http://www.post-gazette.com/ All News en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:02:09 -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/10072/1042590-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- Da'Sean Butler was the hero Thursday when his buzzer-beater bank shot gave West Virginia a close-shave victory against Cincinnati in a Big East Conference tournament quarterfinal game. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042650-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Western Pennsylvanians looked to the skies and their basements amid warnings of potential flooding, but Allegheny County officials this afternoon were heartened by updated river forecasts of less-severe flooding than expected. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042654-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Winter's white gave through to St. Patrick's green today as thousands lined the streets of Pittsburgh for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042655-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Paul Maholm turned in the Pirates' best start of the spring and Delwyn Young homered in a 3-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox Saturday at City of Palms Park. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042653-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Firefighters were summoned to a four-alarm house fire in Beltzhoover this morning. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042651-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042644-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you're considering one of many hybrid models but think that there are no deals to be had on green vehicles, now would be the time to think again—and potentially head out shopping in the near future. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042645-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml Artworks of cars aren't altogether unheard of. There's a big business in vanity portraits of classic cars, for example, commissioned by wealthy owners. But most car paintings are done the old-fashioned way: with paint brushes. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042646-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml Gas prices keep creeping upward, but don't expect any relief anytime soon. Don't expect $4 either. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042647-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml The 5.0 is back, and Ford didn't take the opportunity lightly. The 2011 Ford Mustang GT will pack a 412-horsepower, 5.0-liter V-8 that for all practical purposes is an all-new engine. A very stoutly built, race-ready one at that. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042648-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Ford Mustang is one of a handful of cars rightfully called icons. Since its first spin on a car-show turntable at the World's Fair in 1964, it's been the auto industry's standard measure of overnight success. And for at least some of its wild youth, it was the cautionary tale of what happens when a celebrity hits the skids. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042649-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml TheCarConnection.com brings you this comprehensive Bottom Line review, including firsthand driving impressions, then supplements it with an adjacent Full Review that draws from a range of reviews and road tests from other expert sources.LikesVery distinctive styling inside and outPerky and economical powertrainOverall refinementSpace for four tall adultsBargain base price Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042598-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Defenseman Matt Walker scored one goal and created another a few minutes later when his shot deflected in off Vincent Lecavalier, helping the struggling Tampa Bay Lightning edge the NHL-leading Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042624-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml DAY after day in January, the rain poured down on the California coast without pause or pity -- some of the worst storms to hit the state in a decade. High winds took out power lines and overturned SUVs. Garbage washed up on beaches. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their mudslide-threatened homes. And on one particular Tuesday afternoon, in the Mission District of San Francisco, the heavens focused their fury on a visiting father from Brooklyn -- i.e., me -- who, so self-absorbed he was blind to the Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042625-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml THE rectangular white box beckoned from the exhibition room, mysterious and inscrutable. As winter clouds rolled across the Parisian sky, I watched as visitors to the Palais de Tokyo contemporary-art museum paused before the work -- "Untitled (A Curse)," by the American conceptual artist Tom Friedman -- and puzzled over its significance. Were we staring at something groundbreaking or derivative? Would this provocative creation be remembered as genius or bunk? Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042626-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml FOR many, Goa is synonymous with hippies, hedonism and all-night dance parties held under a full moon. But India's popular seaside destination offers more than deadheads and clichés. For one thing, Goa is not a single beach, but a rich and varied state -- one that offers 63 miles of coastline along the Arabian Sea. Beyond the beaches lies a lush landscape that conceals ancient temples, rich ecosystems and the hilly farmlands that proved irresistible to European spice traders. Centuries before the hip Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042627-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml EVERYBODY out, the military officer ordered us, as we pulled off the bumpy road linking the Tamil-dominated eastern province to Sri Lanka's hill country. My driver motioned to the back seat, where a police officer we picked up a few miles back was sitting. His presence lent an air of authority, and we were promptly waved through. But the busload of European shutterbugs in front of us -- unloading their suitcases and filing out in a single column -- was not so lucky. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042628-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml AT Mas Les Cols, a hotel and restaurant in the Spanish town of Olot in Catalonia, chickens roam free, surrounded by a 13th-century mas, or farmhouse, and a cluster of one-bedroom glass modules. The birds make for a pleasantly rustic element, but their winged brethren don't fare quite as well in the kitchen nearby. There, the chef Fina Puigdevall has earned two Michelin stars for the artfully reinterpreted Catalan cuisine she creates for her guests. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042629-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml AUSTIN, Tex. -- The only thing more challenging than deciphering the names of all the social-minded Web sites battling for attention at the South by Southwest technology conference here -- Brizzly, Vicarious.ly, Stalqer, Quora and so forth -- would be the chore of signing up for each one individually. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042630-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml Netflix's $1 million contest for the best method to improve its movie recommendations was such a research and business hit that, when the winners were declared last September, the company immediately announced plans for another one. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042631-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml MY mother, Bea, had always been a bit of a drama queen, so her behavior at the end -- the gasping and flailing and crying out incessantly -- didn't surprise me. I remained brutally aloof; I felt prepared. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042632-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml BALTIMORE Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042633-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Paris Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042634-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml A YEAR ago, I wrote about a job fair at the Sheraton in Midtown Manhattan, where over 5,000 mainly white collar, middle-aged jobless men and women waited in the cold for more than two hours, hoping to find work. The turnout was a sign of desperate times; until then, the organizer, Tory Johnson, who's been conducting these fairs in 10 cities for a decade, had never had more than 2,000 people at one of these events. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042635-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml ELIZABETH GREIG and Jason Extein's first date, in December 2006, occurred the night before she left for what until then had been her chief passion: improving medical care in Haiti. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042636-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sgt. Dawn Sorrento says she looks on the years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a blur of doctor's visits, ambushes by illnesses she had never heard of and growing resentment toward the city that challenged her injury claims. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042637-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml In a further blow to the antivaccine movement, three judges ruled Friday in three separate cases that thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury, does not cause autism. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042638-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml THE images on the Flickr slide show serve up a comforting slice of mid-20th-century Americana: the local banker's slinky '56 Lincoln Premiere reflects the summer sun outside the hardware store on Main Street. A spit-shined Divco truck delivers fresh milk from the Borden dairy. On the town's outskirts, where rents are low and hot-rodders use the county road as a dragstrip, a custom '55 Ford gets a set of loud pipes at a one-bay speed shop. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042639-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml ONCE upon a time -- say, around 2004 -- the 340-horsepower S4 was Audi's 8-cylinder answer to the mighty BMW M3. It seemed pretty crazy at the time, a little car like an A4 running around with a V-8 under the hood. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042640-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml BURBANK, Calif. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042641-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml For decades, faith and family have been at the center of the conservative movement. But as the Tea Party infuses conservatism with new energy, its leaders deliberately avoid discussion of issues like gay marriage or abortion. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042642-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich still relishes stirring the pot of the culture wars. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042643-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml January was an ugly month in Malaysia. At least 10 churches were firebombed or vandalized, as was a Sikh temple. Severed boars' heads -- particularly offensive to Muslims, who are not supposed to eat pork -- were found on the grounds of two mosques. The cause of this inter-religious strife was a court battle over whether non-Muslims may use the Arabic word "Allah" to refer to God. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042596-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml A six-day layoff may have limited King James' conditioning, but not his skills. Any concern over LeBron James' ankle was alleviated in the first few minutes. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042587-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- John Thompson III might be the only person left who is reluctant to add Greg Monroe's name to the list of great Georgetown centers. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042511-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml If international expert Robert Cantu had his druthers, football teams would practice without helmets. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042533-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger posed for photos with some of the officers who, about an hour later, questioned him in the investigation of an alleged sexual assault. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042566-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Paula B. Thomas, a classically-trained accordionist, clarinetist and pianist who was the state's first woman to earn a degree in music education, died Thursday. She was 86. Mrs. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042531-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- It is early and, as everybody wearing a baseball cap will remind anyone within earshot, spring training numbers mean very, very little. Especially when it comes to pitching. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042593-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml A little-known fact about the famous Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is that he worked as a music critic, and an astute one, for a Moscow newspaper for several years. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042578-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml What Jeannette did Friday made its comeback victory in the WPIAL championship look easy. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042594-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml Erie East was fresh off its first district championship in the past 10 years. But a freshman helped ruin the Warriors' PIAA playoff experience. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042572-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEWARK, N.J. -- The story line changes every time. A little, anyway. The ending never does. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042568-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEWARK, N.J. -- It was 4:56 p.m. when game-day personnel at Prudential Center conducted a formal test of the New Jersey Devils' ear-splitter. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:15:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042551-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Floodwater began to invade the deserted Monongahela Wharf in Downtown Pittsburgh on Friday afternoon, the leading edge of a surge that was expected to add another nine feet to the river by Sunday. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042579-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEWARK, N.J. -- Marc-Andre Fleury and Martin Brodeur were back in their usual places Friday night, at opposite ends of the ice. Wearing different sweaters. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042592-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml Basketball Box Scores from Friday, March 12 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042552-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Twelve-year-old Jordan Brown is resentful and evasive and denies responsibility for killing his father's pregnant fiance, said a prosecution psychiatrist who believes the boy's chances for rehabilitation in the juvenile justice system would be "very limited." Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042573-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml The NBA has signed off on Michael Jordan's bid to buy the Charlotte Bobcats, and commissioner David Stern expects the league's board of governors to approve the $275 million purchase by the end of Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042504-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml A North Versailles man on Friday was ordered to trial on charges that he beat to death his infant son last month. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042567-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml The St. Patrick's Day parade will follow a new route this year. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1038219-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Nighttime and 10 degrees....) Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042130-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml To longtime McKeesport residents, the house at 1608 Jenny Lind St. will probably always be the Waters estate, even though it was also a funeral home. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042344-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Every year we cruise the Home & Garden Show looking for some neat things to introduce to our readers. Here are some products and services that caught our eye: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042354-35.stm?cmpid=news.xml I'm sorry I don't recognize your face, but there's a reason Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042355-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's March, and you all know what that means. People who have surnames such as, oh ... O'Brien, celebrate that great patron saint of the Emerald Isle, Conan O'Brien. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042356-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml In fact, the plan before Congress would control costs and is fiscally responsible Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042357-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Cement city with a collection / of doorknobs rising out of grayness: / brass, milk glass, wooden, even marble. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042379-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ever wonder what it feels like to cross the Bridge of Sighs, once Pittsburgh's ultimate perp walk? Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042380-62.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's not just every day that you can see a Scottish Fold, Egyptian Mau and Devon Rex all in the same place. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042382-458.stm?cmpid=news.xml Last month, something happened that chilled me to my very bones. I knew it was coming, had ample warning for years, but still, when the moment hit, I was stopped in my tracks, unable to breathe. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042383-47.stm?cmpid=news.xml Q. The big snowstorm in February caused extensive damage to plants in my landscape. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042384-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042386-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml With all the innovative gadgetry that has showed up in kitchens the past few years, you'd think manufacturers might have run out of ideas. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042388-47.stm?cmpid=news.xml After such a rough winter, Phipps Conservatory's spring flower show is like, well, a breath of spring. The show opened Thursday in Oakland and continues through April 11. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042398-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Jauvon Gilliam, for seven years a timpanist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, really, really wanted to win the vacant timpani position with the National Symphony Orchestra when Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042400-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rock star Bret Michaels is going from his reality cable series "Rock of Love," where women try to earn his attention, to the reality competition series "Celebrity Apprentice," where he will seek Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042401-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jill Simonian's honeymoon story isn't like most -- her post-nuptial trip was sidelined by a new job and a group of very bad drivers. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042402-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh native Nikki Young will host the local premiere of her short film "Whistle Lesson" during the International Festival of Children's Films today at the August Wilson Center. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042446-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042447-432.stm?cmpid=news.xml PNC Financial Services Group CEO James Rohr announced shareholders should not expect a dividend increase soon ("PNC Warns Not to Expect Increase in Dividend," March 4). Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042449-432.stm?cmpid=news.xml A proven solution for immediate job creation recently came from President Barack Obama and his administration -- investment in nuclear energy. And immediate truly means just that. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042450-389.stm?cmpid=news.xml In California's Napa Valley, producer of the most expensive U.S. wines, 2010 may be a vintage year for foreclosures as the industry is squeezed by falling land values and a consumer shift to cheaper brands. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042485-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml The federal "vaccines court" ruled Friday in three separate cases that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal does not cause autism -- a finding that supports the broad scientific consensus on the matter, but that greatly disappointed parents who are convinced that their child's illness was caused by vaccines. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042487-113.stm?cmpid=news.xml Fifteen tree companies put in the equivalent of $30,000 in volunteer labor Friday at Allegheny Commons Park, removing 15 trees and repairing damage to more than 50 wounded in February's snowstorms. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042490-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given substance to President Barack Obama's pledge to make cleaning up the Great Lakes a priority ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042491-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh was treated this week to a visit by South African Consul General Fikile Magubane, who was exploring southwestern Pennsylvania with an eye toward broadening and deepening her country's relationship with the region. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042492-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml As the Afghanistan war intensifies -- Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops -- it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042493-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml I wish it would snow 10 feet every month until Pittsburghers open their eyes and realize that no matter how much planning goes into snow removal it will never get done as efficiently as it once did ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042505-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two foundation-aided Catholic schools will close and be consolidated with two others in what the Diocese of Pittsburgh says will help keep its educational offerings accessible and affordable despite the city's shrinking population. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042507-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The arrest in Yemen of a New Jersey man accused of joining al-Qaida is the latest in an alarming string of cases involving radicalized American Muslims, a trend some experts link to the duration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042508-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml In a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for Hurricane Katrina victims. But the sale of the units, perhaps the most visible symbol of the government's bungled response to the hurricane, has triggered a new round of charges that it is endangering future buyers for years to come. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042509-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml PHILADELPHIA -- A real brouhaha has beer lovers in the City of Brotherly Love frothing over with anger. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042510-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers' commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042513-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042520-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel had sent a "deeply negative signal" about the U.S.-Israeli relationship, and urged him to take immediate steps to demonstrate that his country was interested in renewing efforts at a Middle East peace agreement. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042521-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two suicide bomb attacks aimed at an army convoy patrolling a busy market ripped through this city in quick succession Friday, killing at least 43 people in the second assault on Lahore in less than a week, officials said. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042522-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop, a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042523-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml From a forward base in the bare brown foothills of South Waziristan's soaring mountains, Pakistani soldiers fired artillery at insurgents sheltering in scrub across the valley. Smoke blotted the sky as the soldiers set ablaze houses once used by the Taliban to hide caches of heavy weapons. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042524-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml India signed five deals Friday to purchase more than $7 billion in hardware and expertise from Russia, including an aircraft carrier, a fleet of MiG-29 fighters, defense and space-technology agreements and at least 12 civilian nuclear reactors. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042527-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday mobilized House Democrats for a final effort to pass an overhaul of health care, predicting approval in the next 10 days with help from President Barack Obama, who delayed a trip abroad to try to win over wavering Democrats. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042528-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml Birth-control pills may lead to longer lives for women, according to a 40-year study which showed that users were less likely to die of heart disease, cancer or a range of other medical ailments. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042537-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Monroeville man was released from jail Thursday after homicide charges against him were withdrawn. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042538-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml A New York woman who police said was part of a "large-scale" marijuana drug-trafficking organization was arrested Friday in Plum and charged with possessing 540 pounds of marijuana. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042539-57.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Imperial Landfill, owned by Allied Waste Systems of Pennsylvania, has been fined $650,000 for persistent and ongoing problems with odors and gases that have inundated a Findlay neighborhood near the landfill. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042540-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Delta Air Lines' nonstop Pittsburgh-to-Paris flight isn't hitting its revenue targets, likely leaving state taxpayers and a local economic development agency on the hook to make up the difference. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042542-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority board Friday created a task force to contend with the agency's leaky system and perhaps reconsider giveaways to several nonprofit institutions. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042543-55.stm?cmpid=news.xml A business manager for three Western Pennsylvania parishes has been charged with attacking a parish priest. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042546-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Houston All-Star first baseman Lance Berkman will have minor surgery on his left knee today and will miss two to four weeks, a recovery period that could keep out of the lineup for opening day. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042547-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Antonio Bryant is the latest complementary receiver to Chad Ochocinco in Cincinnati. Bryant signed a four-year deal Friday with the Bengals. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042548-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The state attorney general's office charged two New Castle residents Thursday with intimidating a teenage girl who was due to testify in a sexual assault case against a New Castle police officer. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042549-181.stm?cmpid=news.xml Republican commentator Karl Rove led a full-throated denunciation of the Obama administration before a confident GOP audience Friday night at the annual Lincoln Day dinner of the Allegheny County Republican Party. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042550-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields and a pair of state lawmakers agreed Friday on the need for tighter regulation of towing companies to make sure they don't overcharge or otherwise exploit motorists. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042553-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml Deep wells are being drilled in the northwestern Pennsylvania town where the modern oil industry was born -- but this time they're after heat. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042555-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml HERSHEY, Pa. -- Shady Side Academy's Matthew Cunningham wasn't going to look past an opponent standing between him and being given the opportunity to cap his decorated high school career with an Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042557-287.stm?cmpid=news.xml If the weather this weekend turns out to be as soggy as the forecast, it's a good time to work on an entry for the Cardboard Box Derby next Saturday at Wisp Resort. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042560-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml Lindsey Vonn finished with a fitting flourish, the perfect way to cap a nearly perfect season, one chock full of victories, medals, trophies -- and injuries. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10072/1042563-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ernie Els was in the lead and off the golf course, and he wasn't certain which made him feel better. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042586-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- Da'Sean Butler was the hero Thursday night when his buzzer beater bank shot gave West Virginia a close-shave victory against Cincinnati in a Big East tournament quarterfinal game. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042335-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The St. Patrick's Day Parade will follow a new route this year, and Miss Smiling Irish Eyes, who will help preside over the event, was named. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042501-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey defeated the Penguins, 3-1, at the Prudential Center tonight. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042220-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml HERSHEY, Pa. -- Burrell High School junior Brian Beattie is one of four returning place-winners in the PIAA Class AA 215-pound weight class. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042385-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Imperial Landfill, owned by Allied Waste Systems of Pennsylvania, has been fined $650,000 for persistent and ongoing problems with odors that have plagued residents of Findlay. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042353-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- Five years ago, Mike Veon was one of the Harrisburg's prolific power brokers, a wheeler dealer who claimed one of the highest positions in state government. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042184-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml Defense attorneys in the Bonusgate corruption case say their clients are not criminals, but victims of a political culture that has existed for decades. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042342-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Inside linebacker Larry Foote will visit the Steelers offices Monday and, if he passes a physical, could reach an agreement to rejoin his former team, the Post-Gazette has learned. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042306-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger posed for photos with some of the officers who conducted a sexual assault complaint investigation about an hour before the incident allegedly occurred Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042316-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The National Weather Service today issued a flood warning for the Youghiogheny River at Sutersville, affecting Allegheny and Westmoreland counties Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:16:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042339-318.stm?cmpid=news.xml by Natalie Hill New Business/New Offices Yoga Flow opened its third location on Walnut Street in Pittsburgh's Shadyside neighborhood. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042299-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Four city Catholic schools supported through the Extra Mile Education Foundation will be merged into two schools over the next several years, according to a news release from the Diocese of Pittsburgh today Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042340-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- The Pirates' game with the Atlanta Braves was called after three innings by heavy, steady rain Friday at Champion Stadium. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042304-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Jordan Brown, the 12-year-old Lawrence County boy charged with killing his father's pregnant fiancee, is "a juvenile with significant personality problems" who tends to "minimize, deny and shift blame," a psychiatrist who examined him told a judge this morning Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:46:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042296-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml The city has reopened McArdle Roadway from the Liberty Bridge to Grandview Avenue in Mount Washington. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042311-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Beaver County couple were found dead in their home this morning, possibly the result of a murder-suicide, investigators said Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042332-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Two people are charged with intimidating alleged victims and witnesses in the criminal case against a police officer Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:05:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042318-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A routine traffic stop in Carnegie today turned up nearly $10,000, a handgun, and approximately 76 grams of suspected cocaine Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042320-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pennsylvania Turnpike will be closed in both directions between Donegal and Somerset starting at 11:45 p.m. Saturday through 6 a.m. Sunday, weather permitting Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042319-126.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pirates Q&A with Dejan Kovacevic Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042317-290.stm?cmpid=news.xml Where do you think Pitt will be seeded in the NCAA tournament? Will the loss to Notre Dame mean a slide down? Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042315-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority board today created a task force to contend with the agency's leaky system and perhaps reconsider giveaways to several nonprofit institutions Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042313-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Monroeville man was released from jail Thursday after homicide charges against him were withdrawn Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:47:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042314-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:42:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042312-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Delta Air Lines nonstop Pittsburgh to Paris flight is not meeting its revenue targets, likely triggering subsidies from the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and state taxpayers this year Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:41:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042310-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A North Versailles man today was ordered to trial on charges he beat to death his infant son last month Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042308-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml There are more than 80 local, regional and national summer camps listed so far on the Post-Gazette's annual online Summer Camp list. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042303-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper joined representatives of the insurance industry and AAA this morning in calling for additional restrictions on towing companies Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:46:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042305-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dorothy, the female peregrine falcon at the Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh campus, has laid her first egg of the season Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042135-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio" (Arcadia Publishing, $21.99) is primarily a pictorial history of local radio in its glory days. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:26:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042300-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml PennDOT has postponed the weekend closure of Route 30 in North Versailles because of expected bad weather Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042295-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Montour school board is pushing the bid date for its high school renovation project to March 30 and will delay its official meeting until March 31. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042294-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Central Valley school board is set to solve its two-principals-for-one-high-school problem by splitting the job in two. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042252-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jamal Crawford scored 29 points Thursday night as the Atlanta Hawks avoided a three-game losing streak by beating the Washington Wizards, 105-99. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042269-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Kristian Huselius had a goal and an assist, Plum native R.J. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:13:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042261-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Andrea Riley scored 37 points, Toni Young added 16 and No. 20 Oklahoma State put away Kansas, 76-69, Thursday in the first round of the Big 12 Conference tournament in Kansas City, Mo. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042263-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Derrick Favors had 18 points and nine rebounds to help Georgia Tech hold off North Carolina, 62-58, in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament Thursday night in Greensboro, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042236-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- Arinze Onuaku crashed to the floor and clutched his right knee, writhing in pain at Madison Square Garden. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:11:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042273-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml Is Sidney Crosby less marketable in the United States? Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042274-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042275-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Paris Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042276-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- The Lebanese designer Elie Saab turned to the dark side for his autumn/winter show and going bad has never looked so good for the designer. His femme fatales in form-fitting daywear looked deadly desirable in all-black ensembles. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042277-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml CÉDRIC CHARLIER is a designer who has a thing for monochromatic outfits. Cacharel is a 50-year-old French house known for its colorful prints. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042278-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- Hermès is a leather house -- and just in case you should forget it, everything from a top hat through a three-piece suit to extraordinary crocodile boots was made out of skin. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042279-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- The images of streaming water projected on the vast walls of the Valentino show area followed the blowing trees of the haute couture season. But this time, the work of the visual artist Kenneth Anger was a reflection of the forward flow of the designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042280-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Marathon negotiations on protecting the planet's endangered species open on Saturday in Qatar with tensions bubbling over efforts to ban trade in bluefin tuna and to reopen exports of elephant ivory from Africa. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042281-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials and lawyers for the plaintiffs. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042282-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml Long after the dead have been counted and the world's attention has moved on, the terrible testimony of an earthquake can still be seen in the piles of twisted metal and chunks of concrete -- often all that is left of a region's buildings. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042283-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml TAIPEI -- Taiwan's luxury property market -- long passed over by international investors -- finally may be poised to attract overseas money, analysts here say. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042284-30.stm?cmpid=news.xml ANYONE who has attended or visited the MacDowell Colony, the nation's oldest artists' colony, has daydreamed about owning property in Peterborough. Quaint New Englanders with clapboard exteriors and regal Federal-style homes line quiet country roads. Whitewashed steeples, covered bridges and the preserved 18th-century buildings of its downtown rise against the mountainous backdrop that characterizes the Monadnock region. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042285-47.stm?cmpid=news.xml IN the living room of the apartment in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, that Robert Highsmith, 27, shares with his girlfriend, Stefanie Brechbuehler, 32, and their standard schnauzer, Kingsley, is a weathered Eames lounge chair that once belonged to Mr. Highsmith's grandfather and still smells faintly of cigarette smoke. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042286-47.stm?cmpid=news.xml FINDING a way to store knives that is both functional and attractive has long been a challenge for home cooks of every commitment level. Even Chris Santos, the executive chef of the Stanton Social, a restaurant and lounge in Manhattan, and a judge on "Chopped," a reality show on the Food Network, keeps the knives he uses at home in what he describes as "a beat-up bag with burns and other war wounds." Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042287-47.stm?cmpid=news.xml At the Collective, a restaurant opening Mar. 17 in the meatpacking district, ordinary trash has been elevated to recycled art. Visitors will find chairs and sofas cut from bathtubs, above; light fixtures made out of packaging material; and an armchair that mixes a rusty steel frame with wooden mannequin limbs, below. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042288-47.stm?cmpid=news.xml Kartell has reduced the price of its popular FL/Y pendant lamp, below, designed by Ferruccio Laviani, from $293 to $149. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042289-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Long before the State Dinner party crashers and the tension with her White House colleagues and the strain in her relationship with the first lady, Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned her to his office last spring to scold her. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042290-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Fremont charter school that was the subject of a highly critical state audit will be allowed to operate, despite a continuing review by the Alameda County district attorney's office. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042291-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml For the owner of a Humboldt Park auto repair shop who lost 25 percent of his sales this year, paying $50,000 to fix up the parking lot of his business to comply with the city's landscaping ordinance would be difficult. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042292-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Jolted by a sudden tightening of the rules, lobbyists and military contractors who have long relied on lucrative earmarks from Congress were scrambling Thursday to find new ways to keep the federal money flowing. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042293-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml In Elgin on Monday night, it is not going to matter who is bluffing, winning or losing in the heated debate under way in Springfield over the state's gargantuan budget hole. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042265-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- The Big East's day of quarterfinal upsets ended with an unlikely long shot. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042242-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml RALEIGH, N.C. -- It is not just that the Penguins have lost all four games they have played against New Jersey this season; it is that they have done it so emphatically. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042202-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Capital City, the nightclub that was the site of a sexual assault allegedly carried out by Ben Roethlisberger, has hired a lawyer to handle requests and prepare for the possibility of being sued over the incident. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:32:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042235-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADENTON, Fla. -- If anyone on the Pirates' 2010 roster is going to get dragged down by the franchise's miserable recent history, it surely will not be Octavio Dotel. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042196-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- There was a time not all that long ago when Pitt could plan on staying the week in Manhattan during the Big EastConference tournament. Seven times in an eight-year span, the Panthers played in the conference championship game, winning it twice. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042243-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml RALEIGH, N.C. -- Let's break this game down to some of its major components. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042213-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Howard Lotsof was 19, addicted to heroin and searching for a new high in 1962 when he swallowed a bitter-tasting white powder taken from an exotic West African shrub. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042209-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Vincent Chianese, who became a Pittsburgh icon after more than five decades of owning and operating the renowned Vincent's Pizza Park, died Sunday at Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042214-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame pro football defensive lineman with the Los Angeles Rams who was a charter member of the team's famed Fearsome Foursome, then made a remarkably smooth transition into careers in broadcasting and acting, has died. He was 69. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042218-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tiger Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, said two people with knowledge of his plans. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042221-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml A hot-button issue will be tackled at today's edition of Forensic Fridays at the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law at Duquesne University -- a National Football League issue, to be precise. The institute's title for this two-day seminar: "Is Football Bad for the Brain?" Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:08:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1038217-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml Prince Charming steps out with another man's wife. ... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042040-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042054-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml At the WPIAL basketball championships, individual star power and some powerful teams can attracted a crowd. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042057-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml A goal of just about every high school wrestler in Pennsylvania is to become a PIAA place-winner, if not a champion. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042066-116.stm?cmpid=news.xml Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042067-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml News and notes for the PIAA playoffs ... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042070-365.stm?cmpid=news.xml Returning to the Titans is an invigorating prospect for the once and future West Mifflin Area High School football coach, Ray Braszo. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042071-117.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Dribbler and The Fumbler like to keep their family disputes private -- kind of like Ben Roethlisberger's social life. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042072-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml While the awards are the same for the PIAA and WPIAL, it has long been a matter of debate of whether the championships have the same meaning. The answer seems to depend on a team's history. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042073-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml Swimmers in the WPIAL had another fast and competitive season and nowhere should that be more evident than this coming week at the PIAA Class AAA and AA championships at Bucknell University. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042075-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml Franklin Regional senior Garrett Hehn switched from a distance freestyler to a sprint freestyler this season and, thanks to that switch, he also made the jump from a silver medalist as a junior to a two-time WPIAL gold medalist as a senior. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042077-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml For the second year in a row the Hampton High School boys' swimming team was denied second place in the team standings at the WPIAL Class AA championships by mere seconds. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042079-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml After her first day of swimming at the WPIAL championships last week, Ambridge senior Lindsay Vrooman heard the usual congratulatory remarks from her classmates the next day at school. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042096-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Justice Antonin Scalia has stopped going to them because justices "sit there like bumps on a log" in the midst of the partisan posturing. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042097-238.stm?cmpid=news.xml This week's TV Q&A responds to questions about Alex O'Loughlin, ABC's "FlashForward" and a new WQEX digital sub-channel. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042099-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The face of jihad in America took on an unexpected look this week. The usual bearded, alienated-looking male loner gave way to an angry woman with big hair. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042100-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The terrorist attacks on 9/11 not only caused loss of life and physical damage but also put cracks in America's sense of national identity. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042101-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml One of the goofier features of Pennsylvania election law is the way lieutenant governors are selected. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042102-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml Regarding "Will Development Create a Stripped District?" (March 10): I am a "gum band" Pittsburgher. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042124-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Everywhere you look, there's a CEO apologizing for something. But does this mean they'll stop sending us those credit-card nasty-grams with the sneaky little nuisance-fee provisions? Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042126-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml They help people day in and day out for little pay or recognition Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042127-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml "If the community cares enough about getting it done, it will get done." Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042133-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml Not least among reasons for "The Hurt Locker's" Oscar-laden upset triumph was the film's refusal to take a position on -- or really, even allude to -- the raging political issues surrounding the war in Iraq. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042134-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Every year at this time, CBS's daytime soaps get pre-empted, and every year, the plaintive pleas of despondent soap opera viewers flood my phone line: "Where are my stories?" Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042136-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml Stainer has been friends with Kirk since grade school, but he's cold and analytical when it comes to scoring his friend on the 1 to 10 scale of desirability and looks. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042139-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml School ties come in handy when you want to turn the Mellon Arena into a movie set and film during a real Penguins game, with a cameraman crouched at the actors' feet and the director a few seats away. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042140-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml The region's literary life is starting to pop back up like those brave green shoots in the thawed landscape. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042141-148.stm?cmpid=news.xml Before he wrote crime thrillers, Jo Nesbo worked as an economist. His smartest investment was Harry Hole, the Oslo police inspector who has made his creator a bestseller all over Europe. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042142-121.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042143-120.stm?cmpid=news.xml Make way for Team Rob. Unlike Team Edward or Team Jacob, Team Rob is all about -- who else? -- Robert Pattinson, starring in "Remember Me." Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042144-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission continues stocking special regulations sections of trout streams, which are open to fishing year-round. Early Season Trout-Stocked lakes also can be fished through March. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042145-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Louisiana Municipal Police Employees Retirement System wants a federal judge in Pittsburgh to stop FirstEnergy's proposed $8.5 billion takeover of Greensburg-based Allegheny Energy. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042146-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042147-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mexico's Carlos Slim beat Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for the top spot on Forbes magazine's annual list of billionaires, becoming the first person from outside the United States to lead the rankings in 16 years. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042148-113.stm?cmpid=news.xml On a day that found civic leaders aggressively preparing for floods that could rival the worst in the region's history, organizers of United Nations World Environment Day unveiled the theme of an event that will include six weeks of activities stretching from Earth Day in April through June 5: "Water Matters." Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042149-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml The city's Urban Redevelopment Authority board on Thursday advanced a proposed partnership with a local developer to transform 80 acres along the Allegheny riverfront from the Strip District to Lawrenceville. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042152-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Traffic fatalities for last year fell by nearly 9 percent, reaching their lowest level since 1954, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Thursday. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042155-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Due diligence doesn't require perfect vigilance." Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042157-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Philadelphia forensic psychiatrist who examined a 12-year-old Lawrence County boy charged with killing his father's pregnant fiance will share his findings with a judge today during a hearing to determine whether the boy will be tried as a juvenile or an adult. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042159-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml The 9-year-old boy held the prosecutor's hand on the way up to the stand and greeted Deputy District Attorney Mark V. Tranquilli by saying, "Hi, T-Rex" -- his nickname for him. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042160-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Debate over a contract at the region's top planning organization, and an e-mail that went awry, had Pittsburgh City Controller Michael Lamb and local businessman Charles Zappala at odds Thursday. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042163-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Chicago alderman told Pittsburgh City Council on Thursday to make sure it has a role in crafting any lease of city parking garages and meters to a private company. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042167-59.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Derry Borough man died early yesterday after he and another tenant were pulled from an apartment fire. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042168-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh city Councilman Ricky Burgess on Thursday said he'll continue pushing for passage of his living wage bill, saying it's unfair for government to "profit on the misery of the people who work for us." Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042169-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Hill District man has been charged in connection with the shooting Wednesday evening of another man on the Reed-Roberts section of the Hill District. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042170-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml The arrest of a northcentral Pennsylvania man on Internet child pornography charges spurred dozens more arrests from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, state police said. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042171-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, has named an interim chancellor due to the death of Chancellor Emmanuel I. Osagie. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042172-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum will induct nine area men, living and dead, into its hall of valor, all of them World War II veterans except one who served in Vietnam, at a March 28 lunch ceremony. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042173-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Community College of Allegheny County trustees yesterday authorized administrators to lower the visible height of a science center planned for the Allegheny campus if the city treats the hillside development as a high-rise. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042174-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml Republicans last night selected a political newcomer who has never sought elected office as their nominee in the special election to succeed the late U.S. Rep. John P. Murtha. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042175-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Congressional attempts to pass the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression suffered a potentially devastating blow Thursday, as the lead senator working on the legislation vowed to move forward next week without Republican support. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042176-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Neighbors were chagrined last week when the police here found the body of an elderly woman who had frozen to death, alone in her house, during frigid weather. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042177-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml ALBANY, N.Y. -- Amid concerns over a conflict of interest and just two days after a poll showed the public opposed his investigation into two scandals involving Gov. David Paterson, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo took himself off the case Thursday and appointed a respected former judge to take over. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042179-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml JACKSON, Miss. -- Constance McMillen didn't believe that her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042180-294.stm?cmpid=news.xml As a lifelong Pittsburgher I've always heard that Florida is the Sunshine State, and I also know that many of us think our city is gloomy in the winter. So late in the fall my husband and I began to think about what a perfect getaway place Florida would be. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042181-153.stm?cmpid=news.xml The 100 or so people who turned out at Carnegie Library in Homewood Wednesday to discuss proposed police reforms in the wake of the Jordan Miles affair should be congratulated. Taking time from the business of putting food on the table to attend a meeting on important civic matters like police conduct is required of any community in Homewood's position. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042185-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml SANTIAGO, Chile -- The earth shook and shook Thursday as dignitaries walked in for the swearing-in of Sebastian Pinera as Chile's new president. It shook some more as they waited for him. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042187-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATHENS, Greece -- Greek hospitals, airports and schools were shut and police scuffled with protesters Thursday, as unions staged the second general strike this year against government budget cuts to curb the European Union's biggest deficit. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042188-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- As the first, incomplete results from Iraq's weekend election trickled in Thursday, a prominent opposition group supported mostly by Sunnis Muslims made fraud allegations that could taint the legitimacy of the outcome. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042189-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml AMMAN, Jordan -- Vice President Joseph R. Biden, winding up a disconcerting trip to the Middle East, struggled Thursday to keep hopes alive for new peace talks amid intensifying Palestinian anger over Israeli plans for new housing construction in a disputed Jerusalem neighborhood. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042190-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Thursday launched a new effort to rebuild the nation's long-term economic strength by sharply boosting exports, and he got a lift from government data showing that the gap between what Americans sell abroad and what they import narrowed unexpectedly in January. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042191-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Wendell August Forge will have a brand new building in 12 to 18 months following a fire that destroyed the historic structure, built in 1932. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042197-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Robert Morris forward Dallas Green barely hesitated after grabbing the Northeast Conference championship trophy. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042200-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Think a wrinkled bracket and a college sweatshirt are all you need to get the full March Madness experience? Pretty soon, you'll also need a bag of popcorn and a pair of goofy glasses. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042203-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Jolted by a sudden tightening of the rules, lobbyists and military contractors who have long relied on lucrative earmarks from Congress were scrambling Thursday to find new ways to keep the federal money flowing. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042204-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- House Democratic leaders abandoned a long struggle in their ranks to strike a compromise on abortion, gambling Thursday that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042205-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml PHILADELPHIA -- She married young and badly. She bounced checks at Pizza Hut and the grocery. She hit the bottle to excess sometimes, talked to her cats and once attempted suicide. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042206-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Pledge of Allegiance in public schools has survived another legal challenge. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042207-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Seated in her power chair, 17-year-old Hailee Agnew looked as if she would never stop smiling. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042211-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Flooding is expected along the Youghiogheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers from Confluence to Downtown Pittsburgh to Wheeling, W.Va., over the next several days, the National Weather Service said Thursday. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042212-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay as much as $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042216-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Brian Giles said the pain in his arthritic right knee is getting worse, and Thursday the 39-year-old outfielder informed the Los Angeles Dodgers that he will retire. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042222-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml LaDainian Tomlinson visited the Minnesota Vikings Thursday to discuss joining Adrian Peterson in what would be a big-name backfield. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042233-450.stm?cmpid=news.xml It says something about a team when it can lose one of its leading scorers and rebounders and still win a conference championship. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10071/1042238-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- Too bad Pitt could not have gotten a triple bye. Too bad it was Gilbert Brown's night off. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500