President Trump blamed the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on the lack of armed security and insisted it had little to do with lax gun laws. “This is a case where if they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately,” Trump told reporters just hours after the…
(JTA) — An unattended package left at a Pittsburgh-area Jewish Community Center was detonated by police. The small canvas bag was left on a ramp leading to the parking garage under the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill building on Sunday afternoon, the local CBS affiliate KDKA reported. The Pittsburgh Police Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit…
A Pittsburgh man is defending the Steelers flag that he painted with a swastika in protest of the current wave of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, WPXI reported. The news team was first contacted about the flag by neighbors too uncomfortable and scared to confront the man who created it. The man claims…
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(Reuters) — A University of Pittsburgh neurological surgery professor was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after his first-degree murder conviction in the poisoning death of his wife, who was also a doctor. Dr. Robert Ferrante, 66, appeared before Judge Jeffrey Manning at the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pennsylvania but did not speak on…
It’s not that Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski were surprised by the controversy over the latest version of their ongoing restaurant/art project, Conflict Kitchen. In the four and a half years since they set up a takeout window to serve the cuisines of conflict zones around the world, they’d seen their fair share of debate….
A jury found a University of Pittsburgh neurological surgery professor guilty of first degree murder on Friday for the cyanide poisoning death of his physician wife, in what prosecutors described as a crime of jealousy. The jury of eight men and four women rendered its verdict in the trial of Dr. Robert Ferrante, 66, after…
Sophie Masloff, the first Jewish mayor of Pittsburgh as well as the first female to lead the city, has died. Masloff, who guided the southwestern Pennsylvania city from 1988 to 1994, died Sunday at 96. The Democratic pol was known for her outspokenness and down-to-earth personality. Pittsburgh’s 56th mayor, a lifelong native of the city,…
