Masloff entered politics at a time of criminal turmoil, and one man claimed she helped to fix gambling cases as a court clerk. Did Sophie Masloff have criminal ties?
Squirrel Hill native Josh Weinberg was praying in a Jerusalem-area synagogue around 10 a.m. local time Saturday when sirens alerting Israelis of incoming missile strikes started to wail. The synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim has no bunker, so Weinberg, a real estate attorney who left Pittsburgh
They were grandparents and siblings, children and spouses. They were doctors and dentists, nurses and accountants. They were 11 people who were supposed to be safe in a place that they loved. Last week marked the start of the final, sentence-­selection phase in the trial of Robert G. Bowers, 50,
At a time when some doctors would turn away patients with AIDS fearful of them, Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz would not only treat them, he would hug them. It was emblematic of his philosophy as a doctor and a person. “He wanted to practice medicine the way he thought it should