University Times

Robert Ferrante, the neurological surgery faculty member accused of killing his wife, Autumn Marie Klein, with cyanide, has waived his preliminary hearing and now is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 6.

Ferrante faces homicide charges in the April death of Klein, a neurology faculty member. Klein became unresponsive in the family’s home on April 17 and died three days later. Subsequently, the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office determined that she had “toxic levels” of cyanide in her body at the time of her death.

—Marty Levine