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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 Commercial Journal merged into Pittsburgh's oldest paper, the Gazette, at the dawn of the Civil War in 1861. The consequently titled Daily Pittsburgh Gazette and Commercial Journal explained that "Both papers have long advocated essentially the same political principles and labored in the same cause, so that their separate publication was not essential to any public or political interest ...
Betty Jane Cornett (1932–2006) – third base (1950–1952) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League; Bill Doak – Cardinals and Dodgers, inventor of the modern baseball glove; Ryan Garko – first baseman, Giants; Josh Gibson – Negro league player, Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays; Gary Green; Howdy Groskloss – shortstop ...
Ronald Hughes was an American attorney who represented Manson family member Leslie Van Houten and disappeared in November 1970 during a camping trip. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] On March 29, 1971, his body was found by two fishermen in Ventura County wedged between two boulders in a gorge.
Van Houten was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, becoming at 21 the youngest condemned woman in California history. Charles Manson died in prison in 2017 at the age of 83 (AP)
The Bancroft family were publicly reclusive Boston socialites who inherited The Wall Street Journal from Clarence W. Barron, who had built up a notable reputation for the newspaper as its publisher. [1] Upon Barron's death in 1928, control of the company passed to Barron's stepdaughters Jane and Martha, who were children of his wife, Jessie ...
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