PITTSBURGH — At least $12 million will be invested to improve parts of a popular bike trail leading from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C.

Tens of thousands of cyclists use the 320-mile bike trail every year.

The 150 miles of trail from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Md., is called the Great Allegheny Passage and has been repaved for pleasurable biking. But the remaining 170-mile C&O Canal towpath is poorly paved and overgrown.

In the fall, crews will use about $660,000 in stimulus funds to begin improving the worst parts of the trail. Another $12 million was set aside to improve areas near Big Slackwater, a popular park that sees more than 3 million visitors annually.

MILLINOCKET, Maine — A 16-year-old Pittsburgh girl was swept downstream in the Penobscot River in northern Maine, but was able to reach shore just before she would have dropped over a waterfall.The Maine Warden Service said Rebecca Levine floated and bounced 2Z\x miles downstream and through rapids Friday evening.