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A group of six Puerto Rican students is visiting Pittsburgh this week to celebrate national hero Roberto Clemente and honor the baseball legend and humanitarian’s legacy through volunteerism. The Pittsburgh nonprofit Amizade (named for the Portuguese word for friendship) and Puerto Rican nonprofit Caras con Causa (which translates to ‘faces...

Kathleen “Kit” Beatty and her husband Adam are looking to buy a house. In fact, they are open to purchasing more than one. The couple from Brighton Heights refurbishes homes. Two of those will be featured with nine other houses, gardens and churches at the 17th annual Brighton Heights House...

A $26.7 million project to build mixed-income housing in Uptown is receiving a $1.6 million loan from Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority, shoring up financing for a project expected to begin by the end of the year. The URA’s board unanimously approved the loan Thursday to help pay for construction of...

We’ve made it to the middle of September. Here are some ways to spend this weekend. Rocktoberfest Beers of the Burgh and Zero Fossil Energy are teaming up for Rocktoberfest from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Town Square in SouthSide Works. The music festival features live music on two...

When Joe Nocito built his 51,000-square-foot Bell Acres mansion he named Villa Noci, an IRS agent said Thursday, every check and payment he made on it was illegally expensed to one of his companies. For the builder, nearly $900,000 in invoices between 2006 and 2012 were classified through Nocito’s companies...

The city of Pittsburgh and a coalition of local nonprofits received a combined $9 million in federal grants to support forestry efforts. The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service awarded a $1 million grant to Pittsburgh’s vacant lots tree planting project. The $1 million granted to the city of...

Henry Rothschild hopes Pittsburgh Fashion Week will continue to shine like the diamonds he sells in his boutique. The CEO of Diamonds by Rothschild in Downtown Pittsburgh is the new leader of the annual style event. “We are so proud to be the new owners, managers and producers of Pittsburgh...

A Hazelwood nonprofit is looking to build three affordable, for-sale houses in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. Hazelwood Initiative will build three, three-bedroom houses with one-and-a-half bathrooms on Flowers Street, with a goal of selling them to low-income residents. The Urban Redevelopment Authority on Thursday unanimously approved a $245,000 grant to help...

People in Pittsburgh’s North Side expressed mixed opinions about Allegheny General Hospital’s potential development plans for the next decade during a City Council public hearing Wednesday. The potential development plans, contained in AGH’s proposed 10-year institutional master plan, earned the support of the city’s Planning Commission in June. None of...

Students at Greenfield Elementary often play in a parking lot or on a grass field during recess and after school. Soon, they’ll have a new community schoolyard with playground equipment, a turf field, trees and other amenities. Students on Wednesday helped unveil designs for the schoolyard, which were crafted, in...

One of Pittsburgh’s small, private universities is facing layoffs and cuts, joining a dubious trend hitting institutions of higher education across the country. The university said it is working to reduce its budgetary deficit and reviewing academic programs as possible areas to cut costs. Chatham projected an operating budget deficit...

The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is looking to create young naturalists with the help of a $100,000 federal grant. The nonprofit said Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency grant will help it develop a Junior Young Naturalist program for middle schoolers across the city. Participants will learn about environmental careers and...

Pittsburgh is on its way to becoming a sanctuary city for gender-affirming health care, under legislation approved Tuesday by City Council. Councilwoman Barb Warwick, D-Greenfield, sponsored a measure that will shield gender-affirming health care providers, recipients and legal guardians from out-of-state prosecution or investigation. A second, related bill will deprioritize...

Kura Sushi USA, a revolving sushi bar, is preparing to open at noon on Sunday in Pittsburgh’s SouthSide Works. The concept is also known as Kaiten sushi, where plates of sushi are moved along a conveyer belt. It’s extremely popular in Japan and has been around for decades there. It...

Two people are dead after a shooting Monday night in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, according to city police. A third person was left critically injured. Those killed were identified as Dean Marbury, 43, and Jawan Montae Palmer, 37. Pittsburgh Public Safety said officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert for 11 gunshots...

A jury deliberated for less than two hours Monday before finding a Turtle Creek man guilty of first-degree murder. Maurice Demond King, 29, will be sentenced to a mandatory penalty of life in prison without parole on Nov. 29. King was accused of killing Cedrick L. Mack, 41, of Duquesne,...

Pittsburgh crews on Monday began the first phase of a project that will better link the Three Rivers Heritage Trail to Riverview Park. City officials said they are improving a trail that will connect the Three Rivers Heritage Trail and Riverview Park via the Mairdale Neighborway in Marshall-Shadeland and Brighton...

Pittsburgh’s Housing Stabilization Program is expected to use a full year’s worth of funding in roughly three months, according to information presented last week to the city’s Housing Opportunity Fund advisory committee. The Housing Opportunity Fund allocated $525,000 to the Housing Stabilization Program for rent assistance during the fiscal year...

A man who was released on nonmonetary bond after police said they caught him with $1.6 million in fentanyl in Pittsburgh failed to show for a court hearing Monday morning in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Yan Carlos Pichardo Cepeda, 27, of New York did not answer repeated phone calls...

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, Sept. 11: Police investigate Lawrenceville stabbing Pittsburgh police have one suspect in custody after a stabbing Sunday morning. Officers responded to the 100 block of 54th Street in Upper Lawrenceville for reports of a stabbing around 8:30 a.m....

Since he started tailgating and purchasing Steelers season tickets in 1997, Jim Carlowski has missed only three home games. Carlowski, 48, of Moon said he usually arrives about four hours before kickoff to maximize his time tailgating. “It’s part of the experience — making the full day of it,” Carlowski...

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s brilliant mind belonged to the atom, his loyalty to the United States, his passion to the New Mexico desert. But the beating heart of the American Prometheus belonged to a woman who grew up in Aspinwall. Yes, Aspinwall, childhood home of the great physicist’s wife, Katherine “Kitty”...

A North Side man is accused of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl. Pittsburgh police charged Robert James Crable, 67, of Perry South, with unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault and endangering the welfare of a child, court records show. Crable was arraigned...

Pittsburgh’s Calera Street Bridge is set to be replaced, and the city’s California Avenue Bridge is expected to see a major rehabilitation. Maria Montaño, a spokeswoman for Mayor Ed Gainey, said work on both projects is expected to start in 2026. The Calera Street Bridge in Hays was rated in...