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John B. Guthrie: 1851–1853 Democrat Father of future mayor George W. Guthrie, served in Mexican War, was the longtime Customs Collector for Pittsburgh 19 Robert M. Riddle: 1853–1854 Whig Formerly Postmaster of Pittsburgh, edited the Commercial Journal: 20 Ferdinand E. Volz: 1854–1856 Whig (1854–55) Oversaw cholera epidemic response
Schano was a model and Pittsburgh's first female weather presenter, [ 5] before becoming a reporter and eventually news anchor in Pittsburgh television. [ 2] She was the first solo primetime news anchorwoman in Pittsburgh, when she held that position from 1969 to 1974 at WIIC ( WPXI ). [ 6] She hosted several programs, including Face to Face (a ...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette, established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh ...
The Pittsburgh crime family, [4] also known as the LaRocca crime family[5] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1][6] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States. [7] The boss and last known "made" member of the family, Thomas "Sonny ...
[238] [239] In 1933, he was one of the individuals arrested in New York City in connection with the murder of John Bazzano, who was the boss of the Pittsburgh crime family at the time. When the D'Amico family collapsed in 1937 with its rackets being divided up by the Commission , Michael Russo joined the Lucchese crime family, presumably to ...
Carnegie Mellon University. Pennsylvania State University, University Park (BA) University of Pittsburgh (MPA) William Mark Peduto[2] (born October 30, 1964) [3] is an American politician who was the 60th mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 2014 until 2022. He was a Democratic member of the Pittsburgh City Council from 2002 to 2014.
The murder of Betsy Aardsma is an American murder case dating from November 1969, in which a 22-year-old graduate student was murdered by a single stab wound inside the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in University Park, Pennsylvania. Though Aardsma's murder remains officially unsolved, local investigative ...
Beyond the Bidens, Obamas and Clintons, Democratic governors like Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro and California’s Gavin Newsom will serve as key surrogates in the next seven weeks, along with ...