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The Garrett Jones story grew yet again, with two more mighty swings for home runs, including the one in the 14th inning that lifted the Pirates to a 2-1 triumph against the San Francisco Giants last night before 26,709 at PNC Park.

A Canonsburg man was killed this afternoon on Route 519 in North Strabane when a truck crossed the center line and struck his vehicle head-on.

A state audit of Allegheny County's 911 center following the shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh police officers in April did not review the mishandled emergency call to which they responded.

The John Legend concert on Aug. 3, originally scheduled for the Riverplex Amphitheatre in Homestead, has been moved to the Palace Theatre in Greensburg. Opener India.Arie will no longer be performing.

Penn State University officials today decided to increase the base in-state tuition rate on the main campus by 4.5 percent for 2009-10, or $590 a year, instead of the higher rate the trustees had considered last week.

Diamond Antiques and Gifts will soon have a new awning, new sign, new lights and a new front door thanks to a grant from Allegheny Restores.

Dan Onorato asked the state Emergency Management Agency to examine how the 911 emergency call center operates and what changes can be made.

The facility offers spacious, up-to-date facilities that will be better than the labs on TV. The equipment will make crime research safer and faster, especially in a robotic DNA lab.

An authority committee gave preliminary approval to a three-year deal with Bank of America for processing transactions whenever a customer uses a credit card.

The Secret Service intends to release details of its security plan in September that will include its effect on river traffic and the streets that will be closed.

This weekend a ceremony will be held to honor a local soldier who was seriously injured 14 months ago in Afghanistan, in a suicide bomb attack.

Seven years after two young men were found dead along a Butler County roadway, their families are still looking for answers; and they're hoping a $20,000 reward may help them finally find out what happened to the teenagers.

An accident in the Hill District snapped a utility pole in two and at least one person was transported to UPMC Presbyterian, according to Pittsburgh police.

A Democratic spending plan is on its way to the Pennsylvania Senate, which is planning to meet this weekend to take it up.

Thousands of state employees received partial paychecks Friday in lieu of a state budget. If a deal on the budget is not reached soon those same employees will not get paid at all.

BEAVER, Pa. -- A Beaver County jury acquitted a man accused of disrupting a public meeting when he took a gun to a rally for Sen. Barack Obama last summer.

Splitting pills is controversial, but more and more doctors and even some insurance companies are advising patients to go ahead and do it to save money on prescription drugs.

A 95-year-old woman spent the night in the woods after her car crashed into a ditch in Armstrong County. Due to her friends' quick thinking, the story had a happy ending.

A judge decided on Friday that there was enough evidence to hold a school janitor for trial on stalking charges.

A telephone pole was brought to the ground after a two-vehicle crash in the Hill District Friday afternoon.

A 5-year-old playing with his friend in Turtle Creek was attacked by a dog that had broken free from a leash, police say.

A man ran away from a stolen car after crashing into a utility pole in Pittsburgh's Hill District, leaving his injured female passenger inside and part of the neighborhood in the dark.

A new Pittsburgh company called Steel City Soils is pushing the concept of urban gardening, and it says no lot or yard is too small to grow your own food.

Dysport is a new wrinkle eraser on the market that's a different version of Botox made by a different company.

Three years ago, city officials promised action after fatal car accidents at 29th Street and Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh's Strip District. Even before those accidents, City Councilman Bill Peduto was pressing the mayor's office for a traffic light there.

Highmark Inc. and Pennsylvania’s three other Blues plans will be examined by the state Insurance Department to determine if the plans have engaged in anti-competitive or unfair trade practices, Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario announced today.

Round one goes to Mark Cuban.

Dr. Michael Madden has been named chief medical officer of Gateway Health Plan, the Downtown-based insurer announced.

Pennsylvania House Democrats’ $29.1 billion budget proposal is expected to go up for a final vote on Friday, a day after the defeat of a $27.27 billion Republican budget proposal.

Two Pittsburgh area chambers of commerce are merging, effective Jan. 1, 2010. Directors of the Cranberry Area Chamber of Commerce and Northern Allegheny County Chamber of Commerce voted Friday to combine. It will rank among the three largest such organizations in western Pennsylvania, representing more than 1,000 members.

It is a piece of porch furniture called a "glider" and as whimsical and as lighter-than-air sounding as the name may be, this thing is anything but.

Every American has an opportunity to help plant trees in the nation's forests by joining the Arbor Day Foundation during the month of July.

West Franklin joined the growing list of Armstrong County municipalities having Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance for its business and residential areas.

The Kittanning Public Library has placed the following memorial books on its shelves.

A Madison Township woman spent Wednesday night alone along a creek in Boggs Township after she wrecked her vehicle sometime that day, according to friends and neighbors of the victim who found the woman Thursday morning.

Visitors to the Underground Railroad History Center in Blairsville can view the work of area artist Howard Murray, who will display a variety of his silhouette art at the open house event -- his second such exhibit in the last year.

On Wednesday township supervisors agreed to advertise a proposed Burrell Township ordinance that would require all township residents who live within reach of any future Highridge Water Authority line expansion to tap into the public service.

At a special Wednesday meeting, Blairville council approved a consulting agreement with the Harrisburg-based Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association, authorizing it to conduct a search for and screening of candidates for the vacant chief post at a cost of $3,000 plus expenses.

In hopes of coaxing owners of vacant or foreclosed properties to trim their own grass, Derry council on Monday approved advertising amendments to a lawn maintenance ordinance that would enact stricter penalties and guidelines.

At Monday's meeting, the Indiana Area School Board unanimously directed the administration to draft a plan for the possible incorporation of the ninth grade within the senior high beginning with the 2010-11 school year.

The following local students were named to the President's List at Westmoreland County Community College for the spring 2009 semester. Carmichaels: Priscilla A. Michalik Greensboro: Nancy McIntire Jefferson: Heather L. Yorko New Freeport: Hannah R. Fordyce Sycamore: Jason Rogers Waynesburg: Leanna P. Fabean

FRANKLIN TWP. - Franklin Township supervisors Monday addressed residents' complaints regarding code enforcement on a neighboring residence.

Waynesburg University's Celebrating the Arts series will present a community production of 'Little Shop of Horrors' on Thursday, July 23 through Saturday, July 25.

Jefferson-Morgan High School students Nikki Smith and Bradley Wilson were each awarded a $1,000 Jefferson Morgan PTO scholarship along with several other scholarships at the Jefferson Morgan Awards Banquet in May.

Patricia Lemley, chair of the Greene County Children and Youth Services and Human Services advisory boards, has received the 2009 Humanitarian Award from the Southwestern Pennsylvania Area Agency on Aging.

A South Fayette teenager will do no time as an adult if he is convicted of trying to kill his family with homemade chemical bombs.  read more »

The drivers described the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix in Schenley Park and its sister event, the Historic Races at BeaveRun MotorSports Complex, as "gentlemen's races."  read more »

For more than two years, the Carnegie police department has gone without a K-9 program.  read more »

Q&A with retiring Carnegie Councilwoman Dorothy Kelly  read more »

Town Talk: Amy DiPietro and Tim Gastgeb were married on June 20, 2009 at Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church.  read more »