Jessica Melvin, a former PSA Airlines gate agent at Pittsburgh International Airport, suspected her job was in jeopardy when the regional carrier asked her to take off two months without pay last summer.

The city of Pontiac has six proposals to consider for redevelopment of the Silverdome.

Poker players take part in a tournament at Wheeling Island Casino that will help them qualify for a national competition. INSIDE: See Chandi Lowry's report

Here are a selection of brief news items from this week's paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn't make it in the paper.

(PRESS RELEASE) -- bet-at-home.com selects the Net Entertainment CasinoModule™ as their new casino platform. bet-at-home.com, one of the largest European online operators, will thereby replace its existing casino solution.

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Entertasia, one of the leading internet gaming software providers, is expanding its casino games scope with "Crazy21®", an evolvement of Blackjack. This brand-new blackjack was launched at 19th February, 2008 and is now added to all Entertasia's licensees.

Talk about an odd career transition. Just more than two years ago, Tom Mationg worked in the biotechnology field as a lipid chemist.

and innovative - Spring Dance Concert.

LOS ANGELES----World Poker Tour® today announced that professional poker player and WPT Champion Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari will join the company as the face of the WPT Poker-Made Millionaire™, an elite group of 84 players and growing who have won at least $1 million playing on the World Poker Tour.

No Country for Old Men was the big winner at the 80th Academy Awards. It captured best picture and three other top prizes. beating out a field that featured several highly decorated directors with outstanding catalogs of work. Here's a look at some other DVDs by those filmmakers that might be worth checking out: