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Firefighter Legislation
Firefighter legislation in PA and our position on each bill as well as the status in the General Assembly
Cancer Presumption Bill
Current cancer presumption bill in the PA House Appropriations Committee.
As yet another school year unfolds, some students may bemoan the end of a long summer break. But students at City High Charter School, Downtown, have had to adjust to a shorter break -- just one month -- because the school operates on a year-round calendar.
Bill Mazeroski called it a "perfect day." But if perfection generally is represented by a 10 on the numerical scale, this one was all about No. 9, the digit he wore and the digit the Pirates retired long ago. "I'm overwhelmed," he said following the ceremonies and festivities surrounding the dedication of his statue outside PNC Park on Sunday.
Clement Azzari brought cosmopolitan style to the streets of Clairton, consulting French magazines, importing German hair dryers and using razors to sculpt his clients' hair into memorable shapes they would return to for decades. In an era when bare-bones barbershops dominated, Mr. Azzari wooed a diverse clientele of men who sometimes booked weeks in advance.
For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush. Mr. Conrad, who died Saturday at age 86, won the coveted prize three times for his efforts but he also made Richard Nixon's enemies list.
When it came to most efforts in life, Scott Weida showed extraordinary skill, whether as a chemical engineer, as a scratch golfer or devoted father and grandfather. If Mr. Weida failed at anything at all, it was as a small-game hunter later in life, even if hunting was only an excuse to get outside to exercise and be with his son. "He was not a good hunter.
The fire trucks and alarm bells may be long gone, but city officials believe Engine House No. 16 still has a dynamic role to play in the East End. Officials said they'd like to sell the building and have posted guidelines for would-be purchasers. The request for proposals is on www.buyintheburgh.com, a year-old database of properties for sale by the city and Urban Redevelopment Authority.
Construction of a retaining wall at Twin Lakes Park, improvements at a football field in Mount Pleasant and regular grass cutting outside the Westmoreland County Prison all have been carried out by nonviolent offenders from the jail. Use of inmate labor has benefited Westmoreland County residents and the prisoners themselves for many years, Warden John Walton said.
Rumor has it that school has started around these parts. You can tell because there are so many unhappy faces on everyone within a few hundred yards of schools -- or maybe those are just among the frustrated drug dealers, child predators and speed demons whose unfortunate lives are made so much more difficult by school-zone restrictions on their activities.
A man survived after leaping from a bridge in Oakland Saturday night and tumbling into some trees and bushes below, a Pittsburgh dispatch supervisor said.
During a decade as superintendent of three school systems, Patrick Risha, 59, worked repeatedly with contractors whose relationships have included business and political aspects, spurring protests, court battles and a Post-Gazette examination.
Greene Disposal LLC, a new firm with several governmental ties, now serves as a middleman between gas drillers and municipal authorities, paying sanitation facilities to take tainted water and getting payment from drilling firms, while never actually touching the stuff.
One of the leading scorers on the University of Colorado's basketball team in the 1940s was E. Henry Knoche, a limber, 6-foot-4 center, who averaged 18 points a game for the Buffaloes. In 1947, he was among the first players picked in the inaugural draft of the league that would become the NBA.
Michael Been, a singer, songwriter, guitarist and founding member of the Northern California modern rock band the Call, which broke out with the 1983 MTV hit "The Walls Came Down," has died. He was 60.
Vance Bourjaily, a novelist whose career, like those of Norman Mailer and James Jones, emerged out of World War II and whose ambitious novels explored American themes for decades afterward, died Tuesday in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 87.
State law requires public schools to provide 180 days of instruction a year, but through various exceptions, public school districts can provide fewer student days -- or, if teachers agree, more days.
Daniel Harr described his son, Christopher, as a boy who loved fishing and video games, and played drums in his school band in the Ligonier Valley School District.
Robert W. Off, a former banker and longtime president of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission -- a private foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1904 to honor acts of civilian heroism in the United States and Canada -- died Friday. He was 90. Family members said the cause of death was unknown, but Mr. Off had been in poor health for the last couple of years.
A man survived after leaping from a bridge in Oakland Saturday night and tumbling into some trees and bushes below, a Pittsburgh dispatch supervisor said.
Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade will begin at 10 a.m. Monday at Centre Avenue and Crawford Street, Uptown, near the Consol Energy Center and Civic Arena.
The Allegheny County medical examiner???s office is awaiting toxicology and histology testing before releasing autopsy results on the body of a 72-year-old man who was found dead in a hot tub at a Strip District club.
A salvage yard in West Deer caught fire Saturday afternoon and burned for more than two hours before firefighters were able to extinguish it, a county dispatch supervisor said.
A Fayette County man was arrested early Saturday in North Union after state police said he led them on a wild chase, plowed his car into a Uniontown police car and then fought with officers.
Perhaps the most fundamental and finite resource schools have is time. As pressure builds to increase student achievement, talk across the country often turns to lengthening the school day or school year -- both expensive options. But a critical question is: What are schools doing to make the best use of the time they have now?
Restaurant owners are warning that liquor and wine price increases are likely following a decision by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to charge higher handling fees to wholesalers beginning next year.
Michael Cherubino had all the elements that make a good salesman: an ability to connect with people, plus tenacity, curiosity, knowledge and enthusiasm about his product. Certainly, he got results: At one point during a 30-year career in optical manufacturing sales, he increased revenue at Petersburg, Va.-based Carl Zeiss Optical Inc. by $6 million. But more importantly, said Mr.
An ousted Catholic priest and professor at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe on Friday filed a defamation lawsuit against a number of administrators at the school, claiming that his reputation was ruined when he was falsely accused of viewing pornography on a campus computer.
As the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Light Up Night, the organization is stepping up enforcement of its trademark rights to the annual event.
The NFL stipulations on what quarterback Ben Roethlisberger cannot do during his four-game suspension to start the season are strict. Not only can he not practice or work out with his Steelers teammates during that time, he cannot even speak to them about football strategy.
An excavator lurched over the remains of a building on East Carson Street Friday, clearing debris from the 19th-century structure to make way for a grocery and marking the end of a lengthy battle between historic preservationists, city officials and a developer.
A $425 million racetrack-casino in Lawrence County is still in the race, but now it has two major hurdles to clear or the state Harness Racing Commission may put it out of its misery.
The other shoe has dropped for the owner of the former Hilton Pittsburgh. BlackRock Financial Management Inc. has begun a foreclosure action against Shubh Hotels Pittsburgh LLC, one day after the prominent Downtown hotel lost the Hilton name. The New York-based lender filed the complaint Friday in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court against Shubh and CEO Atul Bisaria.
A retirement incentive program intended to lessen budget strain across Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities drew more takers than expected, a total of 257 employees from janitors to a university president who already made public his decision to retire. Gary Dent, a State System of Higher Education vice chancellor, confirmed the total in an interview Friday.
The Coraopolis police officer who works as Ben Roethlisberger's bodyguard must appear in court on Sept. 24 to explain to an Allegheny County judge why he should not be held in contempt for failing to answer a subpoena in a criminal case.
An Evans City man was jailed on charges that he held a woman captive in his mother's basement, where he beat and raped her, leaving her with several broken bones.
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a federal judge in Pittsburgh must hold a mental competency hearing for an Altoona man who has sought execution after failing to overturn a conviction of killing his estranged girlfriend's husband on Thanksgiving Day in 1998.
The Heinz Endowment is funding a $2 million, three-year project involving a consortium of local universities to create a baseline survey of the ecosystems where drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region will occur, the endowment said today.
A Butler County man has been jailed on charges that he raped and assaulted a woman, breaking her ankle and ribs, while holding her against her will for three days
A Washington County man has been charged with homicide by vehicle while driving drunk and numerous other offenses in connection with a May 16 head-on crash in Mount Pleasant that killed two college students
Three men were ordered to face trial today in the death of an East Hills woman, who was shot with a suspect's gun during a shootout with city police at her home
HARRISBURG -- Developers of a proposed Lawrence County harness racetrack didn't get the two-year extension of a racing license they'd sought, but the project -- which could lead to a new racetrack/casino west of New Castle -- isn't dead yet.
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. -- The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says a federal judge in Pittsburgh must hold a mental competency hearing for a man who has sought execution after failing to overturn a conviction of killing his estranged girlfriend's husband on Thanksgiving Day in 1998
CONNEAUT LAKE, Pa. -- The sixth-oldest roller coaster in America has reopened for the holiday weekend at Conneaut Lake Park in Crawford County and has won $50,000 from Pepsi that will be used to restore it and keep it running
A judge says foster parents who have raised a toddler since before her mother was murdered last year can adopt the girl, instead of grandparents who didn't know the child existed before the murder
A South Fayette teen accused of killing his mother at a resort in western India faced a juvenile justice board today in Jodhpur, where police asked the court for additional time to investigate before they formally charge him.
Standardized exams -- the multiple-choice, bubble tests in math and reading that have played a growing role in American public education in recent years -- are being overhauled.
Thursday was another 90-degree day here in Pittsburgh. Saturday, you might need a light jacket. It's all part of the mystical meteorological makeup of Western Pennsylvania. September started out hot enough with temperatures that were in line with one of the warmest summers we've seen lately.
Since 1959, the hotel perched so prominently at the entrance to the Golden Triangle has been a Hilton. Not anymore. The troubled Downtown hotel, beset by financial problems, suffered yet another blow Thursday when Hilton Hotels & Resorts terminated its franchise license agreement with Shubh Hotels Pittsburgh LLC, the hotel owner.
Two Republican lawmakers are upset about several incidents this summer at a suburban Philadelphia casino, where adults have gone inside to gamble while leaving young children alone in vehicles in the parking lot.
Dorcas Maranich -- her friends and family called her Doris -- tended to arrive in places ahead of others. She settled in Alaska seven years before it became the 49th state. She took up the task of making a stained-glass window when others were only beginning to dabble in the craft. Even in her final years, she was winning awards for photography.
A year after experimenting with environmentally friendly streetlights on the South Side, city officials have been awarded an $816,000 grant to begin a citywide conversion from standard lights to lower costing, more-energy efficient LEDs. The grant was one of 40, totaling $20.5 million, that Gov. Ed Rendell announced Wednesday for public and private energy initiatives statewide.
Pittsburgh officials are considering a $45,000 settlement with a longtime employee who filed a lawsuit in February, accusing them of improperly posting his confidential medical information online. The proposed settlement was introduced Tuesday before City Council, which may vote on the bill later this month. The legislation and the lawsuit identify the employee as John Doe.
Former Latrobe Mayor Thomas Marflak is free on his own recognizance, pending a preliminary hearing on charges that he paid his wife's credit card bills with more than $60,000 siphoned from a hotel he managed for about nine years.
Fall head count enrollment at the Community College of Allegheny County is up by 5 percent to 20,459 students, an increase of about 1,000 students from a year ago, administrators said Thursday.
State police and other agents in Beaver County Thursday raided a house in Freedom where they arrested two people on drug trafficking charges and a third suspect who had an outstanding warrant.
The Post-Gazette on Thursday filed a motion with Allegheny County Judge John A. Zottola asking that he hold a hearing on the issue of releasing documents related to the grand jury investigation of state Sen. Jane Orie, R-McCandless.
A $4.3 million project to resurface a storm-damaged section of Interstate 79 in Robinson and Kennedy will begin next Friday, bringing off-peak and weekend lane restrictions.
Police are looking for at least two men who they say opened fire Thursday afternoon on an occupied house and then into a woman's moving car, shattering her windshield.
The Historic Review Commission Wednesday approved Burns & Scalo Real Estate's plans to renovate the former Goodwill headquarters at 2600 E. Carson St., South Side, and build a new back entrance for residential use.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will expand its primary and urgent care offerings to Braddock residents for at least three years under an agreement that settles a federal civil rights complaint brought by the Braddock Borough Council President Jesse Brown.
Bishop David Zubik is writing to all parishioners of St. Bede Catholic Church in Point Breeze to ask if they know of any inappropriate behavior by a priest who once lived there, and who was recently charged with molesting an 11-year-old girl in Virginia.
New charges were filed Thursday against the driver of the SUV that struck and killed a Mt. Lebanon woman in June as she was jogging along Washington Road with her two children in a running stroller.
A former senior director of student financial services at Point Park University alleges in a federal lawsuit that she was terminated after alerting superiors to fraud in the school's disbursement of federal student aid.
When a ghost-busting crew spent the night in the Homestead police station two years ago, the news conference afterward was about unexplained footsteps, drifting shadows, slamming doors and spooked employees.
After venting for days about violence and other problems in the South Side's nightclub district, Pittsburgh City Councilman Bruce Kraus said he was heartened Thursday by offers of help from police department brass.
