An-Li Herring

Some who lost loved ones in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018 oppose capital punishment for the charged gunman. But on Friday, the sisters of two brothers who were killed in the massacre reiterated that most surviving family members want a death sentence.

The death-penalty trial begins in one week for the man charged with carrying out the 2018 synagogue shooting in Squirrel Hill. The proceeding is expected to last through July.

The City of Pittsburgh will pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from the October 2021 death of Jim Rogers, according to an attorney for the Rogers family. Rogers died in a hospital a day after police repeatedly shocked him with a Taser in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood.

A national contract manufacturing firm called Re:Build plans to open its first factory in New Kensington as part of a larger push to reshore production to the U.S. The project promises to create 300 jobs, and its investors include billionaire Thomas Tull and the state of Pennsylvania.

Dugan’s win means that, if elected in the November general election, he will have a chance to pursue an approach that will seek alternatives to cash bail and incarceration for non-violent, low-level offenders — policies that critics say lead to racial and economic inequities that are rife within the justice system.

A New York City-based manufacturer officially broke ground Tuesday on a steel mill it plans to build in Aliquippa. 72 Steel says it will make rebar and other construction goods at the site, in an effort to supply President Biden’s infrastructure investments.

The Heinz Endowments has awarded $11 million in funding to dozens of organizations in the Pittsburgh area. A $350,000 grant will help to pay for a new youth enrichment center Downtown.

In many jobs, workers stare at computers for hours at a stretch. All that screen time can be tiring for the eyes, so Revitalize Energy developed eye drops with caffeine to wake them up.

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh published results that indicate they can predict whether a cognitively unimpaired person will progress to symptomatic Alzheimer’s. The reserach marks a major discovery in the battle against a disease that affects more than six million people nationally.

Café Momentum in Downtown Pittsburgh opened in March, employing people under the age of 20 as part of a yearlong, paid internship. Most of the staff has been involved in the juvenile justice system.