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Eleanor Schano was born and raised in Green Tree, near Pittsburgh, the daughter of Joseph J. Schano and Eleanor Daley Schano. [1] She graduated from Dormont High School in 1950, and from Duquesne University in 1954. [2] She mentioned the Brenda Starr, Reporter comic strip as one inspiration for her seeking a career in journalism.
FBI surveillance photograph of the Lucchese crime family members Vic Amuso, Anthony Casso and Frank Lastorino. Frank "Big Frank" Lastorino (April 9, 1939 – November 5, 2022) [121] was a soldier, caporegime and consigliere of the Lucchese family. Lastorino was formally inducted into the crime family in 1987. [122]
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
The lawsuit also notes that at least 17 people died at the medically understaffed jail in a two-and-a-half year timeframe from March 2020 to September 2022, the majority of whom had mental health ...
Just 50 have been carried out since 1927, the last one on Jan. 16, 2021, when triple murderer Dustin John Higgs died by lethal injection at U.S. Penitentiary, Terre Haute, a maximum security ...
Terrance Hayes (MFA 1997, faculty 2013–present) – poet whose books have won National Book Award for Poetry and National Poetry Series [6] Samuel John Hazo (A&S 1957G) – novelist, playwright, first poet laureate of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Paul Hertneky – writer. Frederick A. Hetzel – University Press publisher.
In June, the jury found Bowers, 50, guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes in a trial held at the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. Bowers was convicted of 63 counts ...
Ed Biddle (left), and Jack Biddle, c. 1901 Brothers John E. Biddle (January 8, 1872 – February 1, 1902) and Edward C. Biddle (December 27, 1876 – February 1, 1902) were condemned prisoners who escaped from the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania using tools and weapons supplied to them by Kate Soffel, the warden's wife, (June 27, 1867 – August 30, 1909) who fled with them.