Needy families and empty homes are a perfect pair , and if a new proposal from Mayor Peduto is successful, the city will soon be playing matchmaker. The program, Bridges Beyond Blight, aims to fill vacant...

Dogging It On Wednesday morning, police in Florence, Alabama, responded to suspicious packages at the town post office. When X-ray scans of the packages showed odd results, authorities sent a bomb squad...

Corry J. Sanders fit the bill of an outstanding candidate for McKeesport councilman — a family man with four kids, an owner of a neighborhood barbershop and a deacon at a Pittsburgh church. But, after...

Here at The Pitt News, words are important. If you didn’t already know that, either you or we are doing something wrong. That’s why starting with today’s issue, we will no longer use the term freshman...

Just days into 2016, a normally stoic President Obama delivered a teary-eyed address in front of the nation about his new gun-control efforts to reduce the gun violence that plagued 2015. Through executive...

Six feet deep like Moscow authorities are giving people an exclusive opportunity to take a Snapchat selfie with a ghost. Starting next year, free Wi-Fi will be available in the city’s three main cemeteries...

Police chiefs are feeling a little camera shy these days. With the advent of video footage of fatal police shootings flashing before the public’s eyes, police chiefs have faced radical changes in their...

Donald Trump is running a successful campaign of racist belligerence. He was never supposed to make it this far as a presidential candidate — yet here we are, reeling from his call on Monday for the...

The gap in academic achievement is not necessarily a result of bad teachers, but a result of inconsistent teachers. According to a report from journalist Emma Brown of The Washington Post, low-income...