Some parks advocates argue the city could be missing out on private sector donations by declining to spend the tax through the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy.
A Pittsburgh teenager who police say opened fire on a Brighton Heights funeral service in late October has been charged in connection with a homicide that took place more than two months earlier. The Aug. 7 shooting in the city’s California-Kirkbride neighborhood left one man dead and three others injured.
The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and Mayor Gainey are battling it out after the mayor seemingly ignored the recommendations of the conservancy for allocating parks tax funds.
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Pittsburgh police on Thursday said their protection had been requested at a Brighton Heights funeral where six people were injured in a shooting last week, but officers were not there when the violence erupted. A shooting outside Destiny of Faith Church on Oct. 28 cut short a funeral for North