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Police say a western Pennsylvania man has returned a $400 jackpot after falsely claiming to have a "bingo" at a church fundraiser.

Before there was Island Bean Co., Half Price Books and the mega retail center that is Ross Park Mall, there were places that supplied only the basics for the few families who lived near Township Road, the two-lane dirt trail that would become McKnight Road.

Bob Bauder is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-765-2312 or via e-mail. Seven years after Pittsburgh sold its asphalt plant because buying from a private contractor is cheaper, the city's public works director wants to build a $4 million plant to drastically increase the amount of paving done yearly.

At least a dozen gunshots can be heard in cellphone video of a shootout between Muncie police and a robbery suspect that left the gunman dead.

The Muncie police chief says God was looking down on two officers wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a robbery suspect who was killed near the Ball State University campus.

Jennifer Reeger is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-836-6155 or via e-mail. A proposed bill would protect Pennsylvania homeowners against mechanics' liens filed by subcontractors, but it is too late for 17 Westmoreland County residents who paid a Texas roofing contractor but face liens filed by a building supplier.

Jennifer Reeger is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-836-6155 or via e-mail. Westmoreland County detectives have begun an investigation into a Texas-based roofing company that allegedly failed to pay for building materials, leaving 17 homeowners with liens against their properties.

Jennifer Reeger is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-836-6155 or via e-mail. Barbara and John Lotz double-checked before they hired a Texas company to replace the roof on their Hempfield home last summer.

Armando was born on Feb. 7, 1934, to Biagio Mosca and Regina Sacramone in Ortona, Italy.

Robert Daniel "Bob" Krestel, born April 5, 1926, entered the Chapter Eternal on December 24, 2011.

Teacher Ben Edwards points to the number 75 written on the board in his seventh-grade math class at Mohawk Junior High School in Lawrence County.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is changing the way it does business, and more access for sportsmen will be the result.

If Thiel men's basketball coach Tim Loomis gets a little wordy with his postgame speech, he usually can count on junior guard Anthony Harvey to interrupt him.

Jill King Greenwood is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-380-5609, via e-mail or on Twitter.

Anthony Micaletti, 39 of New Castle, was in Judge Richard Mancini's Beaver County courtroom today, where he was scheduled for a plea hearing on several charges related to an incident which allegedly occurred last December.

A state police dog trained in accelerant detection sniffed out the source of a suspicious fire that broke out in an apartment building late Monday night.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An ex-CIA officer and New Castle native who helped track down and capture a top al-Qaida figure was charged Monday with disclosing classified secrets, including the role of one of his associates on that covert mission, in the latest in a series of prosecutions by the Obama administration against suspected leakers.

ORLAND PARK, Ill. - A suburban Chicago man thought the errant nail that discharged from the gun he was working with had whizzed by his head.

Bill Vidonic is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-380-5621, via e-mail or on Twitter.

A mother and her child are dead following a devastating fire that broke out overnight at a home in Lawrence County.