South Side News

South Side bars braced for a busy night Wednesday, and police across the region are taking extra steps to make sure they get drunken drivers off the roads.

Pittsburgh police said a juvenile broke into a South Side home Tuesday while the homeowners were still inside.

Some neighborhoods have a definite personality while the appeal of others is their mixture of elements.

Pittsburgh has been called the Steel City, the City of Bridges and the City of Champions, but its life as a Railroad Town is not to be overlooked.

An Uptown man is in critical condition after being stabbed in the neck in the South Side early this morning, Pittsburgh police said.

Pittsburgh's Urban Redevelopment Authority could approve a $20,000 study of the South Side's retail market today.

A woman was hit by a car while crossing East Carson Street Thursday morning in Pittsburgh's South Side.

A basement fire caused a scare at a day care center in Pittsburgh's South Side on Wednesday.

They are conversion of the Highland Building into a 100-room hotel; renovation or demolition for a structure of the Wallace Building at Centre and Highland avenues; and development of the PNC Bank building site.

Children's Celebration of the Library's 100th Birthday Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Join the Carnegie Library for special stories by Storyteller Mary Morgan Smith, enter a contest to name our new giraffe mascot, and learn to make butter! All ages are welcome.

My kitchen table ... How do I describe it? It's antique and made of tiger-sawn oak.

Jerry Kraynick repaired more than 400 donated bikes for his Bike Before Christmas program last year.

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With its vibrant sets and costumes, and the lighthearted musical synthesis of Eastern European folk and jazz, it's hard to imagine Brundibr staged in a concentration camp.

Some of Pittsburgh's iconic bridges and tunnels will close for filming of "The Next Three Days" Saturday and Sunday, officials said.

As bookkeeper for a Hampton crane company in the early 1990s, Cindy Botinovch got daily visits from a stray, black-and-white cat outside her office.

The firm of Loysen+Kreuthmeier Architects was recognized for its design of the North Side library.

Good and evil. Prudery and depravity. The pursuit of knowledge and its unintended consequences.

By JoAnne Klimovich Harrop , TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, October 29, 2009 Last updated: 3:40 pm Central Blood Bank is hosting a special "New Moon"-themed blood drive from 1 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Sokol Club on Carson Street in the South Side and from 1 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Dingbats, at Pittsburgh Mills.

Rege Behe can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7990. He sits behind his desk at McKees Rocks High School, a man very much at ease with himself and his world.