http://www.post-gazette.com/ Local and regional news as it develops during the day en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 02:09:49 -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/12039/1209005-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Two days after a court-appointed deadline calling for their eviction, Occupy Pittsburgh members said they were voluntarily leaving their camp site. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1209013-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml TAMPA, Fla. -- South Florida snapped Pitt's four-game winning streak by beating the Panthers, 63-51, tonight at Tampa Times Forum. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208967-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A man's coughing fit caused him to lose control of his girlfriend's SUV and crash into the glass doors of PNC's Firstside Center Downtown on Tuesday, causing a commotion that drew a bomb squad and hordes of curious onlookers during rush hour. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:41:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208979-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml West Virginia University is close to settling a lawsuit with the Big East by paying the conference $11 million, clearing the way for the school to join the Big 12 starting with the 2012 football season, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Post-Gazette. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:04:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208987-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A Braddock police officer awaiting trial on burglary and bribery charges was arraigned today in another string of crimes in which police said he pressed a prostitute into a sham prostitution sting and stole a shotgun from evidence, among other things. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:33:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208823-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml The boyfriend of a woman who was fatally stabbed early today in Carnegie has been charged in her death. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:12:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208965-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml The Steelers began what may be a lengthy house-cleaning list when they released veterans Bryant McFadden and Arnaz Battle today. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208966-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A group that says it wants to reform Penn State University???s board of trustees today announced its endorsement of three candidates for the three alumni board seats up for election this spring. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:40:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208821-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml A man and a woman were killed and a firefighter was injured early today when a 6-year-old playing with a lighter sparked a blaze at a home in Friendship. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208964-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml HARRISBURG -- After more than three hours of debate today and months of wrangling over the legislation's details, a Marcellus Shale regulatory and impact fee measure is headed to Republican Gov. Tom Corbett. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:28:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208883-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Two Mt. Lebanon youth football coaches today were found not guilty of disorderly conduct charges related to a post-practice dispute an an elementary school in the fall. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:03:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208867-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml HARRISBURG -- The state House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted today to send a bill to extend unemployment compensation benefits for Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's signature. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:39:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208865-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml The Penguins have returned forwards Colin McDonald and Jason Williams to their farm team in Wilkes-Barre. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:06:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208863-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Two Ukrainian men pleaded guilty today to conspiring to import and sell illegal steroids and to money laundering in the culmination of an investigation that started in Pittsburgh and spread to three continents. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:49:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208844-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml HARRISBURG -- The House Gaming Oversight Committee held a hearing today on a bill that would impose 10-mile no-casino "buffer zone" around the Gettysburg National Military Park and the Flight 93 Memorial Park. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:29:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208843-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml An Allegheny County Common Pleas judge this morning delayed issuing a decision in the homicide by vehicle case against an Upper St. Clair man, saying that he was giving more time to both sides to establish the scientific value -- or lack of it -- of the data recorder in the crashed car. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:01:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208826-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml County sheriff's deputies this morning arrested a man wanted in connection with a shooting at a birthday party that left one teen dead and seven others wounded. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:15:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208822-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml Gov. Tom Corbett today again declined to give details of how he plans to deal with the state's transportation funding crisis, and said he couldn't guarantee a solution that would avert record transit service cuts in Pittsburgh. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:44:00 -0500