When Allegheny County Controller Mark Patrick Flaherty issued an audit this week citing a human services contractor for misusing more than $300,000, it continued a trend of providers improperly spending county funds over the past five years. (Today)

The West Virginia Public Service Commission deferred action on a petition for the sale of natural gas utility Dominion Hope to a private investor group, thus delaying the sale of Pittsburgh utility Dominion Peoples to the same buyer. (Today)

Three men were held for trial this morning in the fatal shooting of a Beltzhoover man during a robbery in October. (Yesterday)

A Shaler man remained free on bond after he was ordered today to stand trial, charged with having been drunk last May when he drove the wrong way onto a Fort Duquesne Bridge ramp where his car collided with another, killing the other driver and permanently disabling that driver???s passenger. (Yesterday)

A Venango County man, injured in a one-vehicle crash in October in Mercer County, died this week in an Ohio Hospital, state police said. (Yesterday)