Week in Review: Pooling resources for covid-19 workers; 20th anniversary of Baumhammers shooting spree; local tie to ancient fossil find

• Corporations, foundations pool resources to provide front-line workers with masks

Corporations and foundations across the region are partnering with a Duquesne-based textile company to produce more than 360,000 washable cloth masks for essential workers in nursing homes, medical clinics, grocery stores and other places.

• Pittsburgh researcher helps classify new ‘crazy beast’ fossil discovery

Scientists don’t know much about the newly-dubbed “crazy beast” that roamed the world about 66 million years ago.

What they do know is thanks to a newly-discovered fossil in Madagascar and work from an international team of researchers that included John Wible, curator of mammals at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

• Richard Baumhammers still on death row 20 years after killing spree

On a cloudy Friday afternoon 20 years ago Tuesday, unemployed immigration lawyer Richard Baumhammers went on a killing spree. It started next door to his parents’ Mt. Lebanon home, where he killed his Jewish neighbor. He went on to shoot five more people, all ethnic or racial minorities.

• County officials say Allegheny County on track for reopening

Allegheny County data on cases of the coronavirus show that the county is on track to start reopening, but decisions about that timeline will be made at the state level, county officials said during a press briefing Wednesday.

• Herman Dupre, of Seven Springs fame, dies at 87

Herman K. Dupre, a winter sports pioneer behind the growth of Seven Springs Mountain Resort, died Saturday, April 25. He was 87.

The Ligonier native was 23 when he took over the operation founded by his parents, who immigrated from Bavaria.