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Beauty Shoppe is giving the traditional office environment a makeover. Bucking the cubical farm layout, the organization transforms historic, yet underutilized buildings into sleek, sophisticated co-working spaces for individuals, businesses and others. Memberships vary and can range from a standing desk located in a common area to private office suites...

A brief police chase through Wilkinsburg overnight ended with one person in custody. The incident started at about 1:30 a.m., WPXI reported. It traveled through East Liberty and lasted about 20 minutes. Police were able to stop the suspect in the area of Broad Street and North Atlantic Avenue in...

State Department of Education officials have selected former Wilkinsburg Superintendent Daniel Matsook as Penn Hills School District’s financial recovery officer. The state placed the district in financial recovery in January after being in financial watch the past two years. Matsook, who once worked as Wilkinsburg’s liaison during a transition of...

A woman was taken into custody and transported to a mental health facility following an incident with Pittsburgh police Tuesday night. Public Information Officer Chris Togneri said Zone 5 police officers attempted to serve a mental health warrant on a woman at a residence along the 100 block of Roup...

Blame Allegheny County’s poor air quality forecasts on a weather event called an “inversion” where warm air in the atmosphere traps cold, polluted air on the ground. Or blame the polar vortex. While county health officials predicted a poor air dispersion day that didn’t quite materialize Tuesday, another is in...

Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators hope that President Donald Trump will point to two Pittsburghers seated as his guests at the State of the Union as part of a message of unity and against hate. Judah Samet, a Holocaust survivor who missed the massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue because he...

Pittsburgh has fired a Public Works Department salt truck driver who sideswiped three vehicles in Lawrenceville in January and left without reporting it, a city official said Tuesday. Tim McNulty, spokesman for Mayor Bill Peduto, said the city terminated the driver Friday. City officials are not releasing his name. The...

A scathing grand jury report released Tuesday says Penn Hills School District leaders are guilty of “inexcusable” carelessness that brought the district to “economic ruin” but failed to find any cause to bring criminal charges. The grand jury, convened by Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., worked for...

Young physician-scientists pursuing groundbreaking pediatric research are about to receive a substantial boost in funding. The Tull Family Foundation, founded by Thomas and Alba Tull, is donating $1.5 million to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to support research and the hospital’s creative arts programs. A million dollars of the funding...

State Rep. Jake Wheatley knows the marijuana bill he introduced Tuesday will be a tough sell in the Republican-controlled legislature. But he predicted the GOP would eventually sign on as more and more state residents call for legalization. Wheatley’s legislation would legalize recreational use of marijuana in Pennsylvania for people...

Defense attorneys for former East Pittsburgh cop Michael Rosfeld want to make sure prosecutors don’t renege on their pledge not to call a use-of-force expert during next month’s homicide trial. Daniel Fitzsimmons, chief trial deputy for the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office, has said repeatedly that he does not intend...

The discovery began at a church yard sale. Joycita Rose Malrey Lucas was looking through books when she spotted a brand new copy of “The Three Wishes,” retold by M. Jean Craig. The pristine book printed by Scholastic books was 50 years old. It told the story of a fairy...

A day after county health inspectors ordered Oakland’s Las Palmas to close, a second re-inspection Tuesday deemed the storefront and eatery clean enough to remain open. An initial inspection on Jan. 24 turned up an infestation of cockroaches, sewage leaking from a toilet and inadequate hand-washing facilities. A follow-up inspection...

A man and woman from southwestern Pennsylvania arrested more than two years ago for transporting about 16 pounds of cocaine in Louisiana were sentenced last week to federal prison there. Joseph Wilbon, 52, of Pittsburgh, and Marva L. Flenory, 59, of Penn Hills, were sentenced to six and a half...

A garbage truck driver was taken to a hospital Tuesday after a plume of smoke from a cleaning product containing acid got on his face, according to Bellevue police. The incident was reported about 8:40 a.m. in the 500 block of Forest Avenue. The Allegheny County Hazmat unit was called...

Bring your sweetheart to the 13th annual “Valentine’s on Ice” from 7 to 10 p.m. Feb. 14 at Schenley Park Skating Rink. Presented by the City of Pittsburgh Office of Special Events, the night of outdoor ice skating for adults includes $5 per couple admission. The first 200 couples will...

We all know Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol had a fondness for Campbell’s Soup. On Sunday, we learned about his love of hamburgers. Burger King debuted a new 45-second Super Bowl commercial featuring a nearly silent film of the iconic pop artist eating a Whopper sandwich. The film simply showed Warhol...

Residents who live in the Grandview Avenue neighborhood of Mt. Washington will have no water service through 9 a.m. Wednesday while crews work to repair a water main break, officials at the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority said. A water buffalo is available at the intersection of Grandview Avenue at...

More than 300 Scott Township residents were without power overnight after two utility poles caught fire and two transformers were damaged. Crews responded to the 300 block of Old Washington Pike at about 3:30 a.m., WPXI reported. No township power outages remained listed on Duquesne Light’s website by 5:30 a.m....

Six adults escaped an overnight fire at a home along Jucunda Street in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville section. Flames broke out at about 1 a.m. at 130 Jucunda Street, police said. The blaze started in an abandoned building and spread to the home next door, WPXI reported. The American Red Cross was...

Pittsburgh’s free supply of water could run out as the city and the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority sit down to renegotiate a 24-year-old agreement outlining duties and responsibilities for operating the city-owned water system. The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority board of directors voted Monday to renegotiate the contract....

Two teenagers were shot late Monday night in a shooting in Braddock, according to Allegheny County police. Investigators and medics were called at 11:41 p.m. to the 500 block of Mills Avenue and found the victims, ages 17 and 18, with gunshot wounds. Police said the teens, who were together...

Higher than permitted levels of sulfur dioxide were detected Monday evening in the Mon Valley, according to an Allegheny County Department of Health announcement Tuesday afternoon. The sulfur dioxide, or SO2, exceedance was detected at 10 p.m. Monday at the North Braddock air quality monitor, according to health department data....

One person was killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the West End Bridge late Tuesday night. Another person is in critical condition after the incident, which happened after 11 p.m. Cory Emmanuel Jones, 27, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Jones lived...

Police say a Duquesne University student who died after falling from a 16th floor window in October jumped from the window. Marquis Jaylen Brown, 21, of Washington, D.C. was pronounced dead at UPMC Mercy at 11:12 p.m. on Oct. 4. In a press release Monday, Pittsburgh police said Brown, who...