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Bethel Park pulls away from North Hills in Class 5A 1st round, sets up Peters Township rematch
Bethel Park combined a stout defense with timely offense Friday night, defeating North Hills, 38-7, in the first round of the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs. It was a slow start for the Black Hawks, who found themselves tied 7-7 in the final minutes of the second quarter. That’s when, despite...
Dodgers hang on, use game-ending double play to force Game 7 of the World Series
TORONTO — The Los Angeles Dodgers produced a three-run third inning Friday, then held on thanks to a game-ending double play, forcing Game 7 in the World Series with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Mookie Betts keyed the third-inning rally with a two-run single to help the...
After quick Plum score, Upper St. Clair dominates to win going away
Friday’s WPIAL Class 5A first-round playoff game between Upper St. Clair and Plum started with a bang for the team that got in the playoffs thanks in, large part, to what has been dubbed the “Mustang Miracle.” But it was all Upper St. Clair after that bang, as the Panthers...
Lack of air traffic controllers hits almost half of major U.S. airports
Nearly 50% of the 30 busiest U.S. airports are grappling with shortages of air traffic controllers, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday, leading to flight delays nationwide as a federal government shutdown hit its 31st day. The absence of controllers is by far the most widespread since the shutdown...
Trump gives 1st ’60 Minutes’ interview following CBS lawsuit settlement
CBS News said President Donald Trump sat down with CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell for an exclusive interview for “60 Minutes” on Friday afternoon, the first with the network after his lawsuit against it. O’Donnell interviewed Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., a spokesperson for the network said. It will...
Penn-Trafford, Belle Vernon stars, 3 doubles teams still in hunt for state tennis titles
Penn-Trafford’s Mia Williams, Belle Vernon’s Gabby Dusi and three doubles teams from the WPIAL are still in the hunt for gold after the first day of the PIAA tennis championships Friday in Hershey. Williams, the WPIAL runner-up, knocked out a pair of district champs Friday. She beat Alexandria Warsing of...
Pirates claim reliever off waivers from Rockies
When the Pirates visited the Colorado Rockies on Aug. 1 this past season, it was a memorable ballgame. The Pirates blew a six-run lead in the final two innings and lost 17-16 on a Brenton Doyle two-run walk-off homer. Pirates management must have remembered the game too. The winning pitcher...
Editorial: NBA scandal was predictable
Everyone saw this coming except the NBA. It seemed obvious: An industry built on winning money instead of earning it will attract those willing to break the rules to make a buck. And yet, when news broke last week about FBI arrests, including a current NBA head coach and player,...
Your old $2 bill could be worth thousands. Here’s what to look for
While most $2 bills are worth face value, some of the less-used currency could be worth significantly more. Depending on the year and how the paper note was circulated, some $2 bills are worth thousands. A $2 currency note printed in 2003 sold online in mid-2022 for $2,400 on Heritage...
White House issues new rule restricting access for journalists
A new White House rule issued Friday restricts the ability of credentialed journalists to freely access the offices of press secretary Karoline Leavitt and other top communications officials in the West Wing, near the Oval Office. The new memorandum from the National Security Council bans journalists from accessing Room 140,...
Consequences mount as federal government shutdown, state budget impasse drag on
As the federal government shutdown moves into its second month and the state budget impasse drags into its fifth, the consequences of political inaction are mounting. Affordable Care Act premiums are poised to skyrocket, energy assistance is stalled, and a federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to keep SNAP...
Duffer brothers tease big and emotional ‘Stranger Things’ final season
Fans can expect more action and plenty of emotion in the highly anticipated fifth and final season of “Stranger Things,” which will wrap up the Netflix phenomenon after nine years, its creators said Friday. Speaking at the first global promotional event for season five in the Italian city of Lucca,...
Trump administration announces $100 million in funding to upgrade coal plants
The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced it will make $100 million available to refurbish and modernize existing coal-fired power plants. The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to reverse the decline of coal use in the United States. The Energy Department said last month it would...
U.S. judge permanently blocks Trump order requiring voters to prove citizenship
A federal judge Friday permanently blocked part of an executive order from President Donald Trump, ruling the president cannot require voters to show passports or similar documents as proof of citizenship before voting. Several lawsuits have challenged the president’s March 25 executive order, a sweeping order aimed at overhauling federal...
NASA administrator calls out Kim Kardashian for promoting moon landing conspiracy
The head of NASA has called out Kim Kardashian after the famous mogul and reality television star claimed that the iconic 1969 moon landing was faked. In the most recent episode of “The Kardashians,” a clip shows Kardashian, 45, telling actress Sarah Paulson that she believed the Apollo 11 lunar...
Agile and vicious Nanotyrannus was not just a teenage T. rex
WASHINGTON — At the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, an agile and vicious predator named Nanotyrannus prowled western North America, resembling a smaller version of Tyrannosaurus - about a tenth the body mass - but with several key anatomical differences. That is the finding of new research concluding that...
19 states are ready to ban the time change. Here’s what would need to happen first.
Clocks are set to “fall back” this weekend across the United States as daylight saving time is coming to an end. Daylight saving time always begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. In 2025, that means it started on March 9 and...
Kenneth Zagacki and Richard Cherwitz: The challenges of presidential Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speeches
Having brokered what appears to be a groundbreaking ceasefire leading to a longer-term Middle East peace settlement, supporters of President Donald Trump, and the president himself, are lobbying the Nobel committee to bestow a 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Trump. Whether next year’s committee honors him may depend less on...
Men shot by the hundreds, disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries, witnesses say
Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir at the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them. One of the captors recognized him from his...
Ukraine hands over suspected Russian war criminal to Lithuania
KYIV/VILNIUS — Ukraine has handed over a captured Russian soldier accused of torture and illegal detention to Lithuania for trial, in what Kyiv said was the first case of its kind involving the justice system of a third country during Russia’s nearly four-year-old war. The soldier, described by Lithuania as...
U.S. expects more flight disruptions as government shutdown enters Day 31
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday delayed flights at airports in Austin, Newark and Nashville as air traffic control staffing problems continue to snarl flights and a government shutdown hits its 31st day. At least nine FAA facilities were facing staffing issues on Friday and the agency said...
Meredith Sumpter: Election reform turns down the temperature of our politics
Politics isn’t working for most Americans. Our government can’t keep the lights on. The cost of living continues to rise. Our nation is reeling from recent acts of political violence. Seventy percent of voters say the U.S. is in a political crisis, and 64% say our political system is too...
Pittsburgh in running to host 2031 Men’s Rugby World Cup
As Pittsburgh prepares to host one of the biggest events in the city’s history in April, it has been included among 27 U.S. cities as a possible host for the 2031 Men’s Rugby World Cup. City officials are hard at work getting the city read for the 2026 NFL Draft,...
How a ‘betfluencer’ from Washington, Pa., wound up at the center of an NBA gambling scandal
PHILADELPHIA — On the green felt of a Bellagio baccarat table, Shane “Sugar” Hennen flaunted $3,125 in winnings from a Pittsburgh Pirates game in June 2014. It was a drop in the bucket for Las Vegas moneylines. But on Instagram, Hennen called it “#2dayswork.” He was burnishing his brand as...
The great AI buildout shows no sign of slowing
A momentous week in the technology sector made it clear there is no sign the boom in building artificial intelligence infrastructure is slowing — despite the bubble talk. Nvidia, whose processors are the AI revolution’s backbone, became the first company to surpass $5 trillion in market value. Microsoft and OpenAI...
