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Letter to the editor: Enough with Trump’s ‘big lie’
It’s about time someone knocks some sense into Donald Trump. It looks like he is going to continue to force his “big lie” crap until the next election, and at whose expense? Of course, the taxpayers. This is free publicity and is one of the few ways he has of...
The Stroller, Oct. 8, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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. Tarentum scarecrow contest taking submissions Tarentum Recreation Board is sponsoring its 13th annual Scarecrow Contest. The contest is open to groups, including family, friends, clubs, schools...
Letter to the editor: A different perspective on ‘facts’
Regarding the letter “Republicans continue to deny facts” (Sept. 2, TribLIVE): As a Republican, if you add these prefixes to Joanne Garing’s “facts” — Fakebook, Goggle, MSDNC, CNN, among others — denying “those” facts I can assure you, I don’t believe any of them. I am desperate to resolve how...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Oct. 7, 2021
Field hockey Thursday’s results Class 2A Fox Chapel 3, Oakland Catholic 1 Penn-Trafford 7, Upper St. Clair 0 Class A Shady Side Academy 1, Aquinas Academy 0 Friday’s schedule Class A Winchester Thurston at Shady Side Academy, 3:30 p.m. Nonsection Penn-Trafford at Ellis School, 4 p.m. Football Thursday’s result City...
High school roundup for Oct. 7, 2021: Undefeated Hampton stays atop section
Zach Panza converted a penalty kick and Luge Staggers also scored to lead Hampton to a 2-0 victory over Kiski Area in a showdown between the top two teams in Section 2-3A boys soccer Thursday. Hampton (11-0, 11-0) has outscored opponents 48-3 this season. The loss snapped a six-game winning...
Paul Petrick: Dick Tracy’s 90-year legacy
The New York Times recently greeted readers with the news that the FBI’s annual Crime in the United States survey shows that murder and nonnegligent manslaughter increased by nearly 30% in 2020, by far the largest increase on record. Times readers needing an escape from the grim reality of the...
Ohio businessman responsible for $59M in losses to Indiana County bank gets 3½ years federal prison
An Ohio businessman who wrote more than $118 million in bad checks over four days to try to cover payroll and expenses was sentenced Thursday to serve 42 months in federal prison. Harold Sosna, 68, of Cincinnati, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge Marilyn J. Horan in Pittsburgh to...
Laurels & lances: Filming, pleading, bargaining
Laurel: To lights, camera and action. While Pittsburgh has become a popular filming site and spent plenty of time on the big and small screens over the years, sometimes it can feel like the wealth of other communities can be left on the bench. But Greensburg hit a home run...
Parmy Olson and Tae Kim: 4 steps to fix Facebook, courtesy of Frances Haugen
At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, former Facebook Inc. product manager Frances Haugen didn’t need to convince lawmakers that the company has a big problem. Republicans and Democrats were, for once, united on her side, at several points even calling her a “hero.” What they needed was direction. Luckily, Haugen...
Falcons’ Calvin Ridley will miss game against Jets in London for ‘personal matter’Video
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Calvin Ridley, the Falcons’ leading receiver, was not at practice Thursday and will not travel with the team to London for the game Sunday against the New York Jets. The Falcons described Ridley’s situation as a “personal matter.” Also, wide receiver Russell Gage and defensive tackle...
3 of the 150 spookiest places in the U.S. are in Pennsylvania
Tis the season to be spooky. And if you’re looking to be spooky, a website has listed the 150 spookiest places in the U.S. for you to pay a visit (if you dare). Fortunately, three of them are already here in Pennsylvania. Moving experts Pro Mover Reviews decided to focus...
Chick’s Picks’ crystal ball is better for picking HS football games than finding missing eagles
Welcome to Week 6. All eyes in Pittsburgh this week were on Kodiak, the eagle that escaped from the National Aviary. Kodiak is a Steller’s sea eagle — the largest in existence in terms of weight. Aviary officials were on the lookout for nine days, searching for the 20-pound bird...
Penn State offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich highlights ‘poised’ Sean Clifford’s areas of improvement
UNIVERSITY PARK — Mike Yurcich knows Sean Clifford’s improvement has been a hot topic concerning Penn State through the first five weeks of the season. The redshirt senior has rebounded from a down 2020 season to become one of the Big Ten’s more efficient and accurate passers. Plenty of credit...
Review: Should you watch ‘Squid Game,’ Netflix’s surprise hit?Video
No squid were harmed in the making of “Squid Game,” or even appear in the nine-episode Korean series from Netflix that the streamer is cautiously predicting might be its most successful show ever. (It is hard to know exactly what that means, given the company’s famously secret metrics, but take...
Timothy Snyder and Nora Krug: Words to fight the many faces of tyranny
It was one of those uncanny nights when everything blurs and then clarifies. It was July 20, 2017, and my family had just arrived in Warsaw. A protest march was underway in defense of an independent judiciary, so we joined it. As the march proceeded down a long boulevard toward...
Uniontown man gets life for 2017 slaying in Pittsburgh’s Hill District
A Uniontown man will serve life in prison with no chance for parole after he was sentenced Thursday for killing a man in 2017 in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. An Allegheny County jury found Tevin Patterson, 27, guilty of first-degree murder in the Aug. 8, 2017, shooting death of Calvin Turner,...
Mainstream Republicans seek to ‘rescue’ Idaho — from the GOP
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho’s Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin wants to be the state’s governor after next year’s November elections. But when the man currently holding the job left town this week on official business, she decided not to wait. McGeachin, a far-right Republican known for her opposition to covid-19 restrictions...
Prosecutors offer guilty but mentally ill plea deal to Fox Chapel man accused of killing 2 men
The Allegheny County District Attorney’s office has offered a Fox Chapel man accused of killing two men in separate incidents a deal that would call for him to serve concurrent life sentences in exchange for a plea of guilty but mentally ill to two counts of first-degree murder. Adam Rosenberg,...
Queen Elizabeth launches baton relay for Commonwealth Games
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II held her first major engagement at Buckingham Palace since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic a year and a half ago, as she presided Thursday over the launch of the baton relay for next year’s Commonwealth Games in the central England city of Birmingham....
Trudy Rubin: Pandora Papers focus on corruption abroad, but what about thieving here?
My first reaction when I read the secret details from the Pandora Papers about how the world’s rich hide their assets was: What else is new? Do we need 11.9 million records leaked from 14 firms in the offshore financial services industries and an international consortium of investigative journalists including...
Richard Kocur: Corporate America’s ‘social justice scam’
Coca-Cola, Google, Delta Airlines, Blackrock, Unilever and Facebook. On its face, this list may sound like a great investment portfolio. Instead, as shown in a new book by former biotech CEO Vivek Ramaswamy, these companies serve as the poster children of woke capitalism. Ramaswamy, author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate...
Through the years: 10 years ago, West Shamokin sets futility record
Each week 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. West Shamokin set a new WPIAL record with its 40th consecutive loss, a 40-14 setback against previously winless Deer Lakes...
Letter to the editor: Don’t like green libs and Spam
Regarding David Ninehouser’s letter “ ‘Horton Hears a Hoax (‘Cause He Only Watches Fox)’ ” (Sept. 22, TribLIVE): Dr. Seuss Enterprises stopped publishing six Dr. Seuss books because of their racist imagery. How can watching Fox News be worse than emulating and promoting a racist? I do not like green...
Letter to the editor: Unborn child’s right to life
In her column, Lori Falce asked, “Do you have a right to privacy?” (Sept. 17, TribLIVE), and stated that Roe v. Wade’s decision turned upon a woman’s right to privacy over her own body. I’ve always thought that the decision actually turned upon the Supreme Court’s sidestepping the issue whether...
Letter to the editor: Freedoms don’t allow us to endanger others
Letter-writer Greg Weidner (“Mandates vs. freedoms”) makes an incredibly ridiculous statement: “Couldn’t a student also be sent home if they are vaccinated?” Please, tell me why that makes sense. Your freedom doesn’t exist when endangering others. If a student is vaccinated, that means he/she has done his/her part to make...
