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TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Giant Eagle is offering up its staff of pharmacists to help distribute the initial doses of the covid-19 vaccine, the O’Hara-based chain said Friday. The company assisted in administering the vaccine to long-term care workers Thursday and Friday in Morgantown, W.Va., its Vice President of Risk and Chief Compliance Officer Vic Vercammen said. “We’re excited to be able to provide our team’s specialized knowledge,” Vercammen said. “We are engaged with local authoriti...

Kristina Serafini | Tribune-Review Snow flies in front of a background of The Point and Fort Pitt Bridge as a storm moves into Downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Pittsburgh City Council is set to vote Monday on a 2021 budget that doesn’t make any of the cuts to police funding that some residents have repeatedly requested. The $564 million spending plan introduced Nov. 9 by Mayor Bill Peduto doesn’t increase taxes. However, if federal coronavirus relief packages are not...

AP   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. As Pennsylvania officials on Monday celebrated the first vaccinations of health care workers against covid-19 , Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine reiterated warnings this is the first step in a long road to the end of the pandemic. “Today is just a great day, when we start immunizing people,” Levine said during a virtual news conference. But it’s also just a start, and it comes as Pennsylvania nears the 500,000-case milestone since the pandemic began. As of M...

Screenshot via Zoom Clockwise from top left, Protect Our Care War Room Director Zac Petkanas, Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf and N.J. Gov Phil Murphy talk Monday about the need for another federal coronavirus relief package during a virtual call with reporters.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. As coronavirus relief negotiations languish in Congress, Gov. Tom Wolf and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday there is a dire need to pass a package sooner rather than later to ensure an economic recovery from the pandemic...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. About $5.3 million in the 2021 Pittsburgh budget will be moved from police to public safety to fund a new Stop the Violence initiative spearheaded by city councilmen Ricky Burgess and R. Daniel Lavelle. The initiative is among the police reforms adopted by council this year and is in part a response to public outcry for reform that began after the May 25 killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. Floyd’s death galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement and sparked na...