The quiet of a Sunday afternoon in downtown Pittsburgh was shattered last weekend when 18-month-old De鈥橝vry Thomas was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting near Market Square, an area that typically sees hundreds of people walking through it on a busy weekday.Thomas was not the intended ...
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It should go without saying that an agency that is state-related should be subject to the same demands as other state organizations.Except it isn鈥檛. Plenty of groups or institutions that live off their official-sounding titles when it comes time to ask for money try to distance themselves ...
Want to fully appreciate the strangeness of our times and the peculiar set of priorities some of us have? Think about this: It might well be easier in some places for a teenager to get their hands on an assault weapon than a copy of a novel like 鈥淭he Handmaid鈥檚 Tale鈥� or a history of ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Ramona Reeves of Uniontown is a mother on a mission. Her son, the mother of his children and Reeves鈥� nephew were all killed as the result of gun violence over the past five years. On Friday, June 3, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, ...
Life zips by us.One day rolls into the next, into the next, into the next.Add children to the equation and it seems like the pace of the days increases exponentially.Babies require constant care; they can do nothing for themselves.Toddlers require constant attention; they believe they can do ...
