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I was pleased to see the article “MAWC seeks damages for contamination of water system” (March 16, TribLIVE) about the Municipal Authority of Westmore­land County filing a lawsuit against chemical companies for allegedly making toxic substances that contaminate local water systems. Among the chemicals cited as being produced is the...

Sharpsburg The Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire Department hosts a Good Friday fish fry on April 15 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the borough building at 1611 Main St. It is takeout and delivery only. Deliveries end at 5 p.m. Pre-orders can be made on April 14 from 6-8 p.m....

High school Baseball WPIAL Friday’s results Class 4A Section 2 Montour 6, Quaker Valley 4 Class 2A Section 3 Eden Christian at Northgate, ppd. Nonsection Butler 10, Gateway 0 Freeport 7, Kiski Area 2 Laurel Highlands 8, Trinity 6 Mars 3, North Catholic 2 Mt. Pleasant 11, Armstrong 1 North...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 1-2) beat Omaha (Royals), 3-2, on a walk-off single by DH Travis Swaggerty (.231) in the bottom of the ninth. 3B Hunter Owen (.667) walked and CF Ji-hwan Bae (.286) singled before Swaggerty’s heroics. SS Oneil Cruz (.300) went 2 for 4 with a stolen base, his second....

Nick Walker tripled home three runs to lead Montour to a 6-4 victory over Quaker Valley in Section 2-4A baseball Friday. Mason Sike picked up the win for the Spartans and Dylan Mathiesen recorded a save. Cole Fleck and Matt Luchovick doubled for Montour (6-1, 4-0). Zeke Hendricks had a...

More than 70% of the country feels we are going in the wrong direction. If Americans did not need another reason to change direction, at least at the congressional level, the massacre at Bucha and horrors seen in Ukraine cry out for change. Where is the Democrat-­controlled Congress? It is...

Penn State landed a four-star quarterback recruit Friday, picking up a verbal commitment from Marcus Stokes of Nease High School in Florida. Stokes is rated the 17th-best quarterback recruit in the country by 247sports.com. The 6-foot-2, 185-pound Stokes threw for 2,672 yards, 22 touchdowns and nine interceptions in Florida’s second-largest...

The family of a Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center employee who died from covid-19 after they said he contracted the illness at work filed a wrongful death suit against the owners on Thursday. Kevin Carroll, 54, worked as part of the housing and laundry staff at the facility in Brighton...

As the war in Ukraine continues, officials in the U.S. and Europe are sounding alarms about alleged war crimes being committed by Russian troops there. President Joe Biden has called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal,” as has the U.S. Senate, on the grounds that schools, hospitals and civilian...

Allegheny County Council President Pat Catena, D-Carnegie, has proposed a motion to censure a fellow councilman because of comments made during a contentious meeting last month. Catena’s motion said Councilman Thomas Duerr, D-Bethel Park, approached council Vice President John Palmiere, D-Pleasant Hills, after the March 22 meeting and “in a...

Spring Revival is scheduled for April 10-13 at Monroeville Christian Church, 3780 Northern Pike. The church welcomes Dick Chambers as guest speaker. He has been preaching and teaching the gospel for 48 years and has held more than 500 rallies, seminars, revivals, camp meetings and retreats in 22 states and...

Editor’s note: MacKenzie Scott disclosed on March 23 that she had given $3.9 billion to 465 nonprofits in the previous nine months. These no-strings-attached donations bring the total she has given away in the past two years to at least $12 billion. Philanthropy historian Tyrone Freeman weighs in on Scott’s...

WASHINGTON — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest. It was a veneer of acceptance embraced by every GOP president from Reagan to Trump, and even the...

The first few days of the summerlong renovation project on Route 356 in Allegheny Township has passed without any major problems. Route 356 will be closed in three segments, with activity underway initially in the area from Weinels Crossroads to Piper Road. The entire project is expected to last until...

Jimmy Carter can sleep well at night knowing that he’s no longer known as the worst president in American history. Joe Biden claimed that title after only 14 months in office. Biden accomplished this by giving us record high inflation, record high gas prices, record high illegal immigration, record high...

Maybe President Biden could be more successful if he mobilized an angry mob and sent them down to Washington to smash their way into the Capitol, erect a gallows and then chase down the disagreeable legislators. But if he did that, he wouldn’t be Democrat, he’d be a Republican. And...

We wish to address the Concerned Sewickley Parents who authored the petition advertisement on page 7 in the Sewickley Herald’s March 31 edition. In your petition, you demand that several actions be taken by Sewickley Academy’s Board of Trustees and Head of School. We studied your demands. In doing so,...

Chatham University’s Eden Hall campus in Richland hosted its first-ever “pitch” competition, for people in the region who have ideas about new or emerging food and agricultural businesses. The competition, sponsored by Chatham’s Center for Regional Agriculture, Food and Transformation, or CRAFT, was held April 2 in the Esther Barazzone...

Divine Redeemer Parish Eucharistic Adoration at St. Mary, 444 Glenfield Road, takes place 8-9 p.m. Wednesdays. At St. James, 200 Walnut St., it takes place from 7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Mondays, 3-7 p.m. Wednesdays, noon-4 p.m. Fridays and on Saturdays after 9 a.m. Mass. Walk-ins and signups are welcome. For more...

President Biden’s gang is releasing illegal aliens into our country by the bus loads. They have reasoned that it is better to give them a government cellphone paid for by us than to put ankle bracelets on them. I have a better, cheaper method. I would insert a chip into...

The American Rescue Plan allocated $105 million to Westmoreland County. Commissioners Gina Cerilli Thrasher and Sean Kertes, please join with Commissioner Doug Chew and realize the acute need for better mental health care in the county and make funding mental health care a priority. In 1990, I moved to Westmoreland...

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Congressional Gaming Caucus co-chair Guy Reschenthaler recently introduced the Shifting Limits on Thresholds (SLOT) Act, which would raise the tax threshold for slot winnings from $1,200 to $5,000. The current threshold for reporting slot winnings was set in 1977. While this is commendable, it doesn’t adequately address what constituents really...

Hampton Presbyterian Hampton Presbyterian Church has announced its Holy Week and Easter services. April 14 — Maundy Thursday A potluck dinner is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. followed by Worship in the Sanctuary from 7-8:15 p.m. People with last names beginning A-K, are asked to bring a main dish or casserole....