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Home team's success forces fans into faceoff with social lives

As if the May calendar weren't already packed with graduations, weddings, final exams, vacations and Mother's Day, along come the Penguins, elbowing their way into the schedule with up to seven ... (05/09/2008)

Komen race celebrates thousands of triumphs over breast cancer

Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette

Melissa Ward, of Aspinwall, is recovering from reconstructive surgery at UPMC Shadyside.

On Sunday, Melissa Ward will put on the pink T-shirt and cap emblematic of breast cancer survivors, sit in an unfamiliar wheelchair and let her friend Annette Oros push her over the 5-kilometer ... (05/09/2008)

City Neighborhoods

Home team's success forces fans into faceoff with social lives (05/09/2008)
Komen race celebrates thousands of triumphs over breast cancer (05/09/2008)
URA to market city's new scholarship program (05/09/2008)
City has fat fund balance but financial challenges loom (05/09/2008)
Happy Birthday, Israel (05/09/2008)
Downtown's Century Building to be converted into housing (05/09/2008)
8 miles of turnpike to close tomorrow night (05/09/2008)
Lanes on Parkway East, Boulevard of Allies to close (05/09/2008)
Road work to begin Monday in East Liberty (05/09/2008)
Winners named in African-American History Contest (05/09/2008)
Flower and Folk Festival in Friendship tomorrow (05/09/2008)
Applications online for city's summer jobs for teens (05/09/2008)

East Neighborhoods

County staying out of Swissvale battle (05/09/2008)
Umberger's emotions run high (05/09/2008)
14 schools shine at Westmoreland's 'Night of Stars' (05/09/2008)
Irwin doctor charged with fraud to remain in jail (05/09/2008)
Latrobe steel workers to return to work sans contract (05/09/2008)
Autistic teen inspires undergrad to produce award-winning film (05/08/2008)
Memorial park in Rankin to honor toddler (05/08/2008)
Hempfield resident questions school expenses, band trips (05/08/2008)
Development points to brighter future for town, city officials say (05/08/2008)
Public hearing set on Penn Hills School District's future (05/08/2008)

North Neighborhoods

Blasting on Route 28 resumes tomorrow (05/09/2008)
Coach's ethics error almost tags out New Castle High School (05/08/2008)
Orange barrels spreading to Parkway North (05/08/2008)
Youths learn to play at higher level in Richland (05/08/2008)
Zoning changes pave way for huge project in McCandless (05/08/2008)
Seneca Valley sixth-grader cleans up with science experiment (05/08/2008)
Third-graders put La Roche games to test (05/08/2008)
District will offer all-day kindergarten, shift students (05/08/2008)
Shaler Area board OKs teacher pact (05/08/2008)
Proposed budget includes tax hike in North Hills (05/08/2008)

South Neighborhoods

Coal companies fight royalties on exports (05/09/2008)
Whitehall council members to pay $9,000 each to borough (05/09/2008)
Teen held for trial in hammer attack case (05/08/2008)
Forever new: Fourth generation wears christening gown fashioned from ancestor's wedding dress (05/08/2008)
Coke works upgrade permit made public (05/08/2008)
Mothers revere their lost child (05/08/2008)
'Flag Guy' walks to spark patriotism (05/08/2008)
Most leery of rebate but they'll spend it (05/08/2008)
A place for grief (05/08/2008)
Jury deliberating in Greene County rape, murder trial (05/08/2008)

West Neighborhoods

Port Authority shuttle set for Wings Over Pittsburgh (05/09/2008)
Municipal workers save life of colleague (05/08/2008)
South Fayette school board studies options to end elementary crowding (05/08/2008)
Taking it to the limit (05/08/2008)
Streetscape funding awaits Bush's signature (05/08/2008)
Kennywood opens 110th season on a 'dark' note (05/08/2008)
Kennywood Park's alumni invited to return (05/08/2008)
Memories of White Swan Park (05/08/2008)
Wal-Mart traffic study ordered in Moon (05/08/2008)
Robinson parking tax hearing delayed (05/08/2008)

Washington County

Coal companies fight royalties on exports (05/09/2008)
Jury to weigh life or death for farmhand (05/09/2008)
Jury deliberating in Greene County rape, murder trial (05/08/2008)
The Rockshelter at Meadowcroft reopens Saturday (05/04/2008)
Crash kills Washington County man (05/04/2008)
It's a ghostly new season at Kennywood (05/04/2008)
Toprani gets good marks early in tenure as DA (05/04/2008)
Keeping updated at the hospital (05/04/2008)
Bow hunters will remove deer from township parks, other sites (05/04/2008)
Man gets ride home, collapses (05/04/2008)

Westmoreland County

14 schools shine at Westmoreland's 'Night of Stars' (05/09/2008)
Irwin doctor charged with fraud to remain in jail (05/09/2008)
Latrobe steel workers to return to work sans contract (05/09/2008)
Hempfield resident questions school expenses, band trips (05/08/2008)
Excela Health buys Mercy hospital (05/08/2008)
A contest in nature's back yard (05/08/2008)
Plan for Walgreens, Starbucks revised (05/08/2008)
North Irwin council members want to determine town hall's owner (05/08/2008)
Parks, recreation director named in North Huntingdon (05/08/2008)
No tax increase in Penn-Trafford (05/08/2008)

URA to market city's new scholarship program

The Urban Redevelopment Authority wants to promote a program that provides college scholarships to city public school students, in hopes of attracting new residents to the city. ... (05/09/2008)

County staying out of Swissvale battle

Lake Fong/Post-Gazette

Jim Bonacci, a former Swissvale councilman who has been fighting the establishment of the housing facility on Hanover Street.

Allegheny County officials have declined to intervene in a dispute between Swissvale and a county mental health contractor that placed 25 of its patients in apartments in the borough. ... (05/09/2008)

City has fat fund balance but financial challenges loom

Pittsburgh's long-strapped government has a healthy surplus, but shouldn't lower its guard against overspending, city Controller Michael Lamb said yesterday in presenting the yearly audit. ... (05/09/2008)

CCAC approves budget, makes plans

The board of Community College of Allegheny County is looking to the near future -- by approval of a budget, a tuition increase and a new science center on the Allegheny campus -- and the ... (05/09/2008)