MONONGAHELA — A group of parishioners has abandoned a sit-in to protest the closing of a Roman Catholic church outside Pittsburgh.

About 25 people had refused to leave St. Anthony's church in Monongahela after its final Mass Saturday evening.

However, protester Laura Magone says only she and two others remained by Sunday morning. She says security guards wouldn't allow them to open windows to receive food and water.

Magone says parishioners “leave our church with heavy hearts.” She says they plan to appeal the closing to the Vatican.

GETTYSBURG — A small piece of the nation's military heritage is being preserved in Pennsylvania.The nonprofit Civil War Trust has purchased a one-acre parcel of land that played a role in the Battle of Gettysburg.Trust spokesman May Koik described the property as one of the battlefield's lesser-known corners. Union cannons were briefly overrun there by Confederates on July 2, 1863.