Getting page not found with the local

Hello,

I am needing to put an href of href=\http://pcsoweb.com/  into the following code.  I am getting a page not found with the local.  The data resides on the link provided in the first sentence.. I have tried in several areas, but it still wants to go to the local source. Any help would be great.

              da = new SqlDataAdapter("select top 6 bg.ItemID as ItemID,bc.CategoryID as CategoryID,c.Category as Category,bg.Heading as Heading,bg.Description as Description,bg.ItemUrl as ItemUrl,bg.SubTitle as SubTitle from mp_Blogs bg left Outer join mp_BlogItemCategories bc on bg.ItemID = bc.ItemID left Outer join mp_BlogCategories c on bc.CategoryID = c.CategoryID where IsPublished = 1 order by Abs(bg.ItemID) Desc", conn);
                dt = new DataTable();

                if (conn.State == ConnectionState.Open)
                {
                    conn.Close();
                }
                conn.Open();
                da.Fill(dt);

                ltNews.Text += "<div id=\"cont-1-1\" class=\"tabcontent\">";

                foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows)
                {
                    if (i % 2 == 1)
                    {
                        ltNews.Text += "<div class=\"tabbing-row1\">";
                        ltNews.Text += "<div class=\"tabbing-row1-left\">";
                        ltNews.Text += "<a title=\"\" href=" + Convert.ToString(row["ItemUrl"]).Replace("~", "") + ">";
                        if (Convert.ToString(row["Category"]) != "")
                        {
                            //ltNews.Text += "<a href=/" + Convert.ToString(row["Url"]) + "\">";
                            ltNews.Text += "<img alt=\"\" src=\"/Data/Sites/1/media/NewsRelease/" + Convert.ToString(row["Category"]).Trim().Replace(" ", "-") + ".png\" title=\"\" />";
                            ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            ltNews.Text += "<img alt=\"\" src=\"/Soweb/d$/Virtual Web/Data/Sites/1/media/NewsRelease/ImgNotFound.png\" title=\"\" />";
                            ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        }
                        ltNews.Text += "<span>";
                        ltNews.Text += "<a title=\"\" href=" + Convert.ToString(row["ItemUrl"]).Replace("~", "") + ">";
                        ltNews.Text += SetTitleLenght(Convert.ToString(row["Heading"]));
                        ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        ltNews.Text += "</span>";
                        ltNews.Text += "<strong>";
                        ltNews.Text += "<a title=\"\" href=" + Convert.ToString(row["ItemUrl"]).Replace("~", "") + ">";
                        ltNews.Text += SetAttributeLenght(Convert.ToString(row["SubTitle"]));
                        ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        ltNews.Text += "</strong>";
                        //ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        ltNews.Text += "</div>";
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        ltNews.Text += "<div class=\"tabbing-row1-right\">";
                        //ltNews.Text += "<a title=\"\" href=\"#\">";
                        ltNews.Text += "<a title=\"\" href=" + Convert.ToString(row["ItemUrl"]).Replace("~", "") + ">";
                        if (Convert.ToString(row["Category"]) != "")
                        {
                            ltNews.Text += "<img alt=\"\" src=\"/Data/Sites/1/media/NewsRelease/" + Convert.ToString(row["Category"]).Trim().Replace(" ", "-") + ".png\" title=\"\" />";
                            ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            ltNews.Text += "<img alt=\"\" src=\"/Data/Sites/1/media/NewsRelease/ImgNotFound.png\" title=\"\" />";
                            ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        }

                        ltNews.Text += "<span>";
                        ltNews.Text += "<a title=\"\" href=" + Convert.ToString(row["ItemUrl"]).Replace("~", "") + ">";
                        ltNews.Text += SetTitleLenght(Convert.ToString(row["Heading"]));
                        ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        ltNews.Text += "</span>";
                        ltNews.Text += "<strong>";
                        ltNews.Text += "<a title=\"\" href=" + Convert.ToString(row["ItemUrl"]).Replace("~", "") + ">";
                        ltNews.Text += SetAttributeLenght(Convert.ToString(row["SubTitle"]));
                        ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        ltNews.Text += "</strong>";
                        //ltNews.Text += "</a>";
                        ltNews.Text += "</div>";
                        ltNews.Text += "</div>";
                    }
                    i++;
                }
                if (i % 2 == 0)
                {
                    ltNews.Text += "</div>";
                }
                ltNews.Text += "</div>";
                ltNews.Text += "<a target='_blank' style=\"color: #800000; margin:0 0 0 10px; float:right; \" href=\"http://pcsoweb.com/news-releases\">View All News Releases...</a>";
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Response.Write(ex.ToString());
            }
            //catch (Exception ex)

        }


Thank you,

Robert