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After serving as Baldwin’s interim athletic director throughout the 2021-22 school year, Anthony Cherico has been named the school district’s athletic director. The Baldwin-Whitehall School District board of directors voted to appoint him late last month. “Mr. Cherico will bring leadership to the position,” board member Karen Brown said in...

Samuel Fox was inside the U.S. Capitol for only two minutes during the riot there on Jan. 6, 2021. He didn’t engage in any violence. He didn’t take anything. He had no weapons, no tactical gear and a barely charged cellphone. For those reasons, a judge ruled Tuesday, the Latrobe...

While we’re big fans of packing light and sticking to a carry-on bag, for longer vacations or trips with lots of souvenirs (hello, wine from France), checking a bag can be the best option. But before you stuff everything into your suitcase and send it on its way, check out...

General Motors Co. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. are expanding their partnership to make a series of “affordable” electric vehicles together based on a new global architecture that will use GM’s next-generation Ultium battery technology, the companies said Tuesday. Honda and GM want to start producing millions of these EVs,...

Millennials may still feel quite young (despite those pesky gray hairs and less-than-fine lines), but in so many ways, we have adulted. So it’s time for our money management to grow up a bit, too. Your financial to-do list is small but mighty in your 20s. Setting up automatic transfers...

WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama will return to the White House Tuesday for the first time since leaving office to celebrate the 12th anniversary of his landmark health care law, which President Joe Biden is planning to bolster with two new actions. Biden will sign an executive order to...

The next appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court can’t/won’t define what a “woman” is! I can. Whadahekzgoinonhere?? Huh? Joe Marmo Cheswick...

Vladimir Putin has put his nuclear forces on alert. We could do likewise, going from DEFCON 3 to 2 to 1 (defense conditions of readiness prior to all-out nuclear war). To do so would only heighten tensions. The concept of MAD — mutually assured destruction — prevented nuclear war throughout...

I am a Westmoreland County physician who has worked throughout the pandemic and witnessed the damage from covid-19 firsthand. Many patients and families are still struggling with depression, addiction or both. Hopefully, our county commissioners will use Westmoreland County’s American Rescue Plan funds to rescue our communities as we recover...

Pennsylvania’s bridges need work. It isn’t just the ones with obvious problems — the ones with crumbling concrete or decaying superstructure. It’s not a question of which. It’s a question of when. The Fern Hollow Bridge spanning a Frick Park ravine collapsed on the morning of Jan. 28, while people were...

I read, with disgust, the March 31 George Will opinion piece “Toomey rightly wants to rein in Boeing’s bank.” Sen. Pat Toomey and Will have used only the barest of facts as a matrix upon which they weave a complete myth. I had firsthand experience in obtaining an EX-IM loan...

Publicize your community events and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Leechburg Area High School to present, ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ The Leechburg Area High School Drama Club will present the musical, “Annie...

An open letter to Vladimir Putin: Dear President Putin: When first you became president, there were a few of us Americans who may have thought, privately, “Finally, a Russian leader who knows how to get things done.” Frankly, sir, we were wrong about your judgment when it comes to foreign...

High school Baseball WPIAL Monday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Butler 7, Allderdice 1 Central Catholic 3, Pine-Richland 2 North Allegheny 4, Seneca Valley 0 Section 2 Mt. Lebanon 6, Canon-McMillan 2 Hempfield 2, Upper St. Clair 1 Norwin 17, Baldwin 14 Class 5A Section 1 Kiski Area 6, Gateway...

Addie Hilligsberg tied the game with a two-run, two-out home run in the bottom of the seventh and Jasalin Guenther doubled and scored on an error in the eighth as West Mifflin came back for a 6-5 win over Yough in Section 2-4A softball Monday. Aurora Rosso and Emily Buchleitner...

The estate of a man who died in October a day after being tased by Pittsburgh police filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the city and the officers on the scene that day. The complaint, filed by James Frierson, who is serving as the administrator of Jim Rogers’...

For bargain hunters, every stock market cloud has a silver lining. After a rough first quarter, dozens of stocks have descended to what I consider attractive levels. I’ve put five of them on my Casualty List, a quarterly roster of stocks that have been beaten up, and that I believe...

Where did all the nurses go? One of my family members ended up in the ER for a week after a bad fall. The hospital we chose and its staff were wonderful in every way, but this time, one important thing was missing: an appropriate number of nurses to deliver...

Seven members of a local gang involved in violence in Pittsburgh’s Hilltop neighborhood that led to the 2014 shooting death of a beloved garbage collector have pleaded guilty in state court. All seven men were members of the Zhoove gang, based in Beltzhoover, which at the time was fighting with...

A newborn wild horse on one of North Carolina’s barrier islands had to be permanently taken from its mother after well-meaning tourists ferried it off the Shackleford Banks, according to Cape Lookout National Seashore. The incident happened March 26, and the people involved have been cited for removing a wild...

Trista Price pleaded guilty on March 24 to endangering the welfare of children for her role in her then-husband’s sexual and physical abuse of their two children 12 years ago. The plea agreement called for Price, 38, of Ingram, to serve seven years of probation with two years on house...