An 11-year-old Pittsburgh boy is hospitalized after being caught in the crossfire of a shooting that police say involved his father.

Authorities say the unidentified boy is in stable condition after he was shot in the thigh Wednesday afternoon in the city's Larimer neighborhood. Police believe a $5 debt prompted the exchange of gunfire between a man in a car and the boy's father outside a home.

A short time later a man arrived at a nearby hospital claiming he was caught in the crossfire. Police suspect that man, 46-year-old Andre Howard of Wilkinsburg, fired the shot that struck the boy. Howard's condition has not been released.

No charges have been filed. Police say the investigation continues.

A faculty member who resigned from Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh has been charged with misappropriating more than $25,000 earmarked for prom and homecoming dances.The Allegheny County District Attorney has charged 46-year-old Vincent Buccina, of Pittsburgh with theft. He faces a preliminary hearing April 29 and two home phones listed in his name were disconnected Wednesday.Authorities began investigating in January, months after school officials asked Buccina to explain a low balance in the student council fund he helped oversee. Buccina then resigned.County detectives say Buccina later acknowledged having financial problems and credit card debts about the time of the dances in 2008.

The National Rifle Association has asked a three-judge panel of Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court to reinstate the group's lawsuit opposing a Pittsburgh law requiring gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms.A county judge threw out the lawsuit last year saying the NRA and gun owners lacked standing to sue because they haven't been affected by the law. On Tuesday, NRA lawyers argued that the law essentially requires people to maintain a gun inventory, something state and federal firearms laws don't require.City Councilman Doug Shields says the law is simply a common sense requirement that gun owners report missing weapons. The law provides for a $500 fine for not reporting a gun stolen within 24 hours.

Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl says he stands by the firing of a city police officer acquitted of assaulting a former girlfriend and does not want to see him back in uniform.Forty-three-year-old Eugene Hlavac Jr. was acquitted Tuesday of an assault charge and said he would seek his job back. The 18-year veteran was fired after the December case under the city's "zero-tolerance" domestic violence policy.The mayor said Wednesday he would oppose any effort to reinstate Hlavac, noting that the city's burden of proof in arbitration is lower than the standard in criminal court.Prosecutors alleged that Hlavac was angry with the woman for not picking up their son on time. He contended that he was only defending himself, and a witness testified that the woman had been the aggressor.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is closing the Three Rivers Ecological Research Center in Pittsburgh saying the four-year old facility failed to sustain itself financially.The center opened in 2006 to assess river conditions and do research on fish species in the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers.Fish commission executive director John Arway says the group hoped that the research center would secure grants to continue its operation, but that didn't happen.