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NEW YORK — The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will return to its pre-pandemic form this year, with its route restored through Manhattan, high-flying helium balloons once again pulled by handlers and crowds welcomed back to cheer them on. And Baby Yoda is joining the party for the first time. This...

General election day in Pennsylvania is Tuesday. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and anyone in line at 8 p.m. will be allowed to vote. The state has an online tool to let voters find their polling place by entering their address here. For more information on...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. ^ This week, Lifetime delivers the first in what is intended to be a series of “Highway to Heaven” movies with Jill Scott taking over as the angel from the late Michael Landon, who starred...

The popular gaming site Roblox went back online Sunday after being down for most of the weekend. The online platform crashed Friday. In a statement, the company tweeted Sunday evening that “Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience as we get back to normal.” The company...

After a record-breaking start, October’s box office closed out quietly this weekend with “Dune” repeating at number one and two prominent genre newcomers, ” Last Night in Soho ” and “Antlers,” stumbling. Whether it’s due to Halloween falling on a Sunday, too many new options or simply a lack of...

NEW YORK — One in six New York City municipal workers remained unvaccinated after Friday’s deadline to show proof they’ve gotten at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine, the city said Saturday. A last-minute rush of jabs boosted the vaccination rate to 83% among police officers, firefighters, garbage collectors...

Knox Lipinski was having a tough time picking out his favorite pumpkin on Friday night. Knox, 7, of Latrobe was at the Compass Inn’s sixth annual Pumpkin Carving Contest, which takes place this weekend during the inn’s Halloween Hauntings Storytelling event. He finally settled on a large pumpkin that, upon...

NEW YORK — Mounting trash. Closed firehouses. Fewer police and ambulances on the street. That’s the possibility New York City is bracing for come Monday as a covid-19 vaccine mandate looms and thousands of municipal workers remain unwilling to get the shots. Police officers, firefighters, garbage collectors and most other...

It looks like something out of a fairy tale: A new rustic covered bridge nestled in the woods of Kiski Township on a walking trail. It crosses the rollicking Roaring Run stream near its confluence with the Kiski River. It’s about 1.5 miles up the Roaring Run Trail from Canal...

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh aims to expand access to its four museums via a group of new Community Access Memberships. The program includes a free teen membership, a $20 family access membership and a complimentary organizational access membership available to eligible community-based nonprofits. The free teen membership, open to young...

What’s in a name? Enough to lead people to be unintentionally dismissive and disrespectful of someone by misgendering them, according to the University of Pittsburgh. But now, Pitt has published a gender-inclusive language guide that includes a set of “non-sexist language guidelines and resources” to help students and faculty avoid...

Kurt Weiss was supposed to go mountain climbing with the Boy Scouts. He never went. Little did he realize that there was another uphill challenge in front of him. Weiss’ right leg hurt so badly the day of that Boy Scouts’ adventure in 1989, his mother took him to the...

A calm and cool Wednesday night brought out a couple hundred ghouls, ghosts, hippies and high schoolers for the annual Freeport Halloween parade. The event is organized every year by the borough’s volunteer fire department. About 200 people marched in the parade led by Freeport and South Buffalo Township fire...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen answers reader questions every Wednesday at TribLive.com in a column that also appears in the Sunday Tribune-Review. Q: Why doesn’t KDKA do morning-after pieces the day following Steelers games, whether they win or lose? They seem to ignore sports stories including the Steeler...

The band visited once before, and now it’s coming back again. “The Band’s Visit,” a Tony Award-winning musical, was in the midst of a PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh run when the pandemic shut down the entertainment industry in March 2020. “We had done three performances when we left on March...

The Perry County district attorney’s office dismissed a felony charge that Pennsylvania State Police had filed against a homeless man after he paid $2 for Mt. Dew drink that cost $2.29. Joseph Sobolewski maintained all along that his arrest for retail theft after visiting the Exxon at 3298 Susquehanna Trail...

Here’s a selection of images that caught our eye in the past week from Tribune-Review photographers. Previous weeks Week in pictures: Oct. 11-17, 2021 Week in pictures: Oct. 4-Oct. 10, 2021 Week in pictures: Sept. 28-Oct. 3, 2021...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. When CBS’s “B Positive” debuted in November 2020, it was a meh sitcom with a big question mark hanging over it: Once button-downed Drew (Thomas Middleditch) got a kidney from high school classmate wild child...