[naviga:h3]Macy’s to donate old store items[/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — Macy’s has agreed to donate dozens of artifacts from the iconic 13-story building that housed its shuttered downtown Pittsburgh department store to several history groups.

Under a tentative agreement among the city, Macy’s and others, the department store will donate nearly 100 artifacts to the Heinz History Center, including holiday displays and items from the Tic Toc restaurant. The building was a Kaufmann’s department store for more than a century. It opened in 1887 before Macy’s bought the building in 2005.

“We recognized the deep connection and long-standing memories generations of Pittsburghers have to this building, and wanted to ensure that many more could continue to experience its history,” said Deanna Salvaggio, Macy’s district vice president for Pittsburgh.

[naviga:h3]Ten Commandments monument moved[/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania school district’s Ten Commandments monument that an atheists’ group sued to have removed is now on a neighboring church’s property, next to a driveway leading to the district’s high school.

A federal judge last month ruled the monument outside Connellsville Junior High School violated the First Amendment. But he stopped short of ordering it moved because the plaintiffs in the Freedom From Religion Foundation had since left the district and could no longer be offended by it.

Still, the school feared future litigation and decided to remove it.