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High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Finals At Petersen Events Center Class 6A Saturday’s schedule North Hills (24-0) vs. Fox Chapel (23-1), 7 p.m. Class 5A Friday’s result Laurel Highlands 60, New Castle 58 (2OT) Class 3A Friday’s result Shady Side Academy 66, Avonworth 54 Class 2A Saturday’s schedule OLSH...

Burgettstown sent a WPIAL-best four wrestlers into the championship semifinals at the PIAA Class 2A Southwest Regional wrestling tournament Friday night at Peters Township. Burgettstown’s trio of WPIAL champs – Parker Sentipal (106), Joey Sentipal (132) and Joseph Baronick (285) – advanced, joined by 138-pounder Rudy Brown. Quaker Valley has...

President Biden, I had hit the reset button after the exit debacle in Afghanistan. This was a rookie mistake from a near 80-year-old, even if you still do not see it that way. I also hit the reset button on your statements not matching the facts — “I will not...

December 11 wasn’t that long ago in chronological terms. But in WPIAL basketball terms, it’s been a while. Fox Chapel and North Hills met in a tip-off tournament final that night, and North Hills convincingly defeated the Foxes, 87-57. But coaches of both boys basketball teams feel plenty of water...

At the WPIBL boys singles championship last month, Greensburg Central Catholic sophomore Mike Mullaney missed qualifying for the step-ladder finals by just five pins. On Friday, he didn’t miss much. Mullaney ranked fifth after the five-game qualifying series then topped the 200 mark in four straight games in the step-ladder...

The Neshannock Lancers weren’t happy about receiving the second seed in the WPIAL Class 2A girls basketball playoff bracket. Coach Luann Grybowski then challenged the girls to go out and prove they should have been ranked first. The Lancers (24-2) obliged by overcoming a cold start, shooting-wise, and held top-ranked...

Beware of Bullwinkle, apparently. According to a Bethel Park native who makes his home in America’s Last Frontier, the friendly fellow featured in Jay Ward cartoons is the opposite of the genuine article. “You guys probably think the most dangerous things in Alaska are wolves or bears,” Scott Brucker said....

Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald has nominated a man who spent his career in corrections and once served as the county’s interim warden to be a citizen representative on the Jail Oversight Board. The county announced the nomination of William Stickman III to the board last month, and the issue...

Hundreds of people converged Friday afternoon along Interstate 70 in New Stanton and at the eastbound ramps onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike to cheer on a large trucker convoy rolling toward Washington, D.C., for a weekend rally to protest covid-19 restrictions — which have been eased or eliminated in large part...

SOMERSET — A Paint Township man was sentenced in Somerset County court on Thursday to serve a state prison sentence for killing his wife in April 2019 and burying her body under the house, authorities said. President Judge D. Gregory Geary sentenced James D. Kline, 50, to six to 40...

Charlotte Gauntner, an eighth-grade student at Saint James School, earned her Girl Scout Silver Award for her Buddy Bench project. The Silver Award is the highest honor a Cadette Girl Scout can earn. Gauntner initiated her six-month project in June 2021, meeting with her project advisor Jeanne Riley, Father Brian...

The American Rescue Plan Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden March 11, represents a critical commitment to rebuilding the communities harmed by the covid-19 pandemic and is an unprecedented investment in our economy. The $1.9 trillion in federal dollars can be used for purposes as wide ranging as...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s senior U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham took his calls for regime change in Russia one step further Thursday night, when he tweeted that someone needs to take Russian President Vladimir Putin out over the invasion of Ukraine. Anyone willing to kill Putin over his recent invasion...

As is now clearer than ever, the greatest military threat to the United States and its allies in the near future is Russia. Many in the West have long lulled themselves into believing that Russian nuclear weapons somehow do not matter. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over the...

Robert Pattinson is the current occupant of Wayne Manor, and with the way things are going for “The Batman,” it looks like he may stay there for awhile. But no one stays Batman forever, so it’s never too early to start fantasy booking who will be the next actor to...

LOS ANGELES — No one said dubbing a Korean zombie series would be easy. Inside a Netflix recording studio off Sunset Boulevard, director Kyung Sok Kim, associate producer Anastasia Barbato and engineer Yoav Litman scanned a big screen as they replayed a scene from an episode of “All of Us...

Over the next four days, the eight Penn State representatives are slated to work out at the 2022 NFL Combine in Indianapolis, which provides them the chance to put concrete measurements next to their names during the pre-draft process. Former Lions wide receiver Jahan Dotson was the first one up...

With much of Pennsylvania now experiencing a decline in covid-19 cases, Penn State announced that it planned to officially relax its policy on face masks come Monday. According to the university, face masks will no longer be required in many indoor settings starting Monday — although the requirement will remain...

Pittsburgh-area organizations have joined forces to help Ukrainians under siege of the ongoing Russian invasion by sending medical supplies and humanitarian aid to people in that war-torn eastern European country. “It is amazing how giving the people of Western Pennsylvania have been. They have opened their hearts and wallets for...

Gasoline now costs more than $4 per gallon at some local stations, thanks to an overnight price spike of about 13 cents per gallon. The abrupt jump, after weeks of steady price increases, is something not usually seen, even in times of economic uncertainty. “That’s very drastic and a direct...

Critics say critical race theory teaches that Americans are guilty of racism and responsible for past American racism and must make amends. Yet, the same critics subscribe to a religion that is premised on the very same beliefs when they teach biblical original sin and that the sins of the...

Classes at the Sewickley Academy Senior School were canceled Friday following a day of chaos at the school. Police were called to the private school in Edgeworth Thursday after a student group called CARES – Collective Action for Representative Education at Sewickley – and several parents attempted to meet with...

St. Stephen’s Anglican Church The Lent Dinner and Speaker Series begins March 9. The theme for the evening will be based on excerpts from “Gentle and Lowly” by Dane Ortlund. Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m and the speaker at 7. Childcare is available during the speaker time. For more details...

After reading Jonah Goldberg’s column “In GOP embrace of truckers, some see racist double standard” (Feb. 18, TribLIVE) and then watching a Black man on social media preach against critical race theory, I have come to the conclusion that the Black man was correct when he stated that the only...

Publicize your events, club meetings and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Irish celebration to raise funds for recovery ministry Addiction Recovery Ministry will host an Irish celebration event at 4:30 p.m. March 27...