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Remember When: Jan. 27
A look at the Valley’s past in the language of the times as compiled by George Guido. 100 years ago New $17K pool to be dedicated Plans have been completed for the dedicating of a new, $17,000 natatorium built by the Summit Hose Co. in the organization’s West Seventh avenue...
Trib HSSN PIHL Player of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26, 2020
When Hampton defeated Pine-Richland in a shootout to hand the Rams their only loss of the 2018-19 PIHL season, Jacob McGee stopped 41 of the 44 shots he faced. It was a game in which the Talbots were outshot by a wide margin. That happened again this year. This past...
Trib HSSN PIHL Team of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26, 2020
Last season, the Pine-Richland Rams lost one game. It was a 4-3 loss to Hampton in a shootout. At the time, the Rams were the No. 1-ranked team in the PIHL. On Monday, Hampton welcomed Latrobe — the No. 1 team in the state. The Wildcats were 12-0 and had...
Bethel Park bumped from top spot in 6A in latest PIAA girls basketball rankings
It was another week of lots of wins for the teams in the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings. There were a couple of flip-flops, with three teams losing but remaining in the top five among the elite throughout the Commonwealth. The only exits were by a pair of Class...
WPIAL team wrestling playoffs, key section basketball this week on Trib HSSN
The WPIAL team wrestling playoffs take place while the stretch run of the high school basketball regular season begins this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. We have plenty of WPIAL boys and girls section basketball games, including the HSSN boys and girls video stream Games of the...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Team of the Week: Week ending Jan. 26
A year ago, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was not the favorite in Class 2A, yet the Chargers raised eyebrows by beating Burgettstown, Serra Catholic, Bishop Canevin and Brentwood to win the school’s first WPIAL girls basketball crown. Now, they are trying to be the team to beat as...
Girls basketball games and WPIAL team wrestling playoffs make for Monday madness
Monday begins the stretch run of the WPIAL basketball season as two weeks left in section play. Some section races are clear cut. Others are jammed up like the Parkway at rush hour. One such example for girls basketball is in Section 1-6A. Norwin and North Allegheny are a clear-cut...
WPIAL Girls Basketball Player of the Week — Week ending Jan. 26
After winning a combined seven games the three previous seasons, New Brighton is in the hunt for a playoff spot, tied for fifth place in Section 1-2A. The Lions are one game out of a playoff spot heading into the final two weeks of the regular season. Part of the...
High school roundup for Jan. 26, 2020: Highlands tops Allderdice
In a rare Sunday boys basketball game, Highlands earned a 70-52 win over Allderdice (13-4) at the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Classic at Montour. Korry Myers scored 17 points, and Johnny Crise added 15 points and nine rebounds for the Golden Rams (16-2). Luke Cochran tallied 13 points, five rebounds and...
Report: 5 rockets hit near U.S. Embassy in Iraqi capital
Five Katyusha rockets were fired Sunday night at the heavily fortified Green Zone at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad but did not cause any injuries or serious damage U.S. Joint Operations Command said in a statement. The Associated Press reported that one rocket landed inside the embassy walls. The State...
High school scores, schedules for Jan. 26, 2020
High schools Basketball Boys Sunday’s results WPIAL PBC Hall of Fame Classic At Montour Highlands 70, Allderdice 52 Lincoln Park 58, Kennedy Catholic 45 Sto-Rox 79, Seton LaSalle 78 Uniontown 56, Ambridge 52 Upper St. Clair 77, Mars 68 Shootout at Seton Hill University Greensburg Central Catholic 57, Derry 49...
Former Penn State wideout Justin Shorter selects an SEC school as his new home
Justin Shorter is headed to the SEC. The former Penn State wideout announced Sunday afternoon on Twitter that he is joining the Florida Gators’ program. The 6-4, 230-pound Shorter posted a picture of himself in a Florida Gators uniform — wearing No. 6 — and attach the words “Officially Committed!”...
Jenna Lafko blossoms as junior, helps Saint Vincent women climb to top of PAC
Saint Vincent women’s basketball coach Jimmy Petruska can see it already. Some day, his junior point guard, Jenna Lafko, is going to be a coach. Not only are X’s and O’s in her blood — her father, Joe, is the longtime boys basketball coach at Hampton — Lafko, Petruska said,...
Former Penn-Trafford baseball star who died in Penn Township crash remembered
A star baseball player died Saturday as a result of injuries he suffered when his car collided with a pickup in Penn Township, authorities said. Maclean Peter “Mac” Maund, 18, of Harrison City died at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, where he had been taken for treatment, according to his obituary....
Peter Morici: Michael Bloomberg’s wrong answer to inequality
Inequality and economic growth have been central themes in national elections since John Kennedy’s campaign. The Clintons, Barack Obama and the latest crop headed by Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg want to give us freer access to health care, higher education (and debt forgiveness), child care...
Before starring in NBA, Kobe Bryant was a Philadelphia high school prodigyVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Kobe Bryant, a prodigy at Lower Merion High who leaped into the NBA at 17 and became a basketball legend during two spotlit decades with the Los Angeles Lakers, was killed Sunday when his private helicopter crashed in Calabasas, Calif. Bryant was 41 and had been retired since...
Kobe Bryant crash: A boom, then a huge fireball. ‘No one could survive that’Video
CALABASAS, Calif. — Jerry Kocharian, 62, was standing outside the Church in the Canyon drinking coffee when he heard a helicopter flying unusually low and seeming to struggle. “It wasn’t sounding right, and it was real low,” Kocharian said. “I saw it falling and spluttering. But it was hard to...
Kobe Bryant photos: Looking back at an NBA legendVideo
Kobe Bryant, the former Pennsylvania high school phenom who became a five-time NBA champion, died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Southern California. He was 41. Bryant won five titles with the Los Angeles Lakers, who acquired him in a trade with the Charlotte Hornets after he was selected 13th...
Trump suggests Adam Schiff ‘has not paid the price’ for prosecuting impeachmentVideo
President Donald Trump lashed out at Rep. Adam Schiff in a series of tweets on Sunday, saying the California Democrat has “not paid the price, yet” for his role in the impeachment process, a statement Schiff said he viewed as a threat. “Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and...
Police: Pittsburgh man attacked medics, threw furniture at officers during hours-long standoff
A Pittsburgh man who sparked a three-hour standoff when he attacked two paramedics Saturday also threw a dresser and air conditioning unit at the SWAT officers charged with getting him out of his Windgap house, according to the charges against him. Joseph Sadar, 51, called 911 about 3:45 p.m. Friday...
Editorial: Marketing message money well spent
There is a lot that goes into altering the way a community is seen. There can be problems to fix. There can be changes to make. There can be new paths to follow. But there is also the message that needs to be spread. Hey, we’re still here! Things are...
VideoChart: How NFL franchises stack up in the Hall of FameVideo
Our latest VideoChart shows the progression of Pro Football Hall of Famers by team, starting with the first inductees in 1963. Want to see more animated stats? Check out all of our VideoCharts here....
Letter to the editor: If voters want Hillary, run her again
Regarding the letter “Voters wanted Hillary Clinton as president” (Jan. 17, TribLIVE): If this is the case, why doesn’t the Democratic Party run her again? Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...
Letter to the editor: The wealthy & the poor
Progressives believe it is unjust for some people to amass huge fortunes because concentrated wealth causes more poverty in others. But such an idea is absolutely false, and here’s why. The potential to become wealthy motivates people to work harder, take risks, invent things and innovate — and that benefits...
Letter to the editor: We must pledge allegiance to world
As a Boy Scout leader, I publicly pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. It is a pledge I take very seriously, solemnly and reverently. I am proud to wear the flag on my uniform and genuinely, albeit imperfectly, try to live up to the national...
