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STATE COLLEGE — The Penn State men’s basketball team announced the addition of forward Jalanni White, a graduate transfer from Canisius, on Friday. White has one season of eligibility remaining after a four-year year career at the Buffalo, N.Y., college. Penn State lists White at 6-foot-8, 215 pounds, and he’ll...

For single mother Tara Tomlinson, the expanded child tax credit that arrived in her bank account earlier this month provided a lifeline that arrived not a moment too soon. Emerging from a pandemic-induced crush on finances and other resources, Tomlinson said things were tightening at an alarming rate. “I was...

PH School District fires back against state rep’s letter on tax increase This letter is sent as a reply to state Rep. Tony DeLuca’s July 15 letter, in which he expresses his displeasure at the Penn Hills School District’s raising taxes by 0.4 (mills). As you are aware, the district...

Everyone knows America is experiencing a hiring crisis. Many local restaurants and stores are struggling to find staff to open. Now imagine running a nursing home, where the pandemic remains a real threat, and trying to retain and find new employees. Even if you could find potential candidates, nursing homes...

District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. is suing the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office to stop the recently announced opioid settlement agreement reached between it and three pharmaceutical companies. In the 24-page complaint filed Thursday in Commonwealth Court, the District Attorney’s Office contends Attorney General Josh Shapiro is improperly seeking to...

American democracy has been taking a beating lately. When people are feeling lousy about their country, experts usually recommend civic pick-me-ups to alleviate the aches and pains. Attend a veterans parade. Play bingo at a volunteer fire department. Witness a Blue Angels air show. All of those are nice, and...

When you hear it said that “we” stole the land from the indigenous people, it’s not true. We are only sharecroppers. Read 2 Chronicles 20:6 and Deuteronomy 6:10-11. And, what God gives, he can take away, if and when a nation turns their back on him. “Let us pray.” Margaret...

NEW YORK — Last week, Kate Zhang snapped up a wedding dress at a bridal store in Manhattan. It was only her second appointment. Her decision to get married was slightly less hurried. Zhang and her fiancé, Harrison Li, agreed to tie the knot the weekend before. Granted, they had...

A tornado touched down Thursday along the border of Fayette and Westmoreland counties, according to the National Weather Service in Moon. The tornado was EF1 and had wind speeds between 100 and 105 mph, according to meteorologist Jason Frazier. The National Weather Service said that the tornado touched down from...

In the article “Critical race theory: What it is, what it isn’t, and what it means for education in Pennsylvania” (July 15, TribLIVE), it is amazing that the National Education Association’s position on the issue was not disclosed. But it could have been. Just prior to Independence Day, the NEA...

Letter-writer Dr. Joel I. Last (“In defense of D’Souza,” June 15, TribLIVE) needs to give it up. He champions this wacky, revisionist theory that since Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party contains the word “socialist,” then the Nazis were creatures of the political left. This is like saying the Democratic...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 34-39) lost 3-2 to St. Paul (Twins) on a walk-off in the 10th inning. LHP Steven Brault (1.64) allowed one run on one hit with one walk and one strikeout in four innings in a rehab start. 1B T.J. Rivera (.244) hit a two-run home run in the...

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. Leechburg VFD carnival to begin Monday Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company will host its annual carnival at 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday...

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. Help available for those grieving loss of their spouse Christ Our Hope Anglican Church will offer a seminar, “Loss of a...

Laurel: To open doors. The Greensburg YMCA will not be closing. At least not for the next year. That promise was made Tuesday when YMCA leaders announced an 18-month plan to keep the organization alive. “We’re not looking anytime soon to lose this Y. The goal is not to close...

If you’re going to Disney World, you will have to mask up. Starting Friday, Disney guests will have to wear masks while indoors and on resort transportation, regardless of vaccination status. Face coverings are optional when outside, and visitors younger than 2 will not be required to wear a mask....

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 — Almost every day for the past month, as the end of a federal freeze on evictions edges closer, Brian...

A lawsuit by a former Allegheny County Jail captain who alleged he was fired for reporting a superior officer who called his biracial relative “a monkey” can move forward. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled in favor of former Capt. Jeffrey Kengerski, who was fired in...

A population equivalent to that of Germany — 83 million people — could be killed by 2100 because of rising temperatures caused by greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a new study that might influence how markets price carbon pollution. The research from Columbia University’s Earth Institute introduces a new metric to...

The emerging spectacle of a state senator trying to audit Pennsylvania’s 2020 election absent credible evidence of fraud isn’t going to change the 2020 outcome and will only further the paranoid atmospherics, poisoning both parties. I’m a Republican. I believe in my party’s core values: personal liberty, free markets and...

To the editor: I am again expressing concern about high levels of air pollution around the Franklin Regional school complex in Murrysville. The air quality monitor outside at my home, mere steps from the complex, often shows high levels of air pollution far exceeding the EPA’s “safe” levels of exposure....

Bethel Park’s fall/winter Live Well Bethel Park Speaker Series kicks off at 7 p.m. Aug. 11 featuring Outreach Teen & Family Services executive director Mary Birks. Birks will discuss programming information that may be helpful to the Bethel Park community. Already providing counseling services to area students and parents, Birks...

Imagine if the Democratic National Committee could go back in time a few years and rewrite every news article written and spoken by the mainstream media so they were favorable to Democrats and hostile to Republicans. Would any word need changed? Thomas Wagner Murrysville...

The last year or so has been some big trouble for small businesses. It wasn’t unexpected. When stay-at-home orders were issued and capacity restrictions put in place because of the pandemic, everyone knew businesses would be hit hard. That’s why $10 billion was included for them in the federal CARES...

Reading the paper can be depressing and heartbreaking at times, but two things recently lifted my spirits. First was the article about Dominic Dean (“Food passion fuels Milwaukee teen’s restaurant review success, leads to Primanti Bros. visit,” July 1, TribLIVE), and especially how his teacher recognized his interests and thought...