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Massive stone pillars flank the entrances to Pittsburgh’s yellow Sixteenth Street Bridge. They’re topped with bronze winged horses majestically raising their hooves to the sky and seemingly protecting the embellished globes behind them. There's a history behind those globes.
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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced Monday that the city will be giving away cash prizes as part of a multiweek lottery to entice residents to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
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Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala appears to have walked back his policy forbidding plea deals for the clients of a lawyer who called his office racist.
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The state House is advancing revisions to Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law, seeking to make permanent some of the changes put in place temporarily because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Police officers across the state will pass the torch through communities until the Special Olympics begins on June 13.
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Dr. Val Arkoosh, a Philly-area Democrat running for U.S. Senate in 2022, pushes to grow Pennsylvania manufacturing.
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Pennsylvania will unveil its new unemployment compensation portal Tuesday, replacing a 40-year-old system that was stretched thin during last year’s record unemployment.
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A couple hundred gun rights enthusiasts are hoping an annual rally on the Pennsylvania Capitol steps will spur action by state lawmakers to extend greater legal protections to the use and possession of firearms.
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On today’s program: Allegheny County’s chief medical examiner talks about trends in the recently released total number of fatal overdoses from last year; and two mothers tell their experiences in cleaning their homes after losing children to fatal gunshot wounds.
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The Allegheny County Jail oversight board voted last week to create a committee to advise the jail on how to better protect transgender inmates. The new committee would be comprised of jail staff, oversight board staff and members of the transgender community. Members will be named this week. A plan to create safer housing assignment policies will be proposed by September.