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Noon kickoff set for Pitt-Penn State football game

PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt-Penn State football game on Sept. 10 will kick off at noon and be televised by ABC or ESPN, Pitt announced Thursday. The game will be played at Heinz Field. The Panthers and Nittany Lions will renew their series for the first time since 2000, when Pitt beat Penn State, 12-0. ncG1vNJzZmivmpawtcKNnKamZ6OlvLPA0miaqKakmru1e82opqdlm56wrLvFn2SsnaRis7C%2BjKmgraxdpbKvuoysq5qslWKzsLvTm5ilpF2crq6x

PSU grad gifts $30M to communications program, which now carries his name

UNIVERSITY PARK - Television stalwart and Penn State graduate Donald P. Bellisario has made a $30 million endowment to the College of Communications. In appreciation of the gift, Penn State officials have renamed the College of Communications to the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. The $30 million gift, which is one of the five largest ever made in the university's history, has allowed officials to start planning to build a new media center that will also hold Bellisario's namesake.

Steelers Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris dies at 72

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Franco Harris, the Hall of Fame running back whose heads-up thinking authored “The Immaculate Reception,” considered the most iconic play in NFL history, has died. He was 72. Harris' son Dok told The Associated Press his father passed away overnight. No cause of death was given. His death comes two days before the 50th anniversary of the play that provided the jolt that helped transform the Steelers from also-rans into the NFL's elite and three days before Pittsburgh is scheduled to retire his No.

Dive crews called to search Pittsburgh rivers, help solve cold cases; over 100 cars found

Pittsburgh (WPXI) — Two dive teams are in Pittsburgh this week as authorities continue to look through cars they found in the waters of the Allegheny River. Investigators say they found and identified one body over the weekend and now they're looking for two more people who have been missing in the area. Divers have located more than 100 cars, so far, in the river and our NBC Affiliate WPXI got an exclusive, first-hand look at how the search is going.

Ebensburg suicide connected to Hollidaysburg homicide investigation

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (WJAC) — Authorities say a suicide at an Ebensburg hotel Wednesday night was connected to an ongoing homicide investigation in Hollidaysburg. According to the Blair County District Attorney’s Office, Hollidaysburg police and Pennsylvania State Police identified 39 -year-old Kenneth Kim as a suspect in the murder of 27-year-old Tyler Slippy. Investigators say Slippy was found dead in an alley way on Allegheny Street in late Nov. Investigators say a number of search warrants were executed in Blair and Cambria counties regarding the investigation.