PITTSBURGH — Steelers receiver Hines Ward must pay back $48,438 to a bar he is part owner of, a judge ruled.

The Locker Room Bar & Grille co-owner Nicholas Lettieri Jr. had accused Ward and another co-owner of draining accounts in a lawsuit filed in September.

On Tuesday, Allegheny County Judge Christine Ward ordered Ward to repay the money, which Lettieri's attorney said was used to buy two cars for Ward's friends.

Ward has previously said his job was publicity and that he was not involved with its finances.

Korry Pitts, was ordered to repay about $122,000. He is married to Kimberly Pitts, another owner. The judge also ordered that ownership and keys to the bar be given to Lettieri.

The bar had also sued Lettieri, claiming he withdrew nearly $19,000 from four of the bar's bank accounts though he was no longer authorized to do so.

Lettieri was ordered to return the money he withdrew, but a judge also ordered Pitts and Ward to produce the bar's financial records.

Lettieri, Hines Ward and Kimberly Pitts each invested $60,000 under a November 2005 operating agreement, according to court filings.

PITTSBURGH — The busiest travel day of the year is here and a coffee company is hoping to make the ride a little easier.Maxwell House is paying the fares of drivers exiting the Pennsylvania Turnpike at the Monroeville exit near Pittsburgh and the Valley Forge Interchange near Philadelphia. In all, eight cities including Chicago, Boston, Dallas and Atlanta are participating in the promotion from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesday.The coffee company is passing out samples of Maxwell House coffee at the tolls. The company also plans to donate up to $100,000 to the food bank system known as America's Second Harvest.

MORRISVILLE — A Bucks County man is recovering at a hospital after managing to fish out his cell phone while trapped under a car and dial 911.Falls Township police say 20-year-old Mark Wassum Jr. was at a junkyard on Sunday when jacks holding a car up failed. Although Wassum was able to call for help, the line went quiet shortly after he gave the salvage yard's location.A policeman who arrived on the scene thought of a way to locate Wassum. He turned on his siren and drove around the lot, instructing the 911 dispatcher to alert him once the sound of the siren through the phone got loud. The officer found Wassum in a remote section of the yard within five minutes.