As the leader of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, Scales has mobilized the organization to feed the vulnerable members of our community amid a pandemic that threatens their survival.
Max King has authored a biography on Fred Rogers and run The Pittsburgh Foundation and the Heinz Endowments. But his stamp on Pittsburgh goes even deeper — and he’s not done yet.
Rachelle Jeffers and Allen ‘Bud’ Mitchell went to church together but they weren’t close. That changed when she found out he would die unless he found a liver donor. That’s how Jeffers became one of a growing number of living liver donors.
Writer Kathleen George’s sinister mysteries have created a dark, alternate Pittsburgh. In her latest, however, the heyday of the Hill District is brought to life.
In an obituary read round the world, the family of Bedford, Pa., teen Sadie Riggs called out those who had bullied her and pleaded for people to be kind to one another. A year after Sadie’s death, lessons remain to be learned from her suicide.
After swine flu kept him from competing in Sochi in 2014, short track speed skater John-Henry Krueger finally won a spot on the podium at the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.
Homestead’s first and only woman mayor has worked tirelessly for her hometown during her 35-plus years in public office. As she faces reelection unopposed next month, the 84-year-old contemplates her role as the symbol of a gritty town fighting its way back.
Pittsburgh’s reputation as a health care city — a center of medical innovation, groundbreaking research and world-class treatment — will not be a temporarily worn crown. As doctors, health care systems and researchers focus more on health and wellness in a holistic sense, our city remains at the cutting edge, discovering not only new treatments but also new ways of thinking.
Four of the world’s best poker players are playing 120,000 hands of Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold’em against Libratus, the poker-playing bot created by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists.
