PITTSBURGH Emergency crews are at a Pittsburgh bank after a report that a teller opened an envelope containing a white powder.

SOMERSET, Pa. Officials will mark the sixth anniversary of the Quecreek Mine accident in western Pennsylvania by breaking ground on a visitor's center to commemorate the rescue of nine trapped miners in 2002.

REINHOLDS, Pa. Police on Friday were searching for the killer of a mother of four who was severely beaten, then drowned in her family's swimming pool in southcentral Pennsylvania, investigators said.

PITTSBURGH Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

MCKEESPORT, Pa. A funeral service is being held for a pregnant Pittsburgh-area woman who was slain last week.

PORT CARBON, Pa. Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town.

PHILADELPHIA With the old gas-guzzler in the garage, you've got your bicycle ready and your sneakers laced up. Now all you need is a map of the quickest, safest routes for riding around town. Well, not so fast.

PITTSBURGH Randy Pausch, a former Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

PITTSBURGH Professor Randy Pausch, whose "last lecture" about his terminal cancer became bestselling book, has died.

PORT CARBON, Pa. Schuylkill County DA says three people to be charged in death of immigrant Luis Ramirez.

PITTSBURGH A Pittsburgh man is confined in a psychiatric hospital until authorities determine he can be safely released to stand trial on charges of beating a dog with a nail-filled board.

KREAMER, Pa. The housing slump is costing dozens their jobs at a central Pennsylvania factory.

PITTSBURGH The City of Pittsburgh will celebrate its 250th anniversary with its residents' favorite kind of candles. Roman candles.

PITTSBURGH Officials at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium are celebrating the birth of the zoo's second elephant calf this month.

HOOVERVILLE, Pa. Officials say they now have a major fire in the business district of a small western Pennsylvania borough under control

PHILADELPHIA A suburban Philadelphia couple is giving The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia a $15 million gift which the hospital will use to build and support a primary care center in nearby Norristown.

CLAIRTON, Pa. United States Steel Corp.'s plans to cut pollution at a Pittsburgh-area coke operation now has the blessing of the Allegheny County Health Department.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. The imprisoned founder of a bankrupt cable company and one of his sons face more tax-evasion charges under a new indictment by a federal grand jury.

PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia School District leaders are heading to Utah to attend summer school.

PHILADELPHIA It's going to cost more to park at Philadelphia International Airport.

COLLINGDALE, Pa. Police say vandals have knocked over more than 200 headstones in three days at a historic African-American cemetery in the Philadelphia area.

FRANKLIN, Pa. Continental will soon begin offering flights from Venango Regional Airport in northwestern Pennsylvania to Cleveland.

PHILADELPHIA A woman and child struck by lightning at a Philadelphia-area swim club are safely home.

WASHINGTON A lobbyist with ties to former Pennsylvania congressman Curt Weldon is scheduled to enter a plea Friday in federal court in Washington.

TRENTON, N.J. Amtrak on Thursday was still investigating what caused a power dip for its trains in the Northeast the day before - a situation that caused the rail service to shut down service in the middle of the evening commute.

WASHINGTON President Bush on Thursday withdrew a nomination to the federal appeals court after opposition from a Democratic senator. He named a new nominee and nominated four individuals to fill vacancies on the federal bench in the eastern Pennsylvania district.

ATLANTA More than 1,000 people died over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, the government reported Thursday in its first national tally of those deaths.

PITTSBURGH A mother accused of repeatedly injecting her 4-month-old son with salt water will be sent to a state mental hospital after a psychiatrist testified Thursday that she is severely depressed.

HARRISBURG, Pa. State senators asking questions Thursday about the rescue of a financially troubled Pittsburgh casino project by other investors found the situation more complicated and dire than they originally thought.

HARRISBURG, Pa. Ralph Nader said Thursday he will ask Pennsylvania's highest court to reopen a case stemming from a successful effort to remove him from the 2004 presidential ballot, citing allegations that state Democratic legislative officials illegally underwrote the effort with taxpayer money.