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High school scores, schedules for Feb. 18, 2019
High Schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A First round Tuesday’s schedule Penn-Trafford (14-8) vs. Peters Township (15-7) at Mt. Lebanon, 8 p.m.; Butler (17-4) vs. Connellsville (8-14) at Canon-McMillan, 8 p.m.; Canon-McMillan (14-8) vs. North Allegheny (13-8) at West Allegheny, 8 p.m.; Fox Chapel (15-7) vs. Seneca Valley (11-10)...
High school roundup for Feb. 18, 2019: Montour, Chartiers Valley earn playoff wins
The Montour boys basketball team buckled down on the defensive end Monday night to earn a spot in the WPIAL quarterfinals. The Spartans held Hampton to 18 second-half points to secure a 60-44 victory in the opening round of the WPIAL Class 5A playoffs at North Allegheny. James Eubanks had...
Keystone Oaks gets defensive in Class 4A 1st-round win over Belle Vernon
Two long runs and 12 Belle Vernon turnovers in a span of two quarters helped Keystone Oaks advance to the WPIAL Class 4A girls basketball quarterfinals. The eighth-seeded Golden Eagles will face No. 1 North Catholic Thursday at a time and site to be determined after defeating No. 9 Belle...
Tariff uncertainty could hurt auto industry more than plant closures in 2019
An auto industry that many experts think already is overdue for a slowdown just got a major dose of uncertainty that could reduce investment in new technologies and vehicles. The Trump administration dealt automakers a wild card by reportedly deciding not to reveal the Commerce Department’s recommendations on whether to...
Veteran, championship-winning boys basketball coaches to lead P-T vs. PT on Tuesday night
Ten years ago, one coach was hoisting WPIAL gold. Sixteen years ago, the other coach was winning a district championship. On Tuesday, the two veteran coaches meet in a Class 6A boys basketball first-round contest when Peters Township takes on Penn-Trafford. On one side, Gary Goga leads his Indians back...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Player of the Week: Lincoln Park’s Keeno Holmes
Keeno Holmes School: Lincoln Park Class: Senior The Path to the Pete has been a completed march for Lincoln Park the last three years. The Leopards lost to Aliquippa in the 2016 finals, fell to North Catholic in the 2017 title game and beat Seton LaSalle in the 2018 championships...
Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week: Beaver Falls Tigers
The Trib HSSN Boys Basketball Team of the Week returned to the playoffs last week and picked up a win to advance to Round 2 — the Beaver Falls Tigers. This century has been a good one for Beaver Falls boys basketball. After missing the postseason in 2000, the Tigers...
Trib HSSN boys basketball state rankings for week of Feb. 18, 2019
Many of the ranked boys basketball teams across the commonwealth enjoyed a hard week of practice with few if any games as the postseason began. Kennedy Catholic (6A), Mars (5A), Imhotep Charter (4A), Loyalsock Township (3A), Philadelphia Constitution (2A) and Our Lady of the Lourdes Regional (A) all remained atop...
Japan’s Shinzo Abe declines to say if he backed Trump for Nobel prize
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declined to say whether he nominated Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize while praising the U.S. president for “decisive” efforts to resolve the problems of a nuclear-armed North Korea. Abe, who has worked hard to build a personal rapport with Trump, walked a fine line...
Philly man returns wallet (and $600) to a Patriots fan
Alla Kotlyar gets tired of all the “doom and gloom” in the news. That’s why she watches football. “Being a Patriots fan, it’s almost always good news,” said Kotlyar, who runs a gravestone company in Massachusetts. But on Valentine’s Day, while visiting her daughter and 5-month-old granddaughter in Center City,...
Roger Stone posts photo of judge in his case featuring crosshairs symbol despite gag order
Roger Stone took aim at the federal judge overseeing his criminal case on Monday, blasting her as an “Obama appointed” partisan and posting a photo of her face featuring what appeared to be a crosshairs symbol. The embattled confidant to President Trump posted the picture of Washington, D.C., Judge Amy...
Century III Mall tenants instructed to vacateVideo
Shoppers wonder if Century III Mall could be closing for good after tenants received letters telling them to vacate their spaces. “It kind of breaks my heart,” said Laurel Pershing, 74, of Elizabeth Township, who has shopped at the 1.3-million-square-foot mall since its 1979 opening. “It was a beautiful mall...
Editorial: Would Pa. prison beds be better used for drug treatment?
There are increasingly more women behind bars in Pennsylvania. A Tribune-Review project looked at women in the Westmoreland County Prison, where the female population inhabits two units with 115 beds. When we think about prison, we don’t tend to think about women, despite the ratings for “Orange Is the New...
North Hills Jazz band hits all the right notes
The North Hills Jazz band entertained a large audience on Saturday, Feb. 16 during the 24th annual Mardi Gras celebration at Ross Community Center....
Shaler North Hills Library’s seventh annual Caddy Stacks mini-golf fundraiser a hit
The community spent the weekend “puttering” around Shaler North Hills Library as friends of the library created 18 holes of challenging golf with all proceeds benefitting library operations....
Sewickley area real estate transactions for week of Feb. 18
Here are the latest Sewickley area real estate transactions: Bell Acres Andrew Vernon Mays sold property at Magura Road to William and Erin White for $8,500. Hayley Botha sold property at 125 Sevin Road to BGRS LLC for $130,000. BGRS LLC sold property at 125 Sevin Road to Katharine Renner...
Welcome-home illnesses an unexpected ‘bonus’ of traveling
You’ve returned from vacation, and that post glow is fading fast. Your nose is dripping, you’re sneezing and your throat is sore. Or your stomach is upset. Really upset. Why is this your reward for travel, and how can you prevent it? And what if your symptoms don’t go away?...
Letter to the editor: Why Trump supporters believe him
I have been at a loss to understand why family members and friends are such strong supporters of President Trump. He continually lies and when facts support that he lied, he calls it “fake news,” and his supporters believe him. Recently I heard a doctor on a medical panel call...
Letter to the editor: You know Trump is right
We hear from the media that no compromise will be reached on the wall because both sides are playing to their bases. Who are the bases? On the one side are Trump haters, multinational corporations and their media spokespeople, Dems and Republicans who are supported by companies that want cheap...
Letter to the editor: Supporting clean energy
I am writing to express support of the 100 percent renewable energy bill introduced in Harrisburg last month, and to thank Summer Lee, D-Swissvale, for becoming a co-sponsor. Already some of Pennsylvania’s largest cities such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Allentown are committed to going 100 percent renewable. And they aren’t...
Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 18
Editorial cartoons for the week of Feb. 18....
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 18.
Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Feb. 18....
Sewickley Academy presents ‘Disney’s Beauty and the Beast’Video
It’s a “tale as old as time,” but Sewickley Academy Senior School’s upcoming take on “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” will be a novel interpretation. “This ‘Beauty and the Beast’ will be different from any ‘Beauty and the Beast’ people may have seen before,” said Matthew Griffin, artistic director and...
Here’s what’s happening around town: Monday, Feb. 18
Hello, Sewickley, Happy President’s Day. The holiday dates back to 1968, when Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which created as many three-day weekends as possible — instead of having random federal holidays in the middle of the work-week. As a result, Washington’s birthday was moved to the third...
Pine-Richland board to vote on creation of athletic hall of fame
The Pine-Richland School Board is set to vote at its March meeting on the creation of a hall of fame for athletics that, if passed, would honor its first set of inductees in the fall. Administrators began exploring the opportunity of launching the hall of fame to coincide with this...
