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I can’t understand how minority neighborhoods are being called underserved when clinics are set up in them and the residents don’t come. A recurring excuse is “they did not come for the vaccine because they don’t know what is in it.” Would they come if an ingredient list was published...

Did your marriage start out in a blissful state? Have you been floating on cloud nine, but now thunderstorms are on the horizon? This is normal. No married couple can stay in the honeymoon phase forever. Sooner or later, real life takes over. All of us start out believing our...

If people think the exodus from President G.W. Bush’s 20-year Afghanistan war is bad, wait until they see our exodus from Bush’s 18-year, multitrillion-dollar Iraq debacle. Everyone is pointing fingers. Why are not the real guilty parties (GWB and Cheney) put on the witness stand and answers demanded from them?...

English mathematician, logician and philosopher John Venn introduced the Venn diagram in the 1880s. A Venn diagram uses overlapping circles to illustrate the logical relationships between two or more sets of items. Often, Venn diagrams serve to highlight how the items are similar and different. They can also help us...

President Biden supporters, from mainstream media to die-hard Democrats, and those who found some of Trump’s tweets upsetting, have betrayed our troops and allies around the world. All now share responsibility for the debacle and loss of life in Afghanistan. More lives will be lost because terrorists are now emboldened....

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. Northmoreland Park Labor Day party planned The annual Labor United Celebration will be from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday and...

Poverty retreating; means to control covid; and infrastructure coming including connectivity, broadband and cell service (imagine, no more trips to McDonald’s or Walmart parking lots for internet); shots in the arm; cash in your pocket; and help for rural schools and hospitals. All through Democrats working for you, for all...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 50-54) handled Iowa (Cubs), 6-2. Newly promoted SS Diego Castillo (.667) went 4 for 4 with a walk, an RBI and three runs scored. Castillo was acquired from the Yankees in the Clay Holmes trade at the deadline. LF Jared Oliva (.264) went 2 for 4 with a...

High schools Football Thursday’s result Nonconference Perry Traditional Academy 34, Uniontown 0 Friday’s schedule Nonconference Aliquippa at Beaver Falls, 7 p.m. Allderdice at Oak Glen, W.Va., 7 p.m. Apollo-Ridge at Avonworth, 7 p.m. Avella at Fort Cherry, 7 p.m. Beaver at Central Valley, ppd. Belle Vernon at Chartiers Valley, 7...

Quarterback Ahmad Arrington had a hand in a pair of long first-half touchdowns, leading Perry Traditional Academy to a 34-0 victory over Uniontown (0-1) in nonsection football Thursday night at Cupples Stadium. In the second quarter, Arrington scored on a 43-yard run and hit Nate Cutler with a 63-yard scoring...

Playing for the first time in almost two years, Seton Hill caught a break and opened its season with a 16-14 victory over Wheeling University on Thursday night at Offutt Field. Wheeling missed a potential game-winning, 26-yard field goal with 1:17 to play because of a botched snap. Seton Hill...

Laurel: To careful deliberation. When it comes to money, it seems like government seldom needs any encouragement to plunge forward, planning first and finding a way to underwrite a project later. That makes it refreshing to see Jeannette content to let a pot of funds sit until the right way...

Each Friday throughout the high school football season, the Valley News Dispatch will take a look back at the games, players and events that are part of local scholastic history. Cole Bush scored on a 2-yard run to lift Burrell to a 23-16 overtime win at Valley in 2011. The...

The Penguins signed a goaltender who figures to slot in at No. 3 on the organizational depth chart, adding Louis Domingue on a one-year deal Thursday. Domingue, 29, signed a two-way contract that will pay him $750,000 when at the NHL level and $300,000 when he’s in the minors. He...

Amidst the controversy unraveling this week about the football program at the alleged “fake” high school, Bishop Sycamore, Chick’s Picks reflected on a time when she, herself, was duped by an imposter. The year was 2003. Chick’s Picks was still relatively new to prognosticating, but her tremendous success early in...

The Westmoreland County Courthouse dome will be bathed in purple during September for National Recovery Month. Director of public works Greg McCloskey said the purple lights were to be turned on Thursday night. It was as a result of a request made by Tim Phillips, director of the Westmoreland Drug...

A.B. Stoddard is associate editor and a columnist at RealClearPolitics, where this first appeared. Sen. Bernie Sanders is traipsing through red states trying to sell the biggest tax increase in American history to GOP voters, knowing full well not one Republican senator will be supporting his plan to spend trillions...

The federal government on Thursday filed a civil complaint against UPMC, its longtime head of cardiothoracic surgery and a physicians group, accusing them of knowingly submitting hundreds of false claims to Medicare, failing to follow medical standards for surgery and knowingly putting patients at risk. The allegations against Dr. James...

People living with disabilities often face tremendous challenges. One is striking the right balance between paying for day-to-day needs and saving for larger expenses while not saving so much that they become ineligible for critical benefits. The federal Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014 and the Pennsylvania...

A Lawrence County woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly participating in January’s Capitol riots. Julia Jeanette Sizer, of Ellwood City, is charged with knowingly entering a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct; and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. She is not accused of damaging any property, harming...

Evacuating Afghanistan is one thing, but letting the Taliban immediately take over, kill the innocent, destroy rights and oppress is something else. Our allies are aghast, knowing this evil force will align itself with Western adversaries, threaten 9/11-style terrorism and help make egregious world trends persistent realities. Guess what? There...

Successful relationships don’t happen in a vacuum. They take work. And couples who make their relationships work are the ones who also have the most fun and feel the most love. It’s a simple program that really works. Here are 10 tools to get you started. 1. Give what you...

Mijohni Brisker knew something was going to break. She’d told her boys time and time again that playing with the football was for outside, so she had no choice but to take it from them to prevent the inevitable from happening. But that didn’t stop her son Jaquan from finding...

Gov. Tom Wolf’s Aug. 31 announcement that a mask mandate for all schools will go into effect Sept. 7 means it’s business as usual for students in North Allegheny School District because students are already required to wear masks there. No public comments on the matter will be made from...