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Friends in pittsburgh including a lifelong friend of mine who lives right in the neighborhood where the shooting took place. A jewish family. I was very worried that he or his wife or children could possibly have been there. And luckily they werent. And this is this is what happens on a mass murder day in america. Theres those worried phone calls, those emails, those texts, the waiting. Waiting for a reply, to find out are your friends or are your loved ones involved. It was another one of those...

The vigil is formally getting under way right now in pittsburgh. Even though people have been out in very large numbers all day long, theyre sharing their sadness, their support, their unity and resolve near the place where this hateful thing happened. These are the names released by city officials this morning. The eight men and three women killed. One of them, 97 years old. Victims of one mans hate. A man who reportedly told Police Officer and im quoting him now, i just want to kill jews. Cnns...

You say that these people were the pillars of the synagogue. Talk to us about that. Not just the synagogue, don. The community. So i personally knew Cecil Rosenthal. I knew jerry rabinowitz. And i knew rich gottfried. Ill start with rich. Rich and i were colleagues. We work at a federally qualified health center, Community Health center that is dedicated to serving everyone regardless of their income, regardless of what they look like, how they pray, the problems they may have encountered in the...

Federal Judge Robert Colville, who presided over the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial, unsealed more than 130 court documents from the case Wednesday.

The new Tree of Life will have a synagogue, education center and memorial for the 11 killed on Oct. 27, 2018.

Federal prosecutors say that the man who killed 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue five years ago should not get a new trial and doesn’t even deserve a hearing on his request. In a 124-page response to a motion seeking a new trial filed by Robert Bowers in November,

Demolition of most of the Tree of Life synagogue building in Squirrel Hill began Wednesday morning. The razing of 80% of the structure will make way for a memorial honoring the 11 people killed during a Shabbat service on Oct. 27, 2018. Andrew Stewart of the Silk and Stewart Development

Pittsburgh is closing the chapter on another year. The year 2023 brought the city and Allegheny County closure on one its worst tragedies, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial. The Steel City’s main hub became the focus on dozens of stories — many tense and political, while others showed Downtown’s might

It’s been five long years since Diane Rosenthal’s brothers, Cecil and David, were killed during a Saturday morning Shabbat service in Squirrel Hill. Part of her family’s struggle has been deciding how to ask Pittsburgh and others to remember the two Jewish congregants known to their community as “the boys.”

The man sentenced to death for the mass shooting at a Squirrel Hill synagogue that killed 11 people is seeking a new trial. Robert Bowers, 51, who was convicted over the summer of 63 counts for the Oct. 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life synagogue at Wilkins and