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Personalities of Pittsburgh: Everyday people who make our region what it isVideo
Pittsburgh is a melting pot of personalities and possibilities. Politicians and professional athletes might often be front and center, but it’s the everyday citizen who makes the region what it is. From the North Shore to the South Side, from an operating room to an operating budget, myriad individuals converge...
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Left behind: Families that suffer a police death walk a unique path, one marked by an overwhelming loss that often is abrupt, violent and public
For many of these survivors, each new police death opens old wounds. Some police widows have banded together in an informal network to reach out to newly bereft wives. The nonprofit Concerns of Police Survivors offers a safety net for grieving families. But after the pageantry of the police funeral...
A town derailed: ‘Shell-shocked’ East Palestine residents seek normalcy after train
For many people in and around East Palestine, Ohio, life changed when a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials derailed Feb. 3 near the Pennsylvania border. The controlled burn of toxic chemicals that followed sent a large plume of black smoke into the air that could be seen for miles....
Fern Hollow 1 year later: Strangers’ lives changed forever on a snowy Pittsburgh morning when the bridge collapsed beneath them
It was shortly before 6:40 a.m. on Jan. 28, 2022, minutes away from one of the worst infrastructure disasters in Pittsburgh history — the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge. Its abrupt failure dumped a half-dozen vehicles into a wooded gorge 100 feet below and transformed a pastoral scene into...
Radon: Most Western Pennsylvania schools don’t test for radon, despite high levels in the state
A months-long Tribune-Review investigation found that most schools in Southwestern Pennsylvania do not regularly test for radon, the odorless, colorless, radioactive gas found here in some of the highest concentrations in the nation. At risk is the health and safety of the state’s nearly 1.7 million school children — in...
Holding onto hope inside a covid ICU: ‘It’s like working in a war zone’
Inside a room in the intensive care unit at Allegheny Health Network’s Jefferson Hospital, a covid-infected man lies prone on his stomach, hooked up to a ventilator that is breathing for him....
‘A complete miracle’: 20th anniversary of the Quecreek Mine rescue
John Unger promised his wife that if something bad ever happened on his job in the coal mine, he’d find a way to survive. For 29 years, he kept that promise, always returning to the rural, century-old Somerset County home where they raised a family and tended to their cattle....
Clemente family, Puerto Rican government ‘at war’ to keep Pirate legend’s Sports City dream alive
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico — Luis Clemente swats at insects as he stands on the edge of a swimming pool filled with stagnant, murky water in this San Juan suburb of 150,000 people. The pool had been a glistening centerpiece of Roberto Clemente Sports City. On this blistering May morning, nearly...
Olympic oak: How Connellsville native John Woodruff’s 1936 gold-medal run dispelled white supremacy
Halfway home, “Long John” Woodruff made his move. It wouldn’t be his last. The young, novice runner raced before 110,000 people packed into the Olympiastadion, including those in a special box built for Adolf Hitler. The German chancellor and his Nazi brass believed the Berlin Games — the Hitler Games...
Follow-ups by journalists to an earlier covid-related story uncovered a horrid reality in Pennsylvania’s long-term care facilities
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Problems at Brighton Rehab didn’t start with coronavirus, Trib investigation finds
ptr-BrightonIntro Talk. Kenneth Miller has heard a lot of it since March when night and day, people all around him began dying at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center. There has been talk of change, talk of state and federal probes into how the aging, 589-bed Beaver County facility that one...
Brighton Rehab residents, families outraged by lax oversight during outbreak
ptr-BrightonOversight `Covid cannot be used as a cover-up`: Brighton Rehab residents, families outraged by lax oversight during outbreak As death became a constant at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in mid-April, so did certain daily rituals, according to some of the more than dozen residents, families and current and former...
Brighton Rehab under scrutiny for hydroxychloroquine use to thwart coronavirus
ptr-BrightonHydro Brighton Rehab under scrutiny for hydroxychloroquine use to thwart coronavirus Evelyn Gilbert, 53, began her five-day dose of hydroxychloroquine while battling covid-19 in a room with three other infected residents at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center. Kenneth Miller, 66, who had not shown symptoms of the virus, was jolted...
As outbreak spun out of control, Brighton Rehab ownership group remained mum. It still does
ptr-BrightonManagement Veil of silence: As outbreak spun out of control, Brighton Rehab ownership group remained mum. It still does. A knock on the door at two Long Island addresses listed for the owners of Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center did nothing to lift a veil of silence surrounding the company...
After months of uncertainty at the top, Brighton Rehab has manager in place through end of year
ptr-BrightonAllaire After months of uncertainty at the top, Brighton Rehab has manager in place through end of year A state-appointed manager will oversee operations at the troubled Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center at least through the end of the year, signaling some consistency after months of uncertainty about who is...
