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My family recently visited the monument dedicated to the ministry of hymn writer Philip P. Bliss. I had been wanting to travel to the little town of Rome in north-central Pennsylvania to see the monument that was built when thousands of Sunday school children gave their pennies for its construction....

Karen Baldridge rolled up her sleeve to get her covid-19 booster vaccine. “I’m trying to baby myself and (am) doing everything that I can to keep healthy,” she said this past week while at Excela Square at Norwin. “I feel there’s about a 90% chance I wouldn’t get (covid), but...

The current ruling Democratic Party has succeeded in compromising the checks and balances that are necessary to protect and maintain our representative democracy. They have politicized virtually every government agency, including the military, as well as public institutions, including the majority of mainstream media, big tech, the unions, Hollywood celebrities...

The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of autumn events and Halloween parades, parties and trick-or-treat nights. Information should be emailed to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Fall for Animals Festival planned Saturday and Sunday The seventh annual Fall for Animals Festival to benefit local animal shelters and rescues will be from 11...

The winter of 2021-22 is going to be a cold one, according to sources as traditional as the Farmers’ Almanac and as high-tech as AccuWeather, which predicts average temperatures in the region around 1 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit below normal, with the chill winds starting to blow as early as...

On Sept. 24, at the end of a week that began with widely published images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback herding Haitian refugees like cattle and ended with reports of thousands of these desperate people being summarily returned to Haiti, Wade Henderson had had enough. “On behalf of...

Personal freedom from the tyranny of a fascist or totalitarian government is what we all desire. However, the word “freedom” is sometimes used incorrectly. What has happened in Texas is a textbook example. The government of Texas wanted freedom from wearing masks and getting vaccinated. So covid cases spiked, sickening...

High schools Cross country Boys Saturday’s results Grove City Invite Team: 1. Grove City, 43; 2. South Fayette, 97; 3. North Catholic, 110; 4. Hampton, 111; 5. Altoona, 149. Individual: 1. Jake Borgesi, South Fayette, 16:22; 2. Josh Jones, Grove City, 16:32; 3. Sean Aiken, Eden Christian, 16:38; 4. Caleb...

INDIANAPOLIS (61-66) and Nashville (Brewers) were rained out. The game will not be made up. Indianapolis will play its season finale Sunday. Next: Sunday vs. Nashville, 1:35 p.m....

Miami FC staged a furious comeback in the final 10 minutes of regulation, scoring twice to record a 3-2 victory and deal a blow to the Pittsburgh Riverhounds’ chances of finishing in second place in the USL Championship’s Atlantic Division. Miami (14-7-6) and Pittsburgh (14-8-6) are tied for second place,...

Sal Laure reached the end zone four times — three times on the ground and once through the air — to lead Rochester to a 34-7 win over OLSH in Class A Big 7 conference action Saturday. Laure reached the end zone three times in the first half as he...

Brady Walker threw for 219 yards and two touchdowns as St. Vincent overcame a slow start to defeat Case Western, 42-40, in a PAC slugfest Saturday afternoon. The Bearcats (3-1, 2-1) trailed 14-0 late in the first half before Walker hit Antonio Zambrano with a 7-yard scoring pass with 1:09...

Turns out Fox Chapel tied a national boys soccer record with its 30-0 rout over Southmoreland to open the season. After checking with the National Federation of State High Schools Associations (NSFN), the Foxes equalled the mark set by Eisenhower High School of Blue Island, Ill., on Aug. 29, 1990...

In late August I wrote about two outstanding Afghan women who were struggling to escape Taliban pursuit. One had made it out of the country and the second was still hiding in Kabul. Miraculously, Najlla Habibyar, a U.S. green card holder and U.S. aid worker, has now escaped to Abu...

One by one, in the most profoundly personal ways, they told us what the depraved violence of June 28, 2018, had cost them. One by one, relatives of the Capital Gazette shooting victims described what the killer took from them: a brother who was “the curator of obscure family memories”...

The Turnpike Commission is laughing itself all the way to the bank! The diversion of E-ZPass and Toll by Plate has allowed the commission to drastically increase tolls while keeping the public ignorant of those increases. Turnpike usage is geared toward the commuter and not the occasional user who must...

NiJhay Burt scored five touchdowns, and for the third week in a row, rushed for more than 200 yards, leading Steel Valley to a 40-0 win over Class 2A No. 5 Ligonier Valley on Friday in this Allegheny Conference opener at Campbell Field in Munhall. After the Ironmen’s defense stopped...

Paul Muschick is a columnist for The Morning Call of Allentown (paul.muschickmcall.com). This week, when I called for tougher enforcement to collect $104 million in unpaid Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls, I mentioned how I hadn’t been billed for a ride on the pike six weeks ago. I was expecting a bill...

Blue Mist Road: Fact and fiction Every year at Halloween, this barely traveled road on the edge of North Park leaps into prominence. What started as a local story is commonly listed as one of Pittsburgh’s most haunted sites and has been featured in publications such as Weird Pennsylvania. Just...

North Allegheny’s slow-pitch softball team swept a doubleheader against Penn-Trafford on Sept. 26 and improved to 5-1 on the season. The Tigers rolled to 27-1 and 26-4 wins and have outscored opponents 129-36 through six games. In Game 1 against P-T, Nina Pietrzak was 4 for 4 with three RBIs,...

The Shady Side Academy girls soccer team finished the first half of the Section 2-2A season atop the standings at 4-0. But the Bulldogs have no intention of stopping there after a hard-fought, 1-0 victory at Burrell on Sept. 27. A goal by Gabby Hill-Junke, her fifth of the season,...

Many youngsters find something interesting to do in the summer between their junior and senior years of high school. For Fox Chapel’s Max Johnson, he spent time in Montana golfing near Yellowstone National Park. It’s an experience he won’t soon forget. “I played seven or eight different courses. My father...