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The case for a public phone is empty along Brownsville Road in Carrick.

Gift from a stranger

(right)  Marlene Soliman, 32, of Miami receives support from (left) her mother Magda Garcia, 70, and her perspective liver donor Corina Sanchez, 38, of El Progreso, Honduras at Family House in Oakland Friday, May 11, 2012.  Soliman has been staying at Family House since September 2010 waiting to find a donor.
Full story here

Annie

Annie Clark, 7, of White Oak demonstrates her handwriting skills on Wednesday at Wilson Christian Academy in West Mifflin after a ceremony recognizing her as one of two national winners of the Zaner-Bloser Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellent Penmanship. The first-grader, who was born without hands, says she one day wants to write books about animals.  Full story and video here

Pillow fight

(top) University of Pittsburgh junior Stephanie Pinsky, of Point Breeze loses her footing during a pillow fight at Schenley Plaza in Oakland in conjunction with International Pillow Fight Day Saturday, April 7, 2012.

(bottom) Carnegie Mellon University research assistant Chris Williams, 31, of Oakland gets in the middle of a pillow fight at Schenley Plaza in Oakland in conjunction with International Pillow Fight Day Saturday, April 7, 2012.  Williams is one of the co-organizers of the Pittsburgh pillow fight.

Car wash

Diamond Walsh, 10, of the North Side helps her grandfather Richard Washington wash his car Friday, April 6, 2012.

Bedazzled Bridge

Adam Mistick, 28 of Polish Hill crosses the Bedazzled Bridge in Shadyside after getting off of work at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty Thursday, March 29, 2012.

Headphones

Mohawk guy with headphones.

Historic Flag

Joel Zwibel, 43, of West View replaces the historic flag with the Bennington Flag at Flag Plaza, Uptown.  There is a different historic flag flown for every day of the month.  (Note: This photo wasn’t published in the newspaper because it shows the flag touching the ground.  Yes, it is improper flag etiquette, however I wanted to share this image anyway).

Outlaw Platoon

Sean Parnell of Cranberry authored the book “Outlaw Platoon” about the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division’s heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Temporary Home

Elliot Ertl, 3, from Spencer, Wis., plays in a lot where he and his family are temporarily living at the Greene County Fairgrounds while his step father completes a job for his employer Precision Pipeline.

Path to Independence

Nick Pusateri, 22, of Sewickley reads in the basement of his apartment building on the Mercyhurst College campus.  Pusateri will be among the first to graduate from the Asperger Initiative at Mercyhurst.  Click here for the full story.

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