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Home team's success forces fans into faceoff with social lives

As if the May calendar weren't already packed with graduations, weddings, final exams, vacations and Mother's Day, along come the Penguins, elbowing their way into the schedule with up to seven ... (05/09/2008)

Komen race celebrates thousands of triumphs over breast cancer

Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette

Melissa Ward, of Aspinwall, is recovering from reconstructive surgery at UPMC Shadyside.

On Sunday, Melissa Ward will put on the pink T-shirt and cap emblematic of breast cancer survivors, sit in an unfamiliar wheelchair and let her friend Annette Oros push her over the 5-kilometer ... (05/09/2008)

Neighborhoods - City

8 miles of turnpike to close tomorrow night (05/09/2008)
Lanes on Parkway East, Boulevard of Allies to close (05/09/2008)
Road work to begin Monday in East Liberty (05/09/2008)
Winners named in African-American History Contest (05/09/2008)
Flower and Folk Festival in Friendship tomorrow (05/09/2008)
Applications online for city's summer jobs for teens (05/09/2008)
Family challenges police account of killing (05/08/2008)
Tough call: deploying a K-9 (05/08/2008)
City slow to act on burned-out Polish Hill buildings (05/08/2008)
Amid soaring food prices, urban farms are sprouting across the city (05/08/2008)
City stepping up its street paving program this year (05/08/2008)
City taxpayers to foot bill in billboard dispute (05/08/2008)
Homeless man convicted of killing benefactor (05/08/2008)
Officer kills man during run-in with K-9 (05/07/2008)
Planners approve final design for Penguins' arena (05/07/2008)
Point Park envisions an 'Academic Village' (05/07/2008)
Housing grant available for homeless veterans (05/07/2008)
Health Department to recycle compact fluorescent bulbs (05/07/2008)
Public Works division moving to City-County Building (05/07/2008)
Public sounds off on Market Square plans (05/06/2008)
North Shore casino credit rating boosted (05/06/2008)
Josh Gibson Field in Hill District to be renovated (05/06/2008)
Drug convict gets quick trip back to prison (05/06/2008)
Alleged gang member sentenced (05/06/2008)
Suspect in hit-run death waives preliminary hearing (05/06/2008)

URA to market city's new scholarship program

The Urban Redevelopment Authority wants to promote a program that provides college scholarships to city public school students, in hopes of attracting new residents to the city. ... (05/09/2008)

City has fat fund balance but financial challenges loom

Pittsburgh's long-strapped government has a healthy surplus, but shouldn't lower its guard against overspending, city Controller Michael Lamb said yesterday in presenting the yearly audit. ... (05/09/2008)

Happy Birthday, Israel

Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette

With their hands in the air, David Zimmerman and Sophie Simon, both age 6, finished the Tzaddik Katamar dance yesterday during Yom Ha'atzmaut 2008, a celebration of Israel's 60th anniversary, at Community Day school in Squirrel Hill. (05/09/2008)

Downtown's Century Building to be converted into housing

The Urban Redevelopment Authority board voted yesterday to lend $2.8 million to a firm that is turning the Century Building, Downtown, into mixed-income housing in an environmentally friendly ... (05/09/2008)

05/07/2008

How 'redding up' saved a life or two

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