The Rev. Monsignor Andrew D. Parvensky, spiritual leader to generations of Monessen families for more than 50 years, died Saturday of emphysema in Monongahela Valley Hospital. He was 83. (Today)

From around the region: (Today)

Musician, pioneering optometrist, newspaper columnist, even a late-in-life department store employee -- Squirrel Hill native M. Leonard Lincoff rarely wasted a minute of his 94 years. (Yesterday)

From around the region (Yesterday)

"Her abs have more ripples than a lake on a windy day. Her biceps are sculpted as if from granite. Her back is an inverted triangle of muscle mass." (11/17/2008)