Getting into and around Downtown for Light Up Night might be a little tougher because of road closures from construction on the North Shore Connector and a subway station, officials said.
A committee of University of Pittsburgh trustees approved the $1.3 million purchase of a three-quarter-acre parcel in Oakland that will be converted to undergraduate student apartments.
The University of Pittsburgh is weighing construction of new residence hall space for up to 900 students to further the school's aim to offer housing to a larger share of its main-campus population.
Pitt student Daniel Martin walked into the Pittsburgh Municipal Court building shortly before 8 a.m. "Find your seat and sit there the whole time," someone from the district attorney's office told Martin's group of defendants - many of whom were Pitt students.
Benjamin Gardner plays runaway slave Jed and pit bull Piglet has the title role in "Dog Jack." Some 148 years after his courageous deeds, a Civil War hero is getting his due on screen.
Fiction has been Michael Chabon's bread and butter since his first novel in 1987, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," the book that forever linked him to the city, even though he's lived in Berkeley, Calif., for many years.
Monday, September 28, 2009 Oakland, PA, Police Response Characterized as a oeMilitary-style Occupationa From http://www.infowars.com/oakland-pa-police-response-characterized-as-military-style-occupation/ Oakland, PA, Police Response Characterized as a oeMilitary-style Occupationa Text size Jerome L. Sherman Pittsburgh Post-Gazette September 28, ...
Port Authority will be detouring more than 30 routes around the Great Race this morning in Squirrel Hill, Oakland, Uptown and Downtown, officials said.
In a repeat of a scene from Thursday night, police in riot gear confronted another crowd of more than 400 students and young people who gathered around Schenley Plaza in Oakland last night.