AltWeeklies Wire
What Will be the Next Target of Gun-Rights Paranoia?new
For all of its blue-steel swagger, the gun-rights movement lives in perpetual fear of threats the rest of us have difficulty seeing.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Potter |
03-28-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Pittsburgh's Abortion Clinic 'Bubble Zones' Upheldnew
A protester thought the city's bubble zones around abortion clinics was infringing on her free speech. A federal judge recently told her she was wrong.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Melissa Meinzer |
03-10-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Charged Debate on Tasersnew
They were supposed to make both police and citizens safer, but critics in Pittsburgh and elsewhere say stun guns are dangerous -- and that police are too quick to use them.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Marty Levine |
11-20-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Tasers, crime & justice
Innocence Institute to Become a Victim?new
Point Park University's widely touted Innocence Institute -- which has helped free nearly a dozen wrongfully convicted Pennsylvanians from prison -- is in jeopardy, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette may have signed its death warrant.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
07-24-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Evading Background Checks for Gunsnew
The history of a single handgun shows how "straw purchasers" hold neighborhoods hostage.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Violet Law |
05-29-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Prison Escapee Tells Story of Mass Jailbreaknew
After Andrew Heim and five other convicts emerged from the tunnel that brought them out of Western Penitentiary in 1997, the adrenaline didn't wear off until they were halfway across Ohio.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Marty Levine |
07-20-2005 |
Crime & Justice
