PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh's slot machine casino asked state gaming regulators for permission to add 86 table games, perhaps as early as July.

The Rivers Casino said in its petition to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board it plans to hire 309 full-time workers and 149 part-timers. About 350 of those workers will be dealers, with the rest being managers, supervisors and support staff.

Twenty-four of the tables will be for poker, and 42 for blackjack. The rest will include roulette, craps, mini-baccarat and other games.

The poker tables will be located in a separate room to be built for that purpose.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Tuesday approved the first two petitions by other casinos filed under a new law that allows table games to be added to the state's slot-machine casinos.

PHILADELPHIA — A U.S. Senate panel plans to hold a hearing in Philadelphia this month on allegations of webcam spying by a school system.Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., said Tuesday the subcommittee on crime and drugs he chairs will hold a special hearing March 29 on the use of remote tracking software to take pictures using the built-in cameras of the computers issued to students.Specter said federal legislation might be needed to deal with the technology.The family of a 15-year-old student is seeking class action status for a lawsuit accusing the Lower Merion School District of photographing him in his bedroom. The district said it activated the cameras only to locate missing laptops.The FBI is investigating whether the school district violated wiretap and computer use laws.

PITTSBURGH — A federal grand jury subpoenaed records about the arrest of a teenage art student who accused three Pittsburgh police officers of wrongly beating him.Meanwhile, attorneys for the suspended officers and police union president Dan O'Hara say all three passed polygraph tests about the Jan. 12 confrontation.A district judge dismissed prowling and assault charges against Jordan Miles, 18, who said he resisted the plainclothes officers only because they didn't identify themselves as police.Police said they believed Miles was acting suspiciously near a residence, but a judge dismissed charges after the home's owner said Miles was welcome near her home.The teen contends the white officers assumed he was a troublemaker simply because he's black.

HARRISBURG — Jurors in the public corruption trial of a once-powerful Pennsylvania lawmaker are soon to begin their fourth day of deliberations.The jury of eight women and four men will go behind closed doors again today. The panel has already deliberated for 20 hours on the charges against former Democratic state Rep. Mike Veon and three of his former aides.The defendants are accused of theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest.

WASHINGTON — A coroner holds an inquest next month on the death of a man several days after he was subdued by police with a stun gun.Washington County Coroner Tim Warco said the proceedings are set for April 22 in the death of Robert Petruney, 49, last fall.Police in Washington, Pa., said they were trying to help Petruney when he had a seizure and wandered into traffic Nov. 17, but he swung at one officer and bit another at least three times. Officers used a stun gun on him twice, and he lost consciousness and was taken to a hospital, where he died four days later.Police have defended their actions, saying Petruney had mental health problems and had bitten an officer in the past.