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Woodland Hills, a district scarred by violence, copes with tragedy

Schools can be first defense against addiction

The OD of an alumnus. The cry of a student with a parent in addiction. The community’s opioid cloud. Schools are waking up to the epidemic.

If Amazon came to Hazelwood…

Lies, false charges and jail

A Pittsburgh couple’s two-year ordeal battling the criminal justice system.

Urgency, anger and a local focus fuel black activism in Pittsburgh

“This is going to be a catalyst. We’re taking back our community.”

Modern-day debtors’ prisons? The system that sends Pennsylvanians to jail over unpaid court costs and fines

The ACLU is intervening across the country in cases where the poor are jailed for failure to make court payments.

Life and death on Santron Ave

Voice on realities of addiction makes last stop

Gary Thomas Fisher Jr. knew that every shot was a gamble.

Riding OD road

How an unassuming city neighborhood became the overdose capital of the region

Down the stream

Pittsburgh’s climate is changing and some are fighting back