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Sheriff's Deputy Describes Crash After Chase

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Published June 10, 2010 at 8:28 p.m.

Allegheny County Sheriff's Deputy Wayne Davin is talking about thepolice chase from Garfield to Monroeville that left him injured andlanded two Pittsburgh police officers in the hospital. SeanWright, 21, allegedly hit the two officers, throwing them out of theircars, something the suspect denies ...

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Stanton Heights school construction to begin this spring

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Published May 8, 2010 at 2:00 a.m.

Construction is scheduled for this spring on a $10 million private school in Stanton Heights. The Neighborhood Academy, now on Penn Avenue in Garfield, plans to move into the school on 7.8 acres near North Aiken Avenue in fall 2012. Officials formally broke ground Thursday ...

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Merton Center struggles with lagging finances

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Published April 30, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

The Thomas Merton Center has no staff left and in March took refuge from its three-story Garfield money pit by renting next door ...

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Pittsburgh's 2010: My Crystal Ball

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Published Jan. 1, 2010 at 11:34 a.m.

‘Tis the season for predictions. Here are mine for Pittsburgh for 2010. These aren’t hopes or wishes; they’re what I think we will see in the region over the next 12 months ... 1 ... Sports: Pirates observers (few people today hold themselves out as fans any longer) will endure yet another losing season in 2010, but the team will fall short of 100 losses. This is hardly a prediction, of course; it’s all but a guarantee. The Pirates are well on their way to becoming this generation’s

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Pittsburgh's Last Decade

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Published Dec. 27, 2009 at 12:13 p.m.

Some usual and some unusual suspects are quoted in Mackenzie Carpenter's interesting review of Pittsburgh's last decade in this morning's Post-Gazette ... I'm in there, too ... There was no way for her or the PG to run more than a small snippet of what I wrote when she asked for my views of the good and the bad things about Pittsburgh's last 10 years, especially from an economics point of view ... This is the complete version of the relevant part of my written response; of course, she and I also

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Garfield man found guilty in Strip slaying

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Published Oct. 20, 2009 at 11:09 p.m.

A man facing two separate homicide trials in Allegheny County was convicted of third-degree murder yesterday in one of the cases -- a 2006 shooting outside a Strip District bar ...

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Garfield man convicted in one slaying; faces second trial

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Published Oct. 20, 2009 at 1:47 p.m.

A man facing two separate homicide trials in Allegheny County was convicted of third-degree murder today in the first of the two cases to land in court, a 2006 fatal shooting outside a Strip District bar ...

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Man shot in Garfield in critical condition

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Published Sept. 17, 2009 at 12:53 p.m.

The man, whom police did not immediately identify, was shot on North Atlantic Avenue ...

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Death row inmate pursues new trial in 2001 Garfield slayings

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Published Sept. 17, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.

Kenneth Hairston, 57, formerly of Garfield, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2002 for bludgeoning his wife, Cathy, and autistic son, Sean, 14, with a sledgehammer ...

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