http://www.post-gazette.com/ Local and regional news as it develops during the day en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:09:53 -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/12035/1208236-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208233-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A Cambria County man driving on the wrong side of the road was killed overnight in a head-on collision, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207900-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml The Atlantic Coast Conference announced scheduling formats which will be used when Pitt and Syracuse join the conference. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:20:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207964-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Federal marshals this afternoon captured a Wilmerding man accused of hitting his wife in the head with a gun and pointing it at his 11-year-old stepdaughter. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207903-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml WASHINGTON -- The Air Force today announced plans to close the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon within the next two years, moving two of its seven C-130 transport planes to other bases and retiring the rest. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207950-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A Beaver County judge denied bail today for the Bridgewater man recently charged in the 1979 death of a Monaca woman. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:58:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207948-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Bishop David A. Zubik will celebrate a memorial Mass for the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua at St. Paul Cathedral on Feb. 19. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:38:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207941-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Police have arrested a man suspected of robbing an Oakland bank Wednesday, warning tellers not to "freak out" before demanding their money. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207940-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml State police said a man was struck and killed by a car early today in Greene County. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207920-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml HARRISBURG -- The state Supreme Court issued a lengthy opinion this afternoon regarding the state's legislative redistricting plan they rejected last week, offering its first details on that decision. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:24:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207919-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml The family of a woman who went missing more than a month ago is offering $1,000 for information on her whereabouts. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207901-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today announced 10 appointments to city boards and authorities, including the parking authority, Stadium Authority and Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:45:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207904-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml INDIANAPOLIS -- Three decades after his Coke commercial won advertising's version of the Oscar, Joe Greene and his No. 75 Steelers jersey make a comeback in another Super Bowl spot on television. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:27:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207905-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A 24-year-old man cutting brush at the former Iron City Brewery site was injured by a chainsaw this morning. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207899-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A man who pleaded guilty to hundreds of criminal charges for secretly videotaping women in an East Huntingdon tanning salon was sentenced today to seven to 20 years in prison. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207897-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A small shed housing a natural gas compressor at a Mercer County well caught fire this morning, burning for more than two hours before firefighters extinguished it. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207898-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:14:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207895-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A fire at Sarris Candies in Canonsburg was smoky but apparently did little damage to the ice cream parlor and retail store at the business. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207896-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml The national unemployment rate fell in January to 8.3 percent from December's rate of 8.5 percent, an incremental decline, but the fifth straight month of increasing employment rates. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:51:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207893-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Officers have made an arrest related to a residential burglary on Hastings Avenue, he said, and they have identified a person of interest related to the theft of a small amount of cash at the Oakdale Inn on Noblestown Road. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:22:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12034/1207892-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A North Versailles man was arrested Thursday after police said he told them he shot and killed his roommate inside their Greenfield home last month during an argument about the day the victim's father died. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:07:00 -0500