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UPMC East in Monroeville celebrates 10-year anniversary
Staff and board members gathered at UPMC East to celebrate a “Decade of Excellence” on June 27. On July 2, 2012, UPMC East opened in Monroeville in an effort to give nearby residents access to quality health care without having to travel to Oakland or Shadyside. Since then, the hospital...
Baldwin man gets life for 2018 killing, dumping body in North Versailles
A Baldwin man who worked as a jitney driver will serve the rest of his life in prison after he was sentenced Thursday for killing a Pitcairn man he drove for. Darrel Hardy, 33, was found guilty of first-degree murder, tampering with evidence, a firearms count and reckless burning following...
Camp Invention coming to Gateway
Camp Invention, a nationally recognized nonprofit summer enrichment program, is coming to Gateway School District the week of July 11-14. The program challenges children in kindergarten to sixth grade through hands-on activities while promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) learning; building confidence, leadership, perseverance and resourcefulness; and encouraging entrepreneurship,...
Black Women’s Policy Center event in Monroeville focuses on mental health, self-care
Community members enjoyed lessons about rest and relaxation at the Black Women’s Policy Center’s Health and Wellness Brunch. The center hosted the brunch as an educational opportunity for attendees to learn about mental health and the importance of self-care. The theme of the event, held June 18 at the Triveni...
Edgeworth home wins design award
An Edgeworth property is the recipient of the Professional Silver Award for Design by The Society of American Registered Architects. The property is currently for sale, listed by Piatt Sotheby’s International Realty. William H. Childs Jr. & Associates Inc. were the architects/planners for the home and accepted the award. “This...
Penn Hills student news for the week of July 1, 2022
Emanuel Parker was named to the College of the Holy Cross spring 2022 Dean’s List. Emma Lintelman was named to Ohio University’s spring 2022 Dean’s List. Crista Lynn Herbert was named to the Dean’s List at Edinboro University. Jamar Lee, who is majoring in music performance – instrumental, has been...
Fox Chapel Area School District wins national publication awards
The Fox Chapel Area School District won 10 national awards in the 2022 National School Public Relations Association Publications and Digital Media Excellence Awards contest. The district’s winning publications were coordinated by Jill Leonard, the district’s community engagement specialist, and Bonnie Berzonski, the district’s coordinator of communications. The district received...
Pennsylvania court blocks Gov. Wolf’s bridge tolling plan
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Thursday blocked plans to toll an Interstate 79 bridge in Allegheny County, a month after it put a halt to PennDOT’s $2 billion statewide bridge tolling plan. In its 36-page opinion, the court said that PennDOT and the public-private partnership created to repair or replace...
Maury Povich is done with TV and he couldn’t be happier about it
LOS ANGELES — Inside a studio in Stamford, Connecticut, a man and a woman were at each other’s throats. Tashima and her live-in boyfriend, Darnell, were battling after he accused her of infidelity during their three-year relationship, including sleeping with the mailman. Darnell’s claim that he was not really the...
Letter to the editor: County Democrats need some new moves
Someone once said that doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. They must have been a member of the Westmoreland County Democratic Committee. Recently, the local party elected another white, stay-at-home, upper-class woman to be its party chair. This makes...
Letter to the editor: Roe v. Wade ruling sends women back to the past
Roe v. Wade overturned equals a big goodbye for American women’s freedom. Soon they will have us wearing burkas and veils so we don’t tempt those conservative upstanding males. I am so totally miffed. I’m 72-plus, so I don’t need to make any choices for abortion, but that doesn’t mean...
Editorial: Lawmakers should put teeth in police database law
In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in Minneapolis ignited protests around the country, the state of Pennsylvania passed a law creating a database of law enforcement personnel records. The purpose was to prevent the shuffling of an officer with disciplinary problems...
The Stroller, June 30, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. HOPE Center shares wish list The Alle-Kiski Area HOPE Center, Tarentum, needs...
Letter to the editor: Pa. needs reset in higher education funding
According to data from the Education Data Initiative, the average cost of in-state tuition in the United States is $9,349. In Pennsylvania, the average cost of in-state tuition is $27,400. The sooner we have consensus and recognize that the cost of in-state tuition in Pennsylvania is not normal, we can...
How Pennsylvania keeps its voter rolls clean and updated
This article is made possible through Spotlight PA’s collaboration with Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting. This article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy. HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s voter rolls have been a frequent target of conservative politicians who believe the...
Pirates farm report for June 29, 2022: Carmen Mlodzinski picks up win for Altoona
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 36-36) was beaten by Nashville (Brewers), 8-5. DH Ben Gamel (hamstring), on a rehab assignment, went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts. RF Cal Mitchell (.320) went 3 for 4 with two runs scored. SS Rodolfo Castro (.220) went 1 for 4 with a homer, his seventh. 3B...
Bison gores man in Yellowstone National Park, 2nd attack in a monthVideo
A 34-year-old Colorado man was gored by a charging bison this week as he was walking in Yellowstone National Park with his family, the park said in a statement. The man was in a group walking Monday along a boardwalk in the park near the Old Faithful geyser when a...
Jan. 6 hearings ‘poisoned’ jury pool, says attorney for Shaler riot suspect
An attorney for a former Shaler Area substitute teacher charged in the Capitol riot contends the Jan. 6 committee hearings in Washington, D.C., are poisoning the jury pool and producing evidence that must be turned over to the defense. In a motion to compel discovery filed Monday, the attorney representing...
Jan. 6 hearings ‘poisoned’ jury pool, says attorney for Shaler riot suspect
An attorney for a former Shaler Area substitute teacher charged in the Capitol riot contends the Jan. 6 committee hearings in Washington are poisoning the jury pool and producing evidence that must be turned over to the defense. In a motion to compel discovery filed Monday, the attorney representing Robert...
Aquinas Academy in Hampton graduates largest class of seniors
Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh in Hampton graduated 51 seniors, its largest graduating class in school history. After the procession on May 28, Joseph Austin, class salutatorian, led the invocation, followed by a welcome from head of school Leslie Mitros. The Commencement Address was delivered by Father Dave Pivonka, president of...
Penn State approves sale, ground lease of Penn Stater hotel, Nittany Lion Inn
Penn State’s two hotels near University Park — including the iconic Nittany Lion Inn — are poised to be sold to a third party this fall and will remain in operation, based on a resolution passed unanimously Wednesday morning by the board of trustees. Scholar Hotel Group, which opened a...
Pa. school district fires teacher who put tape reading ‘I have nothing nice to say’ on a student’s face
PHILADELPHIA — The Coatesville Area School District has fired a middle school teacher who put a piece of tape reading “I have nothing nice to say” on a student’s face last month — an action the district described as humiliating to the child, but that the teacher defended as an...
Plum resident earns special funeral practitioner certification
Anna Zvirman-Nesbit of Plum has qualified for the designation of certified funeral service practitioner by the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice. A number of professions grant special recognition to members on completion of specified academic and professional programs, and CFSP is the funeral service’s national individual recognition. To initially...
Wigle Whiskey ordered to pay $39K for making workers share tips with managers
The owners of Wigle Whiskey were ordered by the U.S. Department of Labor to repay nearly $39,000 to 41 employees after an investigation showed that servers were required to share tips with managers and supervisors. The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division said Pittsburgh Distilling Co., which operates as...
Court says Port Authority ban on Black Lives Matters masks unconstitutional
A federal appeals court on Wednesday said that a Port Authority policy prohibiting its employees from wearing Black Lives Matters masks was overbroad and violated their First Amendment rights. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an earlier decision by U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan. “The government may...
