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Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes to face Ravens, Lamar JacksonVideo
It’s the defending Super Bowl champions against a team that has won 14 straight regular-season games. Or, maybe it’s a preview of the AFC title game — a matchup many expected to see last January. Most of all, the intrigue surrounding Monday night’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs (2-0)...
The Stroller, Sept. 26, 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 an email to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Participants sought for benefit walk Apollo Area Churches will sponsor the area CROP Walk at 2 p.m. Oct. 4 on the Roaring Run Trail, Kiski Township Registration...
Tractor-trailer rig carrying oranges overturns near New Stanton exit of turnpike, snarls traffic for hours
Traffic along the westbound lanes of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, just east of the New Stanton exit, was tied up for several hours early Saturday as a result of an overturned tractor-trailer. No injuries were reported in the crash that happened at about 11:40 p.m. Friday. Mt. Pleasant Fire Chief Jerry...
WPIAL Class 5A roundup: Upper St. Clair runs past Latrobe in high-scoring matchup
Three players topped the century mark rushing for No. 5 Upper St. Clair in its 52-45 win at Latrobe (1-2) in a Class 5A nonconference game Friday night. Jamaal Brown ran for 155 yards and three touchdowns, Ethan Dahlem for 147 yards and Ethan Hiester for 138 yards and three...
WPIAL Class 4A roundup: Olsen’s arm leads Armstrong past Knoch in GAC
Cadin Olsen threw for 327 yards and four touchdowns to lead Armstrong to a 34-7 victory over Knoch (0-3, 0-3) in the Class 4A Greater Allegheny Conference on Friday night. Noah Cooper caught five passes for 116 yards and a touchdown for the River Hawks (2-1, 2-1). West Mifflin 27,...
Jefferson-Morgan’s Jonathan Wolfe eats up Monessen
The big, bad Wolfe came into Friday’s Tri-County South Conference game fixing for a feast. Unfortunately for Monessen’s defense, they had no answer for Jefferson-Morgan’s senior running back Jonathan Wolfe. Wolfe led the charge for the Rockets, racking 172 yards on the ground, as they picked up their first win...
Mt. Lebanon unrelenting in victory against Hempfield
Mt. Lebanon’s offense scored touchdowns on six straight possessions and ran away with its first win of the season, 52-26 over Hempfield. “When you miss your scrimmage and you miss your game and then you go into a game, for some of these kids, it’s the first varsity game they...
South Allegheny’s Antonio Epps steps on Yough
For the third consecutive week, Antonio Epps made his presence felt in a big way for South Allegheny. The senior standout had four first-half touchdowns, rushing for three and catching another, in the Gladiators’ 41-9 victory over Yough in Class 3A Interstate Conference play Friday on Cougar Mountain. Epps, who...
Big second half leads Thomas Jefferson past Belle Vernon
A dominant second half and the return of a Thomas Jefferson staple helped the Jaguars roar past rival Belle Vernon Area on Friday night. Jake Pugh continued the tradition of great quarterback play in the program, accounting for all six Jaguars touchdowns. In front of him, the TJ offensive and...
WPIAL high school football Week 3 scores for Sept. 25, 2020
TribLIVE’s sports reporters have you covered from Friday’s Week 3 high school football action. GAMES OF THE WEEK • NORTH ALLEGHENY 35, CENTRAL CATHOLIC 21 Tailback J.R. Burton led North Allegheny with 108 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries and fullback Brady Leczo also reached the end zone. •...
Clutch kick carries McKeesport past Trinity
The story of McKeesport’s unlikely hero on Friday started in Matt Miller’s homeroom. In search of a kicker for this season, Miller convinced Milton Campos to give it a try. Campos, a sophomore on the soccer team, never played football before, but Miller knew he had a big leg. The...
Apollo-Ridge stays unbeaten with rout of Burrell
Apollo-Ridge might be 3-0 and has outscored the opposition 148-22, but coach John Skiba is still looking to improve some things. The Vikings on Friday night got 293 passing yards from Jake Fello and 10 receptions for 200 yards from Klay Fitzroy to rout Burrell, 56-8, in a nonconference encounter...
Editorial: Stopping animal abuse could head off domestic violence
Abuse is abuse. Violence is violence. And it should be treated that way. It needs to be taken seriously when it is noticed in small ways because abuse escalates, and it often starts with the victims that can’t report it. Animal abuse is frequently seen to be a predictor of...
Trial on misconduct allegations against Allegheny County Judge Tranquilli set for November
The trial for an Allegheny County Common Pleas judge accused of judicial misconduct will be held in November in Jefferson County. Conference Judge John H. Foradora, who serves as president judge of Jefferson County, will preside over the case against Judge Mark V. Tranquilli beginning on Nov. 19 in Brookville....
Security agents spot gun at Pittsburgh International checkpoint
Transportation Security Administration officials caught another gun at Pittsburgh International Airport this week – the 14th this year despite much lower levels of air travel. A security officer spotted a loaded 9mm handgun in a man’s carry-on bag on the checkpoint X-ray scanner, according to TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein. Allegheny...
Gateway shuts down high school, cancels football game after students infected with coronavirus
Two students at Gateway High School have tested positive for covid-19, shutting the school down for five days and canceling a highly anticipated football game, according to a news release posted to the district’s website Friday. One student who tested positive has not been to the building since Sept. 22,...
Lorence Devon King: We’re fighting for justice in Pa.
No matter what we look like, where we live or how much we make, the public health and economic crisis we’re in reminds us that we’re all just human. For years, people like me — young people, people of color, working-class people of all races — have been left behind...
Letter to the editor: What has Biden done for us?
I have only one question for Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chair Nancy Patton Mills (“We need Joe Biden in the White House,” Sept. 21, TribLIVE): What did Vice President Joe Biden do for Monessen and Greensburg from 2009 to 2017? David Scandrol Lower Burrell...
Letter to the editor: Why don’t Republicans stand up to Trump?
To all the Republicans in Congress, especially Sen. Pat Toomey: Joseph Welch, as chief counsel for the U.S. Army, in 1954 famously stood up to Joe McCarthy during his Senate hearings, saying, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” This was a watershed moment in U.S. history and showed that...
Letter to the editor: Trump has done much good for U.S.
Regarding Timothy L. O’Brien’s screed “Of course Trump couldn’t resist Bob Woodward” (Sept. 10, TribLIVE): I suppose President Trump was “a con man and carny act” when he recognized and honored Americans killed by illegals, spoke to their families and welcomed them to the White House. These were people who...
1 killed, 1 injured in Beaver Falls shooting
One person is dead and another was flown to the hospital after a shooting in Beaver Falls early Friday morning, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI. The shooting happened just after 1 a.m. near the corner of 14th Street and Fifth Avenue. The Beaver County coroner was called to the...
Letter to the editor: What has Biden accomplished?
Joe Biden has spent 47 years in office and, in my opinion, accomplished nothing except to enrich himself and his family while his masters oversaw the destruction of the American dream for the middle class. Biden watched millions of good U.S. manufacturing jobs moved offshore. The bulk of the jobs...
Pittsburgh woman killed in Etna crash
A woman is dead after a crash Thursday night in Etna, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office. Henrietta Barricella, 83, of Pittsburgh died at Allegheny General Hospital shortly after the crash, which happened around 5:10 p.m. at the corner of Crescent Avenue and Butler Street. Further details about...
Man’s shooting death in Mount Oliver ruled homicide
A 19-year-old Pittsburgh man was killed early Friday in Mount Oliver, according to Allegheny County Police. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim as Tysere Michael Igles and has ruled the death a homicide. Police said the shooting happened around 3:10 a.m. in an apartment building on Arlington...
Letter to the editor: They all knew who Trump was
They all knew who Donald Trump really was. The following is what they said about him before they seem to have buckled under to his bullying and abandoned their last shred of dignity: • Lindsey Graham: “He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. I think he’s a kook. I think he’s...
