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Internal PSERS documents show how Pa’s biggest pension fund got key financial calculation wrong
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. After Pennsylvania’s biggest pension plan botched a crucial financial calculation, the FBI launched an investigation, the fund’s board began its own...
Mark Zuckerberg helped some Pa. counties survive 2020 election; GOP lawmakers say that was unfair
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — As coronavirus cases rose and Pennsylvania counties were flooded with millions of mail ballot applications last fall, election directors...
Mobile vaccination units hit tiny U.S. towns to boost immunity
FALLON, Nev. — Pick-up truck drivers motor up to a white trailer in a parking lot on Fallon Paiute-Shoshone land in Nevada’s high desert and within a few moments they’re handed forms to sign, jabbed with coronavirus vaccine and sent on their way. The pop-up clinic 60 miles (96 kilometers)...
Study blames climate change for 37% of global heat deaths
More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change. But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll — even more people die from other extreme weather amplified...
Biden commemorates fallen veterans at Arlington Cemetery
ARLINGTON, Va. — President Joe Biden honored America’s war dead at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day by laying a wreath at the hallowed burial ground and extolling the sacrifices of the fallen for the pursuit of democracy. The president was joined on Monday by first lady Jill Biden, Vice...
Man killed, woman injured in shooting in Munhall
Allegheny County Police are investigating an overnight shooting in Munhall that left one man dead and a woman seriously injured. According to police, a state trooper heard gunshots around 3:23 a.m. Monday while driving in the 900 block of 8th Avenue. Police noticed a car leaving the scene and stopped...
Dems walk, stop Texas GOP’s sweeping voting restrictions
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Democrats pulled off a dramatic, last-ditch walkout in the state House of Representatives on Sunday night to block passage of one of the most restrictive voting bills in the U.S., leaving Republicans with no choice but to abandon a midnight deadline and declare the legislative session...
Editorial: In remembrance of the fallen
For Memorial Day, a classic Trib editorial: On this Memorial Day, be grateful that Americans’ willingness to sacrifice for freedom’s sake, instilled by each generation in the next, remains as strong as ever. Today, Americans honor those most worthy of such gratitude — those who gave their lives in our...
South Buffalo VFD to host benefit tractor pull for Freeport Middle School girl with rare condition
South Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department’s third annual tractor pull will benefit a local 12-year-old who was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy. The fire department accepted about a dozen nominations for local families in need who could be helped by the event. Erin Pflueger, a member of the fire...
U.S. cities to power revival in domestic travel, TripAdvisor CEO saysVideo
The United States will have a busy vacation season this summer as cities make a strong comeback, according to Stephen Kaufer, chief executive officer of TripAdvisor Inc. “Now we have a lot more activities all around the country, and it’s not just outdoors. The cities are making a very real...
Lower-flying Blue Angels jets end Westmoreland airshow on high noteVideo
Two days of poor weather prevented organizers from including a planned Navy Leap Frogs parachute jump and a multi-aircraft, cross-county flyover at the 2021 Shop ’n Save Westmoreland County Airshow. But conditions improved enough Sunday to permit a low- altitude show by several other acts that had been scratched Saturday, including...
Find covid origin or face another pandemic, U.S. experts warnVideo
WASHINGTON — The world needs the cooperation of the Chinese government to trace the origins of covid-19 and prevent future pandemic threats, two leading U.S. disease experts said Sunday. Information to support the theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, has increased, said...
Netanyahu could lose PM job as rivals attempt to join forcesVideo
JERUSALEM — A former ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he would seek to form a coalition government with the Israeli leader’s opponents, taking a major step toward ending the rule of the longtime premier. The dramatic announcement by Naftali Bennett, leader of the small hardline Yamina...
Derry Township man dies in ATV accident
Authorities identified a 25-year-old Derry Township man who died Sunday in an ATV accident. Joshua P. Shugars was pronounced dead at 11 a.m. Sunday at the scene along Piper Road, the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office reported. The wreck was reported about 9:45 a.m. Shugars was riding alone and without a...
Tulsa Race Massacre centennial events proceed amid hiccups
TULSA, Okla. — Joi McCondichie is a native of this city, but her life and career in public education kept her away from home for decades. When she returned to Tulsa from Los Angeles with her then-teenage son, she moved into a home just off of the Osage Prairie Trail...
A final goodbye: Veterans remembered on Memorial Day, funeral with military honorsVideo
Volleys of gunfire. The sounding of taps. The folding of the American flag. These three moments are part of a final farewell for those who served their country. They are accolades reserved for veterans — military honors presented at a cemetery or memorial service. The honors are extended to anyone...
Pittsburgh police probe Allentown shooting early Sunday
Pittsburgh police are investigating a shooting in the city’s Allentown neighborhood that wounded a male victim. Police said the victim, who was shot in the leg, was in stable condition when he arrived at a hospital by private means just before 3:45 a.m. Officers later discovered the crime scene outside...
3 males shot early Sunday on East Carson Street in Pittsburgh
Three male victims were reported in stable condition after being shot early Sunday in Pittsburgh’s South Side. City police found one of the victims, who had been shot multiple times in a leg, when they responded just after 2:30 a.m. to the 1700 block of East Carson Street. Officers applied...
More states ease lingering virus rules as vaccine rates rise
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, more U.S. cities and states are shrugging off lingering covid-19 restrictions as vaccination rates rise and the number of infections falls. Massachusetts lifted a mask requirement Saturday, a day after New Jersey dropped its mandate. In New York City and...
‘Hooked on a Feeling’ singer B.J. Thomas dies at 78
B.J. Thomas, the Grammy-winning singer who enjoyed success on the pop, country and gospel charts with such hits as “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” and “Hooked on a Feeling,” has died. He was 78. Thomas, who announced in March that he had been diagnosed...
In South Florida, shootings usher in bloody holiday weekend
HIALEAH, Fla. — Violence ushered in the Memorial Day weekend in South Florida, when gunmen indiscriminately sprayed bullets into crowds at two Miami venues. Two people died and at least 20 others were injured early Sunday morning during a shooting outside a banquet hall, about a day after a drive-by...
Motorcyclists rally outside Arnold teen’s death bed vigil; parents cherish boy’s enduring spirit
As their son clung to life from a hospital bed, Seth Fiedor’s parents felt the walls begin to rumble. The loud vibrations reverberating from outside UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh were familiar to Craig Fiedor, a motorcyclist who had put the word out seeking riders interested in showing up for...
Ligonier boutique hotel Thistledown at Seger House for sale at $1.795 millionVideo
If you dream of owning a historic small-town inn (and have a few dollars in your pocket), there’s a Ligonier property waiting for you. Thistledown at Seger House, just two blocks from the Diamond, is on the market for $1.795 million. There are eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms in the...
Small plane crashes into Tennessee lake; 7 believed dead
SMYRNA, Tenn. — A small jet carrying seven people crashed into a Tennessee lake on Saturday, and authorities indicated that no one on board survived. The Cessna C501 crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna after taking off from a nearby airport about 11 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said...
Chinese cargo spacecraft docks with orbital station
BEIJING — An automated spacecraft docked with China’s new space station Sunday carrying fuel and supplies for its future crew, the Chinese space agency announced. Tianzhou-2 spacecraft reached the Tianhe station eight hours after blasting off from Hainan, an island in the South China Sea, China Manned Space said. It...
