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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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Woman struck by truck, killed in hit-and-run on Upper Campus

By Spencer Levering, Assistant News Editor • December 6, 2024
A 37-year-old woman was killed after being struck by a box truck at the intersection of Terrace Street and Darragh Street just before 5:45 a.m. on Thursday morning.
A Good Hill to Die On // Miles Away

A Good Hill to Die On // Miles Away

By Sierra O’Neil, Staff Writer • November 15, 2024
This edition of “A Good Hill to Die On” discusses the struggle of managing both college and home life when you are miles away.
Opinion | Grieving Liam Payne

Opinion | Grieving Liam Payne

By Danae Poteat, Senior Staff Columnist • October 28, 2024
While I found myself grieving, I felt conflicted because I knew Liam Payne was not a good person. In my head, Payne is still the same person he was in One Direction because that’s how I want to remember him.
Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro arrives for a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Shapiro says he won't allow Pennsylvania to execute any inmates while he is in office and calls for the state's lawmakers to repeal the death penalty.

Editorial | Pennsylvania governor made the right decision to oppose death penalty

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • February 20, 2023
But after hundreds of years and more than a thousand people killed, Pennsylvania’s governor is paving the way to change history. 
Opinion | Donate your organs and become a tree

Opinion | Donate your organs and become a tree

By Grace DeLallo, Assistant Opinions Editor • November 27, 2022
Regardless of what you want done to your body after death, consider giving back to those who need what you can no longer use, and imagine a world in which our bodies give back to the land that has given us so much. There are incredible benefits when donating your organs and opting for a green burial, but whatever happens, death does not define us.
Poetry | Within four walls of gold

Poetry | Within four walls of gold

By Anna Fischer, Senior Staff Columnist • October 30, 2022
Anna Fischer memorializes her grandmother in a freeform poem that explores the process of grief that follows unexpected loss.
Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant at the final game of his career in 2016.

Capel on Kobe: ‘It’s like a superhero dying’

By Trent Leonard, Sports Editor • January 28, 2020
When Jeff Capel addresses the media each week, the discussion typically centers around his team. That wasn’t the case Monday afternoon, as Capel reflected on the legacy of Kobe Bryant’s life and the tragedy of his death.
Police stand outside a house on Cable Street in Oakland outlined with crime tape. Police are investigating the death of a Pitt student as a homicide. (Photo by John Hamilton / Managing Editor)

Pitt student’s death being investigated as a homicide

By The Pitt News Staff • October 8, 2017

Pittsburgh police are investigating a homicide in Oakland after finding a deceased Pitt student Sunday morning. The Allegheny County medical examiner's office said Sunday night that the student was Alina...

Yogi Berra, left, and Whitey Ford are seen during the New York Yankees 65th Old Timers Day ceremony. The New York Yankees defeated the Colorado Rockies, 6-4, at Yankee Stadium in New York on Sunday, June 26, 2011.

Berra leaves off-field legacy of words

By Stephen Caruso / Assistant Sports Editor • September 23, 2015

As a Yankees fan, I’m not going to miss the departed Lawrence “Yogi” Berra most for his baseball career. His No. 8 will hang forever in Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park — no player will wear it...

Death Cult: Our obsession with celebrity death

Death Cult: Our obsession with celebrity death

By Shawn Cooke / Staff Writer • February 3, 2014

Just hours before the Super Bowl kickoff on Sunday, news broke that Hollywood lost one of its finest actors — Philip Seymour Hoffman.The story first came to my attention through a Facebook post that...

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