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Canon-McMillan shocks North Allegheny for first WPIAL volleyball title
Entering the WPIAL Class AAAA girls volleyball championship between third-seeded Canon-McMillan and top-seeded and unbeaten North Allegheny, the Big Macs were big underdogs. But Canon-McMillan pulled a major upset, ending the Tigers’ 65-match winning streak with a five-set victory Saturday and earning its first WPIAL title. “This team has been...
District football roundup: Duquesne, Robert Morris remain unbeaten in NEC
Daniel Parr threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score, and Duquesne cashed in on a turnover to beat St. Francis (Pa.), 30-21, on Saturday to remain undefeated in Northeast Conference play. The win was coach Jerry Schmitt’s 98th, the most in program history. Parr’s 15-yard pass to Kellon...
Bishop Canevin tops Fort Cherry for 3rd straight WPIAL volleyball title
Bishop Canevin has reached the WPIAL Class A girls volleyball finals in each of the past eight seasons. On Saturday, the Crusaders completed the first three-peat for the crown since Hopewell capped a four-year run in 2005. Bishop Canevin took down Fort Cherry, 3-1, in the first of four championships...
Peters Township doubles tandem claims PIAA championship
Peters Township’s Kat Wang and Marra Bruce claimed the PIAA Class AAA doubles tennis title Saturday afternoon after defeating Radnor’s Kanon Ciarrocchi and Lucy Hederick, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, at Hershey Racquet Club. Wang and Bruce advanced to the finals by beating Avery Palandjian and Scotty Reynolds of Manheim Township, 6-3,...
Peter Morici: Voters as responsible as politicians for dysfunction
In the snows of New Hampshire, yet another American president could emerge pledging to fix Washington — the political gridlock and the pervasive influence of “evil” special interests and K Street lobbyists. And relieve the worst burdens on middle class prosperity — skyrocketing health care costs, tuition and student debt,...
Letter to the editor: Crime in Jeannette must be addressed
After the recent shooting homicide on Cuyler Avenue in Jeannette, Mayor Curtis Antoniak stated on camera, “I will say, that once again, this is not Jeannette.” His wife made a similar comment following the shooting homicide outside the main gate at McKee Stadium in September. There have been five shooting...
David Ayers: Marriage & the gender gap in higher ed
A significantly lower percentage of young men are now obtaining college degrees compared to women. We have known this for some time now. As Jon Birger pointed out in his 2015 book “Date-onomics,” , and as the mass media trumpeted widely, among Americans in their 20s with college degrees, women...
Freeport rallies past North Catholic for WPIAL Class AA volleyball title
For the second time in 48 hours, the Freeport girls volleyball team rallied from two sets down. On Saturday afternoon, the comeback resulted in a 3-2 victory over top-seeded North Catholic in the WPIAL Class AA final at Fox Chapel. It’s the fifth WPIAL title — all in this decade...
College basketball preview: Division III/NAIA women’s teams and players to watch
Teams to watch La Roche: Won seven straight AMCC titles from 2011-17 but will look to end a two-year drought as Hilbert has captured previous two conference titles. … Redhawks return four of five starters. ••• Saint Vincent: Won PAC title in the first year of the post-Thomas More era,...
College basketball preview: Division II women’s teams, players to watch
DII teams to watch IUP: A Final Four team that won 30 games last season, the Crimson Hawks are ranked No. 9 in the preseason WBCA poll. … Must make up for loss of three top scorers, including Greensburg Central Catholic product Carolyn Appleby. … Starters Lexi Griggs (10.9 ppg,...
Outdoors notices for Nov. 3, 2019
Outdoors Notices HUNTER SAFETY COURSES Note: All hunter safety courses require preregistration at www.pgc.state.pa.us. • Concord United Methodist Church, Beaver County, 6-9:30 p.m. Nov. 7-8. Class limit 100. • Murrysville District Sportsmen Association/Gun Club, Westmoreland County, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Nov. 17. Class limit 55. SHOOTS ON TAP • California Hill...
Tear gas fired in downtown Hong Kong as protesters defy policeVideo
HONG KONG — Hong Kong police fired multiple rounds of tear gas at protesters who rallied for a 22nd consecutive weekend despite authorities denying them a permit to gather. Police arrested dozens, and deployed a water cannon on black-clad demonstrators who had built barricades and threw fire-lit objects in Wan...
Pelosi sets a high bar for impeachment inquiry: ‘ironclad’ proof
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, offering her most expansive view of the impeachment probe to date, said she decided to advance the inquiry into President Donald Trump after his phone call with Ukraine’s leader provided her with the “clarity” that prior allegations against Trump lacked. Pelosi said the partial...
Freeport Area School Board will have new faces soon; the question is: How many?
There will be at least two, and possibly three, new faces on the Freeport Area School Board after Tuesday’s election. Three political newcomers, Greg Selinger, Ron Kobelenske and Adam Toncini, all of Buffalo Township, join three incumbents to make up the six candidate field. Toncini is the only one who...
Editorial: Pittsburgh gun law isn’t a scrimmage
The preseason is when a team warms up, stretches and tries things out. Let’s see how this guy does as a quarterback. What if we pair up these two offensive players on the same line? It’s a way to do a test run on something before the score matters. So...
Sounding off: Tree of Life death penalty
Leaders of Dor Hadash and New Light congregations who lost members in the Tree of Life massacre in October 2018 wrote to Attorney General William Barr weeks ago asking the U.S. Justice Department to avoid pursuing the death penalty. They asked instead that the Pittsburgh killer be incarcerated for the...
Letter to the editor: Pa. doesn’t need recreational pot adding to problems
Just a few thoughts for Gov. Tom Wolf, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Attorney General Josh Shapiro: income tax, sales tax, the lottery, casinos — now you want more revenue from recreational marijuana. According to your estimate, it would bring in an additional $586 million. I assume that will be...
Letter to the editor: Voters, not government, rule our democracy
Who is the government? Is our government a “father figure,” a “big brother” or an “elite club”? No! President F.D. Roosevelt said, “Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a president and senators and...
South Park shocks North Catholic in Class 3A barn burner
South Park scored three fourth-quarter touchdowns, including a clutch 59-yard run up the middle by Rudy Mihoces with just over two minutes left in the game, to stun North Catholic, 32-27, in a WPIAL Class 3A first-round playoff upset Friday night at J.C. Stone Field in Allison Park. Mihoces finished...
Elijah Bray: Marsy’s Law dangerous to our freedoms
On Nov. 5, voters in Pennsylvania will face an important choice: whether or not to approve an amendment to the state Constitution. The benign title of the legislation, the Pennsylvania Marsy’s Law Crime Victims Rights Amendment, belies the dangerous language contained within the measure. Pennsylvania voters from across the political...
Sewickley’s Sierra Sellers has a budding, promising music career
Sierra Sellers, 24, is one of the youngest and most promising voices in Pittsburgh’s soul scene. On Aug. 10, she performed at Pittsburgh’s Very Own 2, a concert at Mr. Smalls featuring the city’s most prominent female R&B singers. Con Alma, a jazz bar that opened in Shadyside this spring,...
Thomas Jefferson High School finally gets its poolVideo
Twenty-one years ago, John Penn made a commitment to the TJ swimming community that he would be there to see them get a pool of their own. Not even a move to Florida could keep the TJ swimming and diving head coach away from being there this year when the...
Apple TV’s ‘Morning Show’ exposes off-camera scandals, schemesVideo
“The Morning Show” started life as a behind-the-scenes peek at a slice of network TV as familiar and routine as a wake-up cup of coffee. Then shocking revelations of sexual misconduct engulfed NBC’s “Today” and beyond, and the story changed. The 10-part drama series, part of the first wave of...
The Stroller, Nov. 2-3, 2019: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Benefit for Vandergrift cancer patient set Sunday A fundraiser to benefit cancer patient Karen Dongiovanni will be from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Moonlight Inn, 1011 La Belle Vue Road, Vandergrift. There will a lunch buffet from 1 to 4 p.m., a cash bar, basket raffle, t-shirt sale...
WPIAL football playoffs roundup: Gateway holds off Shaler in 1st round
Derrick Davis scored twice in the fourth quarter as No. 2 Gateway avoided being upset in its Class 5A first-round playoff game with a 35-21 victory against No. 15 Shaler (4-7) on Friday night. The game was tied at 14 heading into the final quarter. Davis ran for 123 yards...
