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PITTSBURGH — A state historical agency says Allegheny County should hold off on demolishing the longtime home of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Bureau of Historic Preservation says the Civic Arena may be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

The hockey team is vacating the facility known as the Igloo for the new Consol Energy Center.

The county Sports & Exhibition Authority owns the decades-old arena and is expected to recommend demolition. A group called Reuse the Igloo wants to save it.

Preservation bureau director Jean Cutler wrote to the authority Thursday asking for a delay so redevelopment options can be considered. She says the arena has notable architecture.

PITTSBURGH — Federal court records show an Ohio woman has settled her lawsuit against a western Pennsylvania plastic surgeon who allegedly installed the wrong kind of implants.Brittany Daly of Steubenville, Ohio, sued Dr. Beverly Carl, of Bridgewater, Beaver County, in March over the 2008 surgery.Daly says she decided on silicon breast implants because Carl told her they were more durable than saline implants. But Daly says Carl's office accidentally obtained saline implants and the surgeon allegedly told Daly's fiancee about the mistake only after Daly was anesthetized — and he told her to go ahead with the saline implants.Court documents don't detail the settlement, reached this week, and attorneys for both sides did not return calls Friday.

MECHANICSBURG — An investor group vying for a Pennsylvania casino license is banking on appealing to RV owners who are looking for fun things to do and have money to spend.The Penn Harris Gaming group unveiled its plans this week to transform a Holiday Inn in suburban Harrisburg into a $75 million casino.Penn Harris investors say the casino would adjoin a six-acre RV parking lot. And 36 casino-owned RVs would sit outside to act as hotel rooms to help meet the 275-room minimum in the law.Investor John Donnelly says some Las Vegas casinos are already trying to lure RVers.Penn Harris is competing with three other applicants for Pennsylvania's final resort casino license. It allows up to 600 slot machines and 50 table games.

HARRSIBURG — The first negative TV ad of the general election campaign against Pennsylvania Senate candidate Pat Toomey is going on the air.The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said the ad begins airing Friday and portrays the Republican as a champion of Wall Street and the derivatives that toppled some financial institutions.Toomey is in a close race against Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak.The ad's attempt to link Toomey to the troublesome derivatives is questionable, as is its claim that he wrote a law while in Congress that weakened oversight of Wall Street. In the 1980s, Toomey traded currency and interest-rate swaps for two New York banks, but not the credit default swaps that insured mortgage securities.

BEAVER — A county commissioner in western Pennsylvania says he did nothing wrong when he used campaign funds to pay more than $12,000 in tuition toward his master's degree in public policy and management.Beaver County Commissioner Charlie Camp, a Republican, says he didn't hide the payments on his campaign expense reports because he believes the expenditures are legal. State law says campaign funds can be spent only on items that could influence the outcome of an election. Camp says his degree qualifies because it makes him more electable. He got the master's at Pitt by writing a thesis on transportation planning.A spokeswoman for the Department of State says anybody who opposes Camp's actions would have to file a complaint through the county elections board.

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