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Top-ranked Clairton delivers early knockout at Leechburg
After scoring 55 points in the season opener last week, Leechburg was hoping to win five straight games for the first time since 1988 as the Blue Devils won their final three games of 2019. But top-ranked Clairton quickly stopped that notion. The defending WPIAL champion Bears scored three touchdowns...
Fox News to feature Trib editor on ‘America’s News HQ’ on Saturday
The Fox News program “America’s News HQ,” with anchors Arthel Neville and Eric Shawn, will include a Tribune-Review editor as a guest on Saturday’s broadcast. John Allison, the Trib’s director of content, will appear on air in the 5 p.m. segment. The likely topics will be the swing-state role of...
Allegheny County Health Department announces walk-in flu shot clinic in Pittsburgh
The Allegheny County Health Department announced that they will be offering flu vaccines beginning next week at the Immunization Clinic in Downtown Pittsburgh. The department will administer walk-in flu shots from 9 a.m. till 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, starting Sept. 21. There will be additional evening hours on Thursdays...
Brentwood restaurant defies order to close for covid-19 violations, faces court action
A Brentwood restaurant that continues to violate the state’s covid-19 mitigation orders — and whose owner spoke at a Harrisburg rally bragging about it — is facing action in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court as the health department attempts to prohibit it from operating. The Crack’d Egg, at 4131 Brownsville...
David Emery: The pursuit of money — the root of political corruption
The Founding Fathers were keenly aware of the need for accountability throughout government. One problem they did not foresee was the influence of special-interest money in electing public officials or in determining policy outcomes. Political corruption is not new. To stem it, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was established in...
U.S. curbs WeChat transfers, freezes TikTok as deadline loomsVideo
The U.S. will ban some transactions over the Chinese-owned WeChat app while freezing TikTok’s app starting Sunday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said. Ross said Friday that the U.S. will prohibit U.S.-to-U.S. transactions related to WeChat and its parent company Tencent Holdings Ltd. but that will not impact activity in China....
Letter to the editor: Character matters in presidency
Regarding Terrence Feitknecht’s letter “Trump’s deeds match his promises” (Aug. 21, TribLIVE): President Trump’s promises do not affect my life in any way, shape or form. As for his personality, I couldn’t care less about it. What I wrote about previously was his character — or lack of it. Being...
Nadine Road in Penn Hills reopens, but expect delays through October as work continues
Nadine Road in Penn Hills has reopened, but traffic delays are expected as crews work to finish the ongoing project, Allegheny County Department of Public Works announced Friday. The road has been closed between Lincoln Road and Allegheny River Boulevard since Aug. 10 while crews installed a drainage pipe and...
Letter to the editor: Reducing probability of vote tampering
The confidence your vote will be accurately counted is one of the issues surrounding the all-mail vote proposed by some, and can easily be explained using simple probability and statistics — in other words, common sense. When voting in person, only one outside actor (election judge) is in a position...
Letter to the editor: Are Biden’s plans God’s way?
I’ve never enjoyed a political convention so much as I did President Trump’s. It was inspiring compared to the Democratic Party’s convention speakers. The Democratic speakers reminded me of a kindergarten-aged child I babysat many years ago. We played a board game, and she screamed at me when I was...
The Stroller, Sept. 18, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Is your non-profit organization going to have a fundraiser? Send information to The Stroller at least a week in advance to vndnews@tribweb.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Memorial bike outing planned Sept. 26 A bike run in memory of Jerry “Bull” Baylor will be Sept. 26 at Mogie’s...
Federal lawsuit alleges bounty hunters harassed CEO of Concordia over estranged son’s whereabouts
The president and CEO of Concordia Lutheran Ministries on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against the state police and a bail bonds agency contending that they illegally searched his Butler County home and ransacked another while looking for his estranged son. Keith Frndak, along with his wife Diane, who teaches...
High school roundup for Sept. 17, 2020: Bethel Park’s Mia Gorman wins elusive section tennis title
After falling in the final each of the past two seasons, Bethel Park’s Mia Gorman claimed her first section championship with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Mt. Lebanon’s Lauren Mastellar in the Section 4-AAA championship match at Bethel Park. Last year’s Section 4 champ, Kat Wang of Peters Township, topped...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Sept. 17, 2020
Field hockey Thursday’s results WPIAL Nonsection Penn-Trafford 2, North Allegheny 0 Football Thursday’s summary WPIAL Class 2A Midwestern Neshannock 37, Mohawk 22 Mohawk 0 7 0 15 —22 Neshannock 7 6 12 12 —37 N: Luciano DeLillo 47 pass from Kurt Sommerfeld (kick) M: Ethan Fritzley 21 pass from John...
Neshannock bounces back, tops Mohawk
Neshannock, a team that was won four conference titles in the last eight years, isn’t used to starting the season 0-1. On Thursday night, the Lancers showed just how much they didn’t like it. Kurt Sommerfield and Cam’Ron Owens both ran for 106 yards and two scores and Neshannock rolled...
Trump’s vaccine ambitions contradict his own health expertsVideo
President Donald Trump once again promised that a covid-19 vaccine for Americans could be ready within weeks, a timeline faster than has been deemed possible or likely by the scientific agencies overseeing the effort and the companies developing the products. Trump’s optimistic promises have left him in a battle with...
Court denies petition to reinstate pay for suspended Allegheny County judge
The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline on Thursday denied a request from an Allegheny County judge charged with misconduct to be paid during the pendency of his suspension. In a one-sentence order, the petition by Judge Mark V. Tranquilli was denied. Tranquilli was suspended without pay on Aug. 26, two...
Trump heads to Pittsburgh on Tuesday for airport rally
Like he did at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe earlier this month, President Donald Trump is holding another airport hangar rally. This one is Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, the campaign announced Thursday. The president’s rally at Atlantic Aviation, 300 Horizon Drive,...
‘It will destroy our country’: Trump targets school curriculums that aim to teach truth about slaveryVideo
President Donald Trump painted a grim and divisive portrait of the state of American education on Thursday, claiming that anything from elementary schools to colleges are being overrun by “radical” teachers bent on destroying “our children” with “Marxist doctrines.” The president was talking about an educational framework known as critical...
Why the ruling against Wolf’s covid-19 restrictions faces long odds on appeal, explained
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 weekly newsletter. HARRISBURG — A federal judge sent a shockwave through Pennsylvania politics this week when he ruled that several actions taken...
The Birdie crowing about perfect start to A-K Valley football season
Last week: 8-0 (100%) Season: 8-0 (100%) Nothing is unbearable as The Birdie a week after he goes perfect with his picks. “I told you guys, I’m the best there is and it showed in Week 1,” he squawked during the weekly sports meeting with chip crumbs spitting out the...
Birdie off his game as Westmoreland County football teams open in mostly empty stadiums
Last week: 7-6 (53.8 %) Season: 7-6 (53.8 %) The opening week of an ominous 2020 season has the Birdie feeling a certain kind of way. He is thrilled that football is back and pleased to see WPIAL schools manage a mostly smooth opening week. He was impressed with a...
Chick’s Picks wants to get moving in right direction
Welcome to Week 2 of the high school football season. There are not many things in life that Chick’s Picks enjoys less than moving. Moving here, moving there, moving anywhere. So, this time, deciding to splurge, Chick’s Picks hired a few pros to assist with this undertaking. As the hired...
ICE detainees complained about ‘rough’ treatment from Georgia doctor
ATLANTA — For years, women at a South Georgia immigration jail talked about Dr. Mahendra Amin. The gynecologist was “rough,” they said. His examinations could leave a bruise. And he had a way of turning a routine visit into surgical procedures that the women weren’t sure they needed. “They didn’t...
Point Park runner Alyssa Campbell continues to build on sophomore successVideo
The Instagram post already is written: Eight years of running means eight years off. Point Park junior Alyssa Campbell is planning ahead for the last race of her senior season. When she is finished competing for the Pioneers, she aims to back off on her volume of running. In the...
