PITTSBURGH — In the contest to become Pittsburgh's next mayor, incumbent Democrat Luke Ravenstahl is winning the money race.

Republican Mark DeSantis raised more money than Mayor Luke Ravenstahl from June through Oct. 22. But in the run-up to the Nov. 6 election, Ravenstahl still has hundreds of thousands of dollars more than DeSantis.

The latest fundraising numbers were included in campaign finance reports filed Friday with Allegheny County election officials.

DeSantis and Ravenstahl are running to fill out the remainder of the term of Mayor Bob O'Connor, who died of a rare brain cancer last year.

PITTSBURGH — The Heinz Endowments has committed $45 million in grants to nonprofits, including $22 million to Carnegie Mellon University.The university plans to use the money to create a new school of information systems and for the chemistry, robotics and computer science programs. The school will be part of a new college that also will include a restructured school of public policy and management, the foundation said.The gift was the largest of 219 grants totaling $45.4 million approved by the Heinz Endowments board during a two-day meeting that ended Thursday.The foundation also approved $3.7 million for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and eight other arts groups. Also approved was $1.75 million as part of a $3 million loan fund that will help provide financing for owners of small buildings who want to renovate upper floors into moderate-income housing.Earlier this week, the Richard King Mellon Foundation announced that it was giving Carnegie Mellon $25 million to create a Life Sciences Competitiveness Fund.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Data gathered by State Farm Insurance shows that vehicles are most likely to collide with deer in West Virginia — a one in 57 chance.The Bloomington, Ill.-based insurance company says second place goes to Michigan, followed by Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Iowa.The least likely state for deer-vehicle collisions is Hawaii, with odds of one in more than 16,600.The company used deer claims data from the last half of 2006 though the first half of 2007 to determine the odds.

ERIE — The city of Erie is hosting a regional conference of little people this weekend.More than 200 people who are members of the Little People of America group are in town for the meeting.The conference marks is 50th birthday of the group, which provides support for little people and a forum in which to meet new friends and share information about medical issues.The conference is being held at the Avalon Hotel and runs through Sunday.