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Red-hot Birdie picking A-K Valley games with expert precision
Last Week: 8-1 (89%) Overall: 33-6 (85%) It’s October or as the Birdie likes to call it, hoodie and shorts season. “There’s nothing better than this time of the year, but you won’t catch me in a hoodie just yet. I’m too hot this season,” the prep high school fanatic...
2 injured in fall from ladder in East Liberty
Two men were injured when one fell from a ladder Thursday in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood, according to police. The incident happened about 11:15 a.m. on Mellon Street, police said. One man had been three stories up on a ladder while the other was on the ground holding the ladder...
Chick’s Picks: Basking in fantasy football glory, prognosticator gives out winning predictions
It was the week Chick’s Picks had been waiting for — the week when she faced off against The Boss in a friendly game of fantasy football. Chick’s Picks did her usual due diligence in preparation for the week, studying player potential and keeping abreast of this season’s ever-changing player...
Trump coming to Pittsburgh? National reporters say it’s in the works
Itching to jump out of quarantine and back onto the campaign trail, President Donald Trump could be planning a visit to Pittsburgh early next week, according to national political reporters. Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent with The New York Times, first posted to Twitter Wednesday evening that Trump could...
Ron Klink: Trump’s reference pricing order imports joblessness
Never in the history of the modern world has there been such a desperate need for the pharmaceutical industry to be able to save our world and return all of us to a form of normality. Covid-19 is impacting everyone, including the leader of the free world and his family....
Student news: Fox Chapel Area School District students recognized for achievements
Two Fox Chapel Area High School seniors were named national winners in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2020. Amara Ostroff received a Silver Medal for her mosaic art titled “Lost in the Mass.” Annabella Zgurzynski won a Silver Medal for her enameling project titled “Overgrown Cottage.” Hundreds of...
Letter to the editor: What BLM really wants
In 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in an interview that she and co-founder Alicia Garza are “trained organizers … We are trained Marxists.” The BLM website reads like a communist manifesto, using terms like “comrades” and “communal networks.” Cullors spent more than 10 years being mentored by...
Letter to the editor: Debate was a debacle
The Sept. 29 uncivil presidential “debate” produced no winner; however, the American people were the losers in the most juvenile presidential debate in our nation’s history. In fact, what I witnessed wasn’t a debate at all, but an exchange of attacks and counterattacks between President Trump and Joe Biden. The...
Letter to the editor: News flashes for today’s situation
People enjoying well-cooled workplaces should not dictate, enact or recommend mask requirements for warm or hot workplaces. Further astounding news: My face is inseparable from my rights, these superseded by nothing short of God. I am, like everyone else, above mask requirements beyond medical facilities. Freedom is the heart of...
Halloween activities in the Alle-Kiski Valley – Oct. 8, 2020
To have your event listed, send information to Carol Pinto-Smith, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084; or email cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Community events Trick-or-treat and events open only to residents of the designated community include: • Allegheny Township: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31 • Apollo: Trick-or-treat: 6 to...
The Stroller, Oct. 8, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of autumn events and Halloween parades, parties and trick-or-treat nights. Send information to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Food and fireworks to be featured Saturday in Arnold Arnold Fire Department No. 1 will host a food truck and fireworks event from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday...
Takeaways from the vice presidential debate between Harris and PenceVideo
SALT LAKE CITY — For 90 minutes, the understudies had their moment. Vice President Mike Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris faced each other behind plexiglass partitions in a low-key debate that was peevish but generally polite. Their clash probably won’t have much effect on who wins the White House,...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 7, 2020
Field hockey Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 2A Penn-Trafford 4, Upper St. Clair 2 Football Thursday’s schedule WPIAL Class 5A Northeast Penn Hills at North Hills, 7 p.m. District 8 City League Perry at Westinghouse, 7 p.m. Soccer Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 4A Section 2 Baldwin 6, Brashear 0 Class...
High school roundup for Oct. 7, 2020: Melissa Riggins, Shady Side Academy grab key section win
Melissa Riggins scored two goals to lead No. 2 Shady Side Academy (5-0, 5-0) to a 2-1 victory over Burrell (5-2, 5-2) in a girls soccer matchup between the top two teams in the Section 2-2A standings Wednesday night. Belle Vernon 9, Albert Gallatin 0 – Jillian Butchki had five...
Hurricane Delta again strengthening, could hit in Louisiana as Category 2 stormVideo
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Delta started strengthening again Wednesday night as it heads for into the warm waters of the southern Gulf of Mexico. For now it’s still a Category 1 storm with sustained winds of 90 mph, the National Hurricane Center said in its 8 p.m. advisory. It’s...
Top White House security official contracted covid-19 in September
WASHINGTON — A top White House security official, Crede Bailey, is gravely ill with covid-19 and has been hospitalized since September, according to four people familiar with his condition. The White House has not publicly disclosed Bailey’s illness. He became sick before the Sept. 26 Rose Garden event President Donald...
Ravens QB Lamar Jackson’s deep-ball accuracy ‘a work in progress’Video
Four games into the Ravens’ season, quarterback Lamar Jackson hasn’t had to sweat the small stuff. It’s the bigger throws that have cost him. On short passes — balls with a target depth of 0 to 9 yards — Jackson has been more accurate (83%) this season than Green Bay...
Man dead in Washington County motorcycle crash
A Washington County man is dead after a Wednesday afternoon motorcycle crash in Cross Creek Township, according to the Washington County Coroner’s Office. David Copeland, 64, of McMurray lost control of his three-wheel motorcycle after hitting a tree that had fallen onto Avella Road around 3:15 p.m., according to the...
Editorial: Consistent policies remain Wolf’s hobgoblin
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was probably right about those times that people cleave to one set of rules without thought. A speed limit is a speed limit, but if an ambulance or a fire truck has to go faster, that...
With injuries hitting roster, Monessen football forced to forfeit to Carmichaels
Low numbers have cost Monessen with three games left to play this season. The district announced Wednesday that the Greyhounds will forfeit Friday’s scheduled game against Carmichaels due to player safety reasons. “It’s never an easy decision,” Monessen High School principal Eric Manko said. “At the most, we were only...
Now a covid-19 hot spot, White House struggles to workVideo
WASHINGTON — In a tableau befitting a surreal election season, there may be more raccoons around the White House than actual staff now — and a contagious president sneaking into the West Wing. With the iconic white-columned building now a coronavirus hot zone, and a pack of hungry raccoons near...
Mansion on 171 acres for sale in Gibsonia for $6.1M
A fishing pond. Chicken coop. Duck house. Blueberry grove. Pumpkin patch. Multiple gardens. A barn. That’s just some of what sits on the 171 acres of property at 5640 N. Montour Road in Richland Township, Gibsonia. “You can really live off of this land — it’s a true farm-to-table lifestyle,”...
2 Westmoreland Manor residents dead as coronavirus cases surge, 1 victim identified
Two residents at Westmoreland Manor have died after contracting the coronavirus. County officials reported Wednesday the two deaths as well as another significant increase in the number of infections at the county-owned nursing home in Hempfield. Westmoreland County Coroner Ken Bacha confirmed a report that one of the residents who...
State representative calls for impeachment of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Wecht
A Pennsylvania House representative is calling for the impeachment of state Supreme Court Justice David N. Wecht, contending that he is legislating from the bench. Rep. Frank Ryan, R-Lebanon, introduced House Resolution 1044 on Tuesday criticizing Wecht for judicial activism in recent cases: the 2018 case on redistricting, as well...
Police investigating fatal shooting at Monroeville Mall, victim identified
A 20-year-old man was shot and killed Wednesday after an argument outside of the Monroeville Mall, police said. Monroeville Police Chief Doug Cole said the shooting occurred at 1:24 p.m. in a mall parking lot near the entrance of Party City and JCPenney. A suspect remains at large. The man,...
