HARRISBURG — Passenger rail service between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg will continue under a new funding agreement.

Gov. Tom Corbett announced Thursday that a revised agreement with Amtrak calls for the state to pay $3.8 million a year to maintain service of the “Pennsylvanian” line.

Amtrak's initial estimate of $6.5 million a year was pared down through negotiations with PennDOT officials, mainly by shifting certain costs to other areas of the operation, said Amtrak spokesman Craig Schulz.

The “Pennsylvanian” line provides one train a day in each direction between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. Through service continues to and from Philadelphia and New York City.

The Western Pennsylvania service, which the state restored in the early 1980s, includes stops at stations in Lewistown, Huntingdon, Altoona, Johnstown and Greensburg.

PITTSBURGH — For the first time in decades, more people are moving to the Pittsburgh region than leaving.Census data show the seven-county region's population rose by nearly 4,000 to 2.3 million over the past two years, while real estate firms say they've helped hundreds of families relocate to the area.Experts cite the Marcellus Shale gas boom and Pittsburgh's transformation from a steel-industry town into a center for technology, health care and banking.

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh City Councilman Bill Peduto says two top Democrat challengers in the mayoral primary are violating the city's campaign finance law, which caps donations at $2,000 per person and $4,000 per political action committee.Peduto has filed for an Allegheny County court injunction Thursday saying city Controller Michael Lamb wrongly loaned his mayoral campaign $50,000. And he says Jack Wagner's stated plan to jump start his campaign with $300,000 in leftover money from his war chest as state Auditor General is illegal, too.Lamb and Wagner both released statements calling Peduto's challenge a baseless political “stunt.”