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5 Mt. Pleasant high school students, 1 recent graduate hurt in 2-vehicle crash
The day after five Mt. Pleasant Area High School students and a recent graduate were injured in a two-vehicle, head-on crash, Superintendent Timothy Gabauer on Tuesday said district officials met with four students who remained hospitalized. “They are all in good spirits and extremely concerned about one another,” Gabauer said....
Jeers to cheers, most Penguins fans say they support Matt Murray
Most Penguins fans have Matt Murray’s back, according to TribLIVE.com social media polls. Sixty-seven percent of respondents in the Trib’s unscientific Facebook poll said fans were not justified in booing Murray after he allowed two early goals against the Boston Bruins on Sunday at PPG Paints Arena. About 400 people...
Letter to the editor: Think about Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg, Biden
Think about it: Elizabeth Warren, commander in chief Bernie Sanders, commander in chief Pete Buttigieg, commander in chief Joe Biden, commander in chief Think about it — please! Catherine F. Fike Ruffs Dale...
Letter to the editor: March to end property tax
At 8 a.m. Feb. 3, the Pennsylvania Taxpayers Cyber Coalition (PTCC), consisting of Pennsylvania residents, will hold a march at the steps of the capitol in Harrisburg to urge legislators to begin the process of reforming the archaic unfair method of funding schools. A number of legislators supporting school tax...
Letter to the editor: Our incivility & disunity
Some may believe the causes of the anger, distrust and infighting experienced in America today are solely the result of social media or some other singular cause. I propose that what we are experiencing (regardless of political persuasion) involves a multifaceted, long-term and complex set of circumstances. The question may...
John Oyler: Bridgeville High School Class of 1946
The Bridgeville Area Historical Society recently received a valuable collection of memorabilia related to the Bridgeville High School Class of 1946 from alumnus Paul Schmidt’s widow via classmate Ed Chabala. Paul is portrayed helping his mother make apple butter in an outdoor kitchen in a photograph on Page 90 of...
Boys & Girls Clubs to provide before, after care at Scott Primary
The Shaler Area School Board approved an agreement Jan. 15 with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania to provide before and after school enrichment at Scott Primary. The North Boroughs YMCA is discontinuing the services it offered at the school. The Boys & Girls Clubs will start offering...
Quinn on Nutrition: Nuts that are not nuts
Question: “You have helped me out in the past so I thought I’d get your opinion on this. On a recent show, a doctor was talking about which foods to eat and which to avoid. He said that you should be eating nuts, but don’t eat cashews, as they are...
Up to a third of opioid overdose deaths might be suicides, Johns Hopkins researcher concludes
Tens of thousands of people fatally overdose each year on opioids and other drugs. Sometimes medical examiners label them accidents, and sometimes they don’t know what to call them. But where humans waver, a computer program using a kind of artificial intelligence finds many are likely suicides — possibly a...
Leet police charge Baden woman with making terroristic threats
Terroristic threats Leet police charged Michelle Chmura, 46, of Baden with two counts of terroristic threats and two counts of recklessly endangering another person Jan. 11 for an incident Jan. 1. Driving while operating privilege is suspended or revoked Edgeworth police charged Reshaun Anthony Tarver, 33, of New Brighton with...
Hampton school board leads community blood drive
There’s a critically low blood supply in the Pittsburgh region, a lot less than what is needed to supply a hospital, according to local Vitalant blood supply centers. This is not a good position to be in especially when emergencies and trauma events occur unscheduled and unpredictably, according to Kristen...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 20, 2020
Basketball Boys Monday’s results WPIAL MLK Weekend Showcase At Woodland Hills First Love Christian 62, St. Benedict’s Prep (N.J.) 61 Imani Christian 62, Westinghouse 59 Mt. Zion Christian (N.C.) 63, Carolina Basketball Academy (N.C.) 62 National Christian Academy (Md.) 66, Teays Valley Christian (W.Va.) 53 New Town (Md.) 62, Allderdice...
High school roundup for Jan. 20, 2020: Bethel Park’s Maggie Dziezgowski hits 1,000 points in rivalry win
Maggie Dziezgowski scored 16 points, reaching the 1,000-point mark for her career, to lead No. 1 Bethel Park to a 49-38 victory over No. 5 Upper St. Clair (9-5, 6-4) in a battle of ranked girls basketball rivals in Section 2-6A Monday night. Olivia Westphal scored 17 points for the...
Mitch McConnell moves to speed up Senate impeachment trialVideo
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed Monday to significantly speed up President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, offering rules that would shoehorn opening arguments into a grueling four-day period of 12-hour days, meaning a major part of the nation’s third-ever presidential impeachment trial could wrap up by the weekend....
Key WPIAL boys basketball games make for a busy Tuesday
The first time they met this season, it was an instant classic. Springdale jumped out to an 18-0 lead, Sto-Rox fought back to force overtime and a freshman hit a free throw in the waning seconds of OT as the Dynamos beat the Vikings, 86-85. On Tuesday, the two teams...
A new battleground in the web browser wars: Privacy
Google announced a massive shift last week in how it handles cookies, those pesky digital trackers that chase us around the internet and serve up targeted ads that are both creepy yet eerily precise reflections of our wants. The search giant, which just helped Alphabet Inc. surpass a $1 trillion...
Performances we love: Christian Bale fools us again
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me as many times as Christian Bale has, and you are dealing with an actor of exceptional dedication and ability. I use the “fool me” formulation because when you’ve watched transcendent performers over the course of long...
Black Pumas talk busking, Prince and best new artist nomination ahead of Grammys
Much like their toughest competition, Lizzo, the co-founders of Texas soul-rock band Black Pumas find the “new” part of their best new artist Grammy nomination to be a bit of a misnomer. “Some of these songs date back 10 years, and I’ve been a working musician going on 20,” mused...
Lev Parnas demands William Barr’s recusal from his criminal case
Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas demanded Monday that Attorney General William Barr recuse himself from his criminal case over allegations that Barr played a part in President Donald Trump’s hunt for Ukrainian dirt on Democrats. Parnas, who has broken with Team Trump in spectacular fashion and is angling to testify...
Marathon Petroleum, Auto Nation make quarterly Casualty List
Buying the stocks of good companies on bad news is my favorite investing method. The trick is to find bad news that is real but probably temporary. Each quarter in this column, I compile my Casualty List. It highlights stocks that have been pummeled in the latest quarter, and that...
NPR host Terry Gross will be on PBS’ show, discussing how terrible a teacher she was
PHILADELPHIA — After more than 13,000 interviews and 40 years on the air at WHYY, “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross is among the most recognizable figures in American radio. But back in 1973, she was a soon-to-be-fired English teacher at a public school in Buffalo, N.Y. “I was literally fired...
Pirates invite 11 to spring training
The Pirates announced 11 more players who will attend spring training as nonroster invitees this season, including four who pitched for the major league club in limited duty last season. Righties Montana DuRapau, Luis Escobar and James Marvel and lefty Williams Jerez pitched for the Pirates last season. The other...
Trump aide Kellyanne Conway claims Martin Luther King Jr. would be against impeachmentVideo
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway claimed Monday that Martin Luther King Jr. would oppose the impeachment of President Trump. The comment was given when a reporter asked Conway how the president planned to observe the MLK holiday. “I can tell you the president is preparing for [the World Economic Forum...
Glenn Cannon, champion of public safety in Pittsburgh, dies at 71
Glenn Cannon, who helped found and build much of Pittsburgh’s public safety system — and then went on to serve at the state and national level — died Monday at the age of 71. Cannon, who was Pittsburgh’s public safety director from 1986 to 1992, never forgot the men and...
Editorial: FDA should scrub in on recall
There are things that are done with an abundance of trust — things done with the belief that they are safe. Like surgery. When going into an operating room, people are vulnerable. They know things can go wrong, but they also trust everything that can be done to ensure it...
