http://www.post-gazette.com/ All News en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:30:43 -0400 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/10075/1043209-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Going green was the theme of the American Ireland Fund 2010 Pittsburgh Dinner Gala, but this year it wasn't a reference to all things Irish. ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:20:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043208-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sidney Crosby served it up in Vancouver with the winning goal for gold for Canada at the Winter Olympics, but Tuesday night he was serving something different. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:17:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043219-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Arias in Bloom at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Thursday offered guests a sneak peek at the Spring Flower Show. ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:58:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043218-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The eighth annual Crushed Grapes Wine Tasting to benefit Sisters Place, which supports homeless women and children, was held Thursday night at the U.S. Steel Tower. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:57:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043217-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Former Pennsylvania Gov. and first Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge was guest speaker Thursday during the Traffic Club of Pittsburgh's 108th annual dinner at the Omni William Penn. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:55:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043216-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Wesley Spectrum's Helping Hands Gala was held Saturday at the Westin Convention Center honoring Diane Holder. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:54:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043215-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Alle-Kiski Medical Center Emergency Department The Sky's the Limit benefit featured Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners at the Pittsburgh Field Club Saturday. ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:52:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043214-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Richard Rauh was this year's Kerry Stoner Award honoree at the 24th annual Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force benefit, "A Midwinter Night's Dream." Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:51:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043213-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ralph and Ruth Anne Papa were honorary chairs Monday night during the annual Champions for Children benefit Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:49:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043212-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml "I have relocated five times, and nowhere was there an organization like this. It's a great way to meet people and get to know the city," said Ann Zalla. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:47:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043211-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The annual Go Red For Women Conference to promote heart-healthy living for women took place Tuesday at the Byham Theater and Renaissance Hotel. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043210-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jeannette Walls, best-selling author of "The Glass Castle," was the guest of honor at Bethlehem Haven's Lighting the Way Home benefit Thursday night. She signed books and mingled with honorary chair former Steeler J.T. Thomas at the Circuit Center. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:45:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043203-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml Toyota's sudden acceleration problems seemed to get immeasurably worse last week when San Diego resident James Sikes' Prius appeared to accelerate uncontrollably, requiring assistance from a California Highway Patrol officer's car to come to a stop. The media frenzy that ensued spread the story to every corner of the Internet, TV and print worlds. But now it looks like the whole thing may have been a hoax. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043204-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ford and Hyundai have both been making tremendous progress in recent years in building their reputation with American consumers—and upping quality, reliability, and desirability. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043205-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml TheCarConnection.com hasn't yet driven the recently unveiled 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe, which gets revised powertrains and some appearance upgrades for 2010. However, we're presenting you the rest of the story here based on previous drives of the otherwise unchanged Santa Fe, including highlights from other expert reviews as well to provide you with the most information available. We'll be updating this with firsthand driving impressions as soon as possible. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043206-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml TheCarConnection.com has driven the 2010 Dodge Caliber to bring you this hands-on review that covers styling, performance, safety, utility, and features from on-the-road observations. TheCarConnection.com's editors also researched reviews from other sources to give you a comprehensive range of opinions from around the Web-and to help you decide which ones to trust. High Gear Media drove a manufacturer-provided Dodge Caliber to produce this hands-on road test. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043207-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml TheCarConnection.com has driven the 2010 BMW 3-Series to bring you this hands-on review that covers styling, performance, safety, utility, and features from on-the-road observations. TheCarConnection.com's editors also researched BMW 3-Series reviews from other sources to give you a comprehensive range of opinions from around the Web-and to help you decide which ones to trust. High Gear Media drove a manufacturer-provided BMW 3-Series to produce this hands-on road test. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043174-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Four area teams have earned a berth in the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT), which begins Wednesday. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:12:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043055-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Seven years. That's how long it has been since Jay-Z visited the 412. All right, to be accurate, it was the 724. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043145-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Larry Foote asked to be released last year because he didn't want to be a backup. And the Steelers obliged because Foote was scheduled to make $2,885,000 in 2009, a steep price for a backup. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:34:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043168-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Steelers will pause to catch their breath after a week of spending in free agency like few others in their history. The spate of signings ended Monday. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:34:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043166-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADENTON, Fla. -- There is talking about maturity, and there is showing it. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:05:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043180-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml David Clarkson had a goal and an assist as the New Jersey Devils scored three times in the first period against Tim Thomas and held on for a 3-2 victory against the Boston Bruins Monday at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:03:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043182-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml Toney Douglas is making a strong case to remain in the starting lineup. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:02:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043183-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml BERLIN -- The next generation of faster mobile networks is poised to lower costs for operators and potentially unleash a new price war in the industry in Europe. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043184-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- What is the final assessment on the 321 collections shown over the last month in London, Milan, New York and Paris? There are, of course, strong trends -- particularly in the powerful return of outerwear and a new focus on a more womanly and rounded figure. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043185-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Silhouettes: Linear and slim, oval or hourglass. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043186-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml The word "phocomelia" means seal limb. It describes an extremely rare condition in which babies are born with limbs that look like flippers. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043187-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its inhabitants died almost 4,000 years ago, yet their bodies have been well preserved by the dry air. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043188-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When Judge Robert C. Chambers handed down Timothy Oldani's federal sentence for selling stolen military equipment on eBay, he gave the former Marine a break. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043189-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml At first, it seemed like a straightforward matter. Jim McLaughlin, who had led the operating engineers' union local in Southern California for 17 years, was reviewing some expense accounts and grew convinced that his local's apprenticeship coordinator had charged more than $2,000 in improper expenses to the apprenticeship program. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043190-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The Senate cleared the way on Monday for final Congressional approval of a Democratic plan to spur job creation as Democrats grew impatient with delays in enacting what they hope is the first in a series of economic measures. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043191-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- In an interview with GQ magazine, Rielle Hunter talks publicly for the first time about her relationship with former Senator John Edwards, which began during his presidential campaign. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043192-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the blueprint for overhauling federal education policy that President Obama sent to Congress on Monday, his administration seeks to confront some of the major educational challenges that have developed during the eight years that President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind law has been a powerful influence on the nation's public schools. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043193-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Thai Parliament postponed a scheduled session Tuesday as protesters continued to occupy the streets of the main government district in Bangkok. But there were also signs that the crowds of demonstrators, who are demanding that the government step down, were thinning out. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043194-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, has brought most American Special Operations forces under his direct control for the first time, out of concern over continued civilian casualties and disorganization among units in the field. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043195-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml TALCAHUANO, Chile -- Just a few weeks ago, some 2,000 fishermen who ply the waters of this port city for sardines and mackerel were busy mending their nets and testing their rigs in preparation for the start of the four-month fishing season. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043196-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- An ill-timed municipal housing announcement in Jerusalem has mutated into one of the most serious conflicts between the United States and Israel in two decades, leaving a politically embarrassed Israeli government scrambling to respond to a tough list of demands by the Obama administration. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043197-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- Partial election results released Monday suggested a sharp and divisive shift in power in Iraq, with a secular candidate challenging Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and old alliances fracturing against a surge of dissident movements. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043198-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MUNICH -- The priest at the center of a German sex-abuse scandal that has embroiled Pope Benedict XVI continued working with children for more than 30 years, even though a German court convicted him of molesting boys. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043199-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- Late last week, Nicolas Sarkozy said, "The question of a possible second presidential term while I'm at the halfway point is laughable if you consider the concerns preoccupying the French people and myself. I forbid myself even to think about it." Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043200-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MEXICO CITY--The British government has notified Mexico that a handheld device widely used by the Mexican military and police to search for drugs and explosives may be ineffective, British officials said. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043201-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- Flanked by his national security team, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki went on television Sunday night and praised Iraq's security forces for their work during the recent parliamentary elections. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043202-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MOSCOW -- The pro-Kremlin party, United Russia, has again dominated regional elections, according to preliminary results released Monday, though opposition parties have made slight gains in a vote that has been seen as a test of President Dmitri A. Medvedev's call for greater political pluralism in Russia. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043086-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml As a dedicated working man, Bernard R. Novak could do just about anything. He laid block and brick, poured concrete, did plumbing, wiring and carpentry work, and even could fix cars. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:01:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042984-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml A year ago, when the economy was going to hell in a hand basket, the mantra was "cash is king." Now some investors are eager for a regime change. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:25:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043131-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Albert Pujols for Ryan Howard? Let's just say the MVP sluggers don't plan to pack their bags anytime soon. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:18:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043167-135.stm?cmpid=news.xml Duquesne (16-15) accepted an invitation to the College Basketball Invitational postseason tournament and will play at Princeton (20-8) at 7 p.m. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:18:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043129-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml Matthew Wregget made 20 saves for his third shutout as Upper St. Clair beat Penn-Trafford, 4-0, in a PIHL Class AAA Penguins Cup quarterfinal game Monday night at the Ice Castle in Castle Shannon. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:15:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043054-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml He spent more than three decades making the Metropolitan Museum of Art a blooming success as director of special events and master floral designer. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:14:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043147-144.stm?cmpid=news.xml In a perfect world, the West Virginia women's basketball team would have been rewarded for finishing second in the Big East regular season and conference tournament with first- and second-round games in the NCAA women's basketball tournament with a short drive up I-79 to Pittsburgh, one of the regional sites. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:10:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043135-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml One year after fielding an uncharacteristically high-scoring team that averaged nearly 78 points per game, that age-old question concerning Pitt's offense entering the NCAA tournament is surfacing again: Do the Panthers have enough firepower to advance deep into the tournament? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:07:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043137-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml When it became clear that the Pitt women's team would not qualify for the NCAA women's tournament, a number of people in the administration of the school were hoping the selection committee would hand them a nice consolation prize to fill Petersen Events Center for first- and second-round games -- top-ranked and undefeated Connecticut. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:07:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1038224-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS - Hotel de Londres & Anvers is perfect for the budget-conscious traveler who plans to spend most of his or her time out and about in Paris and not holed up in a hotel. ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042887-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Call it green, call it sustainable, call it saving money, but one thing you have to call any efforts to cut costs or help the environment: a delicate balance. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042888-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml The green movement has come far since Bette Midler joked in 1977 that she had gone organic: "Last week I ate an Earth Shoe." There are easier steps to take than that. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042930-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh has always been a green city, it's just that for the industries that have been strong here, green as in environmentalism, lined up with green as in cash. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042978-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml With its abundant LEED-certified buildings, its superlative green wall, its fledgling biofuel companies, its transmogrified riverfronts and reclaimed brownfields, Pittsburgh wants to be known as a city where sustainability is taken seriously. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042979-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml A customer brought an impressively old, tube-style TV into the Best Buy store in West Mifflin not long ago, taking advantage of the chain's year-old program to recycle consumer electronics. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042980-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml PNC Financial Services Group was the region's top performing company last year, ousting two-time defending champion U.S. Steel to claim the honor. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042981-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's not easy being green," lamented Kermit the Frog -- but at least he had a song to get the message out. For businesses looking to tout and market sustainable practices, it can be much harder. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042982-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml The private sector is the innovating force behind all manner of green technologies and sustainable-living strategies. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042987-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Perhaps no business sector is such an obvious candidate for going green as energy. After all, fossil fuels often are villainized as public enemy number one. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042989-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml After Nova Chemicals shut down a production line at its Monaca, Beaver County, plant last year, the company saw an opportunity to realign the facility with a goal of making it sustainable. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042990-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml From a former bakery in the East End to a luxury hotel in the heart of Downtown, more developers are finding gold in green. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042993-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml The paradigm that there was a choice between protecting the environment or protecting jobs has shifted to one that argues protecting the planet can create good jobs. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042995-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml The classic image of an architect walking into a meeting with a cardboard tube containing blueprints tucked safely under his arm is fading away. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042996-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml The green activities of transportation companies with ties to the Pittsburgh area are on display from one end of the globe to the other -- including Vancouver, the site of the Winter Olympic Games. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042997-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Women gained one more director's seat at Pittsburgh-area public companies in 2009 but the region's businesses still trail the national average when it comes to female board members. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042998-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Arts organizations in Pittsburgh spent 2009 battling for limited resources in tight times. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1042999-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Between a stubborn recession and a still-uncertain course for health reform, running a healthcare organization these days calls for nerve, patience and perhaps a little therapy. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043001-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml PNC Financial Services Group distanced itself from the field last year, using its acquisition of Cleveland's beleaguered National City to attain a market value nearly twice as large as No. 2 H.J. Heinz. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043002-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml A hospital is a building where people go to get well. But how healthy is the hospital building? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043003-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml The University of Pittsburgh has maintained its No. 1 spot on the Top 20 list of wealthiest colleges and universities in the Pittsburgh region, but two other institutions of higher learning on this year's list fell to a lower rank while two others advanced. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043005-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml The theme for this year's Top 50 in Business section is "Going for the Green: Finding Growth Through The Green Movement." But in the larger sense, it's about sustainability. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043007-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml Billy Guerin was pretty open with his thoughts about Matt Cooke's hit (on Boston center Marc Savard) and whether or not a suspension was warranted. Could that cause a rift in the room between those guys? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043010-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Green stocks and socially responsible investments are a niche market that is growing dramatically as investors are increasingly aware that decisions made with their money could have an impact on the future of the planet. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043011-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml In early 2010, a South Side-based search engine optimization company called Eyeflow decided to complete an image overhaul. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043013-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml From building environmentally friendly branches to supporting green power to replacing styrofoam cups with china in break rooms, Pittsburgh-area banks are embracing ways to protect the planet. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043014-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Want to do your part to save the environment? Buy a leather handbag. That is the message eBay is pushing with a new green shopping site and ad campaign. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043019-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml PNC Financial Services Group reclaimed its spot as the region's most profitable company in 2009, replacing the previous year's champion, U.S. Steel, which took a spectacular fall to the bottom of the scrap heap. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043020-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Wall Street's 2009 miracle cure had a biblical theme for stocks of Western Pennsylvania companies, as many of those who were first in 2008 were among the last in 2009, and last year's leaders were among the laggards of 2008. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043022-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml PNC Financial Services Group displaced U.S. Steel at the top of the list of companies ranked by 2009 revenues as a result of its merger with Cleveland-based National City Corp. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043023-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml The companies landing atop of the heap in the region's growth category this year posted solid results across a number of performance categories. But the numbers alone don't tell the full story. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043024-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Anyone who wants to make the claim that "America doesn't make anything anymore" should say that somewhere other than Pittsburgh. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043026-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Hit hard by the economic recession and the 2008 stock market crash that battered their investment funds, most local foundations gave less in 2009. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043027-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Shipping giant FedEx Corp., based in Tennessee, has been slogging through courts across the country, trying to defend its system of using independent contractors in its important, truck-based FedEx Ground division. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043028-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml To stay competitive in the 21st century, CEOs must embrace the new challenges of the sustainability revolution. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043029-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml I bought a new car that gets very good fuel economy and I also started riding my bike to work. My car gets about 35mpg in city driving (and closer to 40 on the highway). Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043032-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Food, glorious food!" sang the boys in "Oliver!" and also, it seems, residents of Pittsburgh as Giant Eagle kept the top spot as the largest private company in the region. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043034-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you want to be part of the green economy, you need to be prepared. You need a solid base of training and skills to take real advantage of the growing opportunities. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043036-334.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh is creating a global model for "sustainable prosperity," one that rides out rapid swings in the economy. The region's remarkable transformation has become an international curiosity. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043043-290.stm?cmpid=news.xml I think Jamie Dixon is a great coach and this year proves it, but one thing has always driven me crazy. Is Brown in Jamie's dog house or is there some other reason why he is not playing? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043045-369.stm?cmpid=news.xml On March 8, to celebrate International Women's Day, the Women and Girls Foundation hosted a program called Girl Gov. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043046-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml Think "March Madness" is all about basketball? Think again. For the second consecutive year, School Library Journal is sponsoring a "Battle of the Kids' Books." Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043049-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml In "The March of Folly," Barbara Tuchman asked, "Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests?" Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043050-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043051-436.stm?cmpid=news.xml DEAR CAT: I've been seeing my boyfriend for about a year. Everything is really good except in one area ... he can't always perform. Or, more specifically, he "won't" perform. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043052-348.stm?cmpid=news.xml CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Rielle Hunter said she and "Johnny" Edwards "love each other very much" and criticizes media portrayals of her as untrue in an interview in GQ magazine released Monday. Ms. Hunter gave birth to a girl fathered by Mr. Edwards. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043053-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml News Corp. will earn $350 million to $400 million from James Cameron's "Avatar" once the world's top-grossing film is also released on pay television and DVD, said two people with knowledge of its financial performance. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043056-325.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Post-Gazette will again assemble a list of dance recitals. Dance teachers should send the name of the school, date(s), location, contact person and phone number. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043058-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml It might not be the first concert at the Consol Energy Arena, but it's the first announced for it. Lady Gaga will bring her Monster Ball Tour to the new arena on Sept. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043059-325.stm?cmpid=news.xml With an MFA in theater from the University of Pittsburgh, Javon Johnson is no stranger to the local stage. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043063-318.stm?cmpid=news.xml by Natalie Hill Business Notes The Master Builders' Association of Western Pennsylvania launched a redesigned website, www.mbawpa.org. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043064-442.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dr. Dorothy Snyder is the kind of teacher you never forget. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043065-348.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rielle Hunter is said to be upset with several somewhat racy photographs of her that accompany the long interview in the new issue of GQ in which she details her affair with John Edwards, People.com reports. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043067-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml ABC News reporter and "Good Morning America" weekend host Kate Snow is jumping to NBC News. NBC announced Friday that Ms. Snow will begin work as a "Dateline NBC" correspondent later this spring. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043068-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The decision last week by Democrats in the House of Representatives to end the practice of earmarking money in budget bills for contracts to for-profit companies should be praised. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043069-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml In its first eight months of operation, the non-stop flight between Pittsburgh and Paris operated by Delta Air Lines experienced some economic turbulence. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043070-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml Regarding the editorial "Adults Only: The Business of Air Traffic Control Isn't Child's Play" (March 10): I'm quite insulted by the quick judgment and uneducated attacks the media blitz find the Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043071-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Black women have never had it easy in American society. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043075-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043076-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Get ready for Big Six, big rolls and lots of poker and blackjack. The Rivers Casino is revving up its table games operation. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043077-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml In this recession, being behind the times has been a good thing as the unemployment rate in the Pittsburgh area continued to be much lower than that in the rest of the nation. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043078-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml Beginning April 1, the 128,000 Medicaid enrollees in the UPMC for You health plan will be charged co-payments ranging from $1 to $3 for hospital stays, doctor visits and X-rays. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043079-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Wilmerding-based Wabtec Corp., a product and service manufacturer for the rail industry, completed its second acquisition in five months Monday, purchasing Xorail LLC for $40 million in cash. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043083-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml A multibillion-dollar deal announced Monday could place coal giant Consol Energy solidly within the ranks of major natural gas producers. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043085-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Declaring expansion of broadband Internet access the nation's next great infrastructure challenge, federal regulators on Monday unveiled an ambitious, decade-long strategy to make. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043087-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- Opening what may be remembered as the climactic sprint in the marathon debate on health care, President Barack Obama called for courage to address the needs of patients ill-served by the nation's current insurance system. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043088-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- As the battle over health care legislation built Monday toward a weekend crescendo, congressional Democrats considered trying to pass the controversial Senate version without voting for it -- a tactic that Republicans and independent analysts warned could be politically treacherous and perhaps unconstitutional. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043089-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A trio of legal opinions on Monday boosted Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's argument that leasing parking authority garages to a private entity is the best plan for infusing cash into the troubled city pension fund. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043090-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sidewalks installed less than two years ago as part of a $7 million renovation of Point State Park are already starting to crumble. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043091-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml When Chris Pollock was trapped alone in a farm field two years ago, his hands caught in a grinding, mechanized corn picker, "I asked God three times to let me die." Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043093-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml During a geology field trip in 2004, the professor told his students that a road-cut featuring rock formations near Pittsburgh International Airport was a great place to find plant fossils. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043097-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml A former project manager for UPMC pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing $250,000 over a seven-year period. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043098-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A maintenance worker found the body of a Squirrel Hill man, bound and shot, on a hillside behind a North Side recreation center on Monday morning, police said. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043099-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Duquesne University plans to brief the city planning commission today on a proposed change to the school's master plan to allow a residence hall to be built with 12 stories instead of eight. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043100-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml The University of Pittsburgh trustees' budget committee gave its blessing on Monday to several construction projects, including a $28.2 million upgrade to physics and astronomy department laboratories. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043101-57.stm?cmpid=news.xml Residents at a low-income housing development in Stowe now have free wireless access to websites designed to help them in job-hunting and education efforts. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043102-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml A jury on Monday acquitted a man of vehicular homicide while driving drunk in a 2008 crash that killed a state lawmaker. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043103-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml The former head of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission would serve six months of house arrest and pay $150,000 but would be spared prison time under a plea agreement with federal prosecutors who alleged that he got a no-work contract from a former state senator. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043105-155.stm?cmpid=news.xml Who expects a canvas sack sent from the other side of your lifetime to arrive in the mail? Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043107-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- For the first time, researchers have shown that erectile dysfunction is a strong predictor of the likelihood of death by heart disease. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043108-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Looking back in time sounds like pure science fiction, but that's what happens every time you see a star. The light producing that image has been traveling through time for thousands, millions, even billions of years, depending on how far away the star was at the time. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043109-153.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones did a brave thing at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America annual conference in Pittsburgh over the weekend. The platinum-selling rapper -- who goes by the instantly recognizable moniker Nas -- told an audience of 900 students to be smarter than he was when he was their age. He told them to stay in school. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043111-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- Partial election results released Monday suggested a sharp and divisive shift in power in Iraq, with a secular candidate challenging Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki and old alliances fracturing against a surge of dissident movements. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043112-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERUSALEM -- A day after calling for calm, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday pushed Israel further toward confrontation with the United States by publicly declaring that settlement construction in Jerusalem will continue unchanged. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043113-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL -- The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Mr. Karzai's advisers. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043114-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL -- Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043115-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml MUNICH -- The priest at the center of a German sex-abuse scandal that embroiled Pope Benedict XVI continued working with children for more than 30 years, even though the pope was personally involved in his case and a German court convicted the priest of molesting boys. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043116-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml The state Department of Education announced the team that Wednesday will make a presentation aimed at winning up to $400 million in Race to the Top money to improve education. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043132-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml You think Pitt shouldn't at least look into the possibility of joining the Big Ten Conference? You think it automatically will be better off staying in the Big East? Think again. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043134-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Eric Godard has seen this kind of buildup before. The talk of retribution and carnage, of mayhem and vengeance. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043139-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Evgeni Malkin's foot isn't broken. Whether his modest streak of 50 consecutive games played will be isn't quite so certain. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043150-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043151-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml A man found dead in the back of a Punxsutawney police car last year had been left there for more than five hours, "checked occasionally by borough employees," state police said Monday. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043152-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Concerned citizens attend a public hearing held by city council Monday on the proposed strip club along West Carson Street. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043153-57.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two Catholic elementary schools in McKees Rocks and Coraopolis are on the endangered list because a private foundation is unable to continue donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to each next school year. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043155-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Just after daybreak, Lt. John Sharpe lowered the American flags outside Engine Co. 38 to half-staff, but even as night fell he was still struggling with why. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043156-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml In his opening statement to jurors last week, William Page's defense attorney told them they should disregard the recorded statement his client made to police in which he admitted to leaving his nearly 2-year-old daughter in sub-freezing temperatures to die. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043158-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two dozen toga-wearing protesters retold the story of the assassination of Julius Caesar outside UPMC's Downtown headquarters on Monday. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043159-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Eighteen months after Wall Street's brush with apocalypse, the Senate began Monday to rewrite the nation's financial regulatory rules with introduction of a sweeping bill designed to fix the causes of the deep economic crisis. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10075/1043163-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- A Dauphin County jury Monday evening wrapped up its 11th hour deliberating the fate of former state Rep. Mike Veon and three former legislative aides accused in a wide-ranging government corruption scheme. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043082-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml West Virginia (28-5), which finished second in the Big East and was the runner-up in the Big East Women's Basketball Tournament last week, earned a No. 3 seed in the Memphis Region of the NCAA Women's Tournament. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:52:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043062-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- A Dauphin County jury this evening wrapped up its 11th hour deliberating the fate of former state Rep. Mike Veon and three former legislative aides accused in a wide-ranging government corruption scheme. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:29:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043008-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Rock band Kings of Leon will close its 32-date summer tour with a concert at the First Niagara Pavilion in Burgettstown on Sept. 7. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:05:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043041-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK - Two iconic American clothing labels - preppy Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, known for its modern aesthetic - are coming together under one roof after Phillips-Van Heusen said it would purchase Tommy Hilfiger for about $3 billion in cash and stock. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:01:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042969-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The body of a Squirrel Hill man was found bound and shot this morning on a hillside in the 100 block of Hazlett Street on the North Side Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:59:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043044-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's administration this afternoon released three legal opinions saying that a proposal to tansfer ownership of parking garages to the troubled pension fund is illegal and unworkable. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:54:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043042-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADENTON, Fla. -- Zach Duke had his strongest start of the spring, but Evan Meek allowed three runs in relief, and the Pirates lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-1, this afternoon at McKechnie Field Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043040-290.stm?cmpid=news.xml Do you think the Big East will alter the conference championship format for the 2011 men's tournament based on the losses from the double-bye teams in 2010? Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:33:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043039-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- A new report shows campaign contributors to justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court often appear before the court Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:19:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043038-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml DETROIT - A person briefed on the matter says Toyota will cast doubt on a California man's claim that his Prius sped out of control. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:18:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043037-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml LONDON - The United States and Britain are more likely than Germany and France to witness an embarrassing downgrade of their top debt rating, agency Moody's Investors Service said today. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:11:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043035-185.stm?cmpid=news.xml So-called "sudden acceleration" is an ugly mix of media frenzy, sophisticated engineering, and complex human-machine interaction. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043033-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Rivers Casino filed a petition today seeking authorization from the state gaming control board to operate 86 table games at the North Shore venue Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:55:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042933-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml City police are investigating the fatal shooting of a retired firefighter Sunday in Marshall-Shadeland. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043017-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Paleontologists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History have described a new species of early terrestrial amphibian whose fossilized skull was found in 2004 near Pittsburgh International Airport and named after the University of Pittsburgh student who found it and the FedEx Corp., which owns the property where it was discovered Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:18:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042856-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml June 13, 1943. Co-pilot Ralph S. Ziegler's tour of duty with the 95th Bomb Group was about to end. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043018-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two dozen toga-wearing protesters retold the story of the assassination of Julius Caesar today, with several of the region's community hospitals given the role of victims Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:05:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042994-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Steelers wasted little time today bringing back another former player, reaching agreement with inside linebacker Larry Foote on a three-year, $9.3 million contract shortly after he passed a physical Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043012-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- Opening what may be remembered as the climactic week of the long debate on health care, President Barack Obama defended his proposal in this economically troubled state, saying that it would bring a significant middle class tax break and rebutting critics who contend it would weaken Medicare. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:56:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043009-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml X-rays on Evgeni Malkin's injured right foot today did not detect a fracture Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042968-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml The 10th Street Bypass opened in time for the morning rush hour. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:30:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042851-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penguins Q&A with Dave Molinari Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:27:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043004-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The state Department of Education today announced the team that Wednesday will make a presentation aimed at winning up to $400 million in Race to the Top money to improve education Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:25:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1043000-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A University of Pittsburgh astronomer is a key member of an international team that will use the Hubble Space Telescope to peer through time and space to witness galaxy formation that occurred a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042983-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml It might not be the first concert at the Consol Energy Arena, but it's the first announced for it. Lady Gaga will bring her Monster Ball Tour to the new arena on Sept. 5. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:53:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042926-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml As a dedicated working man, Bernard R. Novak could do just about anything, but he is best known as a local union leader and public servant. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:44:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042992-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADFORD, Pa. -- The police chief here has resigned after state police charged him with assaulting a woman during a domestic dispute Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:41:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042991-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml An Ohio woman has sued a Beaver County plastic surgeon who allegedly used the wrong kind of implants during breast augmentation surgery. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:38:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042988-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml WARREN, Pa. -- Police say a New York man sent nude and lewd text messages to several teenage girls in northwestern Pennsylvania after accessing their personal information on Internet social networking sites. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:33:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042927-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml West Virginia coach Bob Huggins did a little bit of lobbying for the Mountaineers to earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament after they beat Georgetown Saturday night to wrap up the Big East tournament title. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:21:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042977-135.stm?cmpid=news.xml Duquesne (16-15) has accepted a bid to play in the College Basketball Invitational postseason tournament and will play at Princeton (20-8) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:42:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042901-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Dodged a bullet" was the operative phrase among flood watchers on Sunday, as a predicted deluge produced only isolated puddles of trouble. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:40:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042976-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Michael Baker Corp. said today fourth quarter earnings jumped 59 percent despite falling revenue. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:37:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042924-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Peter Graves, the cool spymaster of television's "Mission: Impossible" and the dignified host of the "Biography" series, who successfully spoofed his own gravitas in the "Airplane" movie farces, died Sunday. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:26:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042975-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Wilmerding-based Wabtec Corp., a technology product and service manufacturer, has purchased Xorail LLC for $40 million in cash. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:24:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042429-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml TV REVIEW: On paper, FX's "Justified" might seem a little ho-hum: Soft-spoken but deadly U.S. marshal with baggage -- most recently a "justified" shooting of a murderer in Miami -- returns to work in his eastern Kentucky hometown. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:21:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042882-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml As Mr. Obama's core initiative of health care reform hangs in the balance and midterm congressional elections loom, the effectiveness of grass-roots energy is being put to tough, real-world tests. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:20:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042902-294.stm?cmpid=news.xml Like many of you -- yes, I'm talking to you, Henry and Elsie Hillman -- I was disappointed last week to see a non-American at the top of Forbes' list of the world's richest people. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:16:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042974-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Consol Energy Inc. said today it has agreed to buy Dominion Resources Inc.'s Appalachian exploration and production business for $3.475 billion, substantially increasing its natural gas reserves and production capacity Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:10:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042972-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nova Chemicals reported 2009 fourth-quarter net income of $17 million compared with a net loss of $212 million in fourth quarter 2008 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:43:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042971-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADENTON, Fla. -- The Pirates this morning cut seven more players, including top pitching prospect Brad Lincoln, to reduce the spring roster to 54 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:41:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042970-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The University of Pittsburgh trustees' budget committee gave its blessing today to several construction projects, including a $28.2 million upgrade to physics and astronomy department laboratories Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:34:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042929-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Post-Gazette takes a look at the teams and players, region by region, in the 2010 NCAA tournament Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:52:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042948-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml To the Editor: Regarding, "Excuse Me, Is This Seat Taken?" (Feb. 28): My daughter, who arrived recently on a Delta flight from Las Vegas, told us that she had spent most of the flight in the aisle because of an oversize seatmate. No one offered to find her another seat since the plane was full, nor did anyone offer to refund her fare or cut the price to half since she did not have more than half a seat. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042949-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- When asked how governments ought to deal with freeloaders who illegally copy music and movies on the Internet, James Murdoch, head of News Corp.'s European and Asian operations, does not mince his words: "Punish them." Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042950-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml AUSTIN, Tex. -- As Jordan Viator roams the conference rooms, dimly lit bars and restaurants here at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, she often pulls out her cellphone and uses the Foursquare service to broadcast her location. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042951-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Dust off a disc. Maybe it's video of a Bob Hope Christmas show, or maybe it's the Apollo 11 moon landing. Insert a blank disc. Duplicate. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042952-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- About a year ago Sebastian Kempa, a freelance photographer who lives near Dortmund, Germany, embarked on a project to show how clothes "are our second layer of skin." Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042953-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ilana Rose Sausen and Eytan Daniel Yosef Seidman are to be married Sunday at Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, N.Y. Rabbi Joseph I. Eisenbach will officiate, with Rabbi Abraham I. Zigelman, a great-uncle of the bride, taking part. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042954-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Lindsay Kelly Hoag and Edward Robert Castro Telleria were married Saturday at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. The Rev. Victor H. Kazanjian Jr., an Episcopal priest and the dean of religious and spiritual life at Wellesley, officiated. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042955-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Samantha Ann Wolfert, the daughter of Laurie Wolfert and David Wolfert of New York, was married Saturday evening to Justin Sine Grefé, the son of Karen Vogel Grefé and Richard Grefé of Darien, Conn. Rabbi Jonathan Stein officiated at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, with Cantor Bruce Ruben taking part. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042956-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Katherine Camille Cocca, the daughter of Vicki I. Cocca and Stephen L. Cocca of Gowanda, N.Y., was married Saturday to Nathaniel Bates, a son of Deborah Wood Bates and Timothy D. Bates of Noank, Conn. The Rev. Daniel Warren, an Episcopal priest, officiated at the Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg, N.Y. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042957-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ellen Irene Murphy, the daughter of Janis Murphy and William T. Murphy of Garden City, N.Y., was married in Manhattan Saturday evening to Billy Lap Kwan Cheung, the son of Man San Cheung of Forest Hills, Queens, and the late Hon Leung Cheung. The Rev. Richard E. Hasselbach, a priest affiliated with CITI Ministries, officiated at the Yale Club of New York City. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042958-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Kathleen Boyer suspects the mailman. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042959-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- One recent morning, George S. Hawkins, a long-haired environmentalist who now leads one of the largest and most prominent water and sewer systems, trudged to a street corner here where water was gushing into the air. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042960-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042961-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- In his first full day at the White House almost 14 months ago, President Obama declared openness and transparency to be touchstones of his administration, and he ordered federal agencies to make it easier for the public to get information on the workings of government. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042962-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Representative Brad Ellsworth will avoid a primary fight to become the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Indiana, which should be good news for him. But Republicans are preparing to cast him as the tainted product of shadowy dealings in smoke-filled rooms. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042963-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEWARK -- At Broadway Elementary School here, there is no more sitting around after lunch. No more goofing off with friends. No more doing nothing. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042964-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml LINDEN, N.J. -- When classes let out at 3 p.m., 85 children in a state-subsidized program at Linden's School No. 1 head down the hall for three more hours of reading, math games, homework help and stepping lessons. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042965-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL, Afghanistan -- Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042966-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042967-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml LA UNIÓN, Mexico -- Gunmen believed to be linked to drug traffickers shot a pregnant American consulate worker and her husband to death in the violence-racked border town of Ciudad Juárez over the weekend, leaving their baby wailing in the back seat of their car, the authorities said Sunday. The gunmen also killed the husband of another consular employee and wounded his two young children. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042862-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRADENTON, Fla. -- The Pirates made their first cuts of the spring Sunday, reducing the roster from 66 to 60 with some eminently predictable moves. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:09:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042874-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml Shortly after wiping a pair of moist palms on his jeans, Robert Morris freshman guard Velton Jones turned around in his chair. "Am I the only nervous one here?" Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:32:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042920-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pitt Panthers don't have to go very far for a scouting report on Oakland University, their first opponent in the NCAA tournament this week. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:30:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1038221-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mixed martial arts, a combat sport once considered a notch above street brawling, has muscled its way onto the mainstream sports entertainment landscape, largely because of the exposure it has received in casino showrooms and arenas. ... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042302-429.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042376-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml Question: Whenever my daughter "Alicia" tries to take time off, her manager interferes. Alicia has a responsible position in which she coordinates a variety of projects. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042377-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml A cover letter, whether it's in the form of an e-mail introduction or a formal cover page, should not simply rehash your resume. It should bring up new and pertinent information. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042378-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml Just a few months ago, the first data that showed growing demand for temporary workers prompted optimism that at least some of those temp jobs would convert into permanent placements. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042426-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml On March 21, the sun and Saturn will be on opposite sides of the sky. Astronomers call this "opposition." Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042463-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you're a bluegrass fan and an artist, working in any medium, the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Ky., wants to hear from you. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042464-148.stm?cmpid=news.xml His native Alabama is the locale for biologist E.O. Wilson's first novel, "Anthill" (Norton, $24.95), the story of a young man caught up in an ecological tug of war. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042465-129.stm?cmpid=news.xml Author of the new tell-all book "The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down," Andrew Young was an aide and friend to the former senator and his family for a decade. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042466-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Among hard-core music fans, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame probably is about as popular as a skin rash. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042832-453.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042834-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's a wonderful irony to think that The Stooges' ticket to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ultimately was stamped via a certain Swedish disco band. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042835-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml There was a time in America when news about African-American life wasn't considered fit to print. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042836-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The bustle that makes Pittsburgh's Strip District a fun place for shopping, eating or people-watching on Saturdays soon will be extended to Sundays. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042837-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The so-called culture wars are not what they were. Maybe the public has grown tired, maybe people are more sophisticated or maybe other issues just loom larger in a recession. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042838-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml In response to my congressman Jason Altmire's meeting with opponents of health care reform ("Obama Stumps for Health Plan: Altmire Meets With Tea Party Group Against House Bill," March 11): Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042841-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Who is Barack Obama? If you ask a conservative Republican, you are likely to hear that Mr. Obama is a skilled politician who campaigned as a centrist but is governing as a big-government liberal. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042842-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml In other capitals of the world, it would not have been an extraordinary scene. An opening at a hot new art gallery with men and women mingling and enjoying themselves. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042843-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml I find the criticism being levied against Penguins captain Sidney Crosby over turning down a request from the "Late Show with David Letterman" completely incomprehensible. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042852-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Nas has produced No. 1 albums, performed in front of cheering crowds and had a doll made in his likeness in Japan, but he never received his high school diploma. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042853-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Councilman Bruce Kraus took to the streets of his district with aide Matt Hogue and a list of complaints about abandoned cars. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042854-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The financial prospects for a proposed Lawrence County racetrack/casino seem to keep getting worse, but developers say they intend to follow through on the project. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042855-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pennsylvania is committed to adopting the uniform set of national standards for math and English unveiled last week as long as the standards meet two conditions. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042858-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- Alice is still ruling the movie palace. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" easily remained the No. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042861-325.stm?cmpid=news.xml Stage Review: A jumble of old furniture hangs over the O'Reilly Theater stage just as the past hangs over Arthur Miller's "The Price." Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042864-132.stm?cmpid=news.xml Australian Will Power made a late overtaking move to take the lead from American Ryan Hunter-Reay to win the rain-shortened IndyCar season opener Sunday on the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042865-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Manny Ramirez went 3 for 4 and scored three runs to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 11-1 victory Sunday against the Taiwanese All-Stars in the final game of a rain-shortened exhibition series in Taiwan. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042867-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml Larry Foote grew up in Detroit and played in college at Michigan, so his desire to return to his hometown last year was understandable. So is his desire to return to the Steelers. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042868-58.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Washington County man has been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh to 15 years in jail and five years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing a firearm. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042869-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two new reports show that lowering either blood pressure or cholesterol levels below current guidelines does not provide additional benefit and, in fact, increases the risk of side effects. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042870-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml The controversial $5 warranty charge on Pittsburgh water and sewer bills resembles a plan by a Utah businessman who believes that his concept fell into untrustworthy hands. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042871-169.stm?cmpid=news.xml John Calipari only had questions once he and his Kentucky Wildcats finished celebrating their Southeastern Conference tournament championship. "How did we win this game? Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042872-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tyra White carried Texas A&M in the first half and Danielle Adams scored 17 of her 19 points in the second, helping the 11th-ranked Aggies hold off No. 12 Oklahoma, 74-67, in Kansas City, Mo., for their second Big 12 tournament title in three years. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042876-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday lectured the United States, criticizing its call for China to let its currency rise against the dollar to boost U.S. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042878-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili said Sunday that a fake television report that triggered panic by announcing his death during a Russian tank invasion was "realistic." Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042879-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Gunmen believed to be linked to drug traffickers shot an American consulate worker and her husband to death in the violence-racked border town of Ciudad Juarez over the Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042880-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to play down a serious diplomatic dispute with the United States on Sunday, urging calm after another stern rebuke from Washington Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042881-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Northeast mopped up Sunday following a bout with high wind and heavy rains that uprooted trees, downed power lines and flooded some creeks and rivers. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042883-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Deadly bomb attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar were a warning to NATO's top general that the Taliban are ready for a coming offensive in their heartland. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042897-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Democratic leaders scrambled Sunday to pull together enough support in the House for a make-or-break decision on health care reform later this week, expressing optimism that a package will soon be signed into law. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042898-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits -- billions more each year. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042899-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Public transit ridership fell nearly 4 percent in the U.S. last year after a record-breaking 2008 and advocates' hopes for a rebound this year are clouded. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042900-152.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jury deliberations in the Bonusgate corruption trial began Friday and continue today -- a nail-biting time in the commonwealth, and not just for the defendants. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042907-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml TAMPA, Fla. -- Marc-Andre Fleury turned in one of his better performances of the season Sunday night, stopping 21 of 22 shots in the Penguins' 2-1 victory against Tampa Bay at the St. Pete Times Forum. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042910-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml TAMPA, Fla. -- The Penguins lost a world-class center Sunday night. Precisely what's wrong with Evgeni Malkin -- and how long he might be out -- isn't known yet. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042911-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml They call him the Big Easy because of a graceful swing that looks as if it requires so little effort. Ernie Els worked harder than ever Sunday to win the World Golf Championships-CA Championship. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042913-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml Leon Powe has seen the Boston Celtics at their best. They aren't there anymore. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042914-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Alex Ovechkin was kicked out early, the Washington Capitals fell behind 3-0, and that's when they showed why they have the NHL's best record and highest-scoring offense. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042915-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Over the long history of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, there surely have been No. 3 seeds with less pressure than Pitt will be facing when it plays Oakland Friday in Milwaukee. ... Sports commentary by Ron Cook Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042925-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml June Lilley lived in Washington County for most of her life -- except for one brief period that helped shape the driving forces of her life. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10074/1042932-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A man was taken to a local hospital Sunday evening after being struck by a bus in Wilkinsburg. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400