PITTSBURGH — Forest County has the highest percentage of males and the fewest percentage of females of any county in the state, according to federal population figures.

Just 38 percent of Forest County's roughly 6,500 residents are female, according to a 2006 U.S. Census estimate.

Penn State demographer Gordon DeJong said SCI-Forest, the all-male state prison near Marienville, accounts for some of the imbalance. But even removing inmates from the total, 47 percent of the population of Forest County is male.

Many are drawn to the rural county by the hunting and fishing opportunities, according to a Pittsburgh newspaper.

"Hunting and fishing, that's what the guys here live for," said Amy Barron, a bartender at Forest Hills Restaurant and Bar just outside Tionesta, the county seat and largest town with a population of 592.

HARRISBURG — It's the last day for Pennsylvania residents to register to vote in the April 22 primary.State elections officials said registration applications will be accepted as long as they are filed with counties or postmarked by Monday.Pennsylvanians have been registering in record numbers this year, largely because of interest in the historic contest between Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to be the first woman or the first black person to be nominated for president.Only registered Democrats and Republicans can vote in the primary, which also includes candidates for nominations for the statewide row offices, Congress and the state Legislature.

PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh neighborhood is a creating a sort of local criminal justice system.The concept is called restorative justice and is used in 44 states. It's designed to address the needs of the victim, offender and neighborhood.Allegheny County Probation director Jim Rieland said the leverage is that if the offender doesn't follow whatever action is agreed upon to right the wrong, the offender has to go to juvenile court.Jerome Jackson is behind the idea in Manchester. He's trained mediators for the state Department of Corrections and elsewhere.He said parts of the traditional justice system, such as community service served outside the affected community, don't make sense.The program will begin with youths, but planners hope to include adults.