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Remember DVDs? 2 studios have a plan to preserve the near-dead format
LOS ANGELES — The market for DVD and Blu-ray discs has been on life support for years, as streaming has become the technology of choice for home video customers. In the past decade, the U.S. market for physical discs has gone from a more than $10 billion business in the...
Review: Half-baked, hectic ‘Dolittle’ could not have done lessVideo
In 1967, Twentieth Century Fox undertook an expensive and complicated production of “Doctor Dolittle,” based on a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting, about a doctor in Victorian England who talks to animals. Starring Rex Harrison, “Doctor Dolittle” was a notoriously doomed production, troubled by quarantined animals, Harrison’s behavior...
Letter to the editor: Hostage to turnpike rate hike
If you drive the Pennsylvania Turnpike, then you are being held hostage with the new rate increases. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission says rates are going up 6%. Think again! The rates were conveniently adjusted so the tolls will be rounded up to the nearest dime after the 6% hike is...
Review: Whatcha gonna do when ‘Bad Boys’ start showing their age?Video
The third edition of the “Bad Boys” franchise starts as it must do: With a gleaming Porsche swerving at impossible speeds through Miami traffic under the expert control of Will Smith, with Martin Lawrence growing very sick beside him. The engine snarls, the car repeatedly fishtails and strains. Smith looks...
Letter to the editor: Time to let time stop running our lives
I guess it’s time to join a gym for a year membership, only to go for the first month and find out that it’s real hard work to try to get into shape. It is time to check our credit card balances, for we may have overspent and hiked up...
Letter to the editor: Hollywood, science & clean water
Regarding the review “Ominous ‘Dark Waters’ is like ‘Chernobyl’ for America” (Nov. 27, TribLIVE): I have spent my career ensuring that Americans have clean water. Regulations must be grounded in science. Increasingly, facts are being disregarded or misinterpreted in order to manipulate public perception. These dynamics are evident in the...
St. Stephen’s in Sewickley starts new sermon series
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...
Knoch, North Catholic boys join Trib Ten power rankings
We’ve hit the midway point of section play in WPIAL hoops heading into this edition of the Trib Ten boys and girls basketball power rankings. There were no changes on the girls side of the Trib Ten as only North Allegheny slipped a bit after the Tigers’ second loss in...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 15, 2020
Basketball Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Nonsection Aliquippa 56, Hopewell 43 Aquinas Academy 82, Cheswick Christian 48 Avonworth 63, New Brighton 61 Belle Vernon 67, Carrick 53 California 63, Beth-Center 47 Chartiers-Houston 66, Jefferson-Morgan 53 Mohawk 61, Beaver County Christian 41 New Castle 88, Freeport 40 Ringgold 75, Frazier 39 Riverview...
WPIAL football future finalized, girls hoops tip off 2nd half of season Thursday
The much discussed landscape of WPIAL football for the next two years will be finalized Thursday when the district football steering committee meets to map out the conferences for the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The WPIAL presented two options to schools coaches and administrators in a town hall meeting last...
High school roundup for Jan. 15, 2020: Connellsville clinches first place with comeback win
Jared Keslar (145) won by technical fall to give his team the lead for good and George Schultz (152) clinched the victory with a pin as Connellsville rallied past Thomas Jefferson for a 35-29 win in a battle of unbeatens to claim the Section 2A-AAA title Wednesday night. Logan Danielson...
The Stroller, Jan. 16, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Allegheny Valley Hospital auxiliary sponsors vacation raffle Allegheny Valley Hospital Auxiliary is sponsoring a raffle for a seven night Hilton Head Hideaway vacation. The prize includes seven nights in a condo at Shelter Cove Harbor in Hilton Head, S.C. The winner will choose one of three available weeks to vacation....
Authorities say man shot, killed at East Ken Manor in New Kensington
A man was shot and killed at East Ken Manor in New Kensington on Wednesday, authorities said. The shooting was reported just before 5:30 p.m. on Dent Drive, according to a Westmoreland County 911 dispatcher. Police Chief Bob Deringer confirmed a man was found inside a car with multiple gunshot...
Remember DVDs? Two studios have a plan to preserve the near-dead format
LOS ANGELES — The market for DVD and Blu-ray discs has been on life support for years, as streaming has become the technology of choice for home video customers. In the past decade, the U.S. market for physical discs has gone from a more than $10-billion business in the United...
GM bids to buy land for a new battery factory in Lordstown
General Motors wants to build a new battery factory in Lordstown, Ohio, right next door to its former car assembly plant that it shuttered and sold last year. The automaker said it has a purchase agreement to buy a 158-acre vacant site in Trumbull County, Ohio. It is land GM...
Editorial: Small businesses are tariff casualties
Not every company that uses steel is a global giant. They aren’t all traded on the stock exchange. They don’t all employ thousands. Sometimes it’s a small company with small margins. But manufacturing matters whether it’s a major power or a minor one. That is why many buckled in for...
Food Podcast: How to keep public aware of hunger as communication landscape changes
Making the public more aware of hunger in the United States is a key priority of Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the country. “Feeding America only has about 50 percent awareness in the U.S., and that’s because we changed our name about 10 years ago,” Feeding America Chief...
Warner Bros. breaks ground on massive new studio with Gehry-designed ‘iceberg buildings’
Warner Bros. on Tuesday officially broke ground on a pair of Frank Gehry-designed office towers, which when completed will mark a major expansion of the Burbank, Calif.-based movie and TV studio’s headquarters. The project, first announced in April, was commemorated in a ceremony with Warner Bros. Chief Executive Ann Sarnoff...
Hempfield Steak ‘n Shake joins list of ‘temporarily closed’ locations
Over 100 Steak ‘n Shake restaurants across the country — including at least six in the Pittsburgh region — sit empty as the burger chain moves toward a franchise-based business model. The Hempfield location most recently joined Steak ‘n Shake locations in Frazer, Robinson and Center Township, while locations in...
Sewickley-area real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 12
Leet Ashley Ivancik sold property at 95 Main St. to Terry Zinsmaster for $145,000. Andrew Wilmot sold property at 210 S. Chaucer Ct. to Candice Betters for $556,500. Sewickley Brian Carey sold property at 624 Nevin Ave. to Ryan and Melissa Murray for $369,500. Real estate transactions provided by RealSTATs....
Letter to the editor: Both left, right clueless
This holiday season allowed me to spend time with people on the left and right who have no clue what’s happening in this country. I’m not sure where they get their information. I’ve listened to conversations that show the liberal left and conservative right are misinformed and clueless. I’m not...
Baldwin Spanish Club makes cards for women waiting on asylum at Mexico border
Nikol Muslimovic hoped the bright, colorful cards she and her classmates at Baldwin High School created for women awaiting asylum at the Mexican border would give them hope and encouragement to keep going. For her, this was personal. Just two decades ago, her parents immigrated to the United States from...
Letter to the editor: More people should learn to play chess
More Pennsylvanians should consider learning to play the fascinating game of chess. Chess stimulates one’s mental discourse and thought processes. It is widely believed that it also kick-starts the nerve endings in the brain. I recollect playing my grandfather when I was 10 years old. This was when I first...
Coroner identifies 2 victims of Fayette crash
A man and woman were killed early Wednesday morning in a one-car crash east of Brownstville, the Fayette County Coroner said. Both Jamal Ryan, 22, and Julie Ann Olsen, 25, who were traveling in the car, were dead at the scene, said Dr. Phillip Reilly, Fayette coroner. Reilly said his...
Real estate transactions for the week of Jan. 12, 2020
Bridgeville Mark Schneider sold property at 1001 Grandview Ave. Apt 802 to Rosemary Kasper for $80,000. Nicholas Andruszka sold property at 1308 Terrace to Michael and Kaleena Dilts for $139,900. Carnegie Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB trustee sold property at 37 Parkview Drive to Stephen and Medina Vickers for $181,500....
