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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

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Interactive crime map: May 17 – May 23

By The Pitt News Staff May 24, 2017

  Wednesday, May 17, 2017 12:18 a.m. LIS Building 3471 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police responded to a report from an affiliated person of harassment by communication. 2:56...

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Pitt CHREC engineering lab reaches for the stars

Pitt engineering students now have the chance to work on projects that are literally out of this world. The National Science Foundation’s Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing, also...

Onlookers watch as emergency personnel remove electric wires from contact with Blackburns crane.

Man electrocuted in North Oakland

By Henry Glitz | News Editor May 24, 2017

A man died Tuesday morning on North Neville Street in North Oakland when he accidentally came into contact with a utility wire. Matthew Blackburn, 46, of Jefferson Hills, was working in a cherry picker...

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald announced the creation of a task force on lead in Pittsburgh city water earlier this month. Flickr.

Fitzgerald, Wagner push city lead issues

By Henry Glitz | News Editor May 23, 2017

Several developments over the last few weeks have shown that Pittsburgh’s issues with lead pipe contamination in public water are far from over. Despite the end of the Democratic mayoral primary last...

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

Man sentenced for homicide of Pitt administrator

By Henry Glitz | News Editor May 18, 2017

More than a year and a half after a fatal crash led to the death of Pitt faculty member Susan Hicks, the man who pleaded guilty to causing the crash received his jail sentence this Thursday. David Witherspoon,...

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Interactive crime map: May 9 – May 16

By The Pitt News Staff May 17, 2017

  Tuesday, May 9, 2017 12:46 a.m. Atwood St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Pitt police assisted city police with a retail theft 2:13 p.m. Hillman Library 3960 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Pitt...

Mayor Bill Peduto speaks to press after delivering a speech following his victory in Tuesdays Democratic primary. Anna Bongardino | Visual Editor

Peduto wins in lopsided primary, claims ‘mandate’

Democrats in Pittsburgh voted Tuesday for the incumbent — Mayor Bill Peduto — to be their party’s nominee for mayor, likely giving him four more years as the city’s chief executive. Peduto beat...

Students from Pitt, Carlow and CCAC protested animal testing at Pitt labs last Thursday on Forbes Avenue. Anna Bongardino | Visual Editor

Students react to controversial PETA animal testing report

By Henry Glitz | News Editor May 17, 2017

Two conflicting reports from the United States Department of Agriculture and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals about conditions for animals in Pitt laboratories have caused a strong reaction...

Engineering dean Holder announces resignation

By Henry Glitz | News Editor May 11, 2017

Dean of Engineering Gerald Holder announced yesterday he will step down and return to the faculty after 21 years of leading the Swanson School of Engineering. Holder’s departure from the position...

Dr. John Welch speaks at the second campaign stop of his peoples campaign in February. John Hamilton | Editor-in-Chief

Q&A: Mayoral candidate John Welch talks affordable housing, water and putting “this Pittsburgh” first

By John Hamilton / Editor-in-Chief May 11, 2017

Reverend, doctor, professor, dean of students. John Welch is hoping to add Mayor of Pittsburgh to that résumé as he campaigns to unseat the incumbent, Mayor Bill Peduto, in Tuesday's Democratic primary...

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