PITTSBURGH — A 10-month-old baby died after being raped and beaten by her mother's boyfriend while the mother was at work, police said.

The infant died at Pittsburgh's Children Hospital on Saturday afternoon, two days after the alleged assault. The Allegheny County medical examiner's office Sunday ruled her death a homicide, saying she died from multisystem organ failure precipitated by her injuries and the assault.

Clinton Smith, 30, of Pittsburgh, the mother's live-in boyfriend, remains in custody after being charged with rape and other offenses. Authorities said earlier that more charges could be filed following the autopsy results.

The mother told police she left the baby with Smith on Thursday morning when she went to her waitressing job. The mother found the baby unresponsive when she returned home at about 9:30 p.m. and called paramedics. The baby had severe bruises on her face, arms and legs, as well as a bite mark on her chest, police said. Doctors told police she had also been sexually assaulted.

Smith, who was also caring for his 2-year-old son, told police he did not know how the baby was injured, authorities said. A preliminary hearing in the case was scheduled for Wednesday.

Smith was awaiting trial on an unrelated June charge of simple assault, court records show. In a separate September 2006 case, a woman who has two young children with Smith was granted a protection-from-abuse order against him after she said he attacked her and their daughter.

PITTSBURGH — An Allegheny County jury has awarded $3.2 million to the estate of a woman who died when she fell through a broken window at a former Pittsburgh nightclub.Twenty-four-year-old Debra Creese, of Marion Township, Beaver County, fell Dec. 23, 2005, while walking up steps at the Upstage Lounge in Oakland, near the University of Pittsburgh. She died several days later after falling nearly 20 feet to the pavement.The window she fell against had Styrofoam over it because it had been broken previously.Attorney James Ross said Friday the owners failed to warn Creese and others of the dangerous condition of the broken window.

HARRISBURG — Where the rubber meets the road, the road may already have rubber inside it.The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation recently used rubber particles made from 16,000 ground-up old tires to resurface a road in York and Adams counties. As a pilot project, the material was used on a 10-mile stretch of Route 194 between Franklintown and East Berlin.Officials say the material will extend the life expectancy of the road for about 10 years. The crumb rubber and asphalt surface is already being used to resurface roads in other states.The Route 194 section carries about 5,000 vehicles a day. PennDOT officials will monitor how well the new surface holds up during the winter, and then they may try it on roads that carry up to 20,000 cars a day.