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A snowy sidewalk strewn with bloodied bodies. A beleaguered president roaming the streets of a country under attack. Missiles streaming. Sirens wailing. Teens making homemade bombs. And dead soldiers, so many of them, lying crumpled in fields and slumped in smoldering tanks. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spawned a constant...

Pittsburgh police said a Hill District woman told them how she walked into her sons’ room early Friday and stabbed both in the neck with a kitchen knife. The children’s father was able to wrestle away from her before summoning police for his critically injured sons, police said. Sydnie Jefferson,...

I understand that Congress may be considering passing a bill requiring time to read a spending bill before voting on it. But that does not mean our representatives really understand it. The Senate is considering approving the nomination of a judge who cannot define what a woman is. She may...

As March Madness comes to a close, once again we hear that college student athletes are being unfairly “exploited” by being denied salaries for playing sports. Should the NCAA and universities be pressured or forced to change longstanding policy? This notion, while seemingly sensible at first glance, is badly misguided....

The Alzheimer’s Association 2022 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report illustrates the continued burden of Alzheimer’s in our country, and in Pennsylvania. An estimated 6.5 million Americans 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s, including 280,000 in Pennsylvania — a number expected to increase to 320,000 by 2025. Across the...

St. Peter’s University’s run of upsets wasn’t the only storyline from this year’s March Madness tournament. The other is that the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team is in trouble for allegedly paying its players, in violation of NCAA rules. It is time for the NCAA to do the right thing...

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. Free STEM program and camp offered to high school students The Digital Foundry of New Kensington will host a free STEM program...

I was pleased to read that Westmoreland County received a state grant to expand the mobile crisis unit for mental health emergencies (“Westmoreland County to expand mobile crisis unit for mental health emergencies,” March 1, TribLIVE). This grant is a much-needed Band-Aid over the giant lack of adequate mental health...

High schools Baseball WPIAL Thursday’s results Class 4A Section 2 Ambridge 2, Central Valley 1 Montour at Quaker Valley, ppd. Section 3 Elizabeth Forward 5, Greensburg Salem 4 Class 2A Section 2 Summit Academy at South Side, ppd. Section 4 Chartiers-Houston at Burgettstown, ppd. Fort Cherry at Brentwood, ppd. Nonsection...

Mason Ross hit a three-run homer, leading Kiski Area to a 4-2 victory over Beaver in nonsection baseball Thursday afternoon. Jake Smith pitched into the seventh inning, allowing two runs on one hit with eight strikeouts, and Dom Dininno singled twice for the Cavaliers (1-0). JJ Shallcross singled and drove...

Thanks to a forecast that calls for rain and cold, opening night at Lernerville Speedway will have to wait a week. Track officials announced Thursday that the season’s first night of racing action has been pushed back to Friday, April 8. The opening night schedule includes Peoples Natural Gas Sprint...

STATE COLLEGE — Sean Clifford might be returning to Penn State for his sixth college season, but it marks just the second time in his career that he’ll be working with the same offensive coordinator for the second year in a row. In Clifford’s first three years as a starter,...

Laurel: To an Oscar-calibre officiant. Tom Hanks may have famously declared there is no crying in baseball, but a few tears at a wedding are not unexpected. Here’s hoping he had a few hankies handy when he presided over the exchange of vows for a Bellevue couple. Krisna Poznik Stahl...

The deadly, snow squall-induced pileup on Interstate 81 on Monday, which resulted in six confirmed deaths and an additional 24 people injured, ranks among the worst accidents of its kind in Pennsylvania since the start of the century. The 80-vehicle accident occurred around 10:35 a.m. in the northbound lanes of...

Bakerstown UMC Bakerstown United Methodist Church is hosting a Junque Sale, April 30 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the church on 5760 William Flynn Highway in Gibsonia. The event features a flea market and a Grab & Go Breakfast. Proceeds benefit the church’s mission projects. More information is...

It takes a lot to have news affect us these days, as we’re all sadly numb to the garbage that exists sometimes as human beings. But the recent stories of the two men accused of abusing disabled residents at McGuire Memorial (“Feds charge 2 men with hate crimes in Beaver...

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...

So our great President Biden has announced his two-part economic plan to fight inflation. It’s simple: Part one, buy American, but not oil. Apparently, oil purchased from terrorist states such as Iran or Venezuela will somehow reduce our now record-breaking U.S. gasoline prices, but U.S. oil won’t. I guess our...

A township manager is the person who is hired to steer the municipality’s work while the people elected to make the decisions are busy during the day. Elected officials, especially at the level of many townships, often have their own full-time jobs. Also, the person elected to make the decisions...

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. Donations welcome for Easter meals, treats Allegheny Valley Association of Churches Food Bank is accepting donations that will be used to create...

In the 1950s, corporations contributed 32% to the federal revenue, in 2013 it was 10% and currently it is 7%, equal to a more than three-quarters reduction rate. This reduction in taxes paid by corporations is due to the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts for the wealthy few plus...

High schools Baseball WPIAL Wednesday’s results Class 5A Section 2 Hampton 17, Woodland Hills 3 Mars 16, Fox Chapel 6 Plum 8, Armstrong 1 Class 4A Section 2 Ambridge 11, Central Valley 1 Beaver 11, New Castle 1 Montour 3, Quaker Valley 2 Section 3 Uniontown 2, Belle Vernon 1...

Jack Glies hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the seventh in the opener, helping Neshannock to a 5-4 victory in the first game of a doubleheader sweep of Shenango in Section 2-2A baseball Wednesday. Glies had two of the Lancers’ three hits in the first game. Glies...

Hampton Presbyterian Church has announced its Holy Week and Easter services. Holy Week April 10 — Palm Sunday We will herald the entrance of King Jesus with palms and songs! Palm Sunday Musical at both the 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. services. Worshipers are asked to bring their fish bank for...