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SpaceX back with 1st Space Coast launch of the year
After a record 2023, SpaceX is not slowing down its launch plans for 2024 with the first launch of the year from Florida slated for Wednesday evening. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a telecom satellite for private Swedish company Ovzon is slated to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force...
‘Bachelorette’ star Rachel Lindsay and husband Bryan Abasolo are calling it quits
LOS ANGELES — The Bachelorette’s Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo are calling it quits. More than six years after Lindsay, 38, gave Abasolo the first and last red rose of “The Bachelorette” Season 13, Abasolo filed to dissolve the marriage. According to court documents obtained by The Times, the chiropractor,...
U.S. asks Supreme Court to step in on Texas border barrier
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in its ongoing fight with Texas over border policy and immigration laws and allow border agents to remove razor wire on the Texas side of the Rio Grande river. The application asked the justices to set aside an order...
3rd-year supervisor elected to chair Pine board
During her third year in office, Audrey Mackie will chair the Pine Board of Supervisors. She was elected to the position at the board’s Jan. 2 reorganization meeting. A lifelong resident of the Wexford area, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Edinboro University, now PennWest Edinboro, and works in operations...
Fox Chapel Area’s fall play snags 12 nominations in Prime Stage Theatre’s drama awards
Fox Chapel Area High School students received 12 nominations in Prime Stage Theatre’s fourth annual High School Drama Awards for their November play, “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” The nominated students are junior Lincoln Marshal in the best actor category, senior Sophia Rike in the best actress category, junior...
Chris Heck: Bipartisan hope to protect Medicare
In the complex and often contentious world of health care policy, a glimmer of hope has emerged on the horizon. A bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives has taken a stand to protect Medicare from looming cuts to physician compensation. The introduction of House Resolution 6683...
Pet pig started fire that destroyed Butler County home, family says
A Butler County family is now homeless because of a fire that they say was caused by their pet pig. Thomas and Margaret Painter in Brady Township told WRAL they believe the fire that happened New Year’s Eve started when their pot-bellied pig Albert moved some fresh hay into his...
Westmoreland happenings: Bingos, meetings, senior citizen news
Church News • Greensburg Church of the Brethren will host a night of fun and fellowship for individuals and groups with developmental disabilities from 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays at the church, 554 Stanton St., Southwest Greensburg. Dinner is included. Participants must be accompanied by a family member or caregiver....
Letter to the editor: Steelers’ coaching controversy
For two years I have spoken about what Steelers Nation saw in the Dec. 23 shellacking of the Bengals. It knocked those rose-colored glasses right off Mike Tomlin’s nose and the rest of the excuse-making Kenny Pickett supporters. Only Matt Canada is laughing harder than yours truly. Tomlin finally let the...
Letter to the editor: God save us from ourselves
America has become a place of evilness. A Congress that doesn’t do anything about gun violence and immigration. Do nothing and become millionaires from political donations. All we hear is excuses. Every day we are bombarded with lies, fear, hate and conspiracy theories to where we can’t figure out the...
Editorial: Keep track of your gun or face the consequences
There is only so much you can rely upon people to do for themselves — especially when it’s clear they aren’t doing it. Given the opportunity, people will drive their cars faster than the speed limit. To address that, we have speeding tickets that make it expensive to ignore the...
The Stroller, Jan. 3, 2024: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Library announces 26th annual Quilt Show Community Library of Allegheny Valley...
Letter to the editor: Biden should be impeached over immigration
Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution states: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Constitution is very clear about what constitutes an impeachable...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 2, 2024
High schools Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Central Catholic 55, Pine-Richland 48 Butler 72, Seneca Valley 60 Section 2 Canon-McMillan 57, Norwin 50 Mt. Lebanon 73, Baldwin 50 Upper St. Clair 57, Hempfield 25 Class 5A Section 1 Bethel Park 70, Ringgold 52 Trinity 64, Connellsville 47...
High school roundup for Jan. 2, 2024: Norwin tops North Allegheny in clash of 6A contenders
Ava Kobus scored 15 points, and Lauren Palangio finished with 13 to lead No. 2 Norwin to a 47-42 victory over No. 1 North Allegheny in a battle of the top two girls basketball teams in Section 1-6A Tuesday night. Norwin (8-2, 1-0) took control of the game with a...
Senate leader Kim Ward hopes 2024 brings big change to Pa. education system, minimum wage hike
Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward looks forward to 2024 as a year that will deliver a seismic change to Pennsylvania’s education system, a long-awaited boost in the state’s minimum wage and stronger laws against human trafficking. In remarks made after being re-elected for a second year as the chamber’s...
Former Kentucky official who denied gay couples marriage licenses faces $360,000 payment
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A former Kentucky county official who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, a federal judge has ruled. That judgment against Kim Davis is in addition to a total of...
Lawsuit seeks to remove Pa. Rep. Scott Perry from 2024 ballot
A former Pennsylvania congressional candidate filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to remove Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry from the state primary ballot, arguing that Perry’s role challenging the results of the 2020 election should make him ineligible to run for office. Gene Stilp filed the suit as a voter in...
Monroeville library hosts New Year’s Eve ball drop at the mall
The Monroeville Public Library hosted a New Year’s Eve ball drop - albeit 12 hours early - on Dec. 31. Hundreds of people attended, along with library staff, for this free event, which was held inside Monroeville Mall on the first floor in front of Dick’s Sporting Goods. “It all...
In brief: Penn Hills and Verona area happenings, week of Jan. 1, 2024
Council holds reorganization meeting Penn Hills Council met Jan. 2 to swear in Shawn Kerestus and Alan Waldron and to appoint a deputy mayor. Councilwoman Catherine Sapp received the unanimous nod, returning to a role she held from 2018 to 2022. She replaces outgoing Councilman Frank Pecora. The Penn Hills...
In brief: Herald area events for the week of Jan. 1, 2024
Foxwall EMS board meeting set for Jan. 16 Foxwall EMS will have its annual board meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 16 at the station along Hemlock Hollow Road. The meeting is open to the public. Acting Chief Gino Mollica said the board meets in January for the purposes of electing...
Ian Ziering goes off on ‘hooliganism on our streets’ after biker brawl leads to battery reportVideo
LOS ANGELES — Actor Ian Ziering was involved in a battery incident in Los Angeles on Sunday during what appeared to be a street brawl involving several people on mini bikes. Although the “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum said he was “completely unscathed,” the New Year’s Eve altercation left him concerned...
Elwood Watson: Generation X is almost 60
Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself, who were born between 1965 and 1980. We were a generation that has been perennially pegged as cynical, self-indulgent, aimless, contrarian and often peripheral when it comes...
Noah Feldman: The New York Times has an edge in suit against OpenAI
The lawsuit filed by the New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement pits one of the great establishment media institutions against the purveyor of a transformative new technology. Symbolically, the case promises a clash of the titans: labor-intensive human newsgathering against pushbutton information produced by artificial intelligence....
Jason Opal: Even as American colonists defied the British, they understood the importance of the rule of law
The dominant storyline of our American Revolution is about patriotic defiance — refusing to pay taxes, dumping tea into the Boston Harbor and shooting redcoats once we saw the whites of their eyes. It’s about virtuous lawbreaking in the name of freedom. There is plenty of evidence to support this...
