Amanda Berg
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Spotlight PA
Pennsylvania awards $200M to expand high-speed internet access, and a lot more is on the way. But the looming end of a federal program that helps low-income families afford broadband underscores the challenge of ensuring universal access.
Kiley Koscinski
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90.5 WESA
Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
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A new report, launched after a 2020 Spotlight PA investigation, finds students of color face racial harassment and stereotypes in the classrooms of Pennsylvania’s public universities. -
When 33-year-old Miguel Barragan shows up to the kitchen at Texas Roadhouse, people know to get out of his way. Next month, he's competing nationally in a very specific kind of competition — one that he's been dominating this year. -
"Soul to Soul," a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene production celebrating the ties between Black and Jewish Americans, is coming to Pittsburgh. -
The new store, located on Centre Avenue, aims to address the neighborhood’s lack of food access after not having a full-service grocery store for almost five years. -
The loans can be used for a variety of immigration-related purposes, including Green Card application, medical exams, travel to hearings and representation for asylum and deportation cases. -
So far, the Army has refused to return to the Winnebago Tribe the remains of Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley, who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. -
The City of Pittsburgh kicked off Black History Month by announcing a new EMT training academy that honors the nation’s first emergency medical service. -
Some in East Palestine say more needs to be done to address health risks. Other residents believe the derailment’s worst impacts were limited and have long since passed. -
A new documentary produced by two Altoona natives takes viewers on a tour through a pivotal and hard-to-access World War II battleground. The documentary makers say it gives veterans’ families and those interested in history a chance to reflect on a place they likely couldn’t visit otherwise. -
Researchers in the house at 257 Oakland Ave. aim to develop new technologies to help people stay in their homes as they age, as well as to test existing technologies already on the market.
