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Amber Alerts won't be expanded to include children not considered to be in imminent harm, says @jessalynn4. Wednesday @PittsburghPG

Prosecutors to reduce charges against two girls who sent threatening Tweets after the #Steubenville rape verdict. @borntolede @AGZimmerman

Train crew, bus company seem to disagree on what caused the fatal accident this morning in Evans City. @borntolede @LizNavratil @jsilverpg

Addiction specialists are seeing an uptick in cocaine abuse. What effect will the Penn Hills bust have on addicts? Thursday @PittsburghPG

Boston, Newtown, Pitt bomb threats -- each event ratchets up security. Learn to live with it, experts tell @asostek and @borntolede

The missing link in the Great Allegheny Passage won't be missing much longer, @pgtraffic reports in Saturday's @PittsburghPG #biking

Hundreds of security cameras will scan the route of the #Pittsburgh marathon May 5, reports Joe Smydo in Thursday's @PittsburghPG

.@PGHMarathon officials are watching closely what's going on in Boston. Amy Schaarsmith explains Tuesday @PittsburghPG #bostonmarathon.

70 percent of college instructors now are adjunct faculty. Many of them are conventioning here starting tomorrow. @BschacknerPG

Pittsburgh Mayor Ravenstahl's travel raises questions of oversight, @RicheLord and @Moriahbee report Tuesday @PittsburghPG

Big news coming out of Monroeville.@AnnieSiebert has the scoop in Wednesday's @PittsburghPG

Ann Rodgers @pgfaith travels to Assisi to learn about the saint from whom the new pope, #Francis, took his name. Sunday @PittsburghPG

Has #Powerball fever gripped the region? Maybe not, says Amy Schaarsmith in Saturday's @PittsburghPG

#Francis, who already is officially the #pope, will be installed before most of us in Pittsburgh wake up tomorrow. @pgfaith @PittsburghPG

Vincent Capuano became a Jesuit priest later in life. Now he's following in the footsteps of #Pope Francis -- @kaitlynnriely @PittsburghPG

.@DanMajors knocks one out of the park http://t.co/KiIcXWuMNu

St. Francis U. students say they should get Thursday off because the new pope has taken their school's name. @DanMajors writes @PittsburghPG