HARRISBURG — A new ruling by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is clearing the way for something few if any state residents have experienced — home delivery of beer.

PLCB lawyer Rob Diaz said Friday the advisory opinion outlined that businesses that have retail licenses can legally bring suds to the front door as long as they also obtain what's known as a transporter-for-hire license.

The customer can't pay when the beer is delivered, because sales have to occur at the retail establishment. There's also a 192-ounce limit, which equates to a 12-pack of 16-ounce beers. Wine and liquor aren't allowed for delivery.

The Pennsylvania Licensed Beverage and Tavern Association is calling it a win for consumers.

Grant to fund 500 bikes for PittsburghPITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Bike Share plans to spend $500,000 from a federal grant to outfit the city with 500 bicycles for the public bicycle-sharing program.Bike Share officials hope to fund the program, set to begin next spring, through charitable foundations, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday. That would make Pittsburgh's program a public service, rather than a money-making venture, which is how similar programs are run in other U.S. cities.“Prices in other cities can really take advantage of two types of users — those with annual memberships and tourists. We didn't want that,” said Bart Yavorosky, the executive director of the Pittsburgh Bike Share Partnership.Instead, group would like to keep the cost of renting the bikes down to about 50 cents an hour to encourage more people to use them.The bikes will be stored at 50 electronic kiosks around the city. Users can pay for the short-term rentals with a credit card that unlocks the bike.A $1.6 million federal grant will pay for the bikes, and the installation of the kiosks. The partnership has already raised $1.2 million to from charities to sustain the program for the first year, with hopes foundations will fund the program indefinitely.Yavorosky wants to keep the rental costs down so more people will use the Pittsburgh bikes than in other cities with similar programs.

Cam shows second hatched penguinPITTSBURGH — A web camera has captured images of the second of two African penguins hatching at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh.Aviary officials spotted the second chick for the first time on Friday. But they say the nesting behavior of the parents suggests the chick was likely hatched Thursday.A sibling was hatched Monday.The new chick brings to 18 the number of endangered African penguins in the aviary's Penguins Point exhibit. Scientists estimate fewer than 20,000 of the birds exist in the wild.The public can monitor the baby penguins' progress at www.penguinnestcam.org and visitors to the aviary can watch the parents, Sidney and Bette, sharing nesting duties.The chicks will be named after DNA tests can determine their gender in a few weeks. Their father is named for Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby.

Pittsburgh's bald eagles back onlinePITTSBURGH — A live video feed is again turning Pittsburgh into eagle country.A round-the-clock stream featuring the city's beloved bald eagles went back online Thursday after volunteers mounted a pair of cameras in nearby trees.A Pittsburgh newspaper reports the cameras trained on the eagles' nest in the city's Hays neighborhood are back in time for the breeding season beginning in mid-January.The newspaper reports a stream from a single camera earlier this year captured the eagles' eggs hatching, chicks being fed, learning to fly and leaving the nest. It attracted 3.5 million views.Murrysville-based security PixController provided the cameras and is working with the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania on the project.