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(AP) — A convicted child sex offender has been charged with drunken driving because http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6652376/pa-man-drove-drunk-to-megan-8217-s-law-meeting Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:40:08 -0700 ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENSBURG, Pa. - The state Attorney General's Office said yesterday that it would steer suspects in its Internet child-predator stings around Westmoreland County, where a judge in a four-year-old case has twice issued a sentence that prosecutors... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6448458/sex-sting-prosecutors-to-avoid-westmoreland-county-court Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:01:08 -0700 ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENSBURG, Pa. - The state Attorney General's Office said yesterday that it would steer suspects in its Internet child-predator stings around Westmoreland County, where a judge in a four-year-old case has twice issued a sentence that prosecutors... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6448495/sex-sting-prosecutors-to-avoid-westmoreland-county-court Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:01:08 -0700 GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A husband and wife have been jailed for smuggling $2.1 million worth of scrap silver out of a western Pennsylvania plant in their lunch boxes. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6246314/couple-jailed-for-smuggling-silver-from-pa-plant Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:00:08 -0700 Tuition won't increase this fall at University of Pittsburgh regional campuses in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville. The decision announced yesterday affects about 7,000 students. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5708605/no-tuition-increase-at-pitt-regional-campuses Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:00:08 -0700 Tuition will not increase this fall at University of Pittsburgh regional campuses in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown and Titusville. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5706875/no-tuition-hike-at-pitt-s-regional-campuses Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:40:08 -0700 Entrepreneurs with ideas for new information technology, life sciences or other technology businesses may be able to secure low-interest loans of up to $200,000 through the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682241/pittsburgh-entrepreneur-fund-debuts Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:48:03 -0700 The facility will serve as the center for Allegheny Energy's multi-state transmission functions and will bring about 150 jobs to Fairmont, W.Va. The 148,000-square-foot building... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682242/allegheny-energy-breaks-ground-on-west-virginia-transmission-facility Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:48:03 -0700 Pittsburgh International Airport officials are poised today to authorize $20 million in borrowing to lower its fees to airlines, which are among the highest in the country. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682240/pittsburgh-international-airport-set-to-ok-20m-loan-to-lower-airline-fees Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:48:02 -0700 State police at Uniontown identified the victim as Karen A. Metz, 65, of Confluence. Metz was the passenger in a 2006 Chevrolet Impala driven by her husband, George W. Metz, 69. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682182/somerset-woman-dies-in-head-on-wreck-on-route-40-in-henry-clay Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:41:25 -0700 The agreement explains that GSP Consulting Inc. and its PAC failed to disclose their affiliation with a disbanded Pittsburgh political action committee established by Houston... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682180/gsp-consulting,-pac-agree-to-pay-federal-election-commission-26,000-fine Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:41:07 -0700 Jim Antoniono, the challenger to three-term incumbent John Peck in the Democratic primary May 19, held a news conference yesterday morning in Monessen's Ninth Street Park, near... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682181/westmoreland-da-race-focuses-on-donora-monessen-gunfights Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:41:07 -0700 The search continues for a 14-year-old Pennsylvania girl the FBI believes could be traveling with a man from Montana who was charged with raping five girls in 2005. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682178/erie-girl,-14,-could-be-with-former-rape-suspect-from-montana Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:41:06 -0700 Pittsburgh could be connected to the East Coast by high-speed passenger rail under a President Obama proposal. The administration will use $8 billion from the economic stimulus... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682179/obama-pitches-13b-high-speed-rail-plan-linking-pittsburgh-with-east-coast Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:41:06 -0700 PennDOT spokeswoman Valerie Petersen said a fresh base layer and asphalt topping will be applied to portions of the bridge that spans the Allegheny River between Allegheny... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682177/freeport-bridge-resurfacing-planned-before-major-rehabilitation-in-2010 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:41:05 -0700 Butler police found Leonard Teuteberg, 23, and Scott Tucker, 22, both of Butler City, stranded on the tower on Kittanning Street behind Butler Fabricating about 3:40 a.m. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682175/two-butler-city-men-charged-with-trespassing-on-high-tension-wire-tower Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:41:02 -0700 When Donna Detore was growing up in Jeannette, there were family picnics at Bushy Run and using the battlefield site as a recreational area. Later, in a college world history... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682174/bushy-run-guide-finds-visitors-enjoy-stories Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:40:53 -0700 "Ohio Country," said Miller, the museum educator at Bushy Run Battlefield. "Ohio Country is an 18th century term for pretty much everything west of the Allegheny Mountains. It's... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682173/history-buffs-get-fill-of-ohio-country-at-bushy-run Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:40:51 -0700 Trib Total Media recognized 10 gold medal winners Thursday in its 2009 Outstanding Young Citizens program. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682170/ten-teens-from-southern,-western-pittsburgh-suburbs-honored-by-trib Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:40:32 -0700 David T. Richards of Nevillewood in Collier, a retired executive for PNC Financial Services Group Inc., died on Wednesday, April 15, 2009, in his home. He was 74. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/5682169/retired-collier-banker-treasured-grove-city-college Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:40:24 -0700