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The Stroller, Aug. 28, 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. Follow the Stroller on Twitter @VNDStroller for a daily link to The Stroller. Concert scheduled Sunday in Brackenridge A concert featuring Two...
Giants’ Saquon Barkley opens up about his dad being ‘mistreated’ by copsVideo
NEW YORK — The Giants players’ response to Jacob Blake’s shooting escalated publicly Thursday, and star running back Saquon Barkley was the face of their resistance and restlessness. The team continued practicing in East Rutherford, N.J., unlike several NFL clubs that temporarily canceled around the country. But Joe Judge convened...
High school roundup for Aug. 27: WPIAL sports return with golf openers
For every golfer taking part in a match Thursday, it was a memorable occasion. High school sports took place for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut everything down during the swimming and basketball postseasons in March. For Ligonier Valley’s golf team, it was a doubly historic moment. The...
Pennsylvania cities, towns with highest rate of UFO sightings; Pittsburgh is 206th
The skies of Pennsylvania appear to be packed with unidentified flying objects, UFOs. Pennsylvanians haven’t reported sightings at anywhere near the rate of the top reporting city in the country. Residents of Gila Bend, Arizona, about 470 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico, since 1914 have reported UFOs at a...
2 Greater Latrobe School District employees test positive for covid-19
Two employees of Greater Latrobe School District tested positive for covid-19, according to Superintendent Georgia Teppert. Administrators were informed over the weekend that the staff members were showing symptoms. The district contacted the state Department of Health, which conducted contact tracing, according to Teppert. No students were affected. Teppert said...
Letter to the editor: What Trump is all about
I can’t believe the number of Trump supporters who have no idea what this president is all about after 3½ years of what seems like more lies than all the U.S. presidents combined. I look at what he does and not what he tells us, because in most cases, they...
Letter to the editor: Wayman should resign from Norwin board
I find the posts Robert Wayman made on his social media an utter disgrace, and I would implore that the Norwin School Board strongly suggest that he resign immediately (“Norwin director ripped over controversial posts; some call for resignation,” Aug. 3, TribLIVE). A person who makes such comments as he...
Editorial: College quarantine behavior no surprise
College is not just a place to learn. It’s also a place to show how you’ve applied what you’ve learned. If it wasn’t, colleges wouldn’t ask for high school transcripts and class rankings and test scores. No 16-year-olds would take AP chemistry. Eighth grade math class wouldn’t matter. But it...
Letter to the editor: Money for big business, not for unemployed?
I watched Austan Goolsbee, President Obama’s economic adviser, talk on MSNBC about the stalemate over the second stimulus package. I know, President Trump and his minions call MSNBC fake news, even though it relies on facts and not something someone pulled out of thin air and posted on the internet....
Letter to the editor: Trump’s flaws better than Dems’ shackles
I didn’t vote for President Trump when he won. I will now, when all polls say he’ll lose. I don’t want “fundamental transformation” of history’s fairest government. Or “Democratic socialism” that only puts lipstick on Marxism. Or $93 trillion Green New Deals (GND) that enslave generations of taxpayers. The GND’s...
Man in critical condition after Wilkinsburg shooting
One man is in critical condition after being shot in the back in Wilkinsburg, according to Allegheny County Police. The shooting on Paul Court was reported to 911 around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. First responders found the victim and took him to the hospital. Homicide detectives are investigating. Anyone with information...
Woman killed, man injured in Homewood shooting
A woman was killed and a man injured in a shooting in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood Wednesday night, according to the city Department of Public Safety. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office identified the woman as Janyel Crawford, 31, of North Versailles. The city’s ShotSpotter gunshot detection system reported gunfire near...
The Stroller, Aug. 27, 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. Follow the Stroller on Twitter @VNDStroller for a daily link to The Stroller. Western Pa. toy run to benefit children’s charities The...
Penn-Trafford students return to school
Penn-Trafford School District students returned to school Thursday — or at least, most of them did. The district originally planned to have a full reopening, but changed course earlier this month to meet state coronavirus guidelines. Students in grades K-8 will attend school as normal, but have the first seven...
Judge Tranquilli suspended without pay for alleged misconduct; trial in October
The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline on Wednesday suspended Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Mark V. Tranquilli without pay effective immediately and has scheduled his trial on allegations of judicial misconduct to begin on Oct. 5. Tranquilli apologized in a letter to colleagues that was circulated this week. In an...
Norwin Elks entertain with 1st annual Summerfest
The first annual Norwin Elks Summerfest featuring live bands on the lawn was held Sunday, Aug. 23 at the Elks lodge, 135 Elks Lane in Manor. Concert-goers seated on blankets and lawn chairs were treated to live afternoon performances by William Dell & the Wee Jams, The Fabulous Gemtones and...
Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers hatch new plan to undermine Wolf’s emergency powers
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 — Thwarted by court rulings and vetoes, Republicans in the legislature unhappy with Gov. Tom Wolf’s response to the...
What to stream: Fraudster filmsVideo
On Sunday, the draw-dropping docuseries “Love Fraud” drops on Showtime, following the exploits of one dirty, dirty john, a notorious con artist and prolific bigamist named Richard Scott Smith, or Scott, or Mickey. Smith combined dating websites and a charm offensive to swindle women all around the Kansas City area,...
Evan Davis: Time to end illegal sports betting in U.S.
In May 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law known as the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), thereby allowing states to pass laws that legalize and regulate sports betting within their borders. Since that time, nearly half of the states across the country have legalized...
Letter to the editor: Past poll workers want to return
I read with interest the article “Poll worker needs ranked critical in Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette counties” (Aug. 13, TribLIVE). My sister and I worked the June 2 election and have yet to receive a call about coming back in November. Before a “drastic shortage” is a headline in the paper,...
Carnival’s Princess cancels some world cruises in early 2021
Carnival Corp.’s Princess line canceled some early 2021 voyages, the latest sign that the covid-19 pandemic is likely to weigh on the cruise industry for many more months. The cancellations affect world cruises on the Island Princess from North America and some South America voyages on the Pacific Princess, the...
1 injured in Rostraver methane pipe explosion
One person suffered minor injuries after a reported explosion in a methane pipe at a Rostraver landfill, according to Westmoreland County 911. The explosion at Westmoreland Waste Sanitary Landfill on Connor Lane was reported around 10 a.m. First responders reported the situation was under control and called off firefighters. The...
Living with Children: Where we all went wrong
My profession, psychology, began demonizing traditional childrearing in the late 1960s. I was in graduate school at the time and on fire for the promise that the proper use of psychological principles could perfect the raising of children and thereby usher in the social utopia we (young boomers whose heads...
Letter to the editor: How can veterans support Trump?
In reference to Ken Bossart’s letter “Civility lost in political disagreement”: I would never choose to call you a name if I disagreed with you. I would commend you for your service. But what I can never understand is a veteran supporting a “draft dodger.” Or whatever a person is...
Letter to the editor: Party over constituency in Congress
I find it very interesting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi found it necessary to announce a recall of Congress because of the potential for a postal slowdown. This of course could affect the election results for her party, which is counting large on mail-in voting. The next stimulus act has been...
