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BROWNSVILLE A Pittsburgh architectural firm that specializes in preservation work has been hired to lead restorations to Brownsville's blighted downtown historic district.

Vincent Colaiuta is a highly regarded drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14.

Liz Zemba is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-601-2166 or via e-mail. Donna Holdorf, executive director of the National Road Heritage Corridor, said an $83,000 study will center on as many as 30 properties in the Fayette County borough's commercial district.

Liz Zemba is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-601-2166 or via e-mail. In a canine tale of rags to riches, an animal welfare group Tuesday helped a Fayette County dog trade a pair of dirty boxer shorts and a tow chain for a fluffy pink sweater and a rhinestone-studded identification tag.

The traditional trainmen's car, formerly the property of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Monongahela Railroad of Brownsville, was once used as a playhouse for the Costello family children of Summerhill in Cambria County.

Fayette County authorities are investigating the duct-taping of boxer shorts onto the hindquarters of a pit bull that was chained outside a Brownsville home.

Liz Zemba is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-601-2166 or via e-mail. Brian Jeffrey Hess, 39, of 302 Catherine Ave., Brownsville, and Robert James Pierce Jr., 21, of 10 Church St., Smithfield, are charged with one count each of dissemination of photos or film of child sex acts.

Police are at the scene of a Fayette County accident where a car is trapped beneath a tractor-trailer truck.

Football isn't the only sport that local teams will see realignment. The WPIAL also realigned its soccer conferences for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

Liz Zemba is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-601-2166 or via e-mail. A Fayette County man told a judge Thursday that he left town during his kidnapping trial because he was upset about a new defense attorney being substituted at the last minute.

A Fayette County man accused of shooting another man during an argument outside a bar in Uniontown was arrested this afternoon by members of the U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force.

The assistant manager of a Fayette County liquor store testified he was tussling with a Brownsville man over a plastic bottle of $9.99 whiskey when both fell through a tobacco shop's window in Uniontown.