HOUSTON A new $175 million, permanent slots parlor is open for business at the Meadows Racetrack & Casino near Pittsburgh.

The new casino replaces a temporary slots parlor that opened in June 2007 with 1,825 machines. The new building that opened Wednesday has more than 3,000 machines as well as more parking and dining options.

Several hundred people were waiting as the new building opened, and several thousand filed through by mid-day.

LANCASTER A central Pennsylvania man is weighing his options after his unorthodox method of finding work netted 17 job offers.When 27-year-old Joe Sabol lost his job at a supermarket chain's corporate office in December, he started a conventional job search. But after sending out 155 resumes didn't get him work, he walked along a busy street Wednesday in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, with a sign saying, "College Grad Looking For Employment."He says he plans to be on the street again today.

FOREST HILLS A Pittsburgh-area priest helped lead the funeral of an 89-year-old woman killed when the priest's car hit her and others after Good Friday services.The family of Madeline Romell, of Forest Hills, welcomed the Rev. Elmer Kacinko's participation in her funeral Mass Wednesday.Romell was killed and four others injured when Kacinko's car hit them outside St. Maurice Catholic Church in Forest Hills. The priest has told police the accelerator on his vehicle stuck.