HARRISBURG — A spokesman for Pennsylvania's governor says Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to speak Friday at a Capitol ceremony to honor the late Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll.

Gov. Ed Rendell's spokesman Chuck Ardo said Tuesday that Knoll campaigned "tirelessly" for the New York senator and her husband, Bill Clinton, during their respective presidential campaigns.

A spokesman for the senator says her plans could change depending on the Senate's schedule.

Knoll died last Wednesday after a four-month battle with neuroendocrine cancer.

Her casket will be displayed in the Capitol Rotunda from noon Friday to 2 p.m. Saturday. It will then be on display Sunday at St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh. A funeral Mass and divine liturgy will be held Nov. 25. Burial will be private.

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh's slots casino will be called Rivers Casino.The project was to be called Majestic Star, but the name change comes after Chicago developer Neil Bluhm's group took control of the project last week.Bluhm's group took over after original license holder Don Barden was unable to get funding for the $780 million project.Officials say construction is on budget and on schedule to open in August 2009. It will employ about 1,000 people.

PHILADELPHIA — A former girlfriend of Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo says the seemingly confident and demanding political leader actually was shy and inept in social situations.Dorothy Egrie-Wilcox testified Monday and Tuesday in the fourth week of Fumo's corruption trial in federal court in Philadelphia.When questioned by Fumo attorney Dennis Cogan, she said Fumo grew up with some social hang-ups. Egrie-Wilcox says he was sometimes referred to as "The Wizard of Oz" because he used others to interact on his behalf.The 65-year-old lawmaker is charged with misusing more than $2 million in state Senate funds and $1.5 million from a Philadelphia charity and a seaport museum to pay for personal and political endeavors. Fumo denies the charges.Jury deliberating in ex-judge's fraud casePITTSBURGH — A federal court jury in Pittsburgh will return for a second day of deliberations in the mail fraud and money laundering case against a retired Pennsylvania appellate judge.Former Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce is accused of faking neck and back injuries to collect $440,000 from two insurance companies after an August 2001 traffic accident.The six-man, six-woman jury heard closing arguments in the four-week case on Monday, followed by the judge's legal instructions.They began deliberating Tuesday but were unable to reach a verdict before being sent home after nearly seven hours. They're scheduled to resume at 9:30 a.m. today.The jury is not to determine whether the insurance settlements were fair, but whether Joyce knowingly provided false information to obtain them.

PITTSBURGH — Two men hired to work on a Pittsburgh rehabilitation tunnel project by PennDOT have been rescued after they were stuck in an air shaft.The workers entered the air 3-foot by 8-foot air shaft above the Liberty Tunnels about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and became stuck when their mechanical lift lost power about 3:30 a.m. Crews couldn't lower a generator to the workers, so emergency crews lifted the men out of the shaft using harnesses about 5 a.m.A PennDOT spokesman says the workers had oxygen and were not in danger, though they did get cold. Overnight temperatures dipped into the low 20s.The shaft leads to a fan house on top of Mount Washington which draws vehicle exhaust fumes out of the tunnel. The men were stuck about 60 feet from the top.Inauguration bookings reach Pa. hotelsYORK, Pa. — Even 90 miles away and two months in advance of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, hotels in southeastern Pennsylvania are being booked up.Spokeswoman Alison Smith says the York County Convention and Visitors Bureau is predicting a $1 million economic benefit for area hotels, restaurants and other attractions from the overflow from Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20.The bureau says many chain hotels are booked up. At the Wingate by Wyndham in Manchester Township, sales director Cindi Wycheck says many bus tour groups are calling. She says the hotel is already more than half booked by inauguration-goers, most staying two nights or more.

PITTSBURGH — About 700 people have signed up to run in the resurrected Pittsburgh Marathon, which is scheduled to return in May 2009 after a six-year hiatus.The city last hosted the race in 2003, when 6,000 runners from all 50 states and 20 foreign countries participated. The race was first held in 1985 with about 2,500 runners.Former mayor and running enthusiast Tom Murphy canceled the event in 2004 when the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center dropped out as sponsor. Murphy said the cash-strapped city couldn't afford to pay for the event without sponsorship.Dick's Sporting Goods, based in nearby Findlay Township, has agreed to sponsor the race for three years. Participants signed up at a kickoff event downtown on Sunday.