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The unique situation confronting the Steelers at their quarterback position turned more somber Thursday night when Byron Leftwich departed the final preseason game for good in the second quarter with a left knee injury.Steelers quarterback Byron Leftwich was taken to a hospital tonight after an injury to his left knee in the second quarter of their game against Carolina at Heinz Field.Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and team president Art Rooney II will meet with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell Friday morning in New York, but they will not be politicking to have his suspension reduced beyond two games, the Post-Gazette has learned.New charges were filed today against the driver of the SUV that struck and killed a jogger in Mt. Lebanon in June, according to a news release from the Mt. Lebanon Police Department.McKeesport City Council Wednesday night unanimously approved a lease agreement with Delmont.-based Penneco Pipeline Corp. for shallow gas drilling on nearly 27 acres along Eden Park Boulevard that extends into Renziehausen Park.Two people were arrested last night after Pittsburgh police said they discovered $9,000 worth of heroin in their Lawrenceville home.Police are looking for at least two men who they say opened fire on an occupied house this afternoon and then into a woman's moving car, shattering her windshield.A non-profit economic research group today released an annual report on the state of workers in Pennsylvania that concluded that, absent policy actions taken by the federal government in the wake of the recession, Pennsylvania and the nation would be looking at double digit unemployment rates todayFormer Latrobe mayor Thomas Marflak is free on his own recognizance, pending a preliminary hearing on charges that he paid his wife's credit card bills with more than $60,000 siphoned from a hotel he managed for about nine yearsState police in Beaver raided a house in Freedom where they arrested two people on drug trafficking charges and a third person who had an outstanding warrant
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