Wilkinsburg News

Pittsburgh police are investigating the death of a man during his arrest by a University of Pittsburgh police officer at one of the school's affiliated hospitals.

"When you introduce something through art," says Pittsburgh sculptor Blaine Siegel, "you're opening a different perception, a different doorway.

One night, perhaps a couple of years after she was released from Mayview State Hospital, Julia Mae Dias called her sister to say someone was staring into her living-room window.

Poverty is growing at a faster rate in the suburbs than in the cities, and the Pittsburgh area is ahead of the curve -- but not in a good way.

Thanks to the Strengthening Communities Partnership program designed by the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, community development corporations in two struggling municipalities adjoining Pittsburgh will receive $500,000 each for the next three years.