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The University of Pittsburgh announced a plan Friday to match Pell Grants for all eligible undergraduate students beginning in the fall. The Pitt Success Pell Match Program will match the federal funds dollar for dollar, up to the cost of attendance for eligible students across all five of Pitt’s campuses...

Hate to throw those used, household batteries in the trash? The Frick Environmental Center offers free household alkaline battery recycling and is one of the few such recycling sites in Pittsburgh. Batteries can be dropped in the center’s blue recycling tube just inside the main entrance near the front desk....

No one was injured when a condemned home in Pittsburgh’s Perry North neighborhood collapsed Friday, city officials said. The city ordered the home at 45 Semicir St. to be evacuated a year ago. Officials said the home wasn’t demolished because the hillside was insecure, causing unsafe conditions for contractors to...

Here are some fun ways to spend the final weekend of February in Pittsburgh. Back after a break Singer Michael Buble will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at PPG Paints Arena, Uptown. His newest release “Love” is his eighth major studio album for Reprise Records. Buble returned to the stage...

Award-winning chef Justin Severino announced that his Lawrenceville restaurant Cure will close in March to make room for an online charcuterie company. “From the very beginning, the menu at Cure was built with the charcuterie program at its foundation,” the chef said in a news release. “Nearly every table started...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has issued a warning for people to be aware of scams involving IRS impersonators out to get personal information. The attorney general’s Bureau of Consumer Protection has already received 15 complaints already in 2019. It received 536 IRS scam complaints in 2018. “Scam artists are...

A man surrendered early Friday after a standoff with police, who were called to a Munhall home for a violent argument, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI. Jamar Grimes, 25, of Pittsburgh is charged with aggravated assault, receiving stolen property, reckless endangerment and related offenses. Police were called to a...

Moshe Journo will not be cut loose a second time. Journo, 53, who had been on the run for about 15 years after he was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl inside his Dormont business in 2004, was denied bail Friday and is being held at the Allegheny County Jail,...

Pittsburgh police seized more than 4,000 packets of heroin and two illegal guns while serving a search warrant Thursday in Northview Heights. Police arrested Keith Fearbry, 37, after executing the search warrant around 1 p.m. at a residence in the 300 block of Penfort Street. Officers allegedly found 4,300 packets...

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is overstepping his authority by attempting to force UPMC to work together with rival health system Highmark beyond this summer’s expiration of a state-brokered agreement, UPMC argued Thursday in court filings. UPMC asked the Commonwealth Court to reject Shapiro’s petition to rewrite a 2014 consent...

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said he wasn’t surprised at the news that a Shop ‘n Save in the Hill District would close in March after six years. ”It hasn’t been generating the type of revenue that they expected for several years,” the mayor said Thursday. “They’re losing money. That being...

Pittsburgh has filed a formal objection with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to Norfolk Southern Railroad’s plans to reconstruct a city street bridge in the North Side so double stack trains can pass underneath. Norfolk Southern is seeking PUC permission to raze the bridge at Brighton Road and North Avenue...

A man who was shot to death Monday night in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood has been identified as Norman Clarence Manuel, 37, of Pittsburgh, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Manuel was shot in the chest around 6:30 p.m. in the 400 block of Enright Court. When medics...

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) board Thursday re-elected two long-serving members to lead the multi-billion dollar agency’s oversight panel as it navigates the evolving world of student debt. State Rep. Mike Peifer, R-Pike County, a CPA and member of the board since 2010, was re-elected chairman, while state...

Pittsburgh officials announced plans Thursday for a new $3.2 million bridge accessing the quirky riverfront neighborhood of Duck Hollow. The city will require the contractor to abide by a long dormant “clean construction” ordinance. The McFarren Street Bridge spanning Nine Mile Run provides the only access to Duck Hollow located...

Members of the public will a chance to voice concerns over the embattled Penn Hills School District’s dire financial straits at a town hall hosted by Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale on Feb. 28. “I invite students, teachers, support staff and parents to bring suggestions about how we can come...

Investigators have identified bones found a year ago in a Pittsburgh backyard as a woman who lived at the home in the 1960s. A DNA match from a living family member shows that the skeletal remains belong to Mary Arcuri, who purchased the house with her husband, Albert Arcuri, in...

Airport officials unveiled concept designs Feb. 20 for a new landside terminal at the Pittsburgh International Airport — a $1.1 billion overhaul project proposed in 2017. The bright, airy, two-level design was inspired by Pittsburgh’s rolling topography. It features high ceilings, big windows and lots of greenery and natural light,...

Allegheny Health Network patients who can’t make it to the doctor during the week will have the chance to get a colonoscopy on Saturdays in March. The Saturday appointments at select outpatient locations are part of AHN’s observance of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and a way to make it...

A Venango County man was caught Wednesday with a loaded gun at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Transportation Security Administration officers found a .22-caliber gun loaded with 10 bullets in his carry-on bag. The man, who officials didn’t name, was stopped at the security checkpoint. Allegheny County Police responded to the...

Pittsburgh may not rank highly among the country’s top doughnut locales, but doughnut lovers in Western Pennsylvania still have plenty of places to sate their appetite. BestPlaces.net ranked the top doughnut cities in the U.S. based on the number of doughnut shops per capita. By that measure, Pittsburgh ranked 68th....

Drivers buying gas in Allegheny County this summer could see lower prices at the pump thanks to a regulatory change at the state level. As of Dec. 20, seven counties in Pennsylvania — Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland — are no longer required by the federal Environmental...