12-year-old Wilkinsburg boy who now faces new gun charges. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011233-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Trustees at the Community College of Allegheny County voted yesterday to approve a new three-year contact with 384 secretarial, library, accounting, clerical, housekeeping and maintenance personnel. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011236-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- House Democratic leaders worked furiously yesterday to secure the final votes for weekend approval of a sweeping health care overhaul, as President Barack Obama threw his weight behind the lobbying effort and Republicans dug in against the health plan. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011237-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Dale McCoy is sick of being called right-wing. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011238-178.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- A statewide grand jury is considering recommending charges against former House Speaker John Perzel, R-Philadelphia, and a number of others in connection with millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded computer data that investigators believe was used for political campaigns. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011239-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml After years of talking about it, Allegheny County Council this week approved a plan to collect fees from tax-exempt entities such as the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Highmark, a move expected to raise as much as $13 million annually. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011240-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml They weren't asking Duquesne Light to do away with the deposit they were required to pay. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011242-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday announced that he will not seek re-election next year, citing a lack of U.S. support for his conditions for resuming peace talks with Israel. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011243-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL -- The top United Nations official in Afghanistan yesterday issued an unusually pointed warning to President Hamid Karzai to enact major political reforms or risk losing the support of the international community. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011244-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- A series of internal government reviews have presented the Obama administration with a dire portrait of Afghanistan's military and police force, bringing into serious question an ambitious goal at the heart of the evolving U.S. war strategy: to speed up their training and send many more Afghans to the fight. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011245-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi Parliament failed again yesterday to approve a law to regulate a national election in January, deepening doubts about whether the nation can hold its election on schedule. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011247-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml SAN'A, Yemen -- Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen yesterday in a military incursion apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion, Arab diplomats and the rebels said. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011250-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nien Cheng, whose memoir "Life and Death in Shanghai" was widely praised as one of the most riveting accounts of the Cultural Revolution, died Monday of cardiovascular and renal disease at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 94. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011252-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml John Kenley, a Midwest theater impresario renowned for taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and Burt Reynolds, died on Oct. 23 in Cleveland. He was 103 and had homes in Cleveland and Florida. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011254-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml The National Organization for Women has called on the Oakland Raiders to suspend coach Tom Cable while the team investigates allegations he has a history of violent behavior toward women. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011257-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tempers flared and voices rose as Allegheny County Council members yesterday revisited the sale of the county Health Department building in Oakland, with Council President Rich Fitzgerald announcing that he has asked County Executive Dan Onorato to veto the deal the council members had overwhelmingly approved the night before. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011258-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Expressing concern about the closings and reconfigurations of recent years, the Hill District Education Council will host a public meeting tomorrow to develop a blueprint for neighborhood schools. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011266-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml An Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire yesterday on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, killing at least 12 people and wounding 31 in what is believed to be the deadliest mass shooting on a U.S. military base in history. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011267-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON) -- Missed out on Cash for Clunkers? Congress has another deal for you: Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the government. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011268-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- He prayed every day at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Md., a devout Muslim who -- despite asking to be discharged from the U.S. Army, according to his aunt -- was on the eve of his first deployment to war. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011271-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored in the shootout to lift the host Detroit Red Wings to a 2-1 victory against San Jose, snapping the Sharks' six-game winning streak. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011277-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml So much for that notion that American golfers don't travel well. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011282-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml Only one defending champion remains in the WPIAL girls' volleyball playoffs, as two of the three defending champions were defeated last night in the semifinals. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011284-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo will not be fined by the league for an incident between them after a recent game in Boston. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011295-294.stm?cmpid=news.xml As it did all over America, World War II touched many families on North Euclid Avenue in Pittsburgh's East End. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011298-113.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Senate climate change legislation took a step forward yesterday, but a move by Democrats to bypass Republicans in the environment committee could result in a political setback. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011299-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml For fans in the stands, the circus is two popcorn-scented hours of acrobats and animal acts, clowns and contortionists and trapeze artists and trick ponies. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011300-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml District Low, clear tributary conditions and rain were reported yesterday morning, with more precipitation expected. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09310/1011301-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Marcus Jordan stuck to his guns and wore his father's iconic Nike Air Jordans, a decision that has cost the University of Central Florida its six-year, $3 million exclusive contract with adidas. Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500