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On July 7, Arizona passed, and their governor has signed into law, a bill that delivers educational freedom for more than 1.1 million students. This is the first state to break the chokehold that public schools and their teachers’ unions have on the national educational system. Parents will have the...

Andrew Shoener sold property at 855 Boulder Drive to Joseph Colonello and Colleen Wojciechowski for $375,000. SFR3-000 LLC sold property at 2883 Cedar St. to Aria Ann Crowel for $232,000. Constance Lappa sold property at 6193 Dalmation Drive to RMAC Trust Ser 2016 CTT for $160,000. Douglas Everhart sold property...

Bridgeville James Simmons sold property at 1028 Laurel St. to Joanne McClellan for $198,000. Carnegie Carol Mazza sold property at 991 Chartiers Ave. to YRR Properties LLC for $18,000. Charles A Halpin III sold property at 818 Logan St. to Benjamin Peters and Catherine Arsenault for $78,000. Beau Burgunder sold...

The people involved in overseeing and maintaining Western Pennsylvania’s trail systems nearly all said that cooperation is key in keeping the trails clean, welcoming and open. Along the Five Star Trail that runs from Youngwood to Greensburg, chapter President Vaughn Neill is working with a few dozen volunteers on fence...

As walkers, hikers and bikers make their way onto the crushed limestone gravel of one of Western Pennsylvania’s many trail systems, it might not seem as though they are merging onto an economic highway. But if they’re stepping onto the Great Alle­gheny Passage — the trail between Pittsburgh’s Point State...

There is a lot of concern about the money in elections. How do we know who is contributing to a campaign? Who is funding the political parties? Who is paying for the ads and the buses and the big-budget rallies? There are questions about where the money is coming from...

Aleppo KMA Realty LLC sold property at 105 Little Glen Drive to Donald Ward for $200,000. Kelly Krohn sold property at 205 Woodcrest Drive to Wilson and Dimple Joy Henry for $227,000. Edgeworth Timothy Hall sold property at 305 Maple Lane to Matthew Blint and Megan Crowell for $895,000. Franklin...

Etna EDJY Property Services Inc. sold property at 32 Bridge St. to Joan Jefferson LLC for $240,000. James Nordin sold property at 39 Prospect St. to J & K Homes Inc. for $36,900. Franklin Park George Basara sold property at 1512 King Charles Drive to Elizabeth Wiese for $465,000. Russell...

Etna EDJY Property Services Inc. sold property at 32 Bridge St. to Joan Jefferson LLC for $240,000. James Nordin sold property at 39 Prospect St. to J & K Homes Inc. for $36,900. Fox Chapel Michael Toshok sold property at 70 Fair Oaks Drive to Andrew and Alison Vanhorn Beam...

Churchill Mark Huggins sold property at 2324 Marbury Road to Jeffrey Achezinksi and Rachel Hartman for $598,000. Edgewood Patrick Loughney sold property at 334 Dewey Ave. to Michael Parker and Sara Werner for $330,000. Jembact Inc. sold property at 173 Pennwood Ave. to Allegheny BC Four L.P. for $748,750. Monroeville...

As I drive through different sections of Greensburg, and travel through other towns and cities, I see the same thing everywhere: “Hiring” signs. We have noticed that our popular Sunday morning breakfast restaurant has empty tables an a 45-minute wait time to get a table. Why? Because they can’t find...

Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Bike run planned Aug. 29 by Ashley’s Angels Ashley’s Angels will sponsor...

As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I’d say this, but I miss the Republican Party. It seems that most Republicans have transmogrified into Trumplicans. Some against their will, I assume. Trumplicans are in full campaign mode all the time, pointing out what they see as failures, defects, bad policy...

After suffering through a seven-game road losing streak earlier this season, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds have picked up points in the standings in back-to-back games away from home. Dane Kelly scored the tying goal with 15 minutes to go and the Riverhounds left Albuquerque with a 1-1 draw in their first-ever...

Pennsylvania is in the middle of a new fight over the future of abortion, and it’s all about the state constitution. It began months before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, declaring states are the proper battleground over abortion rights. It exploded into public consciousness July 8, when...

Five Fox Chapel Area School District students won awards in the State Competition of the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science in May. Fox Chapel Area High School first-place state winners were: juniors Lawrence Liu and Arvind Seshan; sophomores Lakshanya Rajaganapathi and Adhitya Thirumala; and Dorseyville Middle School seventh-grader Param Thawani....

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 41-46) was doubled up by Columbus (Guardians), 4-2. 3B Hoy Park (.237) went 2 for 4 with a double and a home run, his third. SS Tucupita Marcano (.263) was 1 for 3 with a double and a run scored. DH Greg Allen (hamstring), playing on a rehab...

Even if you’re the returning Willie Thrower Award winner, there’s always more to learn. Armstrong’s Cadin Olsen, one of the state’s top quarterbacks, was back in New Kensington on Saturday for the first Willie Thrower Quarterback Camp and eager to add to his game. Olsen was one of 29 quarterbacks...

A 26-year-old man from Templeton, Armstrong County, was killed Friday evening when the dirt bike he was riding went off a road and struck a tree, officials said. Brandon Weaver was killed in neighboring Pine Township when the mishap occurred at around 7:50 p.m., according to a release from Armstrong...

On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and look through a pair of binoculars at the stars under a dark Sierra Nevada sky. Above the forest and mountains I saw constellations and stars that are...

One of the stranger assertions in the Dobbs opinion is that Roe v. Wade is “controversial.” In the first place it’s not true — nearly all polls show a staunch majority against overturning it. But Roe was also a compromise, between the two strong positions that abortion should be fully...

To graduate with a science major, college students must complete between 40 and 60 credit hours of science coursework. That means spending around 2,500 hours in the classroom throughout their undergraduate career. However, research has shown that despite all that effort, most college science courses give students only a fragmented...

A truck caught fire on Route 28 on Saturday morning at the Harmar-O’Hara border, shutting down the southbound lanes for a time. The mishap occurred a little after 10 a.m. Police turned southbound traffic around at an emergency vehicle crossover, as northbound traffic slowed to a crawl. Emergency vehicles were...

Patrick Monteverde took an unusual path toward becoming a Major League Baseball draft choice. So it’s only proper that a possible road to Miami winds through Beloit, Wisc. The 2016 Fox Chapel graduate is currently pitching – and pitching well – for the Beloit SkyCarp, a High-A affiliate of the...

Mark Cuban, the billionaire “Shark Tank” celebrity and Dallas Mavericks owner, is getting attention again — this time for his Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., which seeks to reduce prescription drug prices for Americans. A new study finds Medicare could have saved $3.6 billion in 2020 if it had...