An Allegheny County Common Pleas judge this morning delayed issuing a decision in the homicide by vehicle case against an Upper St. Clair man, saying that he was giving more time to both sides to establish the scientific value -- or lack of it -- of the data recorder in the crashed car. (Today)

Gov. Tom Corbett today again declined to give details of how he plans to deal with the state's transportation funding crisis, and said he couldn't guarantee a solution that would avert record transit service cuts in Pittsburgh. (Today)

Deciding the weighty issue of who should oversee the annual inspection of gas pumps, UPC scanners, scales and parking meters in Allegheny County will have to wait until the county controller is back from maternity leave next month. (Today)

New deadlines have been set for Allegheny County property taxes as a result of concerns about new property assessments. (Today)

Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner will recommend that the state Department of Agriculture take back responsibility for assuring store scales and gas pumps are accurate. Her move comes in a tit-for-tat response to a plan by county Executive Rich Fitzgerald to have his office, rather than the controller, handle that job. (Yesterday)