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U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, released a statement on Sunday evening announcing his decision to oppose President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. “While Judge Jackson undoubtedly has an impressive educational and professional background, her inability to define her own judicial philosophy makes it difficult to understand...

High schools Baseball WPIAL Monday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Allderdice at Butler, 4 p.m. Central Catholic at Pine-Richland, 4 p.m. Seneca Valley at North Allegheny, 6 p.m. Section 2 Canon-McMillan at Mt. Lebanon, 4:15 p.m. Hempfield at Upper St. Clair, 4 p.m. Norwin at Baldwin, 4 p.m. Class 5A...

The PIHL hosted its four all-star games Sunday at Alpha Ice Complex. The top players in Class 3A, 2A, A and Division 2 took the ice for the 2022 event. Class 3A Team Gold 6, Team Blue 4 — Team Blue fired 48 shots on goal, but Team Gold was...

Penn State landed the commitment of four-star tight end Andrew Rappleyea on Sunday, following his initial commitment to Michigan on Jan. 16. “Michigan is a great place with great people, but the reality is I committed too quickly and take full responsibility for that,” Rappleyea wrote on Twitter. “I have...

Thank you, Westmoreland County Commissioner Doug Chew, for working with the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP) to prioritize improving mental health care in Pennsylvania. The economic, physical and emotional suffering related to covid-19 have led to a crisis situation. Westmoreland County lacks adequate mental health care services. The covid-19...

“For God’s sake, this man (Putin) cannot remain in power.” A completely correct and inspiring statement by President Biden, this made me proud to be an American. For God’s sake, let us give Ukraine the military equipment immediately that they are requesting — the fighter jets, the tanks, air defense...

Bell Acres Estate of Richard Smith sold property at 113 Orris Road to Jeffrey Bruce and Shelley Davies Wygant for $375,000. Edgeworth Walter Reuter III sold property at 329 Sycamore Road to Brandon and Margaret Behun for $585,000. Sewickley Eric Brandon Smith sold property at 36 Beaver St. to Philip...

Bellevue Cheryl Popatak trustee sold property at 731 Orchard Ave. to Rodolfo Arroyo Diaz and Lorena Arroyo for $175,000. Costas Grekis sold property at 56 S Harrison Ave. to Donna Isoldi and Rosa Perri for $138,000. Bradford Woods J. Ardie Dillen sold property at 119 Boothbay Hbr to Steven and...

Aspinwall Jawaid Akhtar sold property at 500 Eastern Ave. to Robert Tenenini and Maggie Cooper for $375,000. Etna Roy Rudl Jr. sold property at 54 Angle Aly to Bonds McGuire LLC for $32,376. Estate of John Winschel Jr. sold property at 342-344 Butler St. to Farine Properties LLC for $155,000....

Churchill Eleanor Cappuccio sold property at 305 Surrey Pl to Dwight Helfrich and Linda Lieu for $282,000. Edgewood Andrea Sparzak sold property at 210 Elm St. to Unity Properties LLC for $90,000. Forest Hills Kevin Firmani sold property at 524 Barclay Ave. to James David Shenefelt for $180,000. Forest Will...

Given recent history, Pennsylvania Republicans should make their official motto “Save Us From Ourselves.” First, 14 Republican lawmakers joined a lawsuit asking the state’s Supreme Court to rule that mail-in-balloting is unconstitutional. Republicans trying to limit access to the ballot wouldn’t be shocking, as voter repression seems to be part...

The state is getting just a little bit closer to requiring more transparency on the part of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. On Tuesday, the House State Government Committee approved the bill that would make legislative expense reports more easily accessible to the public online. “How can anyone be against it?”...

David Munchinski spent nearly 26 years incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. He then waited nearly a decade more to go to trial in the federal lawsuit he filed against the men he said wrongfully convicted him on two counts of first-degree murder. In December, Munchinski, who had long...

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. Kiski Area students to present ‘Shrek the Musical’ The drama department of Kiski Area High School will present, “Shrek the Musical,” at...

Women long have played a central role in education, but they often are left out of central administration. Women make up up 3 in 4 public school teachers nationwide but account for only about 1 in 4 superintendents, both in Pennsylvania and nationwide. Still, there have been inroads over the...

April is Donate Life Month. This is a perfect time to encourage organ donation. I was introduced to the Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE) early in my nursing career. I told my family to donate my organs if ever there was an opportunity to do so. I have...

Despite ads on TV, cybercharter schools are not free. Your school district property taxes fund them. That funding needs to change because it continues to drive your taxes up. Pennsylvania has 500 school districts. By law, each district must pay a different tuition per student for attendance at a cybercharter....

Just like the girls game at Cager Classic on Saturday at Highlands High School, the boys game went into overtime. Armend Karpuzi of Deer Lakes hit a 3-pointer for the West with 3.5 seconds left in regulation to send the game into overtime. Unlike the girls, however, the boys only...

High schools Baseball WPIAL Saturday’s results Class 2A Section 4 Burgettstown 6, Chartiers-Houston 3 Nonsection Avonworth 4, Ambridge 3 Montour 5, Hopewell 2 Hempfield 11, Pine-Richland 3 Valley 2, Riverview 1 Valley 4, Riverview 2 Chartiers Valley at West Mifflin, ppd. Ligonier Valley at Somerset, ppd. Our Lady of the...

Katie Hutter hit a solo home run with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to lead Mt. Pleasant to a 9-8 victory over Latrobe in nonsection softball Saturday. Hutter went 3 for 5 and also doubled. Krista Brunson and Abby Swank singled and doubled twice for the...

Kiski Area offensive lineman Brandon Lawhorn-Moore was named to this year’s Pennsylvania Big 33 team. The 6-foot-5, 295-pound Lawhorn-Moore, affectionately known as “Beef” to those in the Kiski Area community, was named to the team to replace Drew Shelton of Downingtown West, who had to opt of the game because...

With a nod to Meredith Wilson’s “Music Man”: Trouble, oh we’ve got trouble, Right here in Westmoreland County! With a capital “T” That rhymes with “B” And that stands for Books. The book banners are back (with book burners a half-step behind), never really having gone away. They would have...

After a post-pandemic 1-9 season last year, Shady Side Academy is looking for quick improvement. “I’m hoping to win a few more of our section games this year,” coach Rebecca Uhlean said. “Truth be told, it’s a pretty tough section for the level we’re at right now. We’re still a...

Shady Side Academy made the WPIAL baseball playoffs last season, finished in second place in Section 3-2A and had its first winning season (10-6, 8-2) in five years. But in 2022, the Bulldogs want more. “We’re trying to build on what they did last year and continue with the tradition...

U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery. The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months. “Together with my team I have decided to have...