Investigators are trying to determine what killed an employee at the Sewickley sewage treatment plant Thursday and sickened three of his would-be rescuers who rushed into a deep underground shaft where he had fallen 30 feet. (Today)

A former Upper St. Clair High School student who already claimed she had been raped once was raped again on school property after school officials used her as bait in a failed attempt to catch students they believed were having sex in the building, her attorneys claim. (Today)

The family of a former Etna man says he committed suicide after the Diocese of Pittsburgh cut off funds for psychiatric treatment he needed after a priest sexually abused him when he was a child. (Today)

A 39-year-old miner was killed Thursday by falling rock in northern West Virginia, the 43rd coal mining death this year nationwide. (Today)

A new long-range Transportation Improvement Program for southwestern Pennsylvania slashes spending on roads and bridges by 32 percent over the coming four years because of funding shortages and uncertainty. (Yesterday)