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Share + Mar 19, 2010 11:11 am US/Eastern Warmer weather means PennDOT will be hitting the roads to finish some projects and begin others.

PennDOT will continue to use federal stimulus money on many major highway projects this year, but leaner times are ahead unless solutions are found for funding crises on the horizon.

The sixth annual Antiques Show to benefit the Kerr Memorial Museum in Oakmont will be March 6 and 7 at the Oakmont Country Club.

A day after a storm dumped more than a foot of snow, causing tens of thousands of people to lose power and stalling air and rail traffic, weather-weary Northeast residents braced for a repeat , a second storm packing potentially damaging wind gusts up to 50 mph and possibly more than another foot of snow.

You ask Youker is a weekly feature providing answers to quirky curiosities of the Berks County area.

Tom Fontaine is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7847 or via e-mail. As Western Pennsylvanians continued digging out, they began on Monday preparing for up to 10 inches of snow expected to begin falling today.

As crews worked today to clear a second runway at Pittsburgh International Airport, travelers encountered snow-related problems getting off the ground and getting out of airport parking lots.

The state dished out $139,000 in stimulus money for preservation work on the bridge running over Little Buffalo Creek in Buffalo Township.

Jon Neely is a Vietnam War Veteran, a retired U.S. Postal Serviceman, Executive Vice-President of the Vietnam Veterans of Beaver County Chapter 862, a member of Disabled American Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion of Beaver Falls.

Three juveniles assaulted and carjacked an Ambridge man last night, then led police on a chase through Beaver County before crashing into several police cars, Ambridge police said.

He replaces Juergen Mross, who co-founded Cronimet Corp. Cronimet Corp., located in Rochester, Pa., has announced that Juergen Mross, who was co-founder of Cronimet, has left the company.

A police chase started after officers spotted a stolen vehicle involved in an apparent assault-turned-carjacking in Ambridge Wednesday night.

A granite bench was dedicated Saturday as a permanent memorial for two Beaver County soldiers who lost their lives overseas.

A western Pennsylvania man is trying to use data from his GPS to prove he wasn't speeding.

A western Pennsylvania man is using a global positioning device in his company vehicle to fight a speeding ticket.

Joshua Stowe giggled nonstop from the oversized blue chair as music vibrated beneath him.

"Pennsylvania's Coal and Iron Police: Patch Town Law Enforcement" was presented Wednesday in a lecture by Spencer Sadler in McVitty Auditorium in Sprowls Hall.

"Life and Times in the Pennsylvania Coal Swamp: The Origin of Pennsylvania's Coal Deposits" was presented in a lecture by John Taylor Wednesday at Weyandt Hall This was part two in the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Show Lecture Series.

ROCHESTER, Pa. - Police say a fire that destroyed an eight-unit apartment building near Pittsburgh is suspicious.

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