http://www.post-gazette.com/ All News en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:09:25 -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/12038/1208655-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Bobbie Cegelski, the gifted services coordinator for the Montour School District, was chosen Monday night to fill a vacant seat on the Robinson board of commissioners. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:48:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208559-294-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml One morning last fall, I signed onto my computer at work and began the process of getting rid of one after another worthless email -- delete, delete, delete, delete ... David Aschkenas. I gasped. A respite from delete. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:55:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208656-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml More than 100 concerned residents from Bridgeville and Upper St. Clair packed a meeting of the Upper St. Clair commissioners to voice their opposition to a new residential housing development that they say will exacerbate an already dangerous traffic situation. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:44:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208654-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Seneca Valley School District is considering changing its grading scale. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208653-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Denise Balason was selected last night to fill a vacant seat on the Hampton school board. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208652-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The North Hills school board Monday night unanimously rejected the application of Provident Charter School to locate within the district. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208651-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Allegheny County fire marshals will spend part of today attempting to figure out what started the fire that destroyed the popular North Versailles restaurant, the Winchester Room. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 05:07:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208530-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml After riding among a caravan of bright blue bikes up Oakland's O'Hara Street Thursday, University of Pittsburgh senior Micah Toll said he wasn't surprised by the attention from onlookers. Especially considering that they were gliding up the inclined roadway at about 15 mph without pedaling. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208524-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml A commercial made for the Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" contest has won $1 million for its creator -- but it wasn't the one made by a Saxonburg native. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208529-28-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES Mirabelle Vargas, 29, winds her way through the open-air stalls in downtown Los Angeles' bustling Santee Alley, hunting for Victoria's Secret underwear. Or at least undies with a tag that says Victoria's Secret. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208525-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sarris Candies' landmark retail candy store in Canonsburg will remain closed for about a month after last week's fire, but candy orders and deliveries to outside sellers continue uninterrupted. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:09:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208583-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Charla Krupp, who gained a national following by offering women advice on looking younger and thinner with best-selling books like "How Not to Look Old," died Jan. 23 at her home in New York City. She was 58, but looked a perennial 49. The cause was breast cancer, her husband, Time magazine theater critic Richard Zoglin, said. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208592-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Bobby Cremins knew he had nothing left to give his College of Charleston players when he walked away from the game last month. Cremins said he was physically exhausted and advised by his doctor to make drastic changes or risk jeopardizing his long-term health. "I had nothing. I had no gas. The tank was empty," Cremins said Monday. "The kids knew. They could feel it." Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208595-275-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Lou Williams nailed the go-ahead 3-pointer, scored 14 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, and dampened Kobe Bryant's record-setting game while leading the Philadelphia 76ers to 95-90 win against the Los Angeles Lakers Monday night. With "Beat L.A.!" Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208598-454-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml In Waynesburg, a coal and college town that was home base for state Sen. Bill DeWeese, many people say they'd vote for him again despite his conviction on corruption charges. "Yes, I would vote for him again," said Bill Whitlatch, a construction company owner from nearby Rogersville. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208502-109-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml We have seen the world created by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, and it doesn't work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence politics behind shell corporations. It just doesn't happen to work if you think we are a democracy and not a plutocracy. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208503-109-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml A simple resolution passed the state House of Representatives unanimously on Jan. 24. It recognizes the significant impact the Bible has had on our country and refers to the Bible as the word of God. It in no way inhibits anyone from believing in any faith or no faith. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208504-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml As Allegheny County confronts unprecedented challenges including reassessments, Port Authority service cuts, unemployment and a fund balance lower than that of many school districts, I find it deeply troubling that our county executive, Rich Fitzgerald, is placing a priority on moving the county's Weights and Measures function -- a $250,000 cost within a $1.5 billion budget -- to his office. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208505-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh, which owes its existence to its beginnings as a frontier garrison town, has always had a close, historic relationship with the military. In great numbers, men and women from Western Pennsylvania have served to help the nation fight its wars. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208506-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The dangers of lead-based paint have been well-established for more than 30 years. The knowledge that even low-level exposures to lead can affect mental capacity led the United States to ban the use of paints in this country with lead content above 600 parts per million since 1978. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208507-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml All he is saying is give peace a chance. No, not John Lennon -- Fredrik Heffermehl, a Norwegian jurist and critic of the Nobel Peace Prize selection process. It could mean trouble for the committee, which faces a formal investigation into its selections. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208508-110-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml I felt I had an obligation to "weigh in" on the ongoing discussion about the Weights and Measures Bureau in Allegheny County ("Two in a Measured Dispute: County Executive, Controller Each Want to Monitor Meters," Feb. 1). I had the privilege of supervising this group during my five years in county government under the three commissioners and then Jim Roddey. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208514-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jack Gantos kept his hopes for winning a Newbery Medal -- given annually by the American Library Association to the best-written children's book -- in "lockdown mode" over the past few months. Mr. Gantos, 60, had come close to winning the gold Newbery Medal in 2001 for "Joey Pigza Loses Control." Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208515-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml Photographer Ivette Spradlin grew up in Florida and Georgia. When she moved to Pittsburgh a few years ago, she was not prepared for the long gray winters and the isolation they impose. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208516-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml To know Thad Mosley is to be charmed immediately by his warmth, his smile and by the aura of goodness that seems to emanate from his compact person. Producer and director Kenneth Love captures all that and more in his intimate portrait, "Thaddeus Mosley: Sculptor." Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208517-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pittsburgh CLO Ambassadors held its Auction Preview Party Jan. 30 for VIPs at the Renaissance Pittsburgh, where guests were sipping the samples provided by Capital Wines & Spirits. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208518-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml "The Best Chefs of Pittsburgh Join the 5th Annual Symphony of Food -- Chefs' Showcase Dinner" was the title of the delicious benefit held Jan. 27 and sponsored by WOMEN of Southwestern PA. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208519-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml The sharks were circling the Duquesne Club Thursday evening for the 24th annual Cummerbund Society Pool Tournament. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208521-460.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre welcomed more than 100 guests Friday night as they celebrated the launch of the PBT and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture's three-year partnership "Uncommonly August," at the August Wilson Center. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208527-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Also in today's headlines: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208533-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml Patrons at the Hollywood Theater in Dormont can meet the men behind the Internet sensations "Pittsburgh Dad" and "The Mercury Men" tonight. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208534-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml ABC's "The River" turns out to be a more interesting show than its pilot suggests. That's not to say the premiere, airing tonight at 9 on WTAE, is disappointing -- it's a scary enough introduction -- but future episodes expand the show's universe, better develop the characters and reveal that while the show is called "The River," not every story has to take place on a boat. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208535-325.stm?cmpid=news.xml What was not to love about Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's succulent dance foray among the hallmark composers known as the three B's -- Bach, Beethoven and Brahms? Called "Uncommon," it wasn't a full-length theatrical production, but in many respects was a more massive undertaking. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208539-348-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Defeat is a bitter pill to swallow -- especially at the Super Bowl. Perhaps it was made a bit easier for Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady, whose wife Gisele Bndchen was on hand to comfort him in Indianapolis on Sunday night, after losing 21-17 to Eli Manning and the New York Giants in a suspenseful fourth quarter, People reports. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208541-314-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, imagine how a scorned woman who loves to shop feels! In a very bad case of adding insult to injury, a postcard Saks Fifth Avenue sent to its cardholders last week has managed to inflame more than one customer with its insensitivity. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208542-314-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Big Apple will get a bit busier when the who's who of the fashion world descend on Lincoln Center Thursday for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, eight days of runway shows and presentations previewing the trends that will make a splash in stores next fall and winter. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208543-314-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Help your honey smell extra sweet as you're snuggling cheek to cheek this Valentine's Day with fragrances for him and her. There are many new scents on the market this month, as well as new places to purchase some longtime favorites. So rather than -- or in addition to? -- the usual candygram, give a gift that will last a bit longer and that you both can enjoy, without the calorie guilt. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208546-455-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Supporters of public transit fanned out across Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle Monday afternoon to seek support from riders for increased state aid. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208547-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml Three days after U.S. prosecutors dropped their investigation of doping claims against Lance Armstrong, fellow Tour de France champion Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 title when sports' highest court rejected the Spanish cyclist's story that contaminated meat caused him to fail a drug test. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208548-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Colorado Rockies acquired veteran right-hander Jeremy Guthrie from the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, a move that bolsters their young rotation. In exchange, the Rockies send reliever Matt Lindstrom and right-hander Jason Hammel to the Orioles. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208549-87-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml It was about 90 minutes after Super Bowl XLIII, a game that always will be remembered here because of the Steelers' fabulous comeback against the Arizona Cardinals. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was at a private party, his tie off, his sleeves rolled up and a cold adult beverage in his hand. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208550-66-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick gave clear instructions to his defensive unit: Let the runner score. Playing the odds and inviting critics, the calculating coach told his players to get out of the way, open a wide path for Ahmad Bradshaw and give Tom Brady a chance to win the Super Bowl in the final 57 seconds. Unusual? Certainly. Crazy? Not at all. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208551-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml He didn't look bad on a line with Steve Sullivan and Cal O'Reilly, even though he was playing out of position. He added a nice dimension to the No. 2 power play, as well, even though the second unit isn't exactly his natural habitat. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208552-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dante Taylor's career has not turned out the way he envisioned, and his detractors can argue when he finally bottomed out. It seems a good bet, though, that his two-game stretch in January against Rutgers and Marquette are certainly in the discussion. Taylor did not score in those games three days apart in mid-January. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208554-66-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin has never won the NFL's coach of the year award. Quarterback Eli Manning has never been the league's MVP. With two Super Bowl victories in the past five seasons, though, they have emerged as the NFL's top coaching-quarterback tandem. And the best might be yet to come. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208556-66-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants beat the New England Patriots, 21-17, Sunday night in Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208560-147-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml You've seen those winter safety checklists advising motorists to carry items such as a blanket, flashlight, shovel and sand. Here's a partial summer checklist for local drivers: a good supply of soothing music, a functioning air conditioner and a full reservoir of patience. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208561-153-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml When a co-worker brought "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master" to my attention last week, I was immediately intrigued. The letter purports to be from Jourdon Anderson, a runaway slave, to his former "owner," Col. P.H. Anderson. It was written on Aug. 7, 1865, several months after the end of the Civil War. Jourdan lived in Dayton, Ohio. The colonel lived in Big Spring, Tenn. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208564-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Allegheny County is closing its private garage behind the old morgue on Fourth Avenue, Downtown, beginning Wednesday until further notice because of structural problems. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208565-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml A convicted sex offender from Wilkinsburg has been arrested on charges that he indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy following a Christmas Eve party in White Oak. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208566-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh police have charged a Brighton Heights man, who is currently in a Minnesota jail on unrelated charges, with the 2010 shooting death of a man inside Shamrock Bar on the North Side. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208567-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml The driver of an SUV that struck a city sanitation worker Monday in East Liberty told police she did not see the man because she was temporarily blinded by sun glare in her eyes. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208569-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's government said Monday that it will cut 15,000 state jobs this year, part of new austerity measures it must adopt to secure new debt agreements and rescue funds from international lenders. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208570-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The White House moved Monday to tighten sanctions against Iran because of the country's suspect nuclear program, freezing all property of the Central Bank of Iran, other Iranian financial institutions and the Iranian government in the United States. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208571-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml RAMALLAH, West Bank -- After months of wavering, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took a decisive step Monday toward reconciliation with the Islamic militant group Hamas, a move that Israel promptly warned would close the door to any future peace talks. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208573-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BEIRUT -- The U.S. closed its embassy in Syria and withdrew its staff Monday in the face of escalating mayhem that U.S. officials blamed on the Syrian government's unbridled repression of an 11-month-old uprising. The move marked another dramatic moment in a week full of them, as the confrontation in Syria turned even more violent and unpredictable. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208574-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml OSLO, Norway -- The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime massacre told a court Monday that he deserves a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free. Anders Behring Breivik smirked as he was led into the Oslo district court, handcuffed and dressed in a dark suit, for his last detention hearing before the trial starts in April. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208575-139-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml While sports events across Europe fall victim to the deep freeze, the Dutch are welcoming the drop in temperatures, hoping that the revered "Eleven Cities" speed skating race can be staged later this month for the first time in 15 years. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208582-122-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Alcoa executive C. Fred Fetterolf became a leader in a wide variety of civic and philanthropic activities during and after his Alcoa leadership, some with a religious slant. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208588-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Buffalo Coach Lindy Ruff broke three ribs in what was described as "a freak accident" after he was upended by defenseman Jordan Leopold in practice Monday. Ruff was hurt near the end of practice during a puck-chase drill when Leopold was trying to cut off forward Ville Leino. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208589-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Phil Kessel scored twice and Mikhail Grabovski assisted on Toronto's first two goals to lead the surging Maple Leafs past the visiting Edmonton Oilers, 6-3. The Oilers played without coach Tom Renney, who stayed back at the team hotel after taking a puck in the head during the morning skate. The cut required stitches and left Renney experiencing headaches. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208590-61-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jordan Staal isn't the biggest name on the Penguins' injured list. He isn't even the biggest name center there. But he is the one who figures to be the first to get back in their lineup. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208593-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Gorgui Dieng returned from a sprained right ankle to score 15 points and freshman Chane Behanan added 12 rebounds as No. 24 Louisville (19-5, 7-4) beat Connecticut (15-8, 5-6), 80-59, for its fifth win in a row. Louisville looked like the team ranked fourth in the nation at 12-0 and nothing like the one that dropped five out of seven three weeks ago. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208596-54.stm?cmpid=news.xml McKnight Road northbound will be down to one lane at times from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at the bridge over Babcock Boulevard in Ross as crews install railing. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208597-454-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- A Dauphin County jury on Monday found longtime Democratic state representative and House Speaker Bill DeWeese guilty of all but one of six felony corruption charges resulting from a state legislative probe into the misuse of public resources. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208599-176-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Perhaps the most attention-getting Super Bowl ad -- other than that dog blackmailing his owner with tortilla chips to keep quiet over a felinicide, of course -- was Clint Eastwood's paean to a resurgent auto industry in Detroit. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208600-176-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml While their decisions won't award many actual delegates, voters in three states could reshape perceptions of the Republican presidential nomination battle today by reinforcing Rick Santorum's claim as chief conservative alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208601-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- More than a third of the advertising tied to the presidential race has been funded by nonprofit groups that will never have to reveal their donors, suggesting that a significant portion of the 2012 elections will be wrapped in a vast cloak of secrecy. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208602-53-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Putting the GO back in Gospel" says a sign on the front of the Christian Fellowship Baptist Church on the North Side. But it was nearly the church itself that had to go. On Monday, a sheriff's sale was postponed until March 5 for the century-old stone church at 2453 Perrysville Ave. after an Oklahoma mortgage company agreed to work out payments by its pastor, the Rev. Algie Robinson Jr. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208603-298-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Pittsburgh philanthropist has bestowed her alma mater, Carlow University, with the largest gift it has ever received: $5 million to establish a new student center. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208605-503-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Marcellus Shale regulatory and impact fee bill is two votes away from Gov. Tom Corbett's desk, after state lawmakers on Monday evening squeezed a new Republican-negotiated proposal into a pending measure. That 174-page amendment was approved by a conference committee made up of House and Senate legislators from both parties. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208606-55.stm?cmpid=news.xml Trial began Monday for an Upper St. Clair man charged with homicide by vehicle in the deaths of three people in a crash nearly two years ago on the Parkway West. Ryan Safka, 20, also is charged with three counts each of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of David Rizzo Jr., 20, Tara Schulz, 18, and Derek Phillips, 20, all of Upper St. Clair. They were all backseat passengers in Mr. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208607-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner will recommend that the state Department of Agriculture take back responsibility for assuring store scales and gas pumps are accurate. Her move comes in a tit-for-tat response to a plan by county Executive Rich Fitzgerald to have his office, rather than the controller, handle that job. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208612-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml West Mifflin's Ciara Patterson did everything she could, but it wasn't enough to defeat the No. 1-ranked girls basketball team in WPIAL Class AAA. Patterson had 24 of her game-high 38 points in the second half, but by then the Titans were just playing catch-up. South Park beat West Mifflin (7-9, 6-3), 76-50, Monday night to clinch the Section 4 title for the second consecutive season. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208613-361-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Basketball Box Scores Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208614-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fundraisers and donors for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208615-454-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml By day, Amanda E. Holt is a mild-mannered 29-year-old piano teacher and self-employed graphic artist. But in her spare time, she's a crusader for fair representation who upended the General Assembly's now-illegal reapportionment plan for state House and Senate districts, showing what one citizen, some maps and a lot of hard work can do. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208616-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Even as a new court order Monday directed the Allegheny County sheriff to remove all Occupy Pittsburgh protesters from BNY Mellon Green, several of the campers delivered a vociferous but ambiguous message: We're not going away. While some explicitly said they would stay in the face of forcible removal, others said the movement would continue outside the encampment. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208618-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will use the backdrop of a White House science fair today to highlight a nationwide shortage of math and science teachers and unveil a plan to invest $100 million to help train 100,000 new educators over the next decade. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208620-454-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml At the Allegheny County elections division, staffers are calling poll workers and reminding them of the April 24 primary. Competitive bids are out for hauling machines to polling places. The schools, churches, apartment complexes and other buildings that host polls are being reminded, too. There may be another round of calls this spring telling them to forget it. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208621-53-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml With the demolition of the Civic Arena in full swing, the city is preparing to give its consent to bring down part of another landmark building -- the Strip District's historic produce terminal. Urban Redevelopment Authority board members are expected to vote Thursday on a memorandum of understanding that clears the way for the Buncher Co. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208631-96-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Stephen Wolfram, a 52-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, tends to go his own way -- often with noteworthy results. He published his first physics paper at 15, earned his Ph.D. from Caltech at 20 and two years later won a MacArthur prize. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208632-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml A giant crocodile with a bulging shield of thickened skin on its forehead lived among dinosaurs, a new study reports. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208633-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml By filtering through 25 gallons of seawater from Puget Sound, a computer scientist in Washington State has managed to tease out and sequence the DNA of a tiny microbe that has eluded scientists for years. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208634-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. -- The pilot sat strapped to a chair, held in place as if he were in the backseat of a helicopter. Beside him, on a mock wall, was a window. The window was closed. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208635-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama's re-election campaign. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208636-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Elizabeth Young, a mother and artist in Las Vegas, likes Mitt Romney's successful record of "turning around companies that have been doing so poorly." Chad Backus, a physical therapist from Winnemucca, Nev., appreciates his "business experience, his leadership experience." And Arwen Spor, a mother of three in Spring Creek, Nev., lived in the Salt Lake City area during the 2002 Olympics, and trusts Mr. Romney because of his role in reviving the struggling games. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208637-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Obama is signaling to wealthy Democratic donors that he wants them to start contributing to an outside group supporting his re-election, reversing a long-held position as he confronts a deep financial disadvantage on a vital front in the campaign. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208638-298-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- Parents of students at an elementary school here where two teachers were arrested on accusations of child sexual abuse marched outside the school on Monday and refused to allow their children to attend classes, protesting what they said was the failure of school officials to act against the abuse and explain its extent. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208639-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml ROME -- Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church began a four-day symposium on Monday about the prevention of sexual abuse of minors by the clergy, an unprecedented assembly described by the Vatican as a response to a painful issue that has wracked the church and estranged many faithful. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208640-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml An immigration appeals judge ordered the government on Monday to release on bail a militant Islamic preacher who is considered a leader of Al Qaeda in Europe, despite government arguments that he is a threat to Britain's security. The preacher, Abu Qatada, 51, whose real name is Omar Othman, has spent more than six years in British jails since his arrest after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, and had been described by a Spanish terrorism judge as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe." Mr. O Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208641-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Queen Elizabeth II broke with her custom of performing no public duties on the anniversary of the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952, leaving her Sandringham estate in rural Norfolk on Monday to make brief appearances at a neighboring town hall and a village nursery school. The day marked the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne, an accomplishment matched by only one other British monarch in more than 1,000 years. Her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria, celebrated her Diamond Jubil Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208642-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Authoritarian rulers from Caracas to Moscow and beyond have long viewed pro-democracy groups financed by the United States with deep suspicion, regularly denouncing them as meddlers or spies and sometimes harassing their workers. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208643-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- The leaders of Germany and France, meeting here on Monday, pledged not to allow Russia and China to block international action to stop the bloodshed in Syria, and promised to help the Syrian people. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208644-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml MEXICO CITY -- The historic choice of a woman as its presidential candidate may turn out to be a shrewd move for the party of Mexico's incumbent president, political analysts said Monday, allowing it to capitalize on the growing power of women in politics and offering a fresh approach for a party that has been mired in a bloody drug war. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208645-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml TEHRAN -- One measure of the profound anxiety now coursing through Iranian society can be seen on Manouchehri Street, a winding lane at the heart of this city where furtive crowds of men gather every day like drug dealers to buy and sell American dollars. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208646-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml ST. MORITZ, Switzerland -- In an earlier era in Europe, it was not unusual for the sudden and unexpected departure of a monarch to touch off a prolonged period of claims and counterclaims until one of the pretenders finally prevailed. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208647-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Some sanctions against Myanmar were waived by the United States on Monday, allowing the Myanmar government to work with the World Bank and other international financial organizations to bolster its economy. The decision is the latest in a series of cautious reciprocal steps intended to reward sweeping political and economic changes in the country, also known as Burma. The restrictions on international financial organizations stem from American laws against human trafficking, which the United States State De Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208648-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- A senior American military commander is expected to travel to Pakistan this month in what Obama administration officials say is the first step toward thawing a strategic relationship that has been in effect frozen for more than two months. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208649-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- The White House moved to enforce tightened sanctions against Iran on Monday because of the country's suspect nuclear program, freezing all property of the Central Bank of Iran, other Iranian financial institutions and the Iranian government in the United States. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12038/1208650-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml LAHORE, Pakistan -- Long unchallenged, Pakistan's top spy agency faces a flurry of court actions that subject its darkest operations to unusual scrutiny, amid growing calls for new restrictions on its largely untrammeled powers. Tue, 7 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208545-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Downtown-based Education Management Corp. has argued in court filings that a 2011 policy change by the Department of Education proves that EDMC didn't previously break rules for compensating college recruiters. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 22:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208536-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Police in Butler County said a bank robbery suspect surrendered today after officers from multiple agencies tracked his getaway car. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 20:46:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208522-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A convicted sex offender from Wilkinsburg has been arrested on charges that he indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy following a Christmas Eve party in White Oak. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208511-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Supporters of public transit fanned out across Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle today to seek support from riders for increased state aid. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208510-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt running backs coach Eddie Faulkner has resigned and will become the tight ends coach at Wisconsin. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 18:10:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208489-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sarris Candies' landmark retail store in Canonsburg will remain closed for about a month after last week's fire, but candy orders and deliveries to outside sellers continue uninterrupted. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208501-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dormont Council President Bill McCartney confirmed today that borough manager Gino Rizza and solicitor Deron Gabriel have resigned. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208498-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The driver of an SUV that struck a city sanitation worker this morning in East Liberty told police she didn't see the man due to sun glare in her eyes. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208500-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml HARRISBURG -- The Marcellus Shale legislation expected to come up for a vote this week is projected to raise more than $190 million in its first year, rising to $333 million by 2015. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208497-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pittsburgh police are warning food delivery drivers to use caution and be alert after two drivers were robbed at gunpoint in as many days on the North Side. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208494-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml An Allegheny County Common Pleas Court judge has issued a supplemental order compelling the county sheriff to oust all Occupy Pittsburgh protesters and tents from Mellon Green. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208487-100-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jurors have found Democratic state Rep. Bill DeWeese, the onetime House speaker from Waynesburg, guilty on five of six felony counts. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:02:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208493-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Downtown-based Education Management Corp. has filed a muscularly written defense of the recruiter compensation practices for which it has been sued by the federal government and several states, in an effort to get that lawsuit dismissed. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208499-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Fire crews are on the scene of a North Versailles restaurant fire this afternoon that has been burning for over an hour. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208490-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Port Authority has reopened the Wood Street station on the T, which had been closed because of a ventilation problem. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208495-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will push ahead with 168 construction projects in Allegheny, Beaver and Lawrence counties this year, including the start of a $49.5 million rehabilitation of the Squirrel Hill Tunnels. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208496-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Just a day after Super Bowl XLVI, two Pittsburgh-area residents and two Floridians today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court accusing the National Football League of selling them tickets for unfinished seats at last year???s Super Bowl XLV. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 14:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208492-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Carlow University has received the largest gift in its history: $5 million from Rita M. McGinley, a 1940 alumna, honorary degree recipient and a Carlow Woman of Spirit. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:19:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208101-114-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml It isn't often a cash-strapped local government can find a way to cut costs and at the same time improve the morale and productivity of its work force. The city of Pittsburgh has. The cost of providing health insurance to city employees rose nearly 16 percent from 2006 to 2007. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208491-114-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Evan Waxman was visiting a clinic in Hazelwood recently when he had an unsettling experience. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:50:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208446-503.stm?cmpid=news.xml A deal between Republican lawmakers and Gov. Tom Corbett on a Marcellus Shale regulatory and impact fee measure is nearly complete, with summaries of the expected compromise plan circulating among lawmakers over the weekend. Top legislative and administration aides said action on that final plan could begin as soon as today. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208488-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml C. Fred Fetterolf, a longtime civic leader who was the retired president of Alcoa, died Sunday from complications due to a stroke. He was 83. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:53:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208484-42.stm?cmpid=news.xml PHILADELPHIA -- The public viewing is set for the former spiritual leader of Philadelphia's 1.5 million Catholics. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208103-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml WTAE will broadcast the funeral Mass in Philadelphia for Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh from 1983 to 1987, at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday on thisTV Pittsburgh, the station's over-the-air digital subchannel, Channel 4.2. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208486-114-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Special events: VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System invites the public to participate in open-house activities Feb. 12-18 during the National Salute to Veteran Patients. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:17:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208418-152-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml At Thursday morning's National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama delivered a fascinating address, pointing out the shared values of the world's major religions while constantly referencing his particular Christian faith. One of the shared principles he cited repeatedly but grounded in "Jesus' teaching" was this familiar verse: "For unto whom much is given, much shall be required." Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:56:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208407-53-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Margie Walls can't live a day without a "Jamie moment," when the sight of a woman's brown hair or a whiff of Tiffany perfume will flood her mind with memories of her daughter. But with memories come unending questions. "I mostly think about how she died and did she suffer?" Ms. Walls said, gazing at her daughter's grave. "Was she afraid? She probably was. ... I can feel her fear." Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:54:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208455-150-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- Two weeks of polishing the NFL legends of Eli Manning and Tom Brady into modern gunslinger monuments might have seemed prudent for an unprecedented collision of Super Bowl MVPs, but the result wasn't terribly artistic until both quarterbacks finally drew their weapons late in a breathtaking Super Bowl. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208419-294.stm?cmpid=news.xml Gov. Tom Corbett delivers a budget address to the General Assembly Tuesday, touting his spending plan and policy agenda for Pennsylvania in 2012-13. Normally, The Morning File would have sources feeding us advance dope (no pun intended) about the governor's announcements. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:37:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208437-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Listen to Richard Egarr speak about the harpsichord and you might think he picked the wrong instrument. At his concerts, recitals and in interviews, he talks as much about the lute as he does the baroque keyboard instrument. But the British musician has good reason, and good reasoning. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208439-67-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml According to one poll released last week, 55 percent of U.S. adults said they planned to tune in to Sunday's Super Bowl as much or more for the commercials than for the game. If that's true, and if those viewers also spend any time on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter, odds are this was a pretty disappointing year for them. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208458-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- Eli Manning is elite, for sure. A king of comebacks, too. And far, far more than Peyton's little brother now. Spot-on from beginning to end, Eli Manning won his second NFL championship -- and second Super Bowl MVP award -- for leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory against the New England Patriots. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208411-454-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml In early 2010, in an effort to ease the burden of the state's prison system, Gov. Ed Rendell announced that Pennsylvania would contract with Michigan and Virginia to move 2,000 low-risk inmates to facilities in those states. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208420-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml The United States proposed an international coalition to support Syria's opposition Sunday after Russia and China blocked a U.N. attempt to end nearly 11 months of bloodshed, raising fears that violence will escalate. Rebel soldiers said force was now the only way to oust President Bashar Assad, while the regime vowed to press its military crackdown. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:23:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208421-53-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml After 31 years of providing day care for elderly people as an alternative to a nursing home, Vintage Senior Services in East Liberty is phasing out that service through June. It will continue to operate as a senior center. The cost of adult day care has outpaced the flat funding levels of recent years, executive director Ann Truxell said. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208377-109-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml On Tuesday Gov. Tom Corbett will present his budget proposals to the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Since last year's budget was presented only days after he took office, this year's budget proposals will truly begin to define his vision for Pennsylvania and put his unique stamp on how the commonwealth addresses its critical and daunting issues. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:20:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208415-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent -- an action that many fear might trigger a wider war, terrorism and global economic havoc. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:15:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208430-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml By court order, Occupy Pittsburgh must get off BNY Mellon Green by today, but while many of the tents were removed Sunday, it was not clear whether all of the protesters would be gone. Matt Wheeler, for one, said Sunday he was not taking down his tent. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 06:43:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208389-61-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEWARK, N.J. -- The Penguins won't have to conduct an in-depth evaluation to figure out what went wrong in this one. Not when their No. 1 goalie -- the guy who has been so good, for so much of this season -- was out of the game in less than 23 minutes. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208442-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml The city of Seattle has been working behind the scenes the past eight months with a hedge-fund manager to bring an NBA team back to town -- possibly as early as next fall if the Sacramento Kings fail to get a satisfactory deal for a new arena, newly released documents show. The city Friday turned over the documents to The Seattle Times under a public records request. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208438-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml While her new boyfriend/producer Justin Vernon was preparing to make his "Saturday Night Live" debut with Bon Iver on Saturday, Kathleen Edwards was working another sold-out crowd at the Rex Theater. "SNL" ought to look her up sometime, because Kittythefool, as fans know her on Twitter, is the one with the range. Case in point was "A Soft Place to Land." Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:30:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208018-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Joining a research consortium can benefit large and small companies, especially in areas in which a business believes it is at a competitive disadvantage. A research consortium is a cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions to conduct research into a particular science or technology that is of interest to all the parties. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208088-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you haven't started looking for Mars in the evening sky, this week is a good time to start. After a two-year absence in the spotlight, the Red Planet, currently located in Leo, will soon take center stage when it arrives at opposition with the sun on March 3. Mars will rise about 8:30 tonight and will climb to about 25 degrees above the eastern horizon by 10:30. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208090-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml We're increasingly made up of artificial parts. More than 2 million Americans have received implanted pacemakers or defibrillators, for instance. More than 100,000 use insulin pumps. And hundreds of people have received bone growth stimulators during spinal fusion surgery. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208096-129.stm?cmpid=news.xml At 71, five-time Grammy award winner and music legend Dionne Warwick is still on the move. To celebrate her golden anniversary in the music business, she has embarked on a world tour that will take her to six continents. It is a long way from East Orange, N.J., where her roots in gospel music began at age 6. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208097-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml Attention local schools, health centers, charities and nonprofits: Could you use the services of a well-trained public health or health care paraprofessional? If so, the Pittsburgh Health Corps, an affiliate of the national AmeriCorps program, has got a deal for you. PHC will provide you with the services full time of a paraprofessional for 46 weeks between September 2012 and July 2013. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208102-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pam Pezzin of Freeport was walking in the woods on a winter day back around 1989 when she broke out in hives all over her body, including her stomach, arms, legs and face. Over the years, she continued to break out in bumps when it was cold outside, and she suffered from symptoms of asthma, too. She had a period of remission, but the reactions resumed about 10 years ago. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208376-109-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you want to figure out why Newt Gingrich is still out there grasping for lost power, howling at the moon like King Lear, look to Callista. You can find her anytime standing statue-still on stage next to Newt as he speaks, gazing at him with such frozen attentiveness that she could give a master class to Nancy Reagan. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208379-109-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml The worst day of Sugar Bear's 55 years was one of the days -- there have been many of them -- when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whose sentences have ended and are being released, and who see those whose sentences are just beginning, he saw one of his sons coming in. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208380-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Just as the state Supreme Court is stepping into the modern era by tweeting its rulings and allowing TV broadcasts of some sessions, its rules panel wants to take a big step backward. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208381-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Congressional Budget Office has not been in the habit of handing out valentines, and so it was last week when it offered its latest annual outlook on the federal government's economic health. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208382-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml At the height of his popularity in the early 1970s, "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius was more influential as far as young people were concerned than Congress, the president or the press. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208383-110-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml In his Jan. 30 column "Onward Civilian Soldiers," George F. Will proceeds to read President Barack Obama's mind, finding him "aspiring to command civilian life." Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208387-61-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml On an afternoon when another New York team was on the minds of many fans at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers did their best to emulate the Giants by physically wearing down Philadelphia Flyers. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208388-61-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEWARK, N.J. -- It used to be all about the numbers with Ilya Kovalchuk. Well, some of the numbers, anyway. Mostly, goals. To some extent, assists. Plus-minus? Uh, not really. But Kovalchuk, a New Jersey winger who scored one goal and set up two others in the Devils' 5-2 victory against the Penguins Sunday at Prudential Center, is a different player these days. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208395-364-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Canon-McMillan will have the numbers 4 and 93 in mind when it makes a third consecutive appearance in the PIAA Class AAA team tournament Thursday at Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. District 3 champion Central Dauphin (20-0) has won four consecutive PIAA Class AAA titles, which ties it with Easton for the state record for the most titles. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208399-449.stm?cmpid=news.xml Leave it to the biggest player on Miami's roster to put the Hurricanes on his back and carry them to their most impressive victory in quite a while. Reggie Johnson, 6 feet 10, 284 pounds, scored five of his career-high 27 points in overtime of Miami's 78-74 upset of No. 7 Duke Sunday in an Atlantic Coast Conference clash at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208400-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Darryl Bryant's 3-pointer with just over a second left in overtime gave West Virginia an 87-84 victory Sunday against Providence in a Big East Conference game at Dunkin' Donuts Center. The two teams exchanged leads throughout the extra period, and Providence's Gerard Coleman made 1 of 2 free throws to tie it at 84-84 with 10 seconds left. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208401-449-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penn State coach Coquese Washington had a simple message to her team: The game is long, so have some patience and keep playing. That's exactly what happened Sunday afternoon. Because despite making only one of their first 18 shots and trailing by 15 points in the first half the No. 19 Lady Lions (18-5, 8-3 Big Ten) rallied for a 68-65 victory at Minnesota (12-13, 4-7). Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208403-175-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tray Woodall keeps getting better, and Pitt keeps on winning. There are more intricate details involved in Pitt's four-game winning streak for sure, but Woodall's stellar play is just about all one needs to know as the Panthers continue their late push for an NCAA tournament berth. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208406-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml After a blockbuster few months, the race for the Republican presidential nomination may be about to hit the snooze button. The closely watched early states are done, and the competition has whittled down to a hardy four candidates. The next landmark day is a month off -- March 6, otherwise known as Super Tuesday. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208410-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml The long, bizarre case of a Utah wife missing for two years took a horrific turn Sunday when a powerful house explosion killed the woman's husband and his two young sons, moments after the boys arrived for a visit that was supposed to be supervised by a social worker. Authorities say the husband, Josh Powell, blew the house up on purpose. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208413-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Sunday at a police parking lot in central Kandahar, killing at least seven people, including five police officers and a child, in the fourth attempted suicide bombing in this southern city in less than a month. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208414-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Egyptian investigators filed criminal charges Sunday against at least 40 international civil society workers, reportedly including the son of a U.S. Cabinet secretary, in a case that could cost the ruling generals more than $1 billion in U.S. aid. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208416-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Subzero cold combined with snowstorms continued to claim lives across Europe, bringing the death toll to more than 280 by Sunday. Most of the victims were in Ukraine, where 30 more people died over the weekend. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208427-53-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside is being considered for the National Register of Historic Places. The board of the state historic preservation office will consider on Tuesday whether to recommend the late Gothic Revival-style cathedral built in 1907 for the register. Its recommendation then would be considered by the National Park Service, which oversees the register. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208429-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml The city of Pittsburgh will collect a new tax for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh beginning this year, but how much the latter has to pay for that service is a matter of discussion. City and library officials will meet today to iron out cost-sharing and other logistical details for collecting the library tax that voters approved in a November referendum. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml PPG Industries has been selling house paint high in lead content in the African nation of Cameroon for years, and although it says it stopped production of that paint late last year, it has rejected a request that it recall or accurately label its lead paints now selling in stores there. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208432-455-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa, a Spanish company with a manufacturing plant in Ebensburg, Cambria County, is working with the Department of Energy to transform wind power technology, making it cheaper and more reliable. If the project is successful, it could lead to the next generation of wind turbines, officials said. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208434-53-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml BLUFF: The Duquesne University Christian-Muslim Dialogue Committee will host a symposium, "Building Interreligious Relationships," from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the Africa Room on the third floor of the Duquesne Union. The symposium will focus on women and minorities in interreligious dialogue. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208435-122-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml As Eleanor Bailey was helping to plan funeral services for her father, William R. Bailey Jr., she ran across a saying that immediately made her think of him. "If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way," it read. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208441-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml Kyle Stanley rebounded from a devastating loss to win the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Ariz., overcoming an eight-stroke deficit Sunday in a comeback as unlikely as his collapse a week ago at Torrey Pines. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208443-139-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml I'm happy for the Giants' Tom Coughlin, who, in any given season, goes from coaching for his job to coaching in the Super Bowl. I'm happy for America, which, for one day, shows the world it still is the No. 1 superpower for spectacle and sport. And, of course, I'm happy that the somewhat evil Patriots lost. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208445-114-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Last year, Donate Life America, the nonprofit that advocates for people to donate their organs, reached an important, 5-year-old goal. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208449-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- Mario Manningham is no longer the New York Giants' forgotten receiver. Manningham emerged from the shadow of Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz with a catch that will rival David Tyree's Super Bowl helmet grab four years ago, helping the Giants knock off the New England Patriots, 21-17, in the NFL championship game Sunday. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208451-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw looked back, saw no one chasing him, and paused at the goal line. Could it really be this easy to score the winning touchdown in a Super Bowl game? Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208453-66-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- It's still two years away, but there should be optimism that a cold-weather Super Bowl in northern New Jersey in 2014 won't be a frigid one -- at least based on the past two years. Once again, the weather Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., was perfect for a Super Bowl: sunny, with temperatures around 40 degrees and almost no wind. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208457-66-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- In a town that Peyton Manning once owned, little brother Eli ran off with the bacon again. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208460-96-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208461-96-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- European activists who participated in American Internet protests last month learned that there was political power to be harnessed on the Web. Now they are putting that knowledge to use in an effort to defeat new global rules for intellectual property. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208462-96-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml BERLIN -- As Wall Street prepares for a record, multibillion-dollar initial stock sale from Facebook, the social networking site, a meeting with the potential to shape the economics of the deal was set to take place Monday in Vienna. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208463-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress may no longer be able to direct federal money to projects back home because of a moratorium on legislative earmarks, but that has not stopped them from trying. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208464-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- For Brad Woodhouse, the spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, it was when he came across a Twitter post about a CNN interview in which Mitt Romney seemed to shrug off concern for the very poor. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208465-84-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml LAS VEGAS -- The morning after losing to Mitt Romney by 25 points in the Nevada caucuses, Newt Gingrich did not sound very conciliatory. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208466-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The husband and the two young sons of a missing Utah woman died on Sunday at the husband's home in Washington State in what appeared to be an intentional explosion, the authorities said. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208467-298-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml The next time people try to tell you how much the data-driven education reform programs of President George W. Bush (No Child Left Behind) and President Obama (Race to the Top) have raised academic standards in America, suggest that they take a look at the Jan. 24, 2012, New York State English Regents exam. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208468-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml President Obama said Sunday that he did not believe Israel was preparing to attack Iran to disrupt its nuclear program and that diplomacy remained the "preferred solution" to resolving the standoff over what Western leaders believe is Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208469-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The collapse of diplomatic efforts to mediate Syria's uprising reverberated across the country Sunday, emboldening a government that pressed on with a crackdown in the capital's suburbs and the north and prompting rebel leaders to vow that only force would drive President Bashar al-Assad from power. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208470-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- British and Pakistani journalists said Sunday that the C.I.A.'s drone strikes on suspected militants in Pakistan have repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a strike, as well as mourners at subsequent funerals. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208471-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATHENS -- Pushed against the wall by its foreign lenders, the Greek government agreed on Sunday to drastic new spending cuts but failed to complete an arrangement that would unlock the financing the country needs to prevent default. It agreed instead to resume talks on Monday. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208472-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml ABBEVILLE, France -- This small city in northern France has few immigrants and little crime. But in the last local elections here, the candidate of the far-right National Front eliminated the standard-bearer of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party in the first round of voting and then won 30.2 percent of the vote in the runoff, losing to a Socialist. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208473-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml CAIRO -- Egypt's military-led government said Sunday that it would put 19 Americans and two dozen others on trial in a politically charged criminal investigation into the foreign financing of nonprofit groups that has shaken the 30-year alliance between the United States and Egypt. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208474-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERUSALEM -- Israelis like to say that when it comes to military and security operations, those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know. But the intense and increasingly public debate about whether to attack Iran's nuclear facilities is challenging that piece of conventional wisdom. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208475-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml GAZA -- Initial Palestinian reports late Sunday indicated that the leaders of the rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas might have found a way to break a long political deadlock by forming an interim unity government that would be led, at least at first, by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208476-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml   Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208477-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAMAKO, Mali -- In life, he delighted in fomenting insurgencies in the African nations to the south. And in death, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi is doing it all over again. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208478-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior military leaders had not leveled with the American public. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208479-82-0.stm?cmpid=news.xml KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle at a police parking lot in central Kandahar on Sunday, killing at least seven people, including five police officers and a child, in the fourth attempted or successful suicide bombing there in less than a month. Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500