PITTSBURGH — A 60-foot-tall pier on Pittsburgh's Birmingham Bridge will be replaced at a cost of some $5 million.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says the pier shifted slightly in February when a 150-foot-long section of the bridge dropped from its rocker bearings. The repair will be done in the fall.

Once the pier is replaced, the bridge's six lanes will be opened. Currently, only two lanes are in use.

PITTSBURGH — Three men are being accused of selling fake tickets to a Stanley Cup playoff game in Pittsburgh.Police say the scam was uncovered when some of the buyers tried to enter Mellon Arena for Saturday night's game, only to be told at the door that the tickets were forgeries. Police say the name of the arena was misspelled on the tickets.Police say 36-year-old El Rasheen Dozier of Cleveland has been charged with forgery. Forty-nine-year-old Clifton McIntosh of Pittsburgh and 36-year-old Alfonzo Clark of the Bronx, N.Y. have been charged with forgery and theft by deception.

HARRISBURG — The state Department of General Services says there is no buyer yet for a state transport plane that has been for sale since February.Department spokesman Ed Myslewicz says only two offers came in for the 1981 Beech King Air 200. He says one buyer was willing to pay the $1.4 million asking price but withdrew the offer after learning that the aircraft was too heavy to be used as a cargo plane.Myslewicz says the other offer was well below the asking price and was rejected.Gov. Ed Rendell decided to sell the smaller, less-used executive plane as part of a cost-cutting measure. He and other state officials still use a King Air 350 plane.The department says selling an executive transport plane typically can take six months to a year.

BRADDOCK — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has reopened the main lock chamber of a dam along the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh.The lock chamber in Braddock had been closed since Friday, when officials discovered a broken hinge. It was reopened a day ahead of schedule after repairs were completed.The Corps of Engineers says the closure delayed commercial and recreational traffic on the river, with some tow boats waiting as long as 17 hours to pass through a smaller secondary chamber.A lock is essentially a water-driven elevator that lifts or lowers boats so they can pass through dams. The hinge that broke helps the lock chamber's concrete door open and close.