PITTSBURGH — A planned retail, residential and entertainment complex once touted as the biggest in downtown Pittsburgh was suspended indefinitely because of the nation's credit and mortgage crisis, planners said.

When the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust unveiled plans for its $460 million RiverParc in 2006, officials saw it as a way to attract and keep residents and businesses downtown.

It was to be a mixed-use, environmentally friendly arts and residential development with a 225-room hotel, park, performing arts stage, retail and eating space, and about 700 apartments, lofts and townhouses. The project also was to include a riverfront park linking the complex to the Allegheny River.

Cultural Trust CEO Kevin McMahon said the arts group hasn't given up on the plan, but is refocusing on smaller improvements and a new riverside park.

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper said an officer was threatened with a meat cleaver before he shot and killed a man who refused to drop the weapon.Witnesses and police said the man was threatening a landlord and an officer and did not drop the object when the officer yelled several times for him to do so. Witnesses told police the landlord ran from a building yelling for help.The shooting happened shortly after 3 p.m. Friday. Police are not identifying the man shot or the officer, who will go on administrative leave while the Allegheny County Police and district attorney investigate.Harper said the officer retreated and told the man to drop the weapon. Instead, Harper said the man began to aggressively approach the officer who fired one shot.

PITTSBURGH — A former South Fayette Township patrolman was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for receiving nearly nine pounds of cocaine in a Federal Express package.Bernard Golling, 28, was sentenced Friday after previously pleading guilty to conspiring to sell the drugs.Golling resigned as an officer after he was arrested in July.A co-defendant got 57 months in prison, but Golling got more time because he was in uniform and had his service pistol with him when he picked up the package.

PITTSBURGH — A payment of $1.1 million to the legal team for the father of an unarmed Uniontown boy fatally shot by state police is being delayed pending an appeal.A federal jury in Pittsburgh awarded a $28 million verdict in March. They found Trooper Samuel Nassan and Cpl. Juan Curry intentionally shot at 12-year-old Michael Ellerbe as he ran from a stolen vehicle in 2002.Lawyers for Ellerbe's father asked that state police pay their fees and costs.The troopers' attorneys asked for payment to be delayed until appeals for a new trial and reduction in the verdict are resolved. A judge agreed on Thursday.Police say only Nassan shot Ellerbe, and that was justified because he mistakenly believed Ellerbe had shot Curry.