By ANYA SOSTEK, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Forty-four years ago, Gary Streiner was a 17-year-old kid standing in front of a ramshackle chapel building in an Evans City, Pa., cemetery, helping to film a movie called "Night of the Living Dead."

The American Academy of Pediatrics is announcing today that parents should keep toddlers' car seats facing the rear until at least age 2.

Millions of Americans may soon have another weapon in the battle of the bulge.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved use of the "Lap-Band" type of weight loss surgery at lower minimum weight limits, making an estimated 26 million Americans newly eligible for the procedure.

As Super Bowl game day approaches, goofy bets multiply like potholes in winter.

It's not just politicians getting into the action as the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers gear up for Super Bowl XLV on Feb. 6.

When Sidney Alvarez became public relations director for Avonworth, he thought a Facebook page might be a simple way to spread the word about goings-on in the Pittsburgh-area school district.

But as Alvarez and school employees nationwide have discovered, nothing is simple when it comes to students and social media.

Ear infection is the most commonly diagnosed childhood illness in the United States. But for decades, debate has raged on how best to treat it.

A University of Pittsburgh study, to be published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, aims to provide the definitive word on whether to treat ear infections with antibiotics.

For many of us, there's an intrinsic appeal to the image of a virgin bride -- a pretty concoction of purity in a princess dress.

But for royal families, it's been much more than that: a time-honored manner of ensuring the integrity of their all-important bloodlines.

That is, it seems, until now.

Short on tuition money?

A new company is offering college students a chance to make a little cash on the side -- by betting on their own performances.

Undergraduate students at 36 universities around the country can wager on their own grades though a New York-based company called Ultrinsic.

Picky eating: It's not just for kids anymore.

The University of Pittsburgh and Duke University have just launched the first national registry of picky eating in adults -- a condition now under consideration for inclusion as an officially recognized eating disorder.

PITTSBURGH - Amy Mee wasn't standing in front of the new Fred Rogers statue for long before she was interrupted by her 6-year-old daughter, Sarah.

"Take a picture of me sitting on his lap," said Sarah, bouncing with excitement. "I can fit there."