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Monroeville musician selected for All-State Jazz Ensemble
Four Shady Side Academy Senior School students have reached the highest level a high school musician can achieve by earning places in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association All-State Festival ensembles. Among them is Monroeville resident Hari Viswanathan, a Shady Side Academy junior who will play piano in the PMEA All-State...
Allegheny County judge disallows death-penalty jury in homicide case
An Allegheny County judge on Wednesday said he will not allow the district attorney’s office to seat a death-penalty qualified jury because of the ongoing moratorium on capital punishment in Pennsylvania. Judge Anthony M. Mariani wrote in a 10-page opinion that compelling prospective jurors to sit through the “grueling and...
Route 28 short-term ramp closures set for Thursday
PennDOT is alerting motorists of closures Thursday of the off-ramp from northbound Route 28 to Waterworks Drive/Freeport Road (Exit 8) in the City of Pittsburgh and the off-ramp from southbound Route 28 to Fox Chapel Road (Exit 8) in O’Hara. Crews from Swank Construction Co. will be installing new guardrail...
Freeport tries to soften the blow of sewage rate hikes by phasing them in
Sewage rate increases for Freeport residents to pay for the new $18.6 million sewage treatment plant will be levied incrementally. Council President Clint Warnick laid out how the increases would be added to residents’ bills. The increases tentatively would total $47, which is a 95% boost in the current $49.41...
Man stole school bus in Adams County to transport dead deer, police say
A Pennsylvania man stole a school bus in an effort to transport a dead deer to his home, he told police. In the process, he led cops on a chase in and out of York and Cumberland counties. Tony Jay Saunders Jr., 24, was charged with multiple felonies following the...
Carl P. Leubsdorf: This is just the beginning for Trump
Here’s an important thing to remember: This is probably just the beginning. The end is unforeseeable. That’s because the unprecedented indictment of Donald Trump by a New York County grand jury on charges of paying “hush money” to a former porn star is almost certainly the first of several criminal...
Fire guts McCali Manor in Mt. Pleasant
Firefighters battled a blaze Wednesday afternoon that extensively damaged an apartment building and former restaurant in downtown Mt. Pleasant. All seven of the occupants of the McCali Manor at 462 W. Main St. were accounted for after fire broke out shortly before 3 p.m., causing extensive damage. No one was...
Ancient symbols of Easter season rooted in ideas of renewal
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2012. If there’s no bunny in the basket, there’s no Easter. That’s Norm Candelore’s theory this time of year. People buy more chocolate bunnies at Sarris Candies than any other candy during the Easter season, and the Canonsburg candymaker builds its baskets...
Meet new Verona Chamber of Commerce president
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the newly elected Verona Chamber of Commerce president, Stefani Garibay. I’ll preface these answers with this: It is the first year we have a new president, executive board and board members. While we have some remaining original members, I believe with our new...
Peter Morici: ‘Greedy’ corporations don’t make us feel poorer; it’s government spending and meddling in marketplace
U.S. wages aren’t keeping up with inflation, and this could become a big issue in the 2024 presidential election. Until the covid pandemic in 2020, President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation had boosted GDP growth well-above the rates accomplished by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Americans’ real...
Luke Conway: Reducing political polarization through disagreement
In case you hadn’t noticed, America is a bit of a mess right now. The country is as polarized as it has been for a long, long time. In most scientific studies of worldwide increases in polarization, the United States ranks at or near the top. Americans have taken note:...
Penn State’s Joey Porter Jr. is a projected 1st-round pick. Is Kalen King next?
STATE COLLEGE — Joey Porter Jr. believes he’s the top cornerback in the NFL Draft. At the very least, the former Penn State star is locked in as a projected first-round pick. Whether you listen to analysts or skim mock drafts, that’s the consensus. Kalen King has been among the...
3 takeaways: Penguins get swept again in a regular-season seriesVideo
Three takeaways from the Penguins’ 5-1 road loss to the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night: Swept away After falling at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., the Penguins were swept in their regular-season series by Devils (0-3-1). The only other time the Devils franchise (including its previous incarnations as...
Westmoreland happenings: Easter services, caregiver support meeting, pepperoni roll sale, more
Submissions from nonprofit organizations for Briefly Speaking can be emailed to Carol Pinto-Smith at cpinto-smith@triblive.com or mailed to Briefly Speaking, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084. Include a complete street address and daytime phone number. Submissions are due at least two weeks before the event. Each announcement is printed once;...
Letter to the editor: Don’t give IRS any more personal info
Identity thieves steal Americans’ personal data daily. Instead of going after these criminals or helping victims, the IRS is similarly falling victim to these hackers, failing to protect hundreds of thousands of taxpayers. Last year, the IRS inadvertently released the private information of 112,000 taxpayers, including Social Security numbers and...
Letter to the editor: It’s time to build Quaker Valley High School
After serving on the Quaker Valley School Board from 2007 until 2019, it’s disheartening to read the astonishing level of misinformation about the new high school. When I joined the board, it was our preference to renovate or build a new facility on the site of the present high school....
Letter to the editor: It’s guns, and we must fix the problem
Well over 100 mass shootings so far in 2023. Watching the aftermath brings tears to most of us, whether it happened in a church, at a concert or in a classroom of 6-year-olds. Can you even imagine? Yet nothing changes legislatively. These horrific tragedies may not have affected us all,...
Letter to the editor: Help get PIAA changed back to what works
Congratulations to the Deer Lakes Lancers on their recent public school boys’ basketball championship. Unfortunately, they only received silver medals for their efforts because of the archaic (1972) legislation that allows public, private and charter school to participate in the same state tournament. The reason why this legislation was passed...
Shady Side Academy students named to all-state music ensembles
Four Shady Side Academy Senior School students have earned places in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association All-State Festival music ensembles, the highest level a high school musician can achieve. The following students will perform at the 2023 at the association’s All-State Festival at the Kalahari Resort in The Poconos on...
The Stroller, April 5, 2023: 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. Salvation Army accepting summer camp reservations Reservations for summer camp at...
Letter to the editor: Putting profit over people results in disaster
The Norfolk Southern train derailment at the border of Pennsylvania and Ohio brought national/world attention to a disaster that could happen in any community along the railroad’s path. Greensburg, Latrobe, West Newton and Irwin could have exchanged places with East Palestine. The findings of the investigation will go on for...
Pirates farm report for April 4, 2023: Quinn Priester roughed up as Indy drops 4th straight
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 0-4) lost its fourth game in a row to start the season, falling to Louisville (Reds), 7-2. RHP Quinn Priester (14.73) started and was touched up for six runs, all earned, on nine hits and two walks in 3.2 innings. He struck out four. LHP Angel Perdomo (0.00)...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for April 4, 2023
High schools WPIAL Baseball Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 5, Pine-Richland 4 Seneca Valley 14, Allderdice 0 Section 2 Baldwin 4, Norwin 3 Canon-McMillan 5, Mt. Lebanon 2 Hempfield 2, Central Catholic 0 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 13, Gateway 3 Fox Chapel 8, Penn Hills 0...
High school roundup for April 4, 2023: Behind Tyler Skeen, South Fayette rallies for split with Peters Township
Tyler Skeen went 2 for 4 with a home run and three RBIs and was the winning pitcher as South Fayette defeated Peters Township, 7-4, on Tuesday to split a Section 2-5A series. Skeen pitched three scoreless innings, allowing one hit and fanning six, for the Lions (3-1, 1-1), who...
Defense attorneys in synagogue mass shooting again ask to have death penalty option thrown out
Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue said Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Justice is arbitrarily seeking the death penalty against their client but failed to do the same in other attempted mass shooting cases in which Jewish and Latino people...
