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Fresh Express announces recall of salad mix due to potential health risk
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Fresh Express is recalling certain varieties of its branded and private label salad products produced at the company’s Streamwood, Ill., facility because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The organism can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail...
Letter to the editor: Government control
Apparently my Webster’s dictionary has become obsolete. According to it, a vaccine is a substance to induce immunity to a disease, and a mandate is an authoritative command — not a law. The government is trying to force all American citizens to get the covid-19 shots; workers could be fired...
Why more of the same would be a positive for new Penn State defensive coordinator Manny Diaz
Manny Diaz set the tone quickly when he first had a chance to speak to the Penn State defense for the first time. The new Nittany Lion defensive coordinator was all business. “He came into the meeting, slick hair back, chest poking out and stuff like that,” senior safety Ji’Ayir...
Letter to the editor: The supply crisis is real
Until very recently I was on the fence regarding this “supply chain” crisis. My friends on the political left told me there wasn’t one, that this is all part of the Christmas gift-buying season. They hedged by saying if there was one, it is the fault of Donald Trump. On...
Editorial: Settling on opioid suit is right thing for Westmoreland County
Westmoreland County is seeing a minor business boom from gambling. That’s great for Live! Casino at the Westmoreland Mall. It’s not what you want to see at the courthouse. That makes the decision Monday to join the settlement with major pharmaceutical companies a good bet. The county is one of...
The Stroller, Dec. 22, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your holiday 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. HOPE Center collecting donations for its SAF-T kennel The Alle-Kiski HOPE Center offers a Sheltering Animals and Families Together (SAF-T) Kennel...
Letter to the editor: Rep. Leslie Rossi is not demonstrating leadership
Rep. Leslie Rossi, please demonstrate some leadership (“Westmoreland Co. lawmaker offers to help with vaccine exemptions as covid-19 infections surge.” Covid-19 cases and deaths are rising. Consider these headlines: • “Excela reopens Unity testing center in response to rising covid-19 numbers.” The article reports that on Dec. 10, a record...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 21, 2021
High schools WPIAL Basketball Boys Tuesday’s results Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 69, Butler 59 North Hills 65, Seneca Valley 33 Class 5A Section 3 Woodland Hills 51, Franklin Regional 49 Penn Hills 68, Latrobe 57 McKeesport 51, Kiski Area 48 Section 4 Armstrong 36, Plum 30 Highlands 86, Hampton...
High school roundup for Dec. 21, 2021: Seton LaSalle outlasts West Allegheny, 108-105, in 3OT
Connor Spratt led all scorers with 36 points and Seton LaSalle outlasted West Allegheny, 108-105, in a nonsection triple overtime slugfest in WPIAL boys basketball Wednesday night. Both teams came into the game undefeated. They were tied at 75 at the end of regulation, 87 after the first overtime and...
Ramesh Ponnaru: Democrats should blame themselves, not Joe Manchin
The Democrats should have listened to Joe Manchin. As their “Build Back Better” agenda assumed legislative shape, the Democratic senator from West Virginia kept telling them what he didn’t like about it. On Nov. 1, he decried the bill’s “shell games” and “budget gimmicks” and called it “a recipe for...
Teresa Ghilarducci: The perfect Christmas gift? Cash.
If you still haven’t gotten a holiday gift for someone — or anyone over the age of 12, for that matter — you’ve come to the right place. As an economist, I can assure you that not only have you done the responsible, even thoughtful, thing. It may also not...
John Dorfman: Peloton leads market’s parade of losers
Part of Peloton Interactive Inc.’s stock decline this year was funny. But the loss of 73% for the year to date (through Dec. 21) was not so humorous. As shown in the accompanying table, Peloton suffered the biggest loss of all stocks with a market value of $5 billion or...
Man who died after being tased by Pittsburgh police pleaded for medical help but got none, report says
Jim Rogers reportedly asked for help at least 13 times as he sat in the back of a Pittsburgh police vehicle after being stunned with a taser eight times on Oct. 13. For 17 minutes, Rogers banged his head off the seat and repeated, “‘I need a hospital, I can’t...
P-R grad named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference
Pine-Richland High School graduate Zach Riggins of Wexford is one of 53 Baldwin Wallace University fall sports student-athletes to be named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference. He is a member of the men’s cross country team, majoring in biology. In order to be selected as Academic All-OAC, a student-athlete must be...
Westmoreland happenings: live Nativity, church services and New Year’s hike
Church events • Latrobe United Methodist Church, 440 Main St., will host a free live Nativity display from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the church. There will be music and refreshments. Details: 724-537-8141. • Fairview Church of God will have a Christmas Eve worship service at 7...
Anthony Fauci calls on Fox News to fire Jesse WattersVideo
Anthony Fauci is calling on Fox News to fire host Jesse Watters after the Philadelphia native told a crowd of conservatives to ambush Fauci in public and send the footage to his network. “The guy should be fired on the spot,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy...
New Jersey man pleads guilty to throwing firecracker at Pittsburgh police during protest
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Tuesday to throwing a firecracker at police officers during last year’s protests in Downtown Pittsburgh over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Nicholas Frank Lucia, 26, of Long Beach Township, pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh via video conference to a single...
Striking defiant tone, Bruce Arians welcomes Antonio Brown back from suspension
With his leading receiver sidelined for the season, injuries to other key contributors and a foundering kicking game, Bucs coach Bruce Arians has myriad concerns these days. “I could give a s—t what (people) think,” the 69-year-old Bucs coach said during his weekly media Zoom session Monday. “The only thing...
Sally Pipes: Post-pandemic, fix scope-of-practice laws
Even health care answers to the law of supply and demand. Before the pandemic, demand for care was surging as our nation aged. Supply has not kept up. More than 83 million Americans live in areas where there’s a shortage of primary care health professionals, according to the federal government....
Hallelujah! The remarkable story behind this joyful word
It begins with the violins — orderly and baroque. The choir rises. The audience rises. And before you know it, the concert hall, church, rec center or school auditorium fills with the triumphant sound of one of the most beloved musical works of the season: Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus. Over the...
Young adults make up many of the long-haul covid patients at Chicago clinic
CHICAGO — When the coronavirus pandemic began, Patrick Malia was an energetic, 37-year-old father of two. In March 2020, coughing sent him to an Illinois emergency room. Two years later, the West Dundee, Illinois resident is still suffering from covid-19 symptoms he never could have imagined persisting so long after...
Luke DeCock: ACC needs to revisit covid forfeit policy before it skews the standings
With two ACC teams already on covid pauses, it’s starting to feel like last season all over again. It’s also time to dial back some of the ACC’s covid policies to what they were last season — and revise others to adapt to our new reality. Because with Florida State...
Allegheny 7 Offensive Player of the Year Kyle Tipinski finds family, stability at North Catholic
At 18, Kyle Tipinski has overcome a number of obstacles, but he eventually found a stable home environment. It has led to the New Kensington resident and North Catholic High School senior to reach the brink of a major decision: which football scholarship to accept. Tipinski, a key member of...
Penn State football LB Ellis Brooks sitting out Outback Bowl, declares for NFL Draft
Penn State football will be without another of its starting linebackers in the Outback Bowl and the 2022 season. Redshirt senior linebacker Ellis Brooks announced Monday evening that he will be opting out of the bowl game and entering the 2022 NFL Draft. He made the announcement via his personal...
Letter to the editor: Why run S.E. Cupp’s bitter diatribes?
Reading (which I usually do not) S.E. Cupp’s columns has me wondering why the Tribune-Review continues to print them. Cupp must have a dictionary with only words like “conspiracy-spewing quack,” “rotten fermenting barrel of toxic waste,” “soulless,” “insane” and “kooks.” Her hatred of President Trump has no end. Cupp dislikes...
