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Fort Pitt Tunnels Closed


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 8:53 a.m.
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Fort Pitt Tunnels have shut down. PennDOT says the closure is due to a power outage. Crews are out trying to bring back power and get traffic moving again through the [ ... ] ...

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Celebrations Spotlight: Ashley Maurer and Mike Blevins


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 5:53 a.m.

Ashley Maurer, 36, and Mike Blevins, 40, wed on October 30, 2010. The couple now resides on the South Side ...

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Quantum Theatre celebrates 20th anniversary


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:45 a.m.

Quantum Theatre staged a 20th Anniversary Gala Saturday chaired by Colleen and Henry Simonds at Clear Story Studio on the South Side ...

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Heinz History Center's History Uncorked


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:44 a.m.

Nothing livens up history like a little libation. So when word was out that the Senator John Heinz History Center was hosting a speakeasy Friday, more than 1,500 decided to slip in for a little bathtub gin ...

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State trooper faces another civil lawsuit


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Published Feb. 21, 2011 at 5:00 a.m.

Pennsylvania Trooper Samuel J. Nassan III, who has been a defendant in cases that have cost the state and its insurers $12,762,930 during his nine-year career, is expected to be back in federal court Tuesday for trial on a civil claim that he beat mechanical engineer David Palmer in 2008 on the South Side ...

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Heinz History Center revives History Uncorked


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Published Feb. 20, 2011 at 8:52 p.m.

It was some serious gridlock at the Heinz History Center, where more than 1,500 were congregating for the annual social revival better known at History Uncorked ...

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Knoch students encouraged to be Audience of the Future


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Published Feb. 20, 2011 at 8:00 a.m.

The Audience of the Future program developed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been giving high school students, including those from Knoch, a realistic opportunity to observe the operations behind a world class orchestra presentation ...

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Route 65 to be disrupted


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Published Feb. 20, 2011 at 8:00 a.m.

Installation of six traffic cameras and a message board along Route 65 in Pittsburgh will result in short-term lane closures from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday between the Fort Duquesne and McKees Rocks bridges, PennDOT said ...

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Review among prestigious publications that have relocated to Pittsburgh


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Published Feb. 20, 2011 at 8:00 a.m.

Through two world wars, the Great Depression and the great recession, the now South Side-based American Economic Review published the theories that guided America's ascendancy as a world economic power ...

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Young minds active in 'engineering the future'


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Published Feb. 20, 2011 at 5:00 a.m.

Willem Yongo spent time Saturday at the Carnegie Science Center learning about inertia, momentum, acceleration and trajectory. Willem, 10, didn't necessarily know that's what he was learning about ...

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