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Piper’s Pub is back in business. The beloved Scottish pub, located at 1828 East Carson Street in the South Side, closed indefinitely following the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Piper’s is operating on limited hours, Saturday and Sunday
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It was roughly 6am on February 24, 2003 when a dozen local, state and federal law enforcement agents roused and arrested Randy Przekop at his South Side Pittsburgh home. The crime? Selling a small, 4 or 5 inch wooden pipe to an undercover
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The latest from East Palestine: EPA takes charge of the wreck site. The AP reports. Local residents, distrustful of official tests, conduct their own. Emily Cochran reports for the NY Times. PA residents near the Ohio border feel “forgotten
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Just how bad was it? Questions and concerns swirl following a Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, some 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. The carcinogen, vinyl chloride, and butyl acrylate were deliberately
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After its biggest and most challenging year, in which most artists and several vendors received partial payment or went unpaid, Deutschtown Music Festival (DMF) will return this summer with a new name: Northside Music Festival. Started in
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Toxic tanker chemicals burn. Residents in and around East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border, were ordered to "leave immediately or face the possibility of death" as vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals were purposely burned
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Newsguild fights another day: An administrative law judge from the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Post-Gazette ownership “didn’t negotiate in good faith, illegally imposed working conditions and unlawfully surveilled workers
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Modern-day company town. UPMC has monopoly power and is creating a modern-day company town. Those are some of the allegations in a new report from the nonpartisan, nonprofit American Economic Liberties Project: "Critical Condition: How UPMC
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