Dish Network To Close Pittsburgh-area Call Center
Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it will close a customer service call center near Pittsburgh, idling 600 workers. Dish Network says the...
Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it will close a customer service call center near Pittsburgh, idling 600 workers. Dish Network says the...
Vail Daily. | Vail Daily | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home
Steelers-Broncos game features top pass-rushers ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER - When cornerback William Gay was drafted by Pitt...
AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Ohio River Basin is getting its own interest group in Congress.
West Virginia Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito and Ohio Democratic Rep. Steve Driehaus announced Monday that the two were forming the Ohio River Congressional Caucus.
Both representatives say the caucus was formed to address a variety of issues in the Ohio River Basin, including the economy, agriculture and the environment.
The Ohio River basin covers 204,000 square miles in parts of 14 states. The river forms in Pittsburgh and empties into the Mississippi River.
About 256 miles of the river's 981 miles serves as a border between West Virginia and Ohio.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
The closing of a cornerstone institution in the small but much talked about town of Braddock, PA, raises an important question: How should a community hospital work, really?
NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | Home
PLUM, Pa. -- Federal workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a New Jersey construction worker crushed by a concrete slab at a jo...
AP | TOM COYNE | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd is healing faster than expected from a broken left collarbone and could be ready to play by Nov. 14 when the Fighting Irish are at Pittsburgh.
Floyd was in full pads at practice Tuesday but was taking part only on a limited basis. During an agility drill where quarterbacks and receivers ran back and forth between pads, Floyd and quarterback Jimmy Clausen, who has turf toe on his right foot, jogged along straight ahead beside the others.
"So you're on the Clausen program, huh?" Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis joked.
Later, while other receivers caught passes and were battered by pads being swung by trainers, Floyd mimicked catching a pass and ran through untouched.
Floyd had surgery on Sept. 20 to have a plate placed on the bone for reinforcement, a day after he was injured when he landed on his shoulder trying to make a catch against Michigan State.
Jeanine Molloff | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
"Am I calling for an armed insurrection? Hardly, and only because I don't think it's possible or probable that an armed revolution would be successful..." said Sheehan.
Leslie Harris | Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology
In the wake of protests last week at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh, the police arrested a self-professed anarchist for using Twitter to coordinate communications among G20 summit protesters.
Bloomberg | By Rainer Buergin and Simon Kennedy | Posted 10.03.2009 | Business
Group of Seven finance chiefs said they will meet less and issue fewer statements as the G-20 becomes the main arena for setting global economic polic...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
This year, President Obama drove a very different agenda -- one focused on discussing how the world can form global governance and cooperate to stimulate the ailing economies.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
It's not Obama's fault that Iraq and Afghanistan happened, but it will be his fault if he rushes into a threat-laden, pseudo-engagement with Iran at this historical crossroads in US-Iran relations.
Betsy Taylor | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
We must protect ourselves against the dark vision of rising seas and temperatures, but not by numbly going through the motions with our actions and alerts. The times call for more risk-taking.
Reverend Billy | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
Peace will remain an impotent Hallmark Card if we wait for Obama, this recent peace candidate, to emerge from his closed meetings with bankers and generals.
Kyle G. Brown | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
The most reliable way to expand tax revenues would be to impose a modest fee on every stock, every bond -- in short, every financial transaction.
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.
William Bradley | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
Iran went front and center today, with war a real possibility in the wake of this morning's revelation of a secret nuclear facility.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
The HuffPost has compiled the best photographs from the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh taking place September 24 and 25, 2009. Vote on your favorite...
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
Gordon Brown has met with US President Barack Obama to discuss several "big issues" including claims Iran has built a second uranium plant....
Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain will address the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh this morning and accuse Iran of building a sec...
Michelle Pilecki | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
There's more inanity going on in Pittsburgh on the Post-Gazette's site, or any "news" outlet that likes to showcase violence than there is on the ground.
AP | DANIEL LOVERING and MICHAEL RUBINKAM | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
PITTSBURGH — Police fired canisters of pepper spray and smoke and rubber bullets at marchers protesting the Group of 20 summit Thursday after an...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
How did Pittsburgh, a gritty city on the edge of America's industrial heartland, get chosen to host the G20? Because Pittsburgh, a booming center of green technology, is the right place for the times.
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
PITTSBURGH — As police clashed with protesters in the streets, world leaders on Thursday closed ranks on pay limits for bankers whose risky beha...
AP | SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home
Stock futures are little changed as investors wait for more clues on how the economy is faring.
The quiet trading Thursday follows declines in markets overseas that came after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and said the pace of economic activity has improved.
The Fed's latest assessment, while slightly more upbeat, did not come as a surprise, and a brief rally in U.S. stocks that followed the statement Wednesday quickly faded.
Investors are looking toward impending reports on jobs and housing. Investors will also be keeping an eye on the Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh.
Dow Jones industrial average futures are up 1 at 9,718. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures are up 0.60 at 1,059, while Nasdaq 100 index futures are up 2 at 1,728.
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home
With the world's major economies having stepped back from the brink of a devastating meltdown, President Barack Obama comes to a global summit here pushing a slimmed-down agenda designed to prevent a repeat of the conditions that caused such panic a few months ago.
Obama will tell world leaders that the global economy cannot continually rely on huge borrowing and spending by Americans and massive exports by countries such as China.
In informal chats and fancy receptions at the two-day summit beginning Thursday, the buzz words will be "balanced and sustainable."
Obama gave a hint of the message when he spoke at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday. He said other nations cannot "stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone. Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
This is the third meeting of the Group of 20 top economies in the aftermath of the financial crisis that plunged the world into fear a year ago. When the G-20 met in April, the economies of the United States and many other countries were under severe strain, and world leaders largely agreed on common remedies such as dramatically increased government spending to provide some stimulus.
CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home