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The idea that those bad Republicans want to suppress votes (read minorities) is really old stuff (“Voter suppression to resume,” Sept. 7, TribLIVE). Maybe ’50s or ’60s. Let’s find a new slander. Suppression of cheating is the intent, and that worries some folks. As far as grape jelly goes, 9-year-olds...

Because of a TikTok challenge, school bathrooms are being destroyed at an alarming rate nationwide, and Pennsylvania has not been spared. Boyertown Area School District Superintendent Marybeth Torchia told her school board in Berks County on Monday that is exactly what is happening there — vandalism is on the rise...

State law provides school boards authority to make reasonable and necessary rules governing students in school. Using this authority, many schools choose to keep masks optional. Gov. Tom Wolf disagreed with the rules made by most school boards and had his health secretary issue an order requiring masks. This order...

Publicize your club meetings, community events 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. Free festival set at new Buffalo Creek Nature Park The Buffalo Creek Water Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 3...

Campaign promises can be an oxymoron. They are something that a candidate swears he or she will do while shaking hands and making speeches, stumping for the job. Campaign promises are as famous for being broken as they are for being made. That doesn’t make it any less disappointing when...

It was a damp, dark night on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base on Feb. 11, 2020. President Trump, along with his vice president, had scurried away from a raucous campaign rally in New Hampshire to make a last-minute flight to the air base. The president wanted to be...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 54-60) got trounced at home by St. Paul (Twins), 13-4. RHP Beau Sulser (6-7, 4.91) got smacked around for eight runs on seven hits, allowing two home runs and one walk. LHP Cam Alldred (4-0, 2.08) came on in relief in the fourth, gave up a home run...

High schools Cross Country Boys Tuesday’s results Division I Section 5 Blackhawk 15, Central Valley 50 Blackhawk 15, Ambridge 15 Section 6 Team scores: Peters Township 28, Baldwin 28; Canon McMillan 24, Peters Township 31; Canon McMillan 28, Baldwin 29 Division II Section 3 Belle Vernon 16, Chartiers-Houston 45 Belle...

Abby Stager and Sophia Palermo scored to lead North Allegheny to a 2-0 win over Seneca Valley (3-1-1, 0-1) in a matchup of tops girls soccer teams in Section 1-4A on Tuesday night. Stager scored from long range in the first half and Palmero cleaned up the rebound of a...

It was a rough week for the top 30 teams in last week’s HSSN state football rankings. Eight of them tasted defeat in Week 2. The strange part is, only five of those eight teams fell out of the state top five. Coatesville in Class 6A, Penn-Trafford in 5A and...

No one was hurt when a tractor-trailer rolled over at about 7 p.m. Tuesday on Fort Pitt Boulevard at Stanwix Street in Downtown Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Public Safety officials tweeted a fuel spill from the crash was contained and no one was hurt. EMS, Fire, and Police are on the scene...

The Ligonier Valley Library on Tuesday opened its 2021 Historic Photography Show. The theme this year is “Faces of Ligonier Valley: Veterans of the Korean War Era.” The exhibit features photos of local heroes who served during the war as well as memorabilia related to the war and to the...

A Monessen man was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison on drug and weapons charges, according to acting U.S. Attorney Stephen Kaufman. Eric T. Emerson, 32, was sentenced after pleading guilty to possession of narcotics and possession of firearms in connection with a March 2019 search warrant served at...

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — The Wolf administration’s controversial waiver program allowing businesses to remain open during the early months of the pandemic was...

Norm Macdonald, a “Saturday Night Live” cast member best known as the host of Weekend Update, died Tuesday. He was 61. Macdonald succumbed to a nine-year cancer battle that he kept private, his management team told Deadline. “He was most proud of his comedy,” producing partner Lori Jo Hoekstra told...

STATE COLLEGE — The college football coaching carousel began spinning in earnest Monday when Southern California fired coach Clay Helton, creating a notable and appealing vacancy in the sport’s landscape. Penn State coach James Franklin’s name was immediately among those floated by a number of insiders as a potential candidate...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ruffled lots of feathers with her 2021 Met Gala dress — and not the fashionable kind. After some called the New York Democrat a hypocrite for condemning wealth inequality at the lavish, star-studded red-carpet event, the New York congresswoman defended her decision Monday to attend the...

If it’s a year ending in a number, then federal tax policy is again on the table. This year differs from the recent norm, however: The debate in Washington is over raising taxes — more specifically, by how much. Democratic tax proposals, which are aimed at funding a budget bill...

Silk Elephant restaurant on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill received an Allegheny County Health Department consumer alert following an inspection on Monday. The reinspection — following others in August and June — showed a number of safety violations, including cockroaches, potential for cross-contamination of food and sanitization problems. According to...

Jenna Bell looks back at 2020 and is pleased with how the season unfolded for the Latrobe girls tennis team. But she also knows there are still some hurdles to clear. Bell, a senior standout for the Wildcats, has put together an impressive high school career, winning two individual section...

No matter what instrument you put in her hands, Paige Storkel can swing it. Storkel, a junior at Greensburg Salem, is a talented two-sport athlete, excelling on the Golden Lions tennis and softball teams. While she feels her future plans might lean more toward the diamond, she is no slouch...

President Joe Biden signaled to America and the world that he’d be a different kind of commander in chief when he moved this summer to finally end the nearly 20-year “forever war” in Afghanistan — a bold step that his predecessors Barack Obama and Donald Trump had not taken despite...

I’m glad there are people like Bryan Harsin in the world because they are the reason things get done. And God knows, if only people like me existed, not a damn thing would ever get done. Ask my wife. But the new Auburn coach is clearly all about completing tasks....