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Volunteers pull around 200 tires from Youghiogheny River to stop chemical leaching

Digging rotting tires out of the mud might sound like a strange idea of fun, but it’s one shared by the 20 some volunteers who helped clean up the Youghiogheny River on Saturday morning. “You get a little exercise and you get to do something cool,” said Lindsay Forney,...
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North Versailles police looking for missing man with medical condition

North Versailles police say Wayne Cawley, 75, was last seen walking on Route 30 in the township around 6 a.m. Friday.
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Penn Hills police officer rescues kitten from vehicle’s engine compartment

A different side of police work was on display in Penn Hills recently.
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Pittsburgh man on the run for 3 months found hiding in closet, arrested, police...

A man who’d been a fugitive since the end of May was finally arrested Saturday.
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Coke plant’s closure near Pittsburgh led to immediate health benefits, study finds

The Shenango coke works on Neville Island, just west of Pittsburgh on the Ohio River, closed down in 2016. Coke is a refined form of coal used in steelmaking, made by baking coal at very high temperatures. The process creates toxic air pollution, and plants like Shenango and US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works have been...
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Wholey’s to host its 7th annual Lobster Grab

Wholey’s in the Strip District will host its 7th Annual Lobster Grab contest later this month.
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Why We Love the Carrie Blast Furnaces

In Pittsburgh, we have plenty to remind us of famous names like Carnegie, Frick and Mellon. We have historic sites like Clayton; we have institutions like the Carnegie Museums. Less common, though, are monuments to the hundreds of thousands of workers who made those industrialists rich — often at tremendous personal...
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No charges being filed in deadly Oakland construction accident

Aleia Lopez died last May when a steel drum escaped from the construction site and rolled down a hill in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood.
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Iconic Pennsylvania radio sign being completely removed from building

It’s one of the most iconic views when you’re traveling to Pittsburgh is the WDVE sign. Unfortunately, the iconic view will be no more. The iconic 102.5 WDVE sign is coming down from its Green Tree location. Drivers heading to Pittsburgh have, for years, seen the sign as they drove on the Parkway West (I-376 […]
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Growing group gathers to protest through prayer outside Pittsburgh’s ICE office

This weekly prayer gathering started as a small group that keeps getting bigger.

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