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A watchdog agency has launched a probe into a woman’s middle-of-the-night encounter last month with Pittsburgh police minutes before she was killed by a hit-and-run driver on the West End Bridge. Elizabeth Pittinger, executive director of Pittsburgh’s Citizen Police Review Board, told TribLive this week that she opened the inquiry
Twelve minutes before a car struck and killed Faye McCoy on the West End Bridge last month, she was talking to Pittsburgh police officers nearby. It was almost 3 a.m. on Jan. 27, and police had just arrested McCoy’s friend for drunken driving after the car they were in struck
It took Gina Pelusi’s mother, Ruthanne, a music teacher, at the front door of her home on Feb. 6, 2014. On Aug. 5, 2008, it came for Vaughn Rivers’ brother, Anthony, on a Garfield Street after his basketball team had been crowned Connie Hawkins League champs. In 1993, Geraldine Massey
An ongoing police crackdown on the South Side is making the bustling East Carson Street entertainment district safer, police officials, business owners and local community members said Tuesday. “It’s had a monumental effect on the (South Side) Flats since its inception,” John DeMauro, owner of Urban Tap gastropub on East
Business owners and Pittsburgh police say the South Side neighborhood should not be held hostage by the violent crime culture that has flexed mightily during the past several years.