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Clemson No. 1 in preseason football coaches poll, Penn State 14th
Clemson is No. 1 in the USA Today preseason coaches’ poll for the first time, followed by Alabama at No. 2. The defending champion Tigers received 59 of a possible 65 first-place votes, and the Crimson Tide got the rest in the poll released Thursday. The Associated Press preseason Top...
Al-Qaida is as strong as ever after rebuilding itself, U.S. says
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida and its affiliates remain as much of a threat to the U.S. as “it has ever been” after the terrorist group rebuilt itself while the U.S. and other nations focused on destroying Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a State Department official said Thursday. “Al-Qaida has been...
Laurels & lances: Funds, fire and field
Laurel: To working hard to make beautiful music. Some people start saving early for Christmas but the Hempfield Area High School marching band is more focused on stockpiling money for New Year’s Day. The Spartans will ring in 2020 five hours earlier than the rest of Westmoreland County because they...
Senate approves two-year, $2.7 trillion government spending bill
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved a $2.7 trillion spending agreement negotiated between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House, sending the deal to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. The bill passed 67-28. It was approved with more Democratic votes than Republican, a potential embarrassment for the...
Baldwin-Whitehall to build new elementary school with $48 million price tag
Baldwin-Whitehall School District plans to build a new $48 million, 48-classroom elementary school to replace the aging W.R. Paynter Elementary. District leaders recently announced plans for the new school, that also will address the district’s fast-growing population needs. The building likely will open its doors in August 2023. “It’s really...
Listen to WDVE’s Sean McDowell sign off for the last time
Longtime radio DJ Sean McDowell retired Wednesday after 41 years on the air around Pittsburgh. He broadcast his final show from the Marriott Pittsburgh City Center, across from PPG Paints Arena prior to the Queen and Adam Lambert concert. “This is my last break ever in radio in after 41...
St. Alexis Festival benefits Blessed Francis Seelos Academy
St. Alexis Parish’s annual Festival will continue each evening through Aug. 3 with games, rides, entertainment and more. Indoor dinners are served in the cafeteria from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Rides and games are held nightly from 6 to 11 p.m. The festival is held at St. Alexis, 10090 Old...
Sharpsburg and Cooper-Siegel libraries offer programs
Sharpsburg Activities at Sharpsburg Community Library can be registered for by calling 412-781-0783. • Green Grocer, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 12. Buy fruits, vegetables and herbs from the truck that visits weekly. It will be in the library parking lot at 1212 Main St. • PA CareerLink Mobile Office,...
West Jefferson Hills school board gives update on Gill Hall construction
Gill Hall Elementary School and its upgraded cafeteria will be ready for students when they return for the 2019-20 school year on Aug. 26, according to construction managers. However, the construction on the new 10-classroom addition wing and added parent-turnaround drop off lot will continue into September. “The building as...
Review: ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ another well-oiled ‘Fast & Furious’ spin-offVideo
Add an “e” and “Hobbs & Shaw” might have been a time-traveling thriller about playwright George Bernard Shaw and 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Tantalizing as such a pairing may have been to the makers of “Fast & Furious,” they have instead opted to, in the franchise’s first spin-off, combine two...
Career highlights of Steelers coach Mike Tomlin
Mike Tomlin, the youngest head coach in NFL history to win a Super Bowl, is in his 13th season as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He’s only the team’s third coach since 1969. Here is a look back at his coaching career in Pittsburgh....
N.Y. skyscraper now unofficially has highest roof in North America
CHICAGO — Chicago’s Willis Tower, which was dethroned five years ago by One World Trade Center as the tallest building in North America, just lost its unofficial title as the highest roof in North America to another New York skyscraper, Central Park Tower, which is still under construction. Willis Tower...
I-79 weekend restrictions planned in Neville, Robinson
Lane restrictions on southbound I-79 in Neville and Robinson townships will occur Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting. Single-lane restrictions on southbound I-79 between the Neville Island Bridge and the Crafton/Moon Run (Exit 60) interchange will occur from 5 a.m. Saturday continuously through 8 p.m. Sunday night, according to PennDOT. The...
John Oyler: The Whiskey Rebellion festivals of 2019
Two hundred and twenty-five years ago, the brand-new United States government faced its first major domestic crisis. A large group of farmers in Western Pennsylvania rose up in opposition to an onerous excise tax on the production of whiskey, threatening armed rebellion. We have been aware of this momentous event...
Letter to the editor: Democratic-dominated Pittsburgh is doing fine
As a lifelong Republican, I look with dismay and a great deal of disgust at many of our largest cities — Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco, to name a few — all dominated by a single party, the Democratic Party, for years, some for decades. They all...
Letter to the editor: Workplace bullying deserves more attention
I hope your readers will take an interest in a social problem that does not receive enough attention: workplace bullying. Workplace bullying is repeated mistreatment of one or more workers (the targets and victims) by one or more perpetrators. It is abusive conduct that is threatening, humiliating and intimidating and...
Letter to the editor: Disagreeing with Trump supporters
Inept is my new favorite word. I admit I had to look it up in the dictionary after the UK ambassador said President Trump was “inept.” I can understand why Trump would be upset with that comment. That is Trump in a nutshell. But there is still room in that...
Carnegie police armed with upgraded guns
Carnegie’s police chief hopes a change in police-issued weapons will provide officers with greater confidence as they head out to the streets to protect the community. Since the department made the switch at the end of May from the .40 caliber Sig Sauer to the 9 mm Glock — a...
Space-themed programming delights at Penn Hills Library
One could say that the Penn Hills Library children’s programs are “out of this world.” Every Monday and Wednesday afternoon, through mid-August, Kids Create: Universe of Stories, features space-themed programs. For more information on library events and programs, visit www.pennhillslibrary.org....
Power restored after fallen tree blocked Route 993 near Harrison City
Electricity service was restored Thursday afternoon to a couple hundred customers in the Manor area. A tree fell onto power lines on Route 933 in Manor at about 8:30 a.m., causing a disruption in that area. Emergency personnel closed the road about a mile from Harrison City. Power had been...
Institute of Medical and Business Careers Penn Hills Campus honors fourth graduating class
The Institute of Medical and Business Careers held its fourth annual Graduation Ceremony on July 29, 2019, at the Comfort Inn on Rodi Road. The Institute of Medical and Business Careers Penn Hills campus is a branch campus of The Institute of Medical and Business Careers, which is located in...
Remember When: 1955
In the news this week 64 years ago: • The move to join five neighboring municipalities into one school district was delayed this week, with Sewickley school officials and members of the Proposed Quaker Valley Joint Schools board trading letters in an attempt to negotiate administrative issues. In a letter...
Police: Braddock woman kidnapped boy from pool to convince boyfriend to start a family
An 18-year-old Braddock woman accused of kidnapping a boy from a North Side swimming pool Wednesday evening told police she did so to convince her boyfriend to start a family with her, according to a criminal complaint. The 9-year-old boy told police he had been swimming at the Sue Murray...
Ed Pfeifer: Don’t take that cool breeze for granted
Sirius, that’s the satellite radio station right? Sure it is but, long before that, Sirius was known to ancient stargazers only as a divine star — the most prominent of all the shiny specks in the night sky. In the northern hemisphere Sirius, also known as the “Dog Star,” spends...
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris play defense: 5 takeaways from Night 2 of the Democratic debate
At first, it looked like the rematch was on. Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden, standing at center stage at the Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, were clearly ready to reprise their prior debate face-off, training their focus on each other as the debate began. But the...
