PITTSBURGH, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a prominent Pennsylvania pathologist can be retried on charges that he used his office as coroner for personal gain.
WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has sent the Justice Department subpoenas for documents on the prosecution of two prominent Democrats.
PITTSBURGH, April 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. District Court judge Friday set a date for a second mail- and wire-fraud trial for former Pittsburgh Medical Examiner Cyril Wecht.
PITTSBURGH, April 3 (UPI) -- A judge in Pittsburgh refused to declare a mistrial Thursday in the corruption trial of former Allegheny County (Pa.) Coroner Cyril Wecht.
PITTSBURGH, March 3 (UPI) -- Lawyers for Dr. Cyril Wecht contended Monday that Pennsylvania coroners, such as their client, are authorized to dispose of unclaimed bodies as they see fit.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- An official at the Pittsburgh coroner's office testified that he had concerns about his boss, Dr. Cyril Wecht, shipping unclaimed cadavers to a university.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- One of the nation's foremost forensic pathologists is on trial in federal court in Pittsburgh on 41 charges that could put him in jail for the rest of his life.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The corruption trial of the former coroner for Allegheny County, Pa., may be delayed based on an appeal filed Wednesday in Philadelphia.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- The private pathologist hired by Anna Nicole Smith to perform a second autopsy on her son said that Daniel Smith most likely died of cardiac arrhythmia.
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Dr. Cyril Wecht, a leading U.S. pathologist, pleaded innocent Friday to using his position as a Pennsylvania coroner to boost his private business.
