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Pierre Le Guennec (right ), who is accused of receiving stolen goods after being found in possession of paintings by late Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, sits with his wife Danielle at the court in Grasse, southeastern France on Tuesday. Photograph: AFP

Pablo Picassos former electrician and his wife have gone on trial in Paris accused of having stolen 271 pieces of the artists work.

Pierre Le Guennec and his wife, Danielle claim that the artist, or his wife, gave them the 180 lithographs, collages and paintings and 91 drawings around 1970 when Le Guennec began working as a general handyman at Picassos estate.

The cache has an estimated value of 80 million.

The Picasso estate rejects this account which it describes as ridiculous and is suing them for illegal possession of the works

Mr Le Guennec kept the art works in a garage for decades. Produced between 1900 and 1932, the works have never been displayed publicly.

The Le Guennecs face up to five years in prison and a 375,000 if convicted for concealing stolen goods.

The three-day trial is likely to be complicated by the fact that some potential witnesses have died in the interim. The prosecutors case against the couple

does not mention who may have stolen the art.

About five years ago, Mr Le Guennec began worrying about what might come of the works after his death, according to his lawyer.

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The granddaughter of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, Marina Picasso, poses in her house 'Pavillon de Flore', on June 19, 2013, in Cannes, southeastern France. EAN CHRISTOPHE MAGNENET/AFP/Getty Images

GRASSE, France - When Pablo Picasso died in 1973, he left behind no will and a trove of an estimated 70,000 works of art. In the decades since, that collection has been the subject of numerous thefts, forgeries, courtroom dramas and secretive sales. Complicating matters is the tangled legacy of his gifts to his four children and eight grandchildren, as well as numerous wives and muses and hangers-on.

On the legal art market, his pieces still rake in millions of dollars every year, and two recent developments could shake up the international race to own a piece of the famed Spanish artist.

Marina Picasso, a granddaughter of the artist, is reportedly aggressively selling off some of her 10,000-piece collection of his art.

She has allegedly already begun privately shopping seven of the works, valued at $290 million, reports Page Six.

While Marina Picasso has denied she has decided exactly how many artworks she will sell, she did tell The New York Times: "It's better for me to sell my works and preserve the money to redistribute to humanitarian causes."

Speculation has intensified among collectors that she could flood the market and depress prices, The New York Times reports.

In her memoir, Marina Picasso wrote about an upbringing in which her grandfather, "drove everyone who got near him to despair and engulfed them."

Marina Picasso is the daughter of Picasso's son Paulo, and "she has long kept her distance from the rest of the family," the New York Times reports.

In addition to the questions over Marina Picasso's collection, a courtroom in France is now also asking whether Pablo Picasso would have donated 271 works to an electrician who worked for him for a few years in southeast France.

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Albion Falls parking lot to be paved

By Gord Bowes, News staff

The city plans to pave a gravel parking lot near a piece of paradise. The 890-square-metre lot across from Albion Falls at Arbour Road is being paved later this year. East Mountain councillor Tom Jackson said hes been advocating for the work to deal with problems that occur each year. Theyve constantly had to fill in potholes and sunken areas, said Jackson. The Albion Falls work is part of a three-park project that is out for tender this month. Pathways at Bayview Park and a portion of the driveway at Heritage Greene Sports Park from the entrance gates to the road are also being paved. The parks department has asked for $200,000 in this years budget to pay for the work, a city spokeswoman said.

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Construction of the 54-room Cobblestone Hotel on North First Street on Connellsville's West Side is one step closer following conditional approval Tuesday by the city's zoning hearing board.

The board approved six variances for the hotel and conditionally approved a seventh. That seventh variance has to do with a parking area Connellsville council and the developer must settle. Issues such as paving a parking lot in a triangular area across from the hotel site bounded by North First Street, North Third Street and an unnamed alley must be worked out.

Architect Jim McMullan of JMAC Architects of Bridgeville, designer of the hotel; Alex Pounds and Vincent Earnesty from Widmer Engineering; Tom Rosselot of Hotel d2; and Chris Rosselot, project spokesperson with Grant Forbes, answered questions from the board.

Carl Ritenour, acting as board chairman in the absence of Shawn Pilla, asked if the board could grant approval without waiting for the parking issue with city council to be worked out.

Tom Currey said the board could approve the project, since the issue with city council does not affect the issues before the board.

Board member Cecilia Driscoll asked whether the project would still allow public access to the Youghiogheny River.

Absolutely, McMullan replied. In fact, we encourage it. The project site was chosen because of its access to the riverbank.

Six other variances the board approved are:

Changing the need for a landscaping buffer zone between the hotel and a residence to the south. Pounds said a wide buffer will be replaced with a 6-foot high decorative fence, combined with a strip of vegetation.

Allowing the building and walkways to take up 53 percent of the lot as opposed to 45 percent. Pounds said this will allow the structure to be built on the property and reflects the driveway and sidewalks in addition to the building.

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Workers have begun tearing down a closed steam heat plant on North Washington Avenue in Scranton that leaked fuel oil into the Lackawanna River in July.

Late last week, demolition started on the northeast wall of the facility owned by Dunmore businessmen Louis and Dominick DeNaples. They plan to tear down the entire complex, including the tank where the leak originated.

The plant once piped steam heat to most buildings in downtown Scranton. In 2006, the state Public Utility Commission allowed then-operator Community Central Energy Corp. to stop service and shut down after financial difficulties.

No one is sure how much No. 6 fuel oil leaked from the aboveground storage tank, puddled on-site, flowed into the sewers and eventually reached the Lackawanna River through its combined sewer overflow below the Poplar Street bridge.

About 71,000 gallons remained in the 508,000-gallon tank when a contractor drained it. State environmental regulators blamed a missing brass valve for the leak.

In November, the state Department of Environmental Protection announced it would fine the DeNaples brothers a civil penalty for using an improperly certified contractor to handle the tank and for storing contaminated soil in a partially uncovered pile.

DEP has not yet set the penalty amount because it let the owners extend the due date for a report on the sites environmental status from mid-January to the end of April, spokeswoman Colleen Connolly said.

The new deadline was necessary after a delay in obtaining equipment to remove the fuel tank, she said. The owners still must remove it and clean the contaminated soil.

Because it is more practical to remove the tank and complete the soil cleanup as part of the characterization process, the extension request was reasonable and approved, she said in an email.

The report will include an ecological receptor evaluation that will address the spills influence on the river, she said.

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LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -

The elevator shaft of the Clarion Hotel and Casino that defiantly remained standing after an overnight implosion came down Tuesday afternoon.

A spokesperson for the Controlled Demolition Inc., which was contracted for the project, said there was a chance the stout elevator shaft might "stall" during the implosion.

The company said the shaft moved downward along with the rest of the structure during the implosion, but came to rest after "failing" the initial four stories. The shaft leaned against the debris.

A crane with cables attached to the shaft assisted in safely pulling down the remaining piece, CDI said.

About 1,100 pounds of explosives were used for the initial implosion. It took about 10 seconds to bring down most of the 12-story, 200-room hotel that has stood at 305 Convention Center Dr. for 45 years.

Originally slated for 2:30 a.m., the big bang was delayed for about a half-hour as police were called in to clear out five people who found themselves inside the blast zone. Eventually, a series of explosions leveled much of the building as onlookers packed nearby parking garages to witness the spectacle.

When the dust cleared, a tower of the building was left standing.

Crews will spend about a month cleaning up the rubble.

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