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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to shut down and publish final edition in May

Newspaper’s closure follows two decades of financial losses totaling over $350m and legal ruling favoring its union

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A landmark law that fights blight began in Pittsburgh. Decades later, housing groups are waging an intense battle

PITTSBURGH — For Donald Walko Jr., the landmark law that he championed to fight the ravages of blight across the state began in one of Pittsburgh's legendary restaurants.

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Before Immaculate: Inside Franco Harris' journey from Army aspirations to budding NFL star

PITTSBURGH — The concept of playing football beyond high school originally never occurred to the late Franco Harris.

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Pa. Sen. Pat Toomey blocks landmark reform legislation to fight global money laundering

With just weeks left in his final term, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey played a key role in blocking sweeping anti-money laundering legislation that was created to choke off the billions of dirty dollars pouring into the United States from shady operators, including drug traffickers, oligarchs and corrupt foreign leaders.

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Pittsburgh newspaper workers go on strike over unfair labor practice

Strike began after Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s management, Block Communications, cut off health insurance

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists go on strike but some refuse to join the picket line

In a situation that lays bare the difficulty of union solidarity even at a time of high public support for organized labor, journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette went on strike Tuesday — without the resounding support of their members.

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Tree of Life shooting survivors, families of victims tell their own stories in HBO documentary

PITTSBURGH — Trish Adlesic happened to be in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018. She had arrived in town two days earlier from upstate New York to celebrate her father’s birthday at her childhood home in the North Hills. Two days later, she found herself at the epicenter of the deadliest…

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Ex-partner of Ukrainian ‘heiress’ who infiltrated Mar-a-Lago club shot outside Canada resort

Valeriy Tarasenko was left with ‘significant injuries’ but expected to survive, according to Quebec police

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John Fetterman says he’ll ‘absolutely’ debate Mehmet Oz in October, report says

PITTSBURGH — In what may serve as his most straightforward attempt yet to combat claims that he’s hiding from voters, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, told Politico on Wednesday that he’ll “absolutely” debate Republican Mehmet Oz.

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Fake banking dynasty heiress 'infiltrated Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home'

US authorities are reportedly investigating a Ukrainian woman who fraudulently posed as a Rothschild heiress to gain access into Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate

Daily Mirror

Desire for COVID catharsis led to Greg Garcia's sitcom 'Sprung'

PITTSBURGH — Politicians using inside information to profit off the misfortune of others. Businesses taking advantage of stimulus money. Regular folks hoarding scarce supplies. Those were the stories Greg Garcia couldn't seem to escape during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cam Heyward fires back at Ben Roethlisberger's criticism of his former Steelers teammates

PITTSBURGH — Now that Ben Roethlisberger has retired, Cam Heyward is the undisputed veteran leader in the Steelers locker room. And the latter made clear Wednesday that he’s not fond of the former’s recent public critiques of his ex-teammates.

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John Fetterman, in 1st interview since stroke, talks recovery and return to US Senate campaign trail

PITTSBURGH — In his first media interview since suffering a stroke days before the May primary election, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democrats’ torchbearer for one of the country’s most important U.S. Senate races, told the Post-Gazette on Wednesday that he’s “feeling really good,” said he has “nothing to…

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Source: Evgeni Malkin tells Penguins he will test free agency

After contract extension talks proved fruitless, Penguins star center Evgeni Malkin has informed the club he intends to test the open market, a source confirmed to the Post-Gazette.

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John Fetterman signals he should be back 'on the campaign trail soon'

PITTSBURGH — As it nears two months since he suffered a stroke, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in one of the country's most important U.S. Senate races, is signaling that a return to the campaign trail may not be too far away.

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Take it back now, y'all: Cooper Raiff dishes on filming 'Cha Cha Real Smooth' in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH — When Cooper Raiff was growing up in Dallas, he thought everyone was Jewish. He even told his mom as much, at which point she set her son straight on how small the country's Jewish population actually is.

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As midterm elections loom, chances of victory hinge on health of economy

PITTSBURGH — With inflation the highest it's been since the early 1980s and Americans feeling the pain of a downtrodden economy, Democrats in Pennsylvania — a state with two of the most high-profile races in the country — are hoping to convince voters that they should be an exception to…

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Resurrected 'American Rust' to return on Freevee

PITTSBURGH — Who says every show that films in western Pennsylvania gets canceled after one season?

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Inside Steelers great Jerome Bettis’ 28-year path to graduation from Notre Dame

PITTSBURGH — Jerome Bettis knew it was time to enter the 1993 NFL draft after his junior year at the University of Notre Dame, but that decision first had to go through his mother.

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US banks move billions for fugitives, corrupt foreign officials and criminal groups

During his rise as one of Russia's richest oligarchs, Roman Abramovich poured much of his wealth into the west, amassing luxury homes, multimillion-dollar paintings, private jets and thoroughbreds.

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Public database of bridge conditions should be made available across the state, Pa. lawmaker urges

Months after Pennsylvania officials stripped crucial information about poorly rated bridges from public view, a veteran state lawmaker is pushing for databases that will alert people to the condition of thousands of spans statewide.

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Pittsburgh's Fern Hollow Bridge was severely decaying before collapse, 2021 report indicates

PITTSBURGH — Rust corrosion so bad that there were holes in the steel support legs. A bridge deck so compromised by chlorides from winter salt that the concrete underside was decaying and water was seeping through to the steel below. Steel cross-beams “severed” from their connection to the support legs…

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Jordan Addison officially enters the transfer portal; Pitt reportedly still 'viable option'

PITTSBURGH — Jordan Addison — the winner of last year’s Biletnikoff Award, given annually to the top wide receiver in college football — officially entered the transfer portal on Tuesday, a source confirmed to the Post-Gazette.

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Pittsburgh police: Officer handled noise complaint at Airbnb 90 minutes before deadly mass shooting

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police on Monday confirmed an officer had responded to a noise complaint at a North Side home late Saturday night, just 90 minutes before gunfire rang out through the building and on nearby streets, killing two teenagers and injuring several others in one of the largest mass…

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Day after deadly mass shooting, Pittsburgh police continue search for suspects, answers

PITTSBURGH — The scale of the mass shooting at a North Side Airbnb early Sunday remained apparent Monday morning. Bullet holes in the building that hosted about 200 people — many of them underage — and surrounding structures and cars laid bare a chaotic scene, one in which two 17-year-olds…

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