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PITTSBURGH–An argument can be made that Pittsburgh’s image has been built on a foundation of masculine pursuits and preoccupations. Think manufacturing and steel, football and hunting, and tossing back some I.C. Light in a neighborhood bar. The Pittsburgh region is much more rich and varied than brawn and brewskis, a fact that has become more […]

Thousands of people read Nancy Brown's columns, but they were more than readers. They were a community.

County 911 says the crash happened near the Cinemark theater on Wagner Road in Center Township around 2:31 p.m.

Do you know the story of Nellie Bly, one of the most fascinating American women journalists? Her story was one that inspired a popular character in the second season of American Horror Story, as she was an

A column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch titled “What Girls Are Good For” so upset 21 year old Elizabeth Jane Cochran that she wrote an angry letter to the editor as a response, signing it “Lonely Orphan Girl.” The editor was so impressed by her writing that he hired her to

Mother Daughter Traitor Spy

Discover the extraordinary lengths Nellie Bly went to in writing some of her most astounding stories.

The newest addition to greet passengers at the Pittsburgh International Airport is a statue of Nellie Bly — flanked by Steelers great Franco Harris and the “Father of Our Country,” George Washington. Bly was an Alle-Kiski Valley native. Born Elizabeth Cochran on May 5, 1864, in the Cochran Mills neighborhood

In 1887, Nellie Bly boarded the boat with the other patients bound for Blackwell’s Island, now known as ...

The popularity of these secret clubs peaked in the 18th and 19th centuries