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As suddenly as he lost his ability to speak last fall, Stuart Sanderson’s connection to the world outside his Philadelphia nursing-home room was severed…
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In Allegheny County, Judge Lester Nauhaus sees his drug court as an alternative to the carnage of the drug war.Drugs drive crime. But locking up addicts…
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This year, the Millennial generation will eclipse the Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, totaling 75.3 million, according to U.S.…
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For the Allegheny County Police Department, searching for details on past crimes sometimes calls for cabinet duty.That means a team of detectives…
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In Pennsylvania, nearly 1.5 million people are in potential danger if a train carrying crude oil derails and catches fire, according to a PublicSource…
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Linda Share fought for years to get her father home before he died.Benjamin Share had been away for eight years. His kidneys were failing. He had…
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Chief Carlos Whitewolf beat a small hand drum and sang a Native American prayer for Mother Earth in the cold January air in Hershey, Pa.Many of the 50 or…
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A veteran nursing assistant, whose job would include bathing, feeding and dressing nursing-home residents, worked an average of 80 hours a week for nearly…
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In 2014, heroin addiction and overdose deaths became an epidemic across the country, across the state of Pennsylvania and especially in Allegheny…
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If officials are tuned in to the statewide heroin crisis that has killed thousands of Pennsylvanians, they apparently think it’s a cheap fix.After six…