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ATLANTA — Georgia election officials opened an investigation Tuesday into whether L. Lin Wood, a prominent attorney who has promoted conspiracy theories about the presidential election, voted illegally in November. The secretary of state’s office confirmed the investigation after WSB-TV first reported that Wood had moved to South Carolina. Wood...

The triple shooting in Plains Township motivated by a dispute about snow removal will be officially ruled a murder-suicide, according to the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office. Authorities said Jeffrey Spaide, 47, shot and killed his neighbors, James Goy, 50, and his wife Lisa Goy, 48, on Monday morning as...

The Crack’d Egg, a Brentwood restaurant that is embroiled in a legal dispute with Allegheny County, is seeking to withdraw its separate Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. A hearing on the bankruptcy matter is scheduled for Feb. 23. In the Monday filing, the restaurant’s attorneys wrote that the Chapter 11 bankruptcy...

Special needs students who attend school programs outside of the South Allegheny School District will have busing to transport them to their respective facilities for the time being, but not the rest of the district’s 1,700 students. The school district and Sun Coach Lines reached a partial resolution during a...

Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan 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 — When Republican state Rep. Jim Gregory learned Monday from Gov. Tom Wolf that an administrative error will delay a...

The West Jefferson Hills School Board of Directors selected Erikka Kuhse as the new assistant principal of Thomas Jefferson High School to replace Paul Ware upon his retirement with a unanimous vote at the Jan. 26 school board meeting. According to a release, Kuhse is the current dean of students...

Having read the article “2020 brings increase in Westmoreland overdose deaths” (Jan. 10, TribLIVE), I would like to provide the following information. The worst threat to the United States is not its political divisions or its economic crises or its health care policy. It is the brilliant minds and talent...

Penn State coach James Franklin brought in Mike Yurcich to rev up the Nittany Lions’ offense, which struggled at times in 2020. Yurcich, Franklin’s fifth offensive coordinator in his eight seasons with the Lions, has an impressive resume. He coached at Texas last season and at Ohio State and Oklahoma...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf will propose a sweeping new plan to dramatically boost funding for public schools, to be supported by an increase in the state’s personal income tax rate that also expands exemptions for lower-wage earners, administration officials said Tuesday. Wolf’s administration began releasing details of the plan...

Updated: Police on Thursday identified the man as Howard Letcher, 45, of Espyville. Authorities are investigating after police say a man fell off a building at about noon Tuesday in Downtown Pittsburgh. Police and paramedics responded to the call at about 12:15 p.m. for a man who had fallen several...

An inmate at SCI Fayette is suing five officers, alleging they sexually abused him and then forced him to cut off his dreadlocks in retaliation when he complained. Abdul Murray, 40, has been at the state prison in La Belle since June 2015 and served as a block worker and...

There are many things Pennsylvania state government should do this year to address climate change — but won’t, given the political composition of the state Legislature. But a few significant things are possible. Pennsylvania emitted about 215 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2017 (the most recent data available),...

Two Humane Society police officers, Justin Galvin and Krista Koontz, were officially sworn in as Allegheny County Humane Society police officers on Jan. 25, according to a release from Animal Friends. Koontz and Galvin will serve Allegheny County as members of Animal Friends’ Humane Investigations team. Among the many programs...

Forest Hills Council will host committee meetings virtually at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. The committee meetings include: Borough Property, Public Works, Operations & Policy and Public Safety. Individuals can join via Zoom. Committee meetings do not have a formal agenda. Click here to submit a question or concern....

Congressman Reschenthaler: Your military oath: I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the...

Question: In a recent column, you described our 5-year-old daughter. She is in bed at 6:30 in the evening but usually wakes up during the night and wants to talk to us about whatever is on her mind. We both work and need our sleep, so that’s a huge problem....

Monroeville police filed the following charges recently with District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst. Charges were filed by Monroeville police unless otherwise noted: • Jennifer Harshman, 33, with resisting arrest, defiant trespassing and possession of drug paraphernalia. Charges were filed Dec. 25 in connection with an incident along the 2700 block...

The following cases were handled recently by District Judge Regis Welsh in Sharpsburg: • Kelshon Lovelace, 19, of Pittsburgh waived to court charges of corruption of minors. The charges were filed Dec. 14 by O’Hara police. • Shaylon Pinkston, 21, of Pittsburgh was held for court on charges of corruption...

Monroeville District Court Judge Jeffrey Herbst handled these cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Charges were filed by Monroeville police unless otherwise noted. Held for court • Shaquawn Cole, 24, of Rankin on charges of fleeing or attempting to elude...

Hope you Biden voters are feeling good about your choice. So far, I see him making an aggressive run at sliding our country back to the dismal Obama days — miserable economy, growing unemployment, ban on drilling and fracking, inviting in illegal aliens, no deportation of criminal aliens, crushing free...

It happens every year. All eyes turn toward a Western Pennsylvania hamlet to wait for a sleepy rodent to pop out of his burrow, look around for his shadow and make a prediction about when spring will start. Let’s be honest. No one really thinks Punxsutawney Phil — or any...

Exasperated and mournful, I am offering a few belated comments since America now suffers the throes of an election that has ushered socialism into a republic not being saved. Damn the liberal, subversive, progressive Democrat and RINO turncoat torpedoes, full speed ahead against tyranny and treason. The Washington swamp saved...