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Photo Gallery: Penn Hills Blessing Box
A blessing box filled with nonperishable items was dedicated on March 24 and is ready for use by the Penn Hills community. Stocked with items by the membership of Penn Hills Free Methodist Church, the box is just outside the front entrance of the church on Universal Road. Hoping to...
WOW Air failure doesn’t surprise airline experts
Aviation experts were not surprised by Thursday’s abrupt news that WOW Air has ceased operations. WOW had operated budget flights out of Pittsburgh International Airport to Iceland and marketed itself as a cheap way to get to Europe. “The model they have just doesn’t have enough traffic,” said Mike Boyd,...
Penn State podcast: Talking another NCAA wrestling title, Creamery ice cream and March Madness
Another year, another national title for Cael Sanderson and Penn State wrestling (the program’s fourth straight and eighth in the past nine years). In this week’s installment of “The Obligatory PSU Pregame Show,” Mike the Mailman and Kevin regale Chris and Brandon with tales of their weekend in Pittsburgh for...
Remember When: 1972
In the news this week 47 years ago: • During a heated Sewickley council meeting, angry residents spoke out against the borough’s contracted wage tax collector, the Don Wilkinson Agency of Library. Dan O’Neil of Hill Street presented council with a petition signed by 800 residents protesting the agency’s “undue...
Here’s what’s happening around town: Thursday, March 28
Hello, Sewickley, St. James Catholic concert series, Music Plus, presents The Pittsburgh Harp Duo at 3 p.m. April 7. The duo is comprised of Gretchen Van Hoesen, principal harp of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1977, and Natalie Severson, recent prizewinner in the American Harp Society’s National Competition in the...
Diamond celebrates 90th birthday
Happy 90th birthday to William Diamond of Collier Township, who celebrated March 18.William and his wife, Frances, celebrated their 65thwedding anniversary in October. They are parents of six children, Fred, Rick, John, Beverly, Bonnie and Sue. Happy birthday to Kristin (Butts) Gabster of Collier Township, who celebrates on March 29....
Nine Carnegie streets scheduled for 2019 paving
Residents on nine Carnegie streets will get a freshly paved road in 2019. Carnegie Council members at their March 11 meeting accepted a bid from Youngblood Paving Inc. for the 2019 paving maintenance program in the amount of $376,733. The roads selected each year for pavement are “based off of...
Three antennas being added in Carnegie by T-Mobile
T-Mobile will add three antennas to the top of the former Masonic Hall building on East Main Street in the heart of Carnegie in an effort to improve service for its growing customer base. Carnegie Council members on March 11 approved an application from Signal Mountain Inc., representing T-Mobile, to...
KISS returns to Pittsburgh 1 more timeVideo
The year was 1975 when renowned Pittsburgh concert promoter and “Behind the Stage Door” author Rich Engler says music history flashed before his eyes. He was surprised at how a relatively unknown band he booked to play the 3,700-seat Stanley Theater for its first Pittsburgh show carried itself like a...
4 issues home buyers will face this spring
As the spring home buying market kicks into high gear, house hunters may be mostly focused on lining up their financing and finding a place to purchase. While affordability and availability are two important aspects of the process, Dana Bull, a real estate agent with Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s International Realty...
High school scores, schedules for March 27, 2019
High Schools Baseball Wednesday’s results Ripken Experience In Myrtle Beach South Park 11, Sheldon Clark (Kentucky) 0 WPIAL Nonsection Albert Gallatin 3, Uniontown 0 Allderdice 7, Woodland Hills 4 Armstrong 13, Indiana 3 (5 inn.) Baldwin 6, Central Valley 2 Beaver Falls 5, Blackhawk 4 Bentworth 6, Jefferson-Morgan 3 Bethel...
High school roundup for March 27, 2019: South Allegheny edges South Park
Two of the WPIAL’s top softball teams kicked off the Section 3-3A slate with a nail-biter Wednesday afternoon. Kennedy Pikula had three hits and two RBIs, and Olivia Stetz doubled twice to help South Allegheny earn a 5-4 victory over No. 2-ranked South Park. Cortney Woytovich earned the win for...
Ancient West Bank site draws Christians, controversy
SHILOH, West Bank — Deep in the West Bank, Israeli settlers have transformed an archaeological site into a biblical tourist attraction that draws tens of thousands of Evangelical Christians each year. Tel Shiloh is believed to have been the site of the biblical tabernacle, but not everyone is pleased at...
People in St. Louis slice bagels like bread. Internet not amused.
It doesn’t take much for the denizens of Twitter to get into a tizzy. Wednesday’s installment came in the form of a bagel. More specifically on how and where it is sliced. It even had its own hashtag. Apparently, people in St. Louis "bread-slice" their bagels. And it's angering a...
Alaska Native servicemen finally honored as Code Talkers
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Army veteran Richard Bean Sr. died without anyone knowing that he and four other long-deceased Alaska Natives had used their Tlingit language to outsmart the Japanese during World War II. Now, they are finally being hailed in their home state for their lifesaving efforts as servicemen. Earlier...
Helaine Olen: Why are we getting so many robocalls?
One morning about three weeks ago, at 5:45 a.m., the robocallers came for me. My cellphone rang. And rang. It hasn’t stopped. The calls claim to come from all over the world. Sometimes they ring once, and stop. Sometimes twice. Rarely more than that. If I answer, I am sometimes...
Moon boys, Peters Township girls finish atop Trib 10 power rankings
For the final time in the 2018-19 WPIAL basketball season, the TribLive High School Sports Network presents the last weekly Power Rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the final rankings for the season, with final overall records included. BOYS TRIB 10 1. Moon Tigers (28-2) (Last Week...
Alex Vargo: Anti-Semitism in the halls of Congress
Having grown up in a Jewish family in a nook of Pittsburgh with many other families like ours, I am keenly aware of the anti- Semitism that creeps out from the dark corners of our society from time to time. To think it would hit the halls of Congress, though, is...
Poll: Most Republicans want to see the full Mueller report
WASHINGTON — Most Republicans think the full Mueller report should be released to the public, a new poll has found. It’s a sharp departure from the position GOP lawmakers have established as they call for some parts of the report to be redacted. Fifty-six percent of the 405 Republicans surveyed...
Manhattan drivers near new era that may include $11.52 in tolls
London did it. So did Singapore and Stockholm. Now New York may finally be coming around to congestion pricing. The idea is gaining momentum in the state capital and at city hall, giving new urgency to a plan that would transform everyday life for millions of people by charging motorists...
Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore owes $75,000 to IRS, court document says
Stephen Moore, whom President Trump said he’ll nominate for a seat on the Federal Reserve, owes more than $75,000 in taxes and other penalties, according to the U.S. government. A federal tax lien filed in the circuit court for Montgomery County, Md., where Moore owns a house, says that the...
Editorial: Sex charges connect to worldwide human trafficking
There are horrible things in the world that we like to think are far away. Like human trafficking. The phrase can conjure pictures. Slave ships and auction blocks. Abductions and chains. Images that are a world away from our everyday lives. That doesn’t happen here. That’s another country, another continent,...
Nirvana manager waited 25 years to write his Kurt Cobain book
“Danny, he’s dead.” It was March 4, 1994, and David Geffen, the record mogul who had signed Nirvana just three years earlier, was calling band manager Danny Goldberg to share the terrible news: Kurt Cobain had overdosed on a powerful sedative while in Rome. Strangely enough, it was a false...
Wyland Elementary students headed to states in Odyssey of the Mind tournament
The Hampton Township School District’s Odyssey of the Mind program had seven teams from Central, Poff, and Wyland Elementary Schools participate in the regional Odyssey of the Mind tournament held at Keystone Oaks High School this year on March 2. The Wyland balsa team took first place in their divsion...
Foreign exchange students shine at Highlands musical ‘Hunchback’Video
An all-female foreign exchange student troupe graces the Highlands High School stage this season. Five young ladies — Elisabetta Negrosini from Italy, Froydis “Freya” Rygh from Norway, Luna Vavourakis from Belgium, Tehreem Komal from Pakistan and Pat Sampantanarak from Thailand — will appear this week in the spring musical “The...
