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House Ethics opens investigation into Rep. Katie Hill over alleged staffer relationship
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into Rep. Katie Hill regarding allegations that she may have had a sexual relationship with a member of her staff. The committee will gather additional information regarding the allegations, the committee said in a statement. Hill denied allegations Tuesday she...
Michigan QB Shea Patterson accuses Penn State of intentionally gouging his eyesVideo
Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson said Tuesday that at least one Penn State defensive player intentionally eye-gouged him for “about” 10 seconds during his fourth-quarter touchdown sneak Saturday. “I’ve never been in a pileup as violent as that one,” Patterson told the Detroit News. “Got the touchdown, but that wasn’t fun.”...
The Birdie is strutting his stuff with A-K Valley picks
Last week: 10-3 (76.9) Overall record: 69-30 (69.6) “That’s what I call a bounce back week!” The Birdie’s jubilant cry was heard from the rafters of the Valley News Dispatch office Monday as he walked in with his 1970s letterman jacket on, some cool aviator shades and a necklace that...
High school football schedule for Week 9
Friday WPIAL Class 6A Butler at Canon-McMillan, 7 p.m. Central Catholic at Mt. Lebanon, 7:30 p.m. North Allegheny at Pine-Richland, 7 p.m. Norwin at Seneca Valley, 7:30 p.m. Class 5A Allegheny 8 Bethel Park at Upper St. Clair, 7 p.m. Moon at West Allegheny, 7 p.m. Peters Township at Baldwin,...
The Birdie making trick-or-tweet plans in Westmoreland County
Last week: 14-0 (1.000) Season: 99-18 (84.6) A pile of candy wrappers on the Birdie’s desk grows each day. It looks like a mound of leaves, especially with all of the orange peanut butter cup papers. No, the great one did not overeat to celebrate his perfect 14-0 week of...
Harmar supervisors say public needs to be prepared for tougher stormwater runoff rules
Harmar supervisors are pondering how to increase community awareness on the demands of the federal Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Program. Supervisor Harry Lenhart discussed the need for such an effort after attending a Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors conference last week about the program, also known as MS4....
Daily Download: Trump’s visit, Amazon breaks ground and Frank CoonellyVideo
Each day, TribLIVE reporters and editors will break down the biggest news of the day, with video highlights of the people and places making headlines. Today, reporter Maddy Lee discusses President Donald Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh, Amazon breaking ground in Findlay and the Pirates and team president Frank Coonelly parting...
Editorial: No gratitude for fake school threat
Perhaps we should be grateful that there was no real danger. On Tuesday, a man passed a note across the counter of a North Huntingdon restaurant. It warned of “an active shooter threat and multiple bombs” at Norwin and Jeannette high schools. There was no active shooter. There was no...
Highlands’ talent show Thursday to raise money toward spring musical
Highlands High School is staging its annual “Fall Follies” talent show on Thursday, Oct. 24. The student-led evening features 24 acts from 78 students in the Highlands Honors and Variations Show Choirs and musical stage crew. The event is a fundraiser for Highland’s spring musical. “The monies raised will go...
Shaler Area Elementary Career Day conducted by high school, Beattie students
Shaler Area Elementary School hosted a Career Day for fifth-grade students with hands-on lessons led by students from Shaler Area High School, as well as several other local high schools, who are dual-enrolled in A.W. Beattie Career Center programs. The students had the opportunity to learn about a variety of...
Multi-purpose turf field planned for new Thomas Jefferson High School
West Jefferson Hills School District leaders are looking to add a multipurpose turf field behind the new Thomas Jefferson High School that would serve as a space for soccer and band practices, as well as physical education classes. The proposal would turn what now is a muddy grass area into...
Letter to the editor: Trump investigating corruption?
In one of the most absurd scenarios being played out in American history, Donald Trump commands corruption investigations of his political opponents … again. Trump supporters laud Trump as the one trying to clean up corruption in a Washington swamp? Hilarious, if it were not so threatening to democracy. This,...
Letter to the editor: Jesus, too, criticized the elite
Letter-writer George A. West (“Trump is no savior,” Oct. 13, TribLIVE) can’t see the forest for the trees. Jesus Christ was no Mister Rogers. Perhaps West should spent some time reading scripture. Jesus was a firebrand, a rabble rouser, a rebel; some might even call him a malcontent of his...
Letter to the editor: Impeachment is a farce
People don’t understand the procedure of impeachment. There are several stages involved. First, an impeachment resolution is introduced in the House of Representatives. The House conducts a hearing to decide if the resolution moves on for a full vote. If a simple majority of approves an article of impeachment, the...
U.S. stronger today, will be stronger tomorrow, Trump says in Pittsburgh speechVideo
President Donald Trump lauded the men and women working in Marcellus Shale and lauded his administration’s efforts to boost American energy production during his speech Wednesday at the Shale Insight conference inside the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. Trump spoke for just more than an hour. Protesters and...
David Spigelmyer, Matt Hammond & Anne Blankenship: Policies & priorities for natural gas industry
Pennsylvanians are realizing more than $2,000 in annual home energy savings; Ohio’s air quality progress is accelerating faster than the national average; and West Virginia experienced the country’s highest economic growth rate earlier this year. This economic and environmental success across the broader tri-state region is being enabled by the...
Check out these events happening in the Sewickley area
SA performs free show Sewickley Academy Senior School presents “Around the World in 80 Days” at 7 p.m. Oct. 24-26 and 2 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Gregg Family Theater. Danger, romance and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven...
Sewickley-area real estate transactions for the week of Oct. 20
Bell Acres James Rogers sold property at 124 Skymark Lane to James Dietz trustee and Kelly Gray trustee for $1,175,000. Sewickley Ronald Kwalick sold property at 830 Thorn St. Unit 8 to John Kwalick and Melanie Plaikner for $85,000. Real estate transactions provided by RealSTATs. Contact RealSTATs at 412-381-3880 or...
Sewickley’s Ramp ‘N’ Rize hosts fundraiser for Ryan Shazier’s foundation
Put on your workout clothes and get ready to ramp, row and rize for a good cause. Sewickley-based Ramp ‘N’ Rize is teaming up with Athleta Shadyside and Row House North Hills on Oct. 25 to host the “Shalieve in Halloween” fundraiser to benefit Pittsburgh Steeler Ryan Shazier’s newly created...
Letter to the editor: Lockdowns and children’s fears
Holding a small paper cat she made in school, my daughter tells me, “I make paper animals when I’m scared.” What fear is there in third grade, and how does she already have a coping mechanism? On Friday, her school was under lockdown for active shooter training. Recounting her experience,...
Crouse Run Nature Preserve benefits from Pitt Make A Difference Day
Forty students from the University of Pittsburgh were in Hampton to remove invasive species from Crouse Run Nature Preserve. The volunteers then planted native shrubs and berry bushes on Oct. 19 to improve the health of the preserve . It was part of the 12th annual Pitt Make A Difference...
Pine-Richland alum, American University graduate awarded Fulbright Scholarship
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board awarded 2016 Pine-Richland High School graduate Emma Kapoor, who graduated from American University in 2019, with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Spain. Through the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Kapoor has started teaching English, history and...
Halloween-themed activities abound in Pine, Hartwood
Halloween and fall-themed activities made Hartwood Acres the place to be on Oct. 19. The fun continues on Oct. 26 at Pine Community Center. From 1 to 4 p.m., at Pine Community Center, there will be a bounce house, spooky stories, candy searches and all kinds of skele-fun you don’t...
Fall Greenhouse meeting in Wexford
The “Western Pennsylvania Fall Greenhouse Meeting,” hosted by Penn State Extension, will provide research-based information for greenhouse growers on pest and disease control, proper cultural practices, new varieties of plants and marketing ideas. The meeting will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., Nov. 7, at Soergel Orchards, 2573...
Etna seeks world’s first EcoDistricts certification
More than 400 people are expected to attend the 10th annual EcoDistricts Summit on Nov. 4 and 5 at The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, downtown. Kathy Risko, EcoDistricts Pittsburgh regional coordinator, said “it is the hope” her organization will announce that Etna has obtained the world’s first EcoDistricts...
