Duquesne University

Facebook, PayPal mogul: Silicon Valley can free future from hurdles _ even death _ to progress. In the movie The Social Network, the character of Peter Thiel is played as a slick Master of the Universe, a tech industry king and kingmaker with the savvy to see that a $500,000 investment in Facebook could mint millions later.

Shoes for soldiers program leads to possible NCAA rules violation by Duquesne. Duquesne University is self-reporting itself to the NCAA for a possible rules violation in which the school sent basketball shoes to a junior college coach who supplies athletic gear to troops in Afghanistan.

Attorneys say the end of a Kentucky lawsuit targeting the Vatican won't affect others in US. One of the most promising lawsuits from sexual abuse victims seeking to link the Vatican to the American priest abuse scandal has imploded in Kentucky, but a prominent plaintiffs' attorney says it shouldn't affect two other lawsuits aimed directly at Rome.

A door slams, and a snowy-haired man sweeps into the room at the back of a university garage, a sterile place of stainless steel sinks, a swaying hose and a metal table where a woman's body lies, blood dripping from the back of her head.

Coroner as celebrity: After 50 years of death, Dr. Cyril Wecht looks back on life. A door slams, and a snowy-haired man sweeps into the room at the back of a university garage, a sterile place of stainless steel sinks, a swaying hose and a metal table where a woman's body lies, blood dripping from the back of her head.

A door slams, and a snowy-haired man sweeps into the room at the back of a university garage, a sterile place of stainless steel sinks, a swaying hose and a metal table where a woman's body lies, blood dripping from the back of her head.

W.Pa. lawyer wants client's drug conviction dismissed because Canadian served on jury. A western Pennsylvania defense attorney wants his client's drug conviction dismissed because one of the jurors wasn't a U.S. citizen, which is a requirement of jurors.

Tammy and Ted Plevretes don't need more research to link football concussions to devastating brain damage.

New warnings linking concussions to brain injury come too late for ex-La Salle football player. Tammy and Ted Plevretes don't need more research to link football concussions to devastating brain damage.

Book on Clinton scandal says prosecutors were prepared to indict both. Prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs, an explosive new book about the former president's scandals charges.

Sam Ashaolu, who nearly died in Duquesne basketball shootings in 2006, to graduate Thursday. Fittingly, Sam Ashaolu was standing on the court at a pregame shootaround, wearing his Duquesne University basketball sweats, when he received the best news of his life.

La Salle pays $7.5 million to player who allegedly had concussion before severe brain injury. A private university will pay $7.5 million to provide care to a football player who suffered a severe brain injury in a 2005 game, settling a case that questioned how the school handled a concussion the player allegedly suffered a month earlier.

Volunteers helping G-20 run smoothly also hope to show off Pittsburgh to diplomats, world. Hundreds of volunteers have picked up trash, practiced foreign languages and prepared to greet the thousands of visitors arriving in Pittsburgh this week for the two-day Group of 20 economic summit.

U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have taken a consistent line on a health care overhaul: It's vital, but they cannot support proposals that go too far in covering abortion and not far enough in protecting health workers who don't want to provide that procedure.

Some Catholics bishops, wary of big government, open new front in health care criticism. U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have taken a consistent line on a health care overhaul: It's vital, but they cannot support proposals that go too far in covering abortion and not far enough in protecting health workers who don't want to provide that procedure.

Mom says Pittsburgh school bullies drove daughter to anorexia with remarks about her weight. A woman has filed what experts believe is a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Public Schools, claiming her daughter developed anorexia because male students bullied the girl about her weight, forcing her to leave the district.

Missing piece: For first time since 1930s, Dan Rooney absent from Steelers camp. There hasn't been a Steelers training camp like this since the year Max Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis, "Gone with the Wind" was published and Jesse Owens won four Olympic gold medals in Adolf Hitler-controlled Germany.

Catholic clashes with Obama raise stakes on impending pick for US ambassador to Vatican. Since the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic ties in 1984, little attention has been paid to the process and politics of selecting a U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. That's changing under a new president whose positions have been criticized by several American bishops and conservative Catholics.

Biographical details on Steelers owner Dan Rooney, tapped to be US ambassador to Ireland. NAME: Dan Rooney