TARENTUM, Pa. (AP) - Police are crediting men fishing on the Allegheny River with helping them rescue a man whose boat capsized about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Tarentum police say 18-year-old Dylan Linderman and 24-year-old Frank Lynn fell in the water when their boat capsized off the borough’s shore about 5:30 a.m. Sunday. Police say both men live in the borough.
Linderman swam to shore and called for help. There were several boats nearby filled with anglers practicing for an upcoming fishing tournament who escorted police through the darkness to find Lynn who had floated downriver and was pulled from the water.
Police say both men have been treated and released at a local hospital.

WILKINSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Allegheny County workers have found the decomposed body of a woman wrapped in a carpet in a county park just east of Pittsburgh.
The county medical examiner and homicide detectives are investigating the discovery Friday morning at Hunter’s Park in Wilkinsburg.
Authorities say the workers found the carpet and brought it to a building believing it contained a dead animal, but instead found the woman’s corpse.
Authorities have not released the woman’s identity or said if they can tell how she died.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The last kegs of Iron City Beer will roll of a production line at a Pittsburgh brewery as the operation moves about 40 miles east of the city to the former Rolling Rock brewery in Latrobe.
Iron City has been brewed in the city since 1861 and at the current location since 1866.
Iron City Brewing Co. also brews IC Light and Augustiner Amber Lager.
Friday’s shutdown doesn’t completely sever the company’s ties with Pittsburgh.
The company’s corporate headquarters will remain in Pittsburgh. The brewery in Latrobe is near St. Vincent College, where the Pittsburgh Steelers hold training camp each year. That brewery started producing Iron City’s beers earlier this week.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh police say a man tried to burn down a home after a romantic dispute involving the man who lived there with a woman that both men were involved with.
Thirty-five-year-old Robert Urbatis is charged with six counts of attempted homicide because the fire spread to a second home and six people, including his alleged romantic rival, were forced to flee the June 16 fire.
Police say Urbatis was seen watching the fire and drinking beer afterward. Witnesses say Urbatis had earlier threatened to burn down the home with the couple in it.
Online court records don’t list an attorney for Urbatis, who was arrested Thursday.
Police have charged four other juveniles with a string of smaller fires in the same neighborhood in recent weeks.

By David Koenig, AP Airlines Writer
DALLAS (AP) - Southwest Airlines and the parent of United made money in the second quarter, but the profits were overshadowed Tuesday by more job cuts and pessimism over the severe slump in travel and rising fuel costs.
Continental Airlines reported a big loss and said it would cut 1,700 more jobs.
Passengers can expect another wave of higher fees in the form of increased baggage fees to sweep through terminals around the country, with carriers trying to offset revenue lost to lower fares and promotions.
Southwest Airlines Co. broke a string of three straight losing quarters by scratching out a small gain. But Chairman and CEO Gary C. Kelly said that he couldn’t predict another profit in the third quarter because of weak travel demand and higher fuel prices.
“I don’t think the worst is behind us,” Kelly said. “I think the worst is ahead of us, and it’s primarily because of increased energy costs at this stage … September is typically the second-worst month of the year (for air travel), which means it could be really bad.”
Southwest, which has never laid off workers, announced that 1,400 employees - about 4 percent of the work force - took offers of cash and travel benefits to leave the company.
Continental Airlines Inc. lost $213 million and said it would slash about 4 percent of its workers. That’s on top of 1,200 job cuts already announced at the Houston-based airline.
The airline industry has been reducing the number of people it employs for over a year as part of cost-cutting measures. Passenger airline full-time employment fell by almost 7 percent in May from the same month a year ago, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
United Airlines parent UAL Corp. posted a surprising profit, thanks to fuel-hedging gains. Then it announced it will cut capacity on international flights another 7 percent this fall, reducing flights to match the lighter demand.
Continental boosted by $5 the fees for flight reservations taken over the phone and checking bags on U.S. flights. Beginning Aug. 19, it will cost $20 for the first bag and $30 for a second when passengers check them at the airport instead of online.
United, Delta and US Airways have announced similar increases in the last few weeks, charging an extra $5 for checking bags at the airport. American said Tuesday it had not raised its bag fees. Even Southwest, which mocked fee-charging rivals not long ago, refused to rule out bag charges.
Since the recession deepened last fall, traffic on U.S. airlines has fallen every month compared with the year before. Business travel, the most lucrative kind for airlines, has been especially hard hit.
“Our success is highly correlated with the return of business travel, and we haven’t seen signs of that yet,” said Continental president Jeff Smisek, who is set to become CEO in January.
With high-fare business travelers replaced on many planes with bargain-seeking leisure fliers, average fares fell and led to declines in revenue that ranged from 8.8 percent at Southwest to 25.2 percent at UAL.
Dallas-based Southwest earned $54 million, or 7 cents per share in the quarter ended June 30, down sharply from $321 million, or 44 cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, the gain would have been $59 million, or 8 cents per share.
Analysts, who don’t consider one-time items, expected 7 cents per share, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
Revenue dipped 8.8 percent to $2.62 billion, but traffic held up well. Southwest has lured passengers with fare sales as cheap as $30 one-way.
Southwest said, however, that unless business travel rebounds strongly, its revenue per unit of capacity - an important performance measure - will fall 7 percent in the third quarter.
Southwest’s costs also are rising, partly due to the price of getting employees to quit. It expects to spend $70 million on severance packages for employees who took the buyout.
Continental said it will try to use voluntary measures to cut 1,700 jobs, but layoffs could be needed. The airline recently announced it would eliminate 500 reservations jobs and offer leave to 700 flight attendants.
Continental’s quarterly loss was $1.72 per share. Excluding write-downs of its fleet, the loss would have been $169 million, or $1.36 per share. Analysts expected a loss of $1.35 per share excluding the write-downs.
Revenue plunged 22.7 percent from a year ago, to $3.13 billion.
United parent UAL earned a profit of $28 million, or 19 cents per share, thanks to one-time gains. That compared to a loss of $2.74 billion a year ago, when it took huge write-downs.
Excluding the one-time gains, Chicago-based UAL would have lost $2.23 per share. Analysts expected a loss of $2.61 per share excluding items.
Revenue tumbled to $4.02 billion from $5.37 billion a year earlier.
Analysts consider UAL, the nation’s third-largest airline company behind Delta and American parent AMR, to be among the weakest carriers financially. UAL said it ended June with $2.6 billion in unrestricted cash - more than its previous projection of $2.5 billion.
Shares of UAL gained 21 cents, or 6 percent, to close at $3.72; while Continental fell 75 cents, or 7.4 percent, to close at $9.42; and Southwest dropped 43 cents, or 5.9 percent, to close at $6.87.
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AP Airlines Writer Harry R. Weber in Atlanta contributed to this report.

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ Pittsburgh’s Department of Public Works has fired five of six people accused of lying on their job applications about past felony convictions.
The workers were suspended without pay last week and all but one were fired Monday. That man will return to his $39,000-a-year tree pruning job because he provided documents showing he pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor count after being charged with felony aggravated assault.
The move by the department comes amid accusations of hiring inconsistencies in a lawsuit filed by an employee fired in 2007 after the city learned he had not revealed guilty pleas from the 1980s. The city began doing criminal background checks on job applicants last year.
Those fired had records ranging from welfare fraud to drug possession.

By Scott Sonner, Associated Press Writer
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A woman has filed a lawsuit accusing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of raping her last summer in his penthouse room at a casino in Lake Tahoe during a celebrity golf tournament.
Roethlisberger’s lawyer adamantly denied the allegations Tuesday.
“Ben has never sexually assaulted anyone. The timing of the lawsuit and the absence of a criminal complaint and a criminal investigation are the most compelling evidence of the absence of any criminal conduct. If an investigation is commenced, Ben will cooperate fully and Ben will be fully exonerated,” David Cornwell said in a statement.
The claim seeks at least $390,000 in damages from the quarterback, who has won two Super Bowls and is one of the biggest names in sports. The lawsuit also alleges hotel officials for Harrah’s Lake Tahoe went to great lengths to cover up the incident.
Teresa Duffy, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office in Douglas County, which includes part of Lake Tahoe, said no complaints were filed about such an incident either with sheriff’s deputies or the district attorney’s office.
The woman’s lawsuit says she didn’t file a criminal complaint because she feared she would be fired and expected Harrah’s would side with Roethlisberger.
The woman said she had been promoted from VIP shift manager and was working as an executive casino host when Roethlisberger struck up a friendly conversation at her desk during the golf tournament.
The next day, July 11, 2008, she said he telephoned her to tell her his television sound system wasn’t working and asked her to look at it.
She said she was unable to find a technician so she decided to handle it herself because she had been told how important it was to please celebrities.
In Roethlisberger’s room she said she determined the TV was functioning properly but as she turned to leave but the 6-foot-5, 240-pound quarterback stood in front of the door and blocked her, the suit claims.
The lawsuit said he then grabbed her and started to kiss her. It said she was “shocked and stunned that this previously friendly man, that appeared to be a gentleman in her previous contacts with him was suddenly preventing her from leaving, was assaulting her and battering her.”
She said she feared that because he was a football player he could or would physically harm her if she tried to fight him off but that she objected and protested several times.
“But instead of stopping, Roethlisberger began fondling plaintiff through her dress and between her legs,” the suit said. He then “held her against her will and physically moved plaintiff and pushed her onto his bed” where he raped her, the suit says.
She told him “You don’t want to do this,” and begged him “I am not on any type of birth control.”
Afterward, he asked if there was a security camera in the hallway. She said he then instructed her to claim she had repaired his television if anyone asked why she was in his room.
The lawsuit says the woman required hospitalization for treatment for depression after the alleged attack.
The woman’s lawyer, Calvin R. Dunlap, of Reno, declined to answer questions about the lack of a criminal complaint and why the civil action was brought a year after the incident allegedly took place.
“Neither I nor our client will be making any comment,” Dunlap said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. “We believe the matter should be resolved in court rather than in the media.”
The lawsuit also names eight Harrah’s employees as defendants and alleges the cover-up involved the chief of security at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and was carried out with the knowledge of John Koster, president of Harrah’s northern Nevada operations.
John Packer, spokesman for the hotel-casino, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
The suit says Harrah’s security chief Guy Hyder gained the trust of her parents while she was hospitalized for depression and persuaded them to give him a key to her home. She said Hyder and others then entered her home and allegedly erased information from her computer and confiscated it.
The lawsuit claims that when the woman first reported the attack to Hyder he dismissed her distress and crying and said she was “overreacting.”
The woman said Hyder told her that “most girls would feel lucky to get to have sex with someone like Ben Roethlisberger” and that “Koster would love you even more if he knew about this” because Koster was good friends with Roethlisberger and admired him greatly.
Steelers spokesman Dave Lockett said Tuesday the team is aware of the lawsuit, and “we are gathering information.”

PITTSBURGH - A Crafton police officer waived his right to a preliminary hearing Friday on charges he fatally struck a Moon Township man with his pickup two years ago in the area of Pittsburgh’s Station Square.

According to WPXI-TV, Donnie Breeden, 38, who has been suspended from the police force since his July 3 arrest in the death of 24-year-old David Hall, waived involunatary manslaughter and related charges to Allegheny County Court.

Hall was struck and killed on West Carson Street on July 20, 2007. Breedon is accused of leaving the scene and then trying to hide evidence of his involvement in the incident.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) - The University of Pittsburgh is raising tuition for Pennsylvania residents by 4 percent for the 2009-10 school year, a lower-than-expected increase.
The university’s trustees voted on the tuition increase on Thursday.
The increase was lower than had been expected. But Chancellor Mark Nordenberg is warning there could be an additional surcharge if state and federal cuts are not restored.
With the tuition increase, the 2009-10 school year will cost in-state residents $13,344 - up from $12,832. Out-of-state students will pay 2.5 percent more, with tuition increasing from $22,480 to $23,042.

GLENSHAW, Pa. (AP) - Even plumbers sometimes encounter unfathomable clogs.
This is what happened to 49-year-old George Jessup on Saturday when he saw a duck near a storm drain in a suburban Pittsburgh neighborhood. The plumber tried to approach the duck but she “charged at me like a lion.”
So Jessup, on call for Mr. Rooter, looked into the drain. There he found the cause of the duck’s ire.
Trapped in the drain were her seven ducklings, about 2-feet below heavy grating he couldn’t budge. Determined to rescue the ducklings, Jessup called police. Firefighters also arrived on the scene.
Within 15 minutes the ducklings were free.
Then, Jessup says the Momma “scampered out into weeds” with her brood - ready now to enjoy the weekend.