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PITTSBURGH — Officials at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh say a newborn pair of endangered African penguins will soon be making their public debut.
The chicks will be on view to the public starting Thursday.
One chick is female and hatched Nov. 29. The other is male and hatched Dec. 2. They haven't been named yet.
The additions bring the facility's African penguin colony population to 18.
The species has been declared endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Commercial fishing, destruction of their habitat, pollution and other factors are to blame.
The penguins live off the southern coast of Africa and are smaller than Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
WASHINGTON — PNC Financial Services Group is paying $35 million to resolve government claims of discrimination in residential loans against a Cleveland-based bank that PNC bought in 2009.The agreement announced Monday by the Justice Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau addresses claims that more than 75,000 African-American and Latino customers of National City Bank paid more for their residential loans between 2002 and 2008. There is no allegation of discrimination by Pittsburgh-based PNC, which bought National City Bank.Under the terms of the proposed settlement, PNC will pay $35 million dollars into a fund for the benefit of victims of National City Bank's mortgage discrimination.The discrimination settlement follows a larger $98 million agreement last week between the government and Detroit-based Ally Financial, concerning car loans.
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police have arrested and plan to file drunken driving and other charges against a man they say caused a crash that killed a man driving another vehicle carrying the victim's three young nieces.The Allegheny County medical examiner's office has identified the dead man as 60-year-old James Posey. The father of the girls in Posey's sport-utility vehicle says Posey was their uncle.Pittsburgh police say Posey was killed in the crash about 9:15 p.m. Sunday on southbound Route 51 in the city's Duquesne Heights section.The girls were taken to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, where police say they were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.Police have yet to release the identity of the driver in custody.
