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PITTSBURGH - Officials say a major bridge into downtown Pittsburgh is closed after a fire that began on a construction tarp. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said the Liberty Bridge is closed indefinitely while state transportation inspectors examine the damage from a Friday afternoon blaze. Crews are conducting an $80 million reconstruction project on the bridge. A Transportation Department spokesman tells the paper the fire started in a tarp being used to control painting work and spread to nearby plastic pipes.

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A former relief pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates has been sentenced to two to four years behind bars for statutory sexual assault and other charges in a case involving a girl who was 13 when the encounters began. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday that 30-year-old Felipe Vazquez has already served almost two years in jail. He will be eligible for a parole hearing one month after arriving in prison.

In the familiar images that circulated after her June 1994 death, Nicole Brown Simpson appears frozen in place. She's a statuesque blonde with a tense smile, silently escorting famous husband O.J. Simpson. She's the breezy California beauty behind the wheel of her white Ferrari. And she's the somber woman, with telling bruises and a black eye, in the stark Polaroids locked away in a bank vault. Thirty years later, Nicole's three sisters want her remembered for more than those static images or the violent way she died.

Pennsylvania is the only state in the country that does not allow local police departments to use radar guns to catch speeders. Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Radar Coalition held a meeting where officials called for the state to re-examine its radar gun policy. Officials during that meeting said speeding caused nearly 41 percent of Pennsylvania traffic deaths. They also said House Bill 606 would help address this issue by allowing local police to use radar guns, among other things.