WEST MIFFLIN — The president of a Pittsburgh-area amusement park is resigning at year's end as part of a management streamlining by its new Spanish owners.

Fifty-six-year-old Peter McAneny has been president of Kennywood Park in West Mifflin since 2003. The family owned park was sold earlier this year to Parques Reunidos of Madrid, which manages dozens of amusement, animal and water parks in the United States and Europe.

McAneny says the Spanish firm is streamlining the management of its North American properties.

The Kennywood sale also included two other Pittsburgh-area attractions: Idlewild & SoakZone in Ligonier and Sandcastle Waterpark in West Homestead.

TIDOUTE — State police say a Western Pennsylvania woman charged with plotting her estranged husband's murder wanted it to look like a hunting accident.State police say they were called after 39-year-old Shawn Yeager's sons, 12 and 15, found him shot on the rear deck of his home in Warren County.A preliminary hearing is set Dec. 16 for 33-year-old Susan Yeager and her brother, 28-year-old Cory Altman. Police say Altman shot Shawn Yeager with a hunting rifle then joked to a friend that he "got his buck for the year."Twenty-six-year-old Robert Pessia also is charged in the plot.The suspects are all jailed without bail.

GUYS MILLS — A coroner has ruled out suicide in the shooting death of a hunter found slain on his own property in northwestern Pennsylvania.As a result, police believe 33-year-old Michael Frye of East Mead Township was most likely shot by another hunter in the area.A bullet hit Frye in the shoulder and continued on to his spine killing the father of two as he hunted on his family's 80-acre homestead early Saturday. The property is along Route 27 near Meadville.Police are trying to determine who else was hunting in the area that day and could be responsible for the stray shot.

PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University officials plan to freeze wages of its more than 4,700 employees and review all capital improvement projects at the Pittsburgh school because of the economic downturn.University President Jared Cohon says the stock market's decline has affected the school's endowment. Cohon says that "will have a negative effect on our operating budget for the next several years."The wage freeze begins July 1 and it's unclear how long it will last.No capital projects have been scrapped, but all are being reviewed to determine if they're necessary under the university's belt tightening.The school has about 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students.

MCCANDLESS — A Pittsburgh-area high school band is the only one in the state chosen to march in the inaugural parade for President-elect Barack Obama next month.The North Allegheny High School Band is one of about 50 across the country chosen to march from about 1,400 that auditioned.Members of Boy Scout Troop in Philadelphia and the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps from the Allentown area are the other Pennsylvania groups chosen to march in the parade.The parade begins Jan. 20 at 1 p.m. and goes from the Capitol down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House in Washington, D.C.