PITTSBURGH — A Fayette County woman is being accused of killing her boyfriend in a dispute over a favorite pillow.

Johnna Marie Palya, 42, already faces charges in the August shooting, but 43-year-old Barry Pavlicko died Saturday of his wounds, and police are adding homicide charges.

Police say Palya admitted shooting Pavlicko after he took the pillow she had planned to sleep with and then attempted to shove her down the stairs.

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Opera's director has accepted a position to be executive director of Washington, D.C.'s opera group, where he will work with the renowned tenor Placido Domingo.Mark Weinstein is best known for pulling the Pittsburgh Opera out of the red and increasing its assets from $4 million to an expected $25 million.