Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:25 PM EDT
Mister Rogers cared deeply about his neighbors and his neighborhood, both in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and in real life.
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Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:14 PM EST
Just weeks after dealing with record-setting snowfall, residents in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey are preparing for the possibility of flooding.
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Thu Mar 4, 2010 12:12 PM EST
One of six defendants charged in the torture death of a mentally disabled woman recounted in a recorded statement played Thursday at a preliminary hearing how he repeatedly stabbed the woman, and how he and some of the others beat her and fed her urine, feces, and detergent.
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Mon Mar 1, 2010 3:33 PM EST
A judge on Monday dismissed charges of simple assault and resisting arrest against Steelers kicker Jeff Reed, who was accused of raising his fists at a Pittsburgh police officer when ordered back in his vehicle as police dealt with a teammate.
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Sun Feb 28, 2010 12:30 PM EST
With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling — so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill — and Curtis Mitchell needed to go to a hospital.
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Mon Feb 22, 2010 9:27 AM EST
Cherrie Mahan was 8 when she vanished from a bus stop near her home. A picture of the smiling, brown-haired girl would be the first featured on direct-mail fliers like those now sent weekly to tens of millions of U.S. homes with a simple message — Have You Seen Me?
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Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:30 AM EST
A district judge's office says a hearing for six people charged in the torture killing of a mentally disabled Pennsylvania woman has been postponed because the suspects have head lice.
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Wed Feb 3, 2010 11:49 AM EST
A western Pennsylvania defense attorney wants his client's drug conviction dismissed because one of the jurors wasn't a U.S. citizen, which is a requirement of jurors.
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Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:43 AM EST
A woman who lured a pregnant teenager to her apartment, drugged her, cut out her baby, then killed her and tried to pass the infant off as hers was found guilty but mentally ill of second-degree murder and kidnapping.
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:00 AM EST
A flight carrying 53 Haitian orphans has landed at Pittsburgh International Airport, a week after their orphanage was destroyed by the massive quake.
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Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:42 AM EST
Pennsylvania should think twice about using tax breaks to lure high-tech companies to the state or to keep them here and should instead focus on helping existing employers, according to a study aided by unions.
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Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:45 PM EST
A pair of Pittsburgh Steelers fans in south-central Pennsylvania will be able hang a banner at their house supporting the NFL team — at least for now — even though the borough claims the sign violates a zoning ordinance.
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Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:02 AM EST
Making one's true love happy will cost a whopping $87,403 this year, a minuscule increase from last year, according to the latest cost analysis of the items in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
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Tue Nov 3, 2009 3:27 PM EST
A California debt collection company has agreed to a $2.55 million judgment to settle a lawsuit brought by thousands of Pennsylvanians who claim they were wrongly led to believe they had to pay costly fees to avoid criminal charges for bouncing checks.
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Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:41 AM EDT
The next big thing in green building design might be to turn an existing idea on its side. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. recently installed a green wall the size of two tennis courts on one side of its headquarters.
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:47 PM EDT
Hundreds of volunteers have picked up trash, practiced foreign languages and prepared to greet the thousands of visitors arriving in Pittsburgh this week for the two-day Group of 20 economic summit.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:26 AM EDT
Only minutes after Prohibition died in 1933, Angelo Cammarata, 19, served a 10-cent bottle of Fort Pitt beer to a customer in his father's neighborhood grocery.
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Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:12 PM EDT
Generic drug giant Mylan Inc. has sued the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette over stories based on internal documents that prompted a review by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:27 PM EDT
The oil boom that began 150 years ago in this small northwestern Pennsylvania town changed the world and made countless people rich, but not the man who found the way to successfully extract black gold from the earth.
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Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:29 PM EDT
Call this city blogger central. Two grassroots groups — one left leaning, the other right leaning — are holding their annual conferences here and teaching members how to wield clout online.
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Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:49 PM EDT
The nation's first double hand transplant patient can wriggle his new fingers a little bit now and grab a tennis ball, but what he really wants to do is be able to feel his wife's hands when he holds them.
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Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:05 PM EDT
Protest groups targeting the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh in September are mobilizing, holding meetings and workshops ahead of the event and posting information on topics from using handcuffs for mass demonstrations to how to work with the media.
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Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:54 PM EDT
Terrell Kian Johnson is turning 1 on Wednesday. It's also the first anniversary of the day his mother died — when she was kidnapped and bound with duct tape and Terrell sliced from her womb.
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Thu Jul 2, 2009 2:54 PM EDT
Tilesha McClurkin wanted to join other Michael Jackson fans to celebrate his life, but she knew she wouldn't be able to go to whatever official memorial celebration might be held.
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Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:36 PM EDT
The government has made "substantial progress" in negotiating with the seven landowners whose property is needed so the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday.
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