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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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Writer, singer, and social activist YahNe Ndgo took the place of a sick Jill Stein as the headline speaker at an event at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater on Tuesday night | Stephen Caruso, Senior Staff Photographer

Green Party supporters rally in East Liberty

By Preena Patel / Staff Writer • November 2, 2016

A health issue might have stopped Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein from traveling to Pittsburgh, but her absence didn’t keep supporters from rallying around her platform. Green Party...

Latitia Smallwood (right) has been granted a new trial with help from the Pennsylvania Innocence Project | Courtesy PA Innocence Project

Pennsylvania Innocence Project opens in Pittsburgh

By Rebecca Peters / Staff Writer • November 2, 2016

Law students from the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University are learning to look at cases differently — guilty until proven innocent. The Pennsylvania Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization...

Social justice film series hits on tough topics

By Janine Faust / Staff Writer • October 27, 2016

Heather Arnet, CEO of the Women and Girls Foundation, realized earlier this year just how many email requests her organization was getting for films that delved into sensitive subjects — immigration,...

Vice President Joe Biden visited Chatham University at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. John Hamilton | Senior Staff Photographer

Biden, Bon Jovi to Visit Pittsburgh

By Alexa Bakalarski / Assistant News Editor • October 25, 2016

Sandwiched between campaign visits from Hillary Clinton and Jon Bon Jovi, Vice President Joe Biden will stop by Chatham University to campaign for the Democratic Presidential candidate today. Biden...

Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine campaigned at Taylor Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill on Saturday. Stephen Caruso | Senior Staff Photographer

Clinton, Kaine campaign in Pittsburgh

By Stephen Caruso / Senior Staff Writer • October 23, 2016

With 17 days left until the election, a crowd of nearly 1,800 warmed up from the freezing rain in Taylor Allderdice High School’s packed auditorium Saturday to hear Democratic presidential candidate...

Bikers and pedestrians decorated Susan Hicks’s ghost bike at the intersection of Bellefield and Forbes avenues commemorating the professor, who was killed there last year. Kyleen Considine | Staff Photographer

Friends, family, strangers gather to remember Susan Hicks

By Janine Faust | Staff Writer • October 22, 2016
The white bicycle, adorned with vibrant flowers, has been tied to a utility pole on the sidewalk across from Carnegie Hall for exactly a year, honoring Susan Hicks’ life. Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the day 34-year-old Hicks was fatally hit by a car at the intersection of South Bellefield and Forbes avenues. The same gloomy, rainy weather that backdropped her friends’ and family’s mourning that day reappeared on Friday as about 40 people gathered to leave notes to the late Pitt pr

Fifth home in Oakland burglarized

By Emily Brindley / Assistant News Editor • October 21, 2016

For the fifth time this month, an unknown person robbed a central Oakland home, the latest in a string of robberies that police say are not connected. This time, an unknown person broke into a home...

Officials spoke at the Public Safety meeting Wednesday evening. Anna Bongardino | Staff Photographer

More body cams to come for Pittsburgh police

By David Robinson / Staff Writer • October 20, 2016

Adding to the 170 wired body cameras Pittsburgh police are already wearing, the Bureau said at a public safety meeting Wednesday that it ordered another 500 wireless body cameras to use in the coming year. The...

Pittsburgh police release use of force report

By Alexa Bakalarski / Assistant News Editor • October 14, 2016

A report released Thursday evening by the Pittsburgh police found that, from 2010 to 2015, one in 10 arrests in the city have involved the use of force. Additionally, there was a “higher-than-expected”...

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Obama is coming to Pittsburgh: Here’s where he’ll be

By Alexa Bakalarski / Assistant News Editor • October 11, 2016

President Barack Obama will be in Pittsburgh on Thursday for the Frontiers Conference, a program jointly hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the White House. While...

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