Wilkinsburg News

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.

Like so many kids in 1980s Pittsburgh, Matthew Newton imagined a better scene and life anywhere else.

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Two residents were inside their apartment at Highland Manor when at least two people came in early Thursday morning, police say.

Development corporations from McKees Rocks and Wilkinsburg will receive the maximum $500,000 in yearly funding due to a new initiative started by the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.