Politics/Power
Original independent Pittsburgh reporting
A look at the week’s top stories from Pittsburgh, Western PA and beyond.
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Xylazine, an animal sedative also known as “tranq,” is becoming commonplace in Pittsburgh street drugs. Despite media sensationalism, experts say it isn’t significantly increasing overdose deaths in Allegheny County.
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Pittsburgh Police detective said to run Bakery Square’s police detail led the investigation and arrest of the suspect based on intel Walnut Capital’s CEO personally collected and conveyed
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Pittsburgh-area investors are pursuing IK Start, a second-tier soccer team from Kristiansand, Norway, much to the befuddlement of their fans.
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The call came in around 3:45 AM on the morning of February 8, 2002, for a vehicle fire in a parking lot near the 16th Street Bridge in Northside. The blaze was so intense that firefighters didn't realize someone had been inside until the
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Soft light poured out the windows of an old bricklayer's mansion turned event space in Wilkinsburg. Inside, roughly 20 people sat around two dining room tables, guarded by a maze of brightly colored halls and side rooms filled with plants a
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Allegheny County already has paid more than $350,000 to Adelphoi, months before the Latrobe-based nonprofit services provider will begin to operate the former Shuman Juvenile Detention Center. There is no clear timeline when the facility
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When the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania issued a contract to nonprofit operator Adelphoi to take over Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, it did so with virtually no public input or other government oversight
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