http://www.post-gazette.com/ All News en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:15:01 -0400 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/10081/1044715-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILWAUKEE -- Anyone who watched Pitt this season knew one of its two shots in the waning seconds of an NCAA tournament second-round game against Xavier was going to go in to force overtime. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:04:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044749-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Aided by an 11th-hour compromise on abortion, Democrats in the House narrowly passed a landmark health care bill Sunday night, capping a tumultuous debate that will resume this week in the Senate. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:38:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044771-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml To the Editor: Regarding "Tuscany Without the Crowds" (March 7): In its catalog of great places to stay in the Val d'Orcia, the article didn't mention the beautiful and reasonably priced monastery of Sant'Anna in Camprena (www.camprena.it), near Pienza. Built in the 15th century and now gracefully restored as an agriturismo, it's where the Italian segments of "The English Patient" were filmed. Last June I spent a wonderful, crowd-free week there for 60 euros (about $80) a night, including breakfast. All the Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044772-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044773-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- A search for "Louis Vuitton" on Google's British Web site turns up an advertisement for "Designer Handbags 70% off" -- to the fury of LVMH, the French luxury goods conglomerate that owns the brand. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044774-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml The mayor of Duluth, Minn., threw himself into the ice-ringed waters of Lake Superior. The mayor of Sarasota, Fla., immersed himself in a tank filled with bonnethead sharks, simply to one-up him. The mayor of Wilmington, N.C., said that he would even jump out of an airplane -- with a parachute, of course. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044775-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Mobile photographers could soon have much better cameras on their cellphones, thanks to technology known as quantum dots. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044776-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml This is an excerpt from the On the Runway blog, written by Cathy Horyn, the fashion critic for The Times. You can also follow Ms. Horyn on Twitter at Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044777-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sarah Ariel Rombom, a daughter of Ann R. Cohen of Manhattan and Howard M. Rombom of North Hills, N.Y., was married Saturday evening to Stefan Francisco Singer, a son of Hilarie Horne and Carlos Ricardo Francisco Singer of Santiago, Chile. The Rev. Jesse D. Hendrich, a minister of the Church of Spiritual Humanism, officiated at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044778-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jessica deCourcy Hinds, a daughter of Susan M. Lapinski of Manhattan and the late Michael deCourcy Hinds, was married in Manhattan Saturday to Stefan Franklyn Griswold, a son of Genevieve I. Griswold and S. Frank Griswold of San Diego. The Rev. Craig D. Townsend, an Episcopal priest, officiated aboard the Bateaux, a tour boat, docked at Pier 61 on the Hudson River. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044779-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Kisha Imani Cameron and Eric Lee Dingle were married Friday evening at the Riviera, a caterer in Brooklyn. The Rev. Karim Camara, a Baptist minister and a New York State assemblyman who represents the 43rd District in Brooklyn, officiated. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044780-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dr. Amy M. Nuernberg and Mark A. Ahasic were married Saturday evening at the Rookery Building, a Chicago landmark. The Rev. Sandra Nuernberg, a Presbyterian minister and an aunt of the bride, officiated. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044781-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml A report on the underrepresentation of women in science and math by the American Association of University Women, to be released Monday, found that although women have made gains, stereotypes and cultural biases still impede their success. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044782-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml BOSTON -- Jane Petion lived in her home for 15 years and saw its value rise slowly, rise rapidly and, when the housing bubble burst, plunge at a sickening pace that left her owing $400,000 on a house worth closer to $250,000. Last June, her lender foreclosed on the property. The family received notices of eviction and appeared in housing court. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044783-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, in confronting the U.S. government's chronic problem with budget deficits, should consider the counsel of a former Bush official and propose a radical new consumption tax that most Americans oppose. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044784-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of immigrants and activists rallied here on Sunday, calling for legislation this year to give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants and seeking to pressure President Obama to keep working on the contentious issue once the health care debate is behind him. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044785-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A new survey of nonprofit groups suggests that this year will be as challenging for them as 2009, when many organizations suffered from declines in giving, delays in government payments and increased demand for their services. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044786-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Along with the major health care legislation, the House on Sunday approved a major revamping of federal student loan programs that eliminates fees paid to private banks to act as intermediaries. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044787-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BEIJING -- In another era, the brusque response of Li Hongzhong, the governor of Hubei Province, to a reporter's question about a scandal on his home turf might have been the end of it. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044788-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERUSALEM -- During a visit here on Sunday, the Obama administration's Middle East envoy, George J. Mitchell, extended an invitation for the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to speak with President Obama in Washington this week. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044789-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml DUBLIN -- Pope Benedict XVI's weekend apology to sufferers of sexual abuse at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland met with a deeply skeptical and often angry response from many Catholics here on Sunday, with one prominent victim calling it ineffectual and demanding that the pope forcibly remove the head of the Irish church if he does not resign. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044790-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml CAIRO -- Down a winding alley, deep in a quiet neighborhood of rutted roads and donkey carts, where food vendors sold cheap sandwiches and children chased after a soccer ball, an extraordinary moment passed here with little notice: Jews and Muslims, Israelis and Egyptians sat together and celebrated their shared heritage. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044689-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Bill Taub, a self-taught NASA photographer who documented the country's major aeronautics and space-flight events from 1958 to 1975, including the missions that sent the first Americans into orbit and the first humans onto the moon, died Feb. 20 at a Lanham, Md., hospital. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:09:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044679-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml DOWNTOWN: A sacred music program takes place at 12:30 p.m. at First Lutheran Church, 615 Grant St. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:03:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044671-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jim Caviezel, the actor who played Jesus in the blockbuster movie "The Passion of the Christ," will speak about his Catholic faith April 11 at A.J. Palumbo Center at Duquesne University. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:01:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044756-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia outlasted American Andy Roddick, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5), to win the BNP Paribas Open Sunday in Indian Wells, Calif. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:57:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044727-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml West Virginia 68 Missouri 59 (at Buffalo, N.Y.) Da'Sean Butler accounted for 19 of West Virginia's 30 points in the first half, then finished with 28 to lead the second-seeded Mountaineers to a Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:55:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044769-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml Liz Repella had 15 points and 11 rebounds and No. 3 seed West Virginia bolted to an early lead and cruised to a 58-43 victory against No. 14-seed Lamar in Austin, Texas, in the first round of the Memphis Region. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:51:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044760-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant has created a lot of buzz this season, the way Indiana's Danny Granger did a year earlier. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:50:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044759-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jim Furyk showed the nerves of a player trying to win for the first time on the PGA Tour. Considering how long it had been since his previous victory, it felt that way. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:48:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044658-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pirates' fifth-starter candidates, pitching today, heading opposite ways Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:42:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044702-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml The champagne long has been wiped from the walls of the visitors' locker room. All on-ice markings and building decorations from the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs are gone. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:42:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044705-66.stm?cmpid=news.xml ORLANDO, Fla. -- As the NFL converged on the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for the annual league meetings, high on the buzz list among club officials and coaches is one Ben Roethlisberger. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:42:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044691-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml The score of Sunday's NCAA tournament Dayton regional first-round game between No. 15 seed Saint Francis of Loretto and No. 2 seed Ohio State was, as expected, out of hand early. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:40:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044714-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Everyone got it right. Well, about halfway right. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:32:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044651-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml Go ahead -- call us impatient. But it's taking an awfully long time for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, both run by Democrats, to make those money-saving consolidations. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:29:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044746-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml When history came calling, Jason Altmire turned away. The two-term congressman from McCandless voted against his party's long-fought effort to reform health care in America. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:29:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044747-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml After all the lies and distortion, all the deceit and fear mongering, the House of Representatives cast a landmark vote Sunday night to extend health insurance to 32 million Americans. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:26:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044731-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL -- Thirteen Afghan civilians died in violence Sunday as the nation's hard-line vice president expressed hopes for reconciliation and representatives of a militant group with ties to the Taliban brought their own draft of a peace deal to the capital. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:25:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044739-294.stm?cmpid=news.xml There's an activity in Pittsburgh that I really enjoy. It's the driving. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:24:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044740-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Delegates at a global wildlife conservation conference voted Sunday to protect a coveted salamander but rejected a more sweeping proposal that would have regulated the trade of red and pink corals worldwide. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:24:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044737-152.stm?cmpid=news.xml Barack Obama floated into the Oval Office on the billowing rhetoric of bipartisan cooperation despite a voting record that pointed to the opposite extreme. A war-weary public preferred rhetoric to reality, his cool promises to his cold practice. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:23:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044738-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml ATLANTA -- As one superbug seems to be fading as a threat in hospitals, another is on the rise, a new study suggests. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:23:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044744-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The uninsured are clearly the biggest beneficiaries of the historic legislation, which would extend the health care safety net for the lowest-income Americans. The legislation is also meant to provide coverage for as many as 32 million people who have been shut out of the market -- whether because insurers deem them too sick or because they cannot afford ever-rising insurance premiums. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:22:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044750-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Legislation hailed by supporters as the most significant changes to college student lending in a generation was included in the health care reform legislation taken up by the House on Sunday night. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:22:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044748-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Holding signs urging health care reform, more than 25 people quietly marched back and forth on the sidewalk in front of U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire's McCandless home Sunday afternoon. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:17:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044728-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml The U-2 spy plane, the high-flying aircraft that was often at the heart of Cold War suspense, is enjoying an encore. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:11:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044729-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARIS -- The long-flailing French left made a big-time comeback Sunday, crushing Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives in regional elections colored by voters' economic worries -- and informally kicking off the 2012 presidential race. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:11:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044730-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml JERUSALEM -- Israel will not restrict construction in east Jerusalem, Israel's prime minister said Sunday, hours before he left for Washington, despite a clear U.S. demand that building there must stop. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:11:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044725-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml BAGHDAD -- Iraq's electoral commission on Sunday rejected demands from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani for a manual recount of ballots, saying there was no justification for further delaying results of the March 7 parliamentary polls. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:10:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044716-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml BOSTON -- Jane Petion lived in her home for 15 years and saw its value rise slowly, rise rapidly and, when the housing bubble burst, plunge at a sickening pace that left her owing $400,000 on a house worth closer to $250,000. Last June, her lender foreclosed on the property. The family received notices of eviction and appeared in housing court. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:09:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044717-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- Frustrated with the pace of action to overhaul the country's immigration system, thousands of demonstrators descended on the nation's capital Sunday, waving American flags and holding homemade signs in English and Spanish. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:09:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044720-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A report by the American Association of University Women on the underrepresentation of women in science and math, to be released today, found that although women have made gains, stereotypes and cultural biases still impede their success. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:09:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044733-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Cornell players jumped up and down near midcourt, exchanging chest-bumps and high-fives, then ran toward their fans. And stood around. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:09:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044718-454.stm?cmpid=news.xml PHILADELPHIA -- Thousands of teenagers and young adults swarmed Philadelphia's popular South Street on Saturday night, prompting businesses to close early and police to bring in reinforcements to control the crowd. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:08:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044719-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml MIAMI -- Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming that company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:08:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044669-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml Eleven teams of investors and parking operators want a shot at leasing Pittsburgh's public garages, meters and lots, suggesting a vigorous competition for the potential nine-figure deal, according to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's administration. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:07:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044670-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Construction season moves into high gear this morning with major changes in traffic patterns on Route 65 at the Interstate 79 interchange in Glenfield. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:07:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044721-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILWAUKEE -- In the red-eyed Pitt locker room, the presumptive options were revealed without any self-consciousness, much less any irony. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:07:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1039699-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml PARK CITY, Utah - The movie stars and the Hollywood executives were packing up as the Sundance Film Festival entered its final days in Park City. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044134-429.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044135-429.stm?cmpid=news.xml Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044187-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml Quesiton: I have a co-worker who is very moody. Whenever I ask about one of her projects or suggest a way to do things more efficiently, "Andrea" gets snippy and starts muttering under her breath. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044188-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml Thomas Jefferson once said, "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." In a competitive job market, a little luck can be invaluable. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044189-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml According to a recent survey by a leading staffing firm, the greatest challenge faced by people re-entering the work force after an extended absence is not mastering new technologies or learning Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044200-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml This week, stargazers can observe the waxing moon pass Mars and Saturn as it travels through the southern sky. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044219-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the battle of the premium cable channels, Showtime vs. HBO, Showtime seems to be winning on the comedy front. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044220-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml In "United States of Tara," Toni Collette stars as a woman with dissociative identity disorder (aka "multiple personalities"), but as the new season begins, her alters -- Buck, Alice, etc. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044235-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml At age 11, Audrey Niffenegger drew, wrote and created handmade books, including a 70-page account of her illustrated fantasy tour with the Beatles. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044236-129.stm?cmpid=news.xml Co-host of "America's Newsroom" on Fox News Channel, Bill Hemmer started his broadcast career as a sportscaster before being plucked from local markets to work as an anchor on various CNN programs, including "American Morning." Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044237-44.stm?cmpid=news.xml People sometimes mistake Tommy James for a Pittsburgh artist, and it's not an unreasonable assumption. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044238-348.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- Sandra Bullock reached the pinnacle of her profession on March 7, when she won an Academy Award. Her husband, Jesse James, was by her side. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044639-453.stm?cmpid=news.xml Major road work begins today on Route 65, Route 28, Fort Duquesne Bridge and elsewhere. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044646-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml A story that is not getting nearly enough attention is the ruinous fiscal meltdown occurring in state after state, all across America. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044647-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml The last thing Pittsburghers want is another drink tax. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044648-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil rights era. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044654-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml I was extremely disheartened, even offended, by the recent PG editorial applauding the decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the Newdow case ("Not a Prayer: Mention of the Almighty Survives a New Legal Attack," March 15). Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044657-125.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penguins Q&A with Dave Molinari Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044659-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml DETROIT -- Few bands have managed the endurance game like Bon Jovi. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044660-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml LOS ANGELES -- Alice remains the queen of the box office. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" took in $34.5 million to remain the No. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044661-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml Opera Review: Bizet's feisty, alluring and colorful heroine Carmen so dominates his popular opera of the same name that it's easy to forget just how dangerous her life is in the story set around 1830 in Spain. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044672-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Strong feelings over adopting a prevailing wage ordinance for Allegheny County appear to have lessened since Pittsburgh passed its version. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044673-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml One reason more than 3,000 professional counselors gathered in Pittsburgh last week for an annual convention is because the field keeps reinventing itself, the American Counseling Association's current president said. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044674-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Pentecostal preacher's kid who embraced John Calvin and became a mentor to hundreds of pastors in the Presbyterian Church (USA) will be installed next month as the pastor to Pittsburgh Presbytery. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044681-55.stm?cmpid=news.xml The pilot of a small plane made a safe forced landing in the backyard of a Fayette County home Sunday evening, according to reports from the county dispatch center. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044682-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml Joe Mauer is staying home. The AL MVP agreed to an eight-year, $184 million contract extension with Minnesota Sunday that includes a full no-trade clause, a massive deal that shows the Twins are not spending like a small-market club. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044683-132.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRISTOL, Tenn. -- There's an aura about Bristol Motor Speedway, a track that drivers and fans love equally for its electric, throwback-style racing. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044685-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml If this the year of the West End? Dru Simeone thinks so -- and her enthusiasm rides on a new brand: West End Village. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044686-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Like much of the music he critiqued in his three decades at The Pittsburgh Press, Carl Apone's life was marked by artistic discipline, textured with dynamic range, nuanced with creative passion. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044690-175.stm?cmpid=news.xml Go back in time for a minute, back to March 12, 2007. ... Sports commentary by Ron Cook Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044692-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt associate head women's basketball coach Jeff Williams has developed a reputation as an excellent recruiter. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044701-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml With the Northeast Division all but wrapped up and their struggles on the road a distant memory, the Buffalo Sabres like where they are less than a month before the NHL playoffs begin. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044711-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dick Barron got into the snow business when Kaufmann's Downtown store hired him to work part time in its ski shop while he attended computer classes at a nearby technical school. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044713-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILWAUKEE -- In a recurring late-season theme, Pitt's inability to defend effectively Sunday against Xavier cost the Panthers their sixth trip to the Sweet 16 in the past nine years. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10081/1044726-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml Standing outside the locker room, Cole Aldrich hugged anyone he could find, trying to console his dejected teammates. Maybe he was doing it for himself, too. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044650-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILWAUKEE -- No. 6 seed Xavier defeated No. 3 seed Pitt, 71-68, today in an NCAA second-round game at the Bradley Center to deny the Panthers of their sixth trip to the Sweet 16 in the past nine years. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:28:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044649-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will issue an executive order related to abortion coverage in the health care bill, satisfying a bloc of anti-abortion Democrats led by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who comprise the final votes necessary to pass the bill in the House. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:20:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044645-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml No. 2-seed West Virginia (29-6) was shaky at times but did enough to win, earning a 68-59 victory against No. 10-seed Missouri (23-11) in an East Region second-round NCAA tournament game this afternoon at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, N.Y. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:47:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044644-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Pitt associate head women's basketball coach Jeff Williams is expected to be named the head coach at LaSalle University in Philadelphia later this week, according to multiple sources. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:42:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044643-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Pirates and Tampa Bay Rays had their Grapefruit League game canceled by rain this afternoon at McKechnie Field. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:57:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044642-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ohio State beat St. Francis, Pa., 93-59, this afternoon in an NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Dayton Region first round game at the Petersen Events Center. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:03:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044640-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml A lane restriction that caused massive traffic jams on the outbound Parkway West on Saturday has been lifted. Both lanes are open entering the outbound Squirrel Hill Tunnel. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:51:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044641-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:51:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044491-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml As anonymous content proliferates across the Internet, so does the opportunity for robust debate, invective, insights, insults and lawsuits. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:37:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044252-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml You know all this in your bones. Words that describe the river-related features of our region's landscape are a vocabulary we've absorbed without conscious effort. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:25:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044597-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Michigan fugitive was arrested Friday night after he left Allegheny General Hospital and walked into a North Side bar clad only in a hospital gown and with an intravenous needle still in his arm. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:04:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044246-467.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Motorola Droid, the phone that Verizon Wireless used so effectively to start their heads-on marketing battle with the AT&T/Apple iPhone juggernaut, offers an intriguing alternative for people who want a phone that offers many of the same benefits of the iPhone. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:49:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044247-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Dear Dad: It has been almost seven years since you passed away, and although I know I can never actually give you this letter, if you could read it you would undoubtedly be both surprised and saddened by the path taken not only by Wall Street but by the country as a whole. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:40:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044539-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Edgar Wayburn, 103, a physician and five-time Sierra Club president who is credited with protecting more wilderness and parkland than any other American citizen, died March 5 at his home in San Francisco. No cause of death was reported. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:35:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043961-74.stm?cmpid=news.xml This month's "big American novel" is "Matterhorn" by Karl Marlantes (Atlantic Monthly Press, $24.95), on sale Tuesday. It's taken 35 years for the author, a U.S. Marine and Vietnam veteran, to publish his 565-page story of a company of Marines fighting in that war. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:24:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043923-51.stm?cmpid=news.xml SAN FRANCISCO -- After reviewing objections, a San Jose federal judge has approved a $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit over social networking site Facebook's program Beacon that published what users were buying. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:20:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044243-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Local officials are happy to hold a news conference followed by a ribbon cutting whenever new companies are lured into the state, but those big gets often turn out to be small potatoes when compared with the small companies that develop locally. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:17:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044304-155.stm?cmpid=news.xml One of the worst corruption scandals in American history erupted 100 years ago today in Pittsburgh. That's right, boys and girls. On this day in 1910, some 41 Pittsburghers -- council members, bankers and industrialists -- were indicted for corruption. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:06:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044240-435.stm?cmpid=news.xml The outcome of a criminal trial that opens in a Shanghai courtroom Monday will be closely watched by those whose fortunes depend on the political and business climate in the world's third-largest economy. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:04:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044292-426.stm?cmpid=news.xml Following his election to the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1928, Michael A. Musmanno became its youngest member. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:53:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044638-147.stm?cmpid=news.xml Route 30 has reopened in North Versailles, PennDOT announced today. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:25:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044637-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Two people were critically hurt in a one-vehicle crash at 10:43 p.m. Saturday on Bakerstown Road in West Deer. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:32:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044636-100.stm?cmpid=news.xml Police are investigating an early morning shooting that happened in the 6500 block of Hamilton Avenue in East Liberty. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:19:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044565-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml SARASOTA, Fla. -- The Pirates are beginning to see the aggressive Charlie Morton they prefer. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:28:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044531-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml SARASOTA, Fla. -- John Russell is entering his third season as the Pirates' manager, having overseen a 129-194 record, two last-place finishes, an extension of the franchise's losing streak to 17 seasons and more roster overhaul than any of his peers in Major League Baseball. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:24:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044509-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml North Allegheny coach Dave DeGregorio emerged from his team's locker room after Saturday afternoon's game with a wide grin. "That," DeGregorio said to reporters, "was a lot of fun." Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:08:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044545-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILWAUKEE -- Xavier senior center Jason Love said he and his teammates won't have revenge on their minds in the hours leading up to an NCAA second-round game today against Pitt, the team that Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:08:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044613-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml If the Dallas Stars are going to make a late run at the playoffs, their offense will need to keep clicking at the current rate. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:06:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044609-275.stm?cmpid=news.xml Derrick Rose scored 23 points in his return from a sprained left wrist, and the visiting Chicago Bulls snapped their losing streak at 10 games with a 98-84 victory against the Philadelphia 76ers Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:04:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044499-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml At his accounting office on Main Street, Robert Eyer polished the talk he was about to give and admitted he wasn't crazy about the topic: LAM. "Life After Murtha," he explained. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:03:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044616-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml ASIA is beginning to look a lot more like America -- at least when it comes to hotels. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044617-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml THE BASICS Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044618-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml DOWN a crooked lane across from a shabby beauty shop, the old Macao mansion known as the Mandarin's House always seemed to have space for newcomers knocking at its gate. Built around 1869, the house and its 60-odd rooms started to fill with renters after 1920. As more tenants moved in, parlors were subdivided, doors were added, staircases were moved. When still more came, they built shacks in the garden. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044619-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml WAN CHAI used to be best known among foreigners as an area crowded with seedy bars and massage parlors, but it remained popular for locals, filled with historic tenement blocks, old-fashioned street markets by day and youngsters shooting hoops after school. Now, the Hong Kong neighborhood is thriving, as a nascent cultural scene emerges and as young creative types and entrepreneurs alike are being lured by cheaper rents. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044620-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml Decades ago, a recipe for sabudana vada sealed the fate and fortune of Prakash. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044621-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml To thank me for helping them, my neighbors invited me for Sunday brunch. While we were dining, the waiter placed two dozen oysters on the table. My hosts told me they were just for the hostess, and I couldn't have any. I was dumbfounded! Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044622-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Carrie Lee Gelnar and Gustav William Eyler were married Saturday in Princeton, N.J. The Rev. Nancy A. Conklin, a Presbyterian minister, performed the ceremony at the Princeton University Chapel. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044623-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml FORTY-FIVE minutes after a curtain call for her most recent Broadway play, Alicia Silverstone was searching a restaurant menu for comfort food. She settled on nachos and onion rings to start, and mulled beer selections with two girlfriends who had seen her show that night. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044624-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Starr Elizabeth Haymes and Jacques-Laurent Kempin are to be married Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla. Rabbi Sol Roth is to officiate at the Mar-a-Lago Club. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044625-314.stm?cmpid=news.xml Michele Amy Jarchin, a daughter of Sharon Jarchin and Andrew Jarchin of Plainview, N.Y., is to be married Sunday to Philip Jay Sobel, a son of Maralyn Sobel and E. Lloyd Sobel, also of Plainview. Rabbi Martin S. Cohen is to perform the ceremony, with Rabbi Howard Buechler participating, at the Shelter Rock Jewish Center in Roslyn, N.Y. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044626-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Seven years ago, a reclusive Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman, startled the scientific world by claiming to solve one of the most famous and intractable problems in mathematics, called the Poincaré conjecture, and then disappearing back into St. Petersburg. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044627-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml The National Academy of Sciences said Friday that the scientific rationale behind a decision to protect the endangered smelt, a tiny fish, by restricting the pumping of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was sound. The Interior Department asked the academy to undertake a review at the request of Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who would like to find ways to allow drought-plagued farmers to get more water. Growers in Northern California have filed lawsuits contesting the restrictio Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044628-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml I'VE been an air traffic controller at Kennedy International Airport for 20 years. Most people would call this job high-stress, but I thrive on it. You either love this type of job or you quit, or you never get into it in the first place. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044629-407.stm?cmpid=news.xml I'M a fifth-generation journalist. My family moved from France to Switzerland to London, where my father ran the photo business for United Press International. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044630-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Walgreen Co. executive improperly took a competitor's confidential financial data, forcing the drugstore giant to withdraw from the bidding for a lucrative contract to provide pharmacy services for the City of Chicago and most local government agencies, the Chicago News Cooperative has learned. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044631-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Every Wednesday, prosecutors in Santa Clara County take part in a weekly ritual: as the new judges' calendar goes online, they begin signing affidavit after affidavit to block cases from going before Judge Andrea Bryan. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044632-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml In Iowa, Jorge Canal is on the sex offenders registry because, at age 18, he was convicted of distributing obscene materials to a minor after he sent a picture of his penis by cellphone to a 14-year-old female friend who had requested it. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044633-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Liz Carpenter, who spent much of her life working the corridors of power in Washington as a newspaper reporter, an aide to Lyndon B. Johnson when he was vice president and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson during her years in the White House, died on Saturday in Austin, Tex. She was 89. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044634-298.stm?cmpid=news.xml Albert J. Rosenthal, who as dean of Columbia Law School in the late 1970s and early 1980s helped increase the number of women on the school's faculty, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. He was 91 and lived in Scarsdale, N.Y. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044635-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml KABUL, Afghanistan -- The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban turf in Marja has put American and NATO commanders in the unusual position of arguing against opium eradication, pitting them against some Afghan officials who are pushing to destroy the harvest. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044483-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml So many things confronted Evgeni Malkin when he joined the Penguins for the 2006-07 season -- new city, new teammates, new language, new culture. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:59:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044170-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml Saturdays Winter Nature Hikes. Powdermill Nature Reserve, 1847 Rte. 381, Rector. 1 p.m. guided hikes. 724-593-6105. March 21 Talk 'n Walk Series EcoHiking. 2-4 p.m.. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:54:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044172-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml As winter relaxed its grip earlier this month, six consecutive days of bright sunshine and blue skies left no doubt that spring was on its way. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:52:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044205-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml At this latitude, the crappies get active right around the opening day of trout season, April 17. You don't suppose they know that anglers will be preoccupied? Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:51:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044592-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml The New York All-Stars pulled out a 26-21 victory against the WPIAL All-Stars in the preliminary match of the Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic Saturday night at Pitt's Fitzgerald Field House. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:49:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044485-139.stm?cmpid=news.xml Like anyone who has lived in the same house for nearly 48 years, Bruno Sammartino has accumulated his share of memorabilia. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:22:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044484-450.stm?cmpid=news.xml When Russ Rose took over as coach of the Penn State women's volleyball team in 1979, he taught 16 classes, had three scholarships, no assistants and the team wore sleeveless, leftover jerseys from the basketball team. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:21:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044208-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml A bird on the water might look like a duck and swim like a duck, but that doesn't mean it's a duck. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:20:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044165-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml Although there's plenty to do at the hatchery open house, folks might want to show up early for other wildlife-watching opportunities around Linesville. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:19:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044169-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml The hatchery was built in 1939 on 2,500 acres owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:18:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044206-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:18:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044163-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml The "bridge to far" -- the footpath span crossing the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Somerset, which links the northern and southern stretches of the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail -- was dismantled Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:17:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044171-140.stm?cmpid=news.xml Leave it to the experts to tell your kids where babies come from -- babies with fins and tails, at least. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:17:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044500-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml City homicide detectives are searching for a gunman who critically wounded a 34-year-old man late Friday in the Hill District and then fled in a vehicle that they believe was involved moments later in a hit-and-run accident that killed a 64-year-old man. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:11:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044501-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml As Pittsburgh Public Schools goes about putting performance pay into practice, it must face the challenge of crafting a fair way to evaluate teachers that will shutter the sense of a "gotcha culture" that long has pitted teachers against administrators. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:10:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044179-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml As recently as two decades ago, ambulance service crews rarely encountered patients who were overweight or obese. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:09:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044568-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Patti Digh looks around each day and sees people who are overbooked, stressed out, tired, and argumentative. But underneath it all, she says they yearn to live a more meaningful life. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:09:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044567-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml At the start of the final round, 32 contestants sat on stage. They were the region's top spellers, winnowed from a field of 105 children in the fourth through eighth grades, yet few were smiling. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:07:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044584-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Saying a vote against the health care bill would be a betrayal of workers and working families, the United Steelworkers threatened to draft a local labor leader to run against Rep. Jason Altmire if the congressman votes against the legislation today. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:05:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044488-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Here's something we couldn't do before," said Josh Maloney, thrusting his right arm out for a handshake. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:01:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044601-53.stm?cmpid=news.xml A South Side company has employed dozens of convicted felons over the past five years to make fundraising phone calls on behalf of well-known charities in violation of Pennsylvania law, according to publicly available records. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:59:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044505-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml BUFFALO, N.Y. -- This is all just a reincarnation. Heck, even the name of the concept is a bit of a copycat. There is not much originality; the tactic is short on innovation. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:57:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044202-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Tuesday Pittsburgh/Allegheny County CareerLink, 9:30 a.m., 425 Sixth Ave., Downtown. Workshop: "Resumes/Cover Letter 1: Creating your Draft." Visit www.careerlinkpittsburgh.com. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:56:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044562-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Immigrant advocates, frustrated with President Barack Obama's lack of progress on legislation to overhaul the immigration system, called one month ago for a march in Washington that they said would display the strength of their numbers and would give the president the push he needed to get the debate rolling in Congress. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:56:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044564-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A city used to fighting floods was confident Saturday that it had done enough to hold back the swelling Red River -- even as the water inched higher -- but officials stressed that it was too early to celebrate. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:56:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044598-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Wal-Mart ordering all black people in the southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:55:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044295-294.stm?cmpid=news.xml Stacy Innerst is the artist. You are the caption writer. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:53:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044492-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Retiree Richard Moore arrived at Heathrow with a suitcase of summer clothes for a Miami cruise only to be sent to Denver. Susan Danby wondered if plans for a joint 50th birthday celebration in Las Vegas would be a losing bet. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044493-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml President Barack Obama told Iranians in an online video message that the U.S. wants more educational and cultural exchanges, and lamented that Tehran's leaders have "turned their backs" on good faith overtures in the past to expand opportunities for their people. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044495-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Thousands of people rallied across Russia Saturday to denounce the government's economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment and a growing potential for protests. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:46:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044178-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml They weren't looking to make a political statement or to be pioneers of gender liberation. Each just wanted a familiar, decent roommate rather than a stranger after their original roommates left to study abroad. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:45:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044494-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml During a visit to the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, the U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, called on Israel to cease all settlement construction in the occupied territories. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:45:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044177-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml The oldest item in Yale Law School's rare book collection is a 1,000-year-old fragment of a medieval manuscript bound inside an Italian guidebook for notaries. The newest is a bobblehead doll depicting William H. Rehnquist, 16th chief justice of the United States. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:44:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044497-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the hypercharged rush of combat, the adrenaline flows and the rhetoric soars. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:42:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044490-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban turf in Marjah has put American and NATO commanders in the unusual position of arguing against opium eradication, pitting them against some Afghan officials who are pushing to destroy the harvest. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:41:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044496-82.stm?cmpid=news.xml Faced with a church sexual abuse scandal spreading across Europe, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday apologized directly to victims and their families in Ireland, expressing "shame and remorse" for what he called "sinful and criminal" acts committed by clergy. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:41:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044150-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml In normal times, David Hackenberg would begin trucking his 20 million honeybees from the almond orchards of California to the orange groves of Florida about now. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:40:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044151-115.stm?cmpid=news.xml Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:40:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044296-114.stm?cmpid=news.xml In 2006, the New England Journal of Medicine published a $12.5 million study saying that, for most people, glucosamine and chondroitin do not soothe knee pain much better than a placebo. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:40:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044586-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml Thousands of protesters -- many directing their anger squarely at President Barack Obama -- marched through the nation's capital Saturday to urge immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:39:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044599-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml On its way to today's big vote, health care reform made a final stop on Saturday before the House Rules Committee -- or, in this case, the House Unruly Committee. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:39:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044607-58.stm?cmpid=news.xml A Monessen man has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in the shooting death outside a Washington County bar of another man who had himself once been charged in a fatal bar shooting. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:36:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044561-84.stm?cmpid=news.xml After a frenzied last push to nail down final commitments and resolve lingering disputes in their ranks, House Democrats are poised today to pass the most sweeping change to the nation's health care system since the creation of Medicare nearly half a century ago. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:35:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044606-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Forward police said William Eric Hoover drank beer and scratched off Pennsylvania Lottery tickets in a bar on Route 51 for 90 minutes while his 9-year-old daughter waited for him outside. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:35:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044605-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml Cambria County Controller Ed Cernic has dropped out of the contest for the congressional seat of the late John P. Murtha, saying he was endorsing Mr. Murtha's former district director Mark Critz. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:33:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044604-455.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the first major traffic work tie-ups of the new season, Parkway East motorists will continue to face restrictions near the Edgewood-Swissvale and Squirrel Hill exits today. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:30:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044603-56.stm?cmpid=news.xml A 21-year-old Braddock man was fatally shot in the head early Saturday in North Braddock. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:27:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1041626-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml From the sublime "Breaking Bad" to the ridiculous "Kirstie Alley's Big Life," choosing what to watch tonight at 10 won't be a difficult call for most viewers. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1041628-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml No other television show makes as judicious use of silence as "Breaking Bad." Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043461-67.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043924-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml NEW YORK -- Slouched against the lectern at the 25th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, a shirtless Iggy Pop snarled, "I am the world's forgotten boy." No more. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043925-388.stm?cmpid=news.xml From Broadway's prodigious boy wonder to its beloved aging monarch: For Stephen Sondheim, whose forthcoming 80th birthday Monday was celebrated in a thrilling concert at Avery Fisher Hall last Monday evening, it must have seemed like a hop, skip and a jump from one to the other. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043926-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml Some things to do this week. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043927-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml "Deuce," a documentary about Lawrence "Deuce" Skurcenski, a longtime statistician and Pittsburgh sports fixture, will play at 7:30 tonight at the SouthSide Works Cinema. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043934-34.stm?cmpid=news.xml Finally it's spring, when a young man's fancy turns lightly to -- fresh seasonal recipes? Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043936-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml BARCELONA, Spain -- The last time I visited this most magnificent Mediterranean metropolis, Francisco Franco still ran the country and everything and everyone in it. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043937-437.stm?cmpid=news.xml An electric blue, aqua-flecked rabbit with long purple, yellow and red ears is a vision of lanky, compacted tension, ready to hop. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043938-37.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Department of State, looking to practice a little domestic diplomacy ahead of the inevitable summer passport crunch, is hoping to ease your passport anxieties on Saturday. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043939-60.stm?cmpid=news.xml Kelly Stewart Harcourt, one of actor Jimmy Stewart's twin daughters, will be in Indiana next month for the opening of a new museum exhibit focusing on her family's one-time home. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043962-148.stm?cmpid=news.xml If you know a lot about these two well-documented icons, Jeffrey Meyers' latest book will not offer any startling new insights. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1043963-148.stm?cmpid=news.xml A "simpleminded focus on standardized testing," the "punitive" use of test scores and the "multiplication of charter schools" are undermining public schools, not improving them. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044203-318.stm?cmpid=news.xml People on the Move Advertising Mullen promoted Laura Adams and Tim Wharton to senior art directors. Associations & Organizations SMC Business Councils said Paul J. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044226-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml There is no more timely and popular topic in hockey these days than blows to the head, and the damage they can cause. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044241-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Coffee lovers seeking a standout cup of blended coffee may have a hard time. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044245-468.stm?cmpid=news.xml Q: You recently wrote that 3-D TVs would cost no more than 30 percent more than comparable models from last year. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044248-96.stm?cmpid=news.xml On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission unveiled its National Broadband Plan, a road map to the future of broadband Internet service in the United States. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044249-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml Orders for long-lasting goods in the United States probably climbed in February for a third month, and home sales were little changed, adding to evidence manufacturing is heading the recovery, Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044250-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml It's a gas, gas, gas Nary a week goes by without some news item about Marcellus shale, the great gaseous hope of the Pennsylvania energy economy. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044253-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044254-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml The United States must bring broadband digital access to everyone or risk losing its economic edge, says FCC chairman JULIUS GENACHOWSKI Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044255-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml What exactly is it that Americans have against smart people? asks Pitt professor LUCY FISCHER Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044256-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml What follows is a story from Jonathan Safran Foer's remarkable new book, "Eating Animals" (EatingAnimals.com), a funny, poignant, penetrating look at how we treat the animals we eat. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044257-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml The West is mired in war and recession while China booms and says thanks for securing its profits, reports GlobalPost correspondent MICHAEL GOLDFARB Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044258-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml In other democracies, good, affordable legal advice is widely available. In our democracy, lawyers viciously protect their monopoly at the expense of fellow citizens, laments law professor GILLIAN HADFIELD Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044275-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml I read Mark Belko's March 10 article about the Strip District renovation ("Will Development Create a Stripped District?"). Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044276-373.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Supreme Court may not like the way it gets passed Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044277-149.stm?cmpid=news.xml Even the rabbi said she'd never laughed so much at a funeral. It was a fitting tribute to my aunt, Paula Ruth Mitchel, the funniest member of our family. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044278-372.stm?cmpid=news.xml Vice presidents used to have nothing to do; now even a former vice president can be a political player Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044286-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml TODAY IS the first full day of spring, the vernal equinox having occurred at 1:32 p.m. Saturday, and some Ogden Nash-like doggerel (its exact authorship is unknown) comes to mind. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044287-192.stm?cmpid=news.xml In the last 30 years, Pittsburgh has reinvented itself by invigorating its use of the riverfronts. Now a new opportunity beckons in a partnership with the Buncher Co. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044288-110.stm?cmpid=news.xml Ignorance isn't bliss. In Pittsburgh, "ignorant" is a pejorative term for not knowing something, yet proceeding blithely unawares. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044290-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml Facts that speak for themselves Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044480-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml Basketball Box Scores from Saturday, March 20 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044487-358.stm?cmpid=news.xml Several regional nonprofit organizations have partnered with state agencies in another project to help conserve cold-water habitat. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044504-122.stm?cmpid=news.xml Stewart Udall, an advocate for the American West who oversaw the addition of 2.4 million acres to national parks and pushed for landmark environmental legislation as U.S. Interior secretary under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, has died. He was 90. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044507-142.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILWAUKEE -- Xavier likely should not have gotten away with that first half against Minnesota Friday, those ridiculous 20 minutes of alleged basketball in which the Musketeers took 42 shots and Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044508-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml South Fayette wanted to make the most of its final shot against a North Catholic team which beat it out for the Section 3-AA title and defeated it in the WPIAL Class AA semifinals. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044510-361.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Chartiers Valley boys' team isn't the only one showing it wants to be in University Park, Pa., for the PIAA championships this coming weekend. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044514-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml MILWAUKEE -- Today is Sunday, but maybe there is some way for Pitt coach Jamie Dixon to convince Gilbert Brown that it's still Friday. Or March 6. Or February 27. Or ... Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044522-132.stm?cmpid=news.xml BRISTOL, Tenn. -- It took roughly 40 minutes with NASCAR for Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski to put their long-simmering feud to rest. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044523-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml Jim Furyk is one round away from ending the longest drought of his career since he was a rookie. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044525-63.stm?cmpid=news.xml The story that Texas manager Ron Washington had tested positive for cocaine last season was the big story of the baseball week. But the failed test occurred last season. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044533-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml He played just 10 minutes, 59 seconds Saturday, less ice time than all the Penguins' forwards but Mike Rupp. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044534-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Penguins center Evgeni Malkin was having a strong first game back from injury when he stumbled in overtime, fell into the boards and ended up aggravating his sore right foot. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044535-61.stm?cmpid=news.xml Yes, the Penguins would have loved to get that second point. And, yes, it really does sting to lose when you give up a goal when what's left of overtime is being measured in tenths of a second. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044546-291.stm?cmpid=news.xml Saint Francis was the dominant program in the Northeast Conference from 1995-2005 and won the conference tournament to reach the NCAA women's basketball tournament nearly every year in that span. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044581-136.stm?cmpid=news.xml Steve Wheatcroft didn't win a tournament in college at Indiana University and hasn't won a tournament as a professional since winning a mini-tour event on the Gateway Tour in 2005. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044590-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml Matthew Cunningham got his chance to compete in the Dapper Dan Wrestling Classic Saturday night at Pitt's Fitzgerald Field House. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10080/1044593-364.stm?cmpid=news.xml The Oakland Catholic girls' team closed the book on its run in Class AA with a familiar chapter Saturday night at Bucknell University. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400