Pittsburgh's police department faces an officer shortage
Pittsburgh City Council members expressed concerns Thursday that the city can't replace the officers it's losing fast enough.
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Pittsburgh City Council members expressed concerns Thursday that the city can't replace the officers it's losing fast enough.
Pittsburgh City Council is considering spending $7 million over five years to extend a contract with a Pittsburgh-based firm that provides security at the City-County Building and other city sites. The proposed contract would pay security guards a fraction of what guards are making at some county-owned facilities, according to
Second Avenue Commons, a homeless shelter that opened last week in Downtown Pittsburgh, is already at capacity, officials said. “We’re now into the overflow space, which is the cafeteria that’s downstairs,” said Dan Palka, Allegheny Health Network’s director of urban health and street medicine. Palka is collaborating with the city
Paramedic Nick Theofilis, 23, died as a result of the injuries he sustained in a motor-vehicle accident on Sunday in Shadyside, Pittsburgh.
Could EMS driver Nicholas A. Theofolis' sudden medical emergency have been caused by the vaccine?