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It was quite the day for the Mt. Pleasant swim team and freshman Lily King. King set four meet records: individually in the 50- and 100-yard freestyles and as a part of the 200 IM and 400 free relay teams. Those results helped propel the Viking girls team to the...

The five finalists for the second annual Willie Thrower Award, recognizing the top quarterback among WPIAL and City League schools, have been determined. The finalists, selected by a panel of two coaches from each conference and various media members, are (listed alphabetically) Brad Birch of Gateway, Jared Brickner of Beaver...

WASHINGTON — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said that elected officials shouldn’t focus on untrue claims about the 2020 election and instead look ahead. Speaking at the National Governors Association winter meeting on Saturday, Hutchinson rejected unsubstantiated claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election that have been made by former...

Letter-writer Dale Vukovich (“Vaccines and gas prices”) must have missed President Biden, Vice President Harris and many of their Democratic friends last October saying they wouldn’t “trust or take the vaccine that was developed under Trump.” He must have missed Biden during the second presidential debate saying that “anyone who...

Our lives changed with a headache. I checked my 10-year-old son Gus’ forehead and found it burning. It was the week before Halloween 2021, and the FDA had not yet approved vaccines for children his age. We had been living with the pandemic for a year and a half by...

This year, about 50 million students will attend primary and secondary school in the United States. Every morning, as I and millions of others struggle to get out of bed, asking ourselves whether it’s really necessary to wake up this early, it’s evident that we have no other choice. School...

Greta Lazzara has had her share and trials and tribulations during her college years at Case Western Reserve University. But things came together for the Fox Chapel Area High School graduate during her senior soccer season. Lazzara was named a Division III, third-team All-American as she helped lead Case to...

The WPIAL section realignments for the next two football and soccer seasons have been issued, and a couple of local coaches all but predicted where their teams would land. Shady Side Academy has been advanced to Class 3A in football from 2A, as anticipated by coach Chuck DiNardo, while Fox...

North Allegheny senior defensive end Jacob Porter made a verbal commitment to Yale last week. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound standout is a two-time all-conference selection. He chose Yale over other offers from Temple, Bucknell, Akron, Colorado State and Old Dominion. This season, Porter made 37 tackles, including 21 solo, in seven...

OK, multiple days of letters to the editor by people complaining about the Westmoreland County commissioners not putting money toward homes for the homeless, mental health facilities, drug treatment facilities, etc. Enough: If you Voice of Westmoreland people feel so strongly about helping people who need those facilities, why don’t...

The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on access to affordable housing. A 2022 report found that, since the pandemic began, Southwestern Pennsylvania was near the top for rents rising faster than home prices. In Westmoreland County, renting costs $400 a month more than a home mortgage. That $400 represents...

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. Natrona food pantry offers help The Natrona Community Pantry is in Natrona Community Park, 12-20 River Road, Harrison. Anyone in need is...

I read with interest the letter “Socialism in line with Christian faith”. An extensive history of socialism was conducted by Igor Shafarevich, a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and an associate of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn and Shafarevich had a front-row seat to the glory days of socialism. That seat provided them with...

High schools Basketball Boys Friday’s results Class 6A Section 1 North Hills 76, Butler 62 North Allegheny 66, Seneca Valley 54 Section 2 Upper St. Clair 60, Baldwin 49 Mt. Lebanon 52, Canon-McMillan 40 Bethel Park 53, Peters Township 47 Section 3 Central Catholic 46, Penn-Trafford 38 Fox Chapel 87,...

Jake DiMichele scored 35 points, hitting nine 3-pointers, as OLSH defeated South Side, 82-46, to set a WPIAL record with 53 consecutive victories Friday night. The No. 1 Chargers (13-0, 5-0) broke the record of 52 set by Uniontown in 1965 and matched by Washington in 1985. OLSH’s last loss...

Aspinwall Roger Kent Galey Jr. sold property at 120 Fourth St. to Ryan Thomas Rydzewski and Jaqueline Marie Roth for $520,000. 3G3 Aspinwall LLC sold property at 115 Center Ave. to KFC Properties LLC for $482,500. Arthur West III trustee sold property at Guyasuta Road to AP River Oaks Apartments...

Women’s Business Network Women’s Business Network supports the success and growth of women in business. WBN provides members with the tools to be successful, including networking, mastermind groups, and ongoing professional education, while expanding her circle of influence in the marketplace. All professional women are welcome to visit at no...

Less than three weeks remain in section play in the WPIAL boys basketball regular season. This winter, the district returns to earning a ticket to ride on the Path to the Pete with no “open tournament” and the championships returning to the University of Pittsburgh’s Petersen Events Center, March 3-5....

Imani Christian’s bus was late to the Leechburg gym with a misunderstanding of the start time. The Saints all but debussed and walked on to the floor to build a huge lead, only to see Leechburg stage an amazing comeback. The Blue Devils cut a 25-point deficit to five early...

First responders formed a human chain just before dawn Friday to reach down and rescue motorists and passengers who fell more than 100 feet when a bridge over Pittsburgh’s Frick Park collapsed down an icy ravine. Most of those caught in the collapse were not severely injured and were able...

Pittsburgh is more than a city of steel. It is also the City of Bridges. It has more of them than Venice, Italy — a city that is most easily traveled by boat. Venice has 443 bridges. Pittsburgh had 446. Today it has 445. That last bridge, where Forbes Avenue...

Jon Danzek was still tucked in bed on a cold, snowy Friday morning when he heard a noise he thought might be the trash truck in an adjacent alley from his residence in the 600 block of South Braddock Avenue. “The noise was exceptionally loud,” he said, “and it disturbed...

Is there something wrong with this picture? Nearly 40% of all abortions in America since Roe v. Wade have been from Black Americans. This equates to more than 20 million Black pregnancies aborted. That would be the equivalent to either the populations of New York or Florida. Yet Black people...

A toddler in Alvord, Texas, managed to wake his mother in the early-morning hours of Jan. 15 and is credited for saving his entire family from a massive fire that destroyed their home, reports say. According to a report by WFAA, Nathan and Kayla Dahl lost everything in the fire....

A man accused of bringing a woman from Alabama to Pittsburgh to prostitute her pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to sex trafficking charges. Anthony Juskowich, 23, who was living in Oakland at the time of his arrest, faces a mandatory prison term of at least 15 years. He...