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Nearly two dozen police recruits are retaking their psychological evaluations this week after failing the first round. The city says it wants to make sure the testing process isn't to blame.

Many universities across the country are facing a harsh reckoning over vandalized buildings, mass campus arrests and chilling images from this week of student protesters battling police and sometimes each other. But the University of Pittsburgh is not — at least thus far. The university fared differently than other campuses

Police and public safety officials discussed their handling of protests by the University of Pittsburgh's Oakland campus on the city-owned Schenley Plaza.

After nearly a week of relative calm, pro-Palestinian protesters in Pittsburgh’s university district sparked minor conflict with police on Sunday night, resulting in two arrests. The arrests came after a group of about 200 protesters reneged on a verbal agreement to stay off university property. Protesters who last week had

The City of Pittsburgh is making adjustments to the way police officers respond to burglar alarms.

Chief Investigator Rick Earle spoke exclusively with a rideshare driver who says he was assaulted by a passenger -- and police never showed up.

A former Pittsburgh police commander violated police policy, state and federal wiretapping laws, and two constitutional amendments when he stashed body-worn cameras in patrol cars last fall to secretly record more than a half-dozen of his own officers, a lawsuit filed this week alleges. Matthew Lackner, 50, a Mt. Lebanon

The Penguins' game against Carolina marked its fourth annual Pride Game, celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and its commitment to diversity and inclusivity

If America is heading in the right direction, why have so many of our major cities become cesspools of violence, drugs, theft, trash and homelessness?  Once upon a time, millions of young people from all

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