Lawrence News

Ed Rendell forbidden by the state constitution from running for a third term, the race is on to become the Democrat who breaks a long-running state cycle.

Long before "swine flu" made people sick, dog lovers were hitting the panic button because canine influenza was killing dogs at greyhound racing tracks.

An obscure Pennsylvania law that hadn't been enforced in decades is suddenly alive again -- and it could cost you thousands of dollars.

Michael Moore marched downtown to promote his new film, "Capitalism: A Love Story." Filmmaker Michael Moore denounced greed in the U.S. economy and health care system before the American premiere of his latest movie last night.

Thousands of Pittsburgh-area commuters have taken a different route to work without changing the road on which they travel.

One of the few documents containing the signature of the French ensign whose death in 1754 helped to spark the French and Indian War and the clash of empires that led eventually to the American Revolution was displayed Friday at Fort Necessity, where it will remain on loan for the next five years.

Southwest Pennsylvania's 13 counties recorded a slight increase in technology-related jobs and companies from 2005 to 2007, according to a report issued Wednesday.

At the end of October, fall foliage blazes its brightest throughout Western Pennsylvania in shades of yellow, orange and red.

More than 300 people, most pro-coal mining, turned out in Pittsburgh last night to strongly oppose a federal proposal that would end a decades-old streamlined permitting process that's been used to facilitate mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Technical services company Black Box has unveiled its latest product the HD View HDMI Repeater which works with the transmitter in the HD View HDMI system to distribute high-definition video and digital audio content as far as 660 feet in cascaded multiscreen applications.

Business and tourism experts Monday began counting the economic ripples emanating from the two-day Group of 20 economic summit.

U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrive for a statement on Iran at the Lawrence Convention Center, site of the G-20 summit, September 25, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Share + Sep 29, 2009 9:30 pm US/Eastern A longtime Ivy League professor preyed on vulnerable teenage boys at home and abroad as he pursued them for sexual encounters and pornographic videos, prosecutors argued at his sentencing Tuesday.

Vice President Joe Biden's office has confirmed he'll speak at the Allegheny County Democratic Committee's annual dinner in Oct.

The Lawrence County Commissioners will shut down the courthouse during Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks to save the western Pennsylvania county some money.

Mark Broadhurst, proprietor of Six Penn Kitchen, says people in his business know to "expect the unexpected." There's no better example than an unprecedented Pittsburgh event like the G-20 summit.

This city has become a hub for technology, medicine and higher education, but visitors still expect to see smoke- and fire-breathing steel mills when they emerge from the Fort Pitt Tunnel into downtown.

SCI Pittsburgh -- formerly known as Western Penitentiary for decades -- will substitute as a booking center for the many expected G-20 arrestees next week, Team 4 investigator Jim Parsons reported Friday.

Share + Sep 23, 2009 3:15 am US/Eastern MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer Bolstering a wobbly global economy, restraining greedy bankers and plotting a future course for sustainable growth a ' the leaders of the world's major economies have no shortage of items on their to-do list when they meet Thursday and Friday.

The G-20 Summit is two weeks away, but the spotlight shines on Pittsburgh this week with the start of the AFL-CIO Labor Convention.