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Chartiers Valley girls basketball player Aislin Malcolm shows poise beyond years
If Aislin Malcolm had any ideas about going through high school as a two-sport athlete, they were quashed at an early age. Basketball always has been her primary sport, but she also played soccer as a youngster. Her brother, Cian, five years older, similarly played lacrosse as his primary sport...
Mock draft predicts Steelers will take pass-rusher Darrell Taylor in 2nd roundVideo
Super Bowl LIV between San Francisco and Kansas City is all that remains of the 100th NFL season, and the 2020 draft class is finally set. The NFL on Tuesday released the official list of underclassmen who decided to leave college early for the pros. There were 120 players who...
Western Pa. pro-life activists excited for Trump appearance at March for Life
Pro-life activists say they feel energized about Friday’s 47th annual March for Life as they await the first-ever appearance by a sitting U.S. president. President Trump announced this week that he plans to make a personal appearance at the annual event, which marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade —...
Laurels & lances: Cookies, phishing, kidney and overtime
Laurel: To aiming high. The 2.36 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies sold each year averages out to about 150 boxes per scout. But Stella VanWhy, 6, of Arnold thought she could sell 2,020 boxes this year. Her leader suggested something more realistic, so the Daisy Scout came up with...
McClellan Elementary paraprofessional becomes U.S. Citizen
Shevan Abdulla sits on the floor inside a first-grade classroom at McClellan Elementary School constructing a colorful tower alongside student Santino Civitello. “Higher,” Santino states, as Abdulla, a paraprofessional at the school, adds more blocks to the structure and begins quizzing the young boy on his spelling words. It’s business...
Harmar fills vacancy on board of supervisors
Harmar Supervisors appointed Jim Devlin to fill a vacancy on the township board. Devlin, 73, will fill the unexpired term of Supervisors’ Chairman Bob Seibert. Seibert, who had two years left on his six-year term, decided to run for the seat vacated by Patricia Janoski, who retired from the board...
Review: ‘The Turning’ refuses to answer enduring horror questionVideo
At the end of Floria Sigismondi’s “The Turning,” after all the credits had rolled, male members of the audience at a press screening were visibly and vocally upset. They were seemingly enraged at the film’s unwillingness to offer up a single definitive answer about the perceived haunting in this take...
Baldwin Borough considers ordinance over publicly slaughtering animals
Baldwin Borough leaders are considering new rules that would require residents who are sacrificing animals for religious purposes to do so out of the view of the public. The amended ordinance, which is working its way through borough council, would address an issue that sprung up in Baldwin last year,...
Review: Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Gentlemen’ is stale pint of aleVideo
Guy Ritchie’s honor-among-thieves meta-caper “The Gentlemen,” with Matthew McConaughey, has all the tailored tweed suits and smoky atmosphere of a handsome scotch commercial. “The Gentlemen” might not be an ad, but Ritchie’s film is most assuredly selling something. It’s selling a vision in which “real men” handle their business with...
Letter to the editor: Trump’s offenses
A while back, Donald Trump was asked to attend an impeachment proceeding. He ignored the request and ordered others in his administration to do the same. Is this the expected behavior of an innocent man? Trump recently celebrated the country’s 3.5% unemployment rate. Is it 3.5% among the 18-25 age...
Letter to the editor: Government should investigate dangerous substances
Letter-writer Robert H. Poppenga (“ ‘Dark Waters’ perpetuates falsehoods,” Jan. 5, TribLIVE) wrote about test results on cattle owned by West Virginia farmer Wilbur Tennant which found that the herd suffered from poor nutrition and subpar veterinary care. I recall that being said in the film as the reason Tennant...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment dangerous
For the past three years, President Trump and his family have been verbally attacked, ridiculed, castigated and lied about by the Democrats, the biased mainstream media and the entertainment industry. And the Democrats have tried every way they know how, ethical or not, to remove him from the office he...
Black and blue battle highlights a busy night of WPIAL girls hoops on Thursday
Last year, Peters Township was perfect in cruising to the Section 2-6A title. It was only the third year in over a decade and a half that particular basketball section’s chase did not come down to either Bethel Park or Mt. Lebanon wearing the crown. All seems right with the...
Vincentian boys, Woodland Hills girls debut in Trib 10 power rankings
One team in, one team out. That’s what both the boys and girls Trib 10 this week is all about. The second half of section play saw very little change in the top seven boys and girls basketball power rankings with the exception of Mt. Lebanon and Penn Hills slipping...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 22, 2020
Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 3A Section 3 Steel Valley 73, Shady Side Academy 69 Nonsection Armstrong 47, Freeport 38 Beth-Center 65, Mapletown 49 Clairton 70, West Mifflin 67 Hopewell 60, Keystone Oaks 49 Jeannette 65, East Allegheny 33 Riverside 61, Freedom 47 Union 59, Ellwood City 42 Washington...
Grant from Holocaust Center helps Shaler Area educator expand LIGHT program
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is providing a grant allowing a Shaler Area teacher to devote more time to preparing students for “leadership roles in Holocaust, genocide and human rights education, remembrance and advocacy,” according to recipient Nick Haberman. Haberman will use the funding to pilot a position as Shaler...
The Stroller, Jan. 23, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Banners to honor veterans in West Deer West Deer Township is accepting orders for banners to honor township residents who served in the Armed Forces. The double-sided banners will be printed by Gray Signs and measure 24 x 30-inches. Cost is $120 plus tax and includes banner, hardware, photo scanning...
Hampton school board approves plan that will not exceed Act 1 tax limit for 2020-21
The Hampton school board has approved not to raise the millage rates more than what the Act 1 “Not to Exceed” Budget Resolution allows for the 2020-21 budget year. The board passed the resolution and will now be limited to not raise rates more than the 2.6 percent set by...
Sewickley United Methodist to host 72nd turkey dinner
Antioch Baptist Church The church is at 332 Elizabeth St., Sewickley. Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. followed by worship and praise service at 10:45 a.m. • A Bible study and prayer service is at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. For more information, call 412-741-7688 or visitantiochfwbaptistsewickley.org. Beth Samuel Jewish Center The...
Pine-Richland approves property tax rebate for qualifying residents
For the 11th year in a row, the Pine-Richland School District approved a property tax rebate to qualifying senior citizens, widows and widowers for 2019. In order to qualify, senior citizens must have been 65 or older on Dec. 31, 2019 and owned a home in Pine or Richland for...
Police search for hit-and-run driver who struck teen girl at Burger King in Carrick
A teen girl was struck by a hit-and-run driver in the drive-thru of a Burger King while Pittsburgh firefighters were extinguishing a fire at the fast food restaurant, officials said. Officials are searching for the driver of a white or tan sedan that struck the girl, a Burger King employee,...
High school roundup for Jan. 22, 2020: Waynesburg edges Canon-McMillan on ninth tiebreaking criteria
It’s hard to imagine a more closely contested dual meet than the one Wanynesburg and Canon-McMillan waged in the Section 4-AAA championship match Wednesday night. With the score tied 30-30, the match came down to the ninth tiebreaking criteria — total near-fall points. Waynesburg’s Wyatt Henson picked up five back...
Letter to the editor: No tax breaks for polluters
The state Senate has a major decision to make: allow the plastics and fossil fuel industries to get a massive tax break or improve the environment for years to come. Pennsylvania needs clean air and water, something with which we have struggled for too long. At a time when environmental...
Rising Great Lakes prompt calls for more icebreakers
The shipping industry and Michigan businesses are urging Congress to increase the number of icebreaking ships in the Great Lakes as water levels have surged to record highs in most of the lakes and connecting waterways. In the past few winters, higher water levels have created greater ice hazards for...
High drug costs outweigh ‘Medicare for All’ as top health care issue for voters
WASHINGTON — The debate over creating a single government health plan for all Americans may have dominated the Democratic presidential campaign, but most voters are focused on a more basic pocketbook issue: prescription drug prices. In poll after poll, the high cost of medications is at or near the top...
