For more than 20 years, Valerie Dixon was a fixture in Pittsburgh’s fight against gun violence. Whether comforting victims and their loved ones in the Allegheny County Courthouse, lobbying politicians in the City-County Building, or doing outreach on Pittsburgh’s streets, it was Dixon’s life’s work — but not a job
An excavation at a now-vacant lot on Pittsburgh s North Side yielded no results Monday after investigators received a tip that a body might have been buried in a home there
Ten years after Pittsburgh Police pierced Leon Ford with five bullets, the former police-reform advocate has joined forces with Chief Scott Schubert to promote collaborative projects between law enforcement and the community.