Laura Esposito
Crime and Public Safety Reporter at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Reporting on trauma &public safety @PittsburghPG. Rust belt transplant. Believer in people. ✉️[email protected]
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Laura Esposito
On Thursday afternoon, in a quiet tavern on Mount Washington, state legislators and advocates sounded the alarm about the sustainability of Pennsylvania’s home care system. "The demand for this industry has increased, and it'll continue to be there," said state Sen. Wayne Fontana, D-Brookline, seated at a folding table inside Bigham Tavern. "Everyone has to know that there's a need."For many older adults and people with disabilities, home care is critical for accessing the support they need.
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Laura Esposito
John Dindak, retired mayor of West Homestead and believed to be the longest-serving mayor in Pennsylvania history, died May 22. He was 97. A West Homestead native, Mr. Dindak was a World War II and Korean War Navy veteran who began his political career on the borough council. He was elected mayor in 1972 while working as an expeditor at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works and held the office until his retirement in September 2023.
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1 week ago |
post-gazette.com | Laura Esposito
As a younger man, Andrew Hrishenko would lift his wife, Dorothy, off the ground with just one hand. The pair met almost half a century ago — at Seven Springs ski resort about an hour outside of Pittsburgh — and maintained an active, adventurous spirit throughout their four decades of marriage. Even now, at 90 and 86, the couple live self-sufficiently in a wooded area in Franklin Park.
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2 weeks ago |
centredaily.com | Laura Esposito
May 21-Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank, and Rami Elhanan, a resident of Jerusalem and Israeli citizen, are two men predestined to hate each other. Instead, they were united through the unimaginable - the death of a child. In 1997, Mr. Elhanan's daughter, Smadar, went to Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem to buy books for the new school year and was killed in a Hamas suicide bombing that murdered five others.
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2 weeks ago |
post-gazette.com | Laura Esposito
Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank, and Rami Elhanan, a resident of Jerusalem and Israeli citizen, are two men predestined to hate each other. Instead, they were united through the unimaginable — the death of a child. In 1997, Mr. Elhanan’s daughter, Smadar, went to Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem to buy books for the new school year and was killed in a Hamas suicide bombing that murdered five others.
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