Gene J. Puskar
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AP
The memorial to the people who died on United Airlines Flight 93 is hard to find on a map as the Sept, 11, 2001, terrorist attack itself slips deeper into the nation’s memory. Now, the families of Flight 93's 40 passengers and crew members are starting an annual award to reward selfless acts of heroism and educate the public.
Keith McGuire
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WITF/Transforming Health
Courtesy Office of Rep. Mark Gillen
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Law enforcement across the country pull drivers over for alleged, minor traffic infractions with the intent to look for possible criminal activity. Pennsylvania is no exception. -
Organizations meet new needs of people they have already built trust with.
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A state department said a licensing program with financial and safety requirements for recovery homes will save lives, but advocates are pushing back on the added costs.
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Carnegie Mellon University will receive $30 million from the Heinz Endowments over the next six years to manage the Center for Shared Prosperity. The center will study housing, education, transportation, health care and other issues affecting residents of the Greater Pittsburgh region.
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Fewer than half of Chambersburg residents own their homes, compared to 71% in Franklin County as a whole, per the U.S. Census Bureau. A new program tried to change that.
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State officials are working to reach vulnerable communities, who might not be able to get to a vaccination site.
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An author discusses her new book about Black people's search for freedom on Native land in the 19th-century American territories
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After a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the death of George Floyd Tuesdays, protesters gathered to march at Freedom Corner in Pittsburgh. But two young activist groups have started organizing in other ways.
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Dozens of human skulls of Black people — some hundreds of years old — will be returned to their communities of origin for reburial, according to a commitment by the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
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Demonstrators met in East Liberty to show solidarity with the family of Daunte Wright, a Black man who was killed in Minnesota on Sunday.
