PITTSBURGH
A jury has convicted a man of breaking business windows during the Group of 20 economic summit protests in Pittsburgh last year.
Twenty-one-year-old David Japenga, of Pittsburgh, was arrested Sept. 24. But Japenga's defense attorney said police couldn't confirm Japenga's identity because the vandal's face was covered.
A state trooper who saw the windows being smashed testified he identified Japenga by his body shape, his gait and his shoes. The trooper said he lost sight of Japenga for a few minutes and that Japenga was wearing a different shirt when the trooper caught up with him.
But Japenga's backpack held a bicycle lock like the one used to break the window, shards of glass, and gloves, a black bandanna and a dark jacket like one the vandal wore.
Carnegie Mellon University is suspending a masters program it began in Athens in 2002 because of the recession's effect on Greece's economy.The program offered a masters of science in information networking and when it was announced Carnegie Mellon officials said they hoped to enroll a total of 150 students at the campus through 2008. University spokesman Ken Walters said the program has enrolled 132 students in eight years, and currently has about 15.The university had hoped that growing demand for the Internet would fuel the campus.Bomb scare blamed on homeless manPittsburgh police have cited a homeless man for disorderly conduct for unwittingly setting off a bomb scare by hanging a discarded book bag from a sign post.Police said 62-year-old George Morris found the bag in the garbage and hung it on the sign for someone to claim after rifling through it and finding nothing of value on Aug. 18.Police summoned a bomb squad because they have rules for handling abandoned packages.
