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Given that we already have thousands of gun laws on the books that aren’t working, President Biden needs to pass a new national law that supersedes all other gun control laws. It should be short and definitive. Something like: “It is illegal for all convicted criminals, future criminals, the mentally...

A 74-year-old man was killed in a skydiving accident in Monroe County on Sunday morning. Ed Harney, of Paramus, N.J., was found dead in a wooded area in Smithfield Township, near East Stroudsburg, WNEP is reporting. According to reports, Harney’s parachute opened, but it got separated from him during his...

Vocational education isn’t what it used to be. For one thing, say the words “vo-tech” to someone who works or advocates in the field and you will get some serious stink eye. It’s CTE — career and technical education, thank you very much. But there are a lot of other...

The testimony submitted by Republican Westmoreland County Commissioner Doug Chew to a state senate committee seeking comments on election integrity and reform deserves further response. It is a bit more than many constituents can swallow let alone, errr, chew on, especially his statement that “… most of my constituents would...

In response to Al Duerig’s letter “More guns means more shootings” (March 28, TribLIVE), in which he uses all of the words anti-gun organizations blurb, I would like to offer the following: His analogy of “I hear all the gun advocates’ arguments and scoff, like guns don’t kill, people do....

The following is a movie that needs to be canceled so our children don’t see it: It is titled “Pinocchio Joe and His Magic Pen.” It hasn’t been three months and this puppet has made America the joke of the world. If you don’t or didn’t like President Trump, that’s...

Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Drug Takeback Day set Saturday in Plum In partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Plum Police Department will host a drug takeback day from...

Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of April 19....

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High schools Baseball Monday’s schedule WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Butler at Pine-Richland, 4 p.m. North Allegheny at Central Catholic, 3:30 p.m. Seneca Valley at Allderdice, 3:30 p.m. Section 2 Baldwin at Upper St. Clair, 7 p.m. Canon-McMillan at Norwin, 4 p.m. Mt. Lebanon at Hempfield, 4 p.m. Class 5A...

DETROIT — A new, extra-potent methamphetamine is growing increasingly popular in Michigan and — unlike past iterations of the highly addictive stimulant — more of it’s showing up in urban areas including metro Detroit, law enforcement officials said. Adding to the level of danger associated with the drug: evidence it’s...

This article was produced in partnership with Spotlight PA, of which the Tribune-Review/TribLIVE is a partner, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Sign up for Spotlight PA’s free newsletters here. For over a year, lawyer Bob Heist, then-chairman of the Milton Hershey...

Churchill Bryan Cole sold property at 91 Bowstone Road to Chrissy Robles for $340,000. Estate of Donald Kennedy sold property at 2312 Greensburg Pike to Charles Lee Jr. and Kimberlee Lee for $74,000. Andrea Carhuaslla sold property at 3300 Longbow Drive to Louis Maurice Maraj and Alexis McGee for $376,000....

Pine Cavalier Land Partn. L.P. sold property at 6200-6206 Elm Road to Nvr INC for $294,372. BHI Land LLC sold property at 536 MacLeod Drive to Jason and Heather Smith for $169,900. Eddy Homes Inc. sold property at 110 Miller Drive to Roncin LLC for $662,537. Trinity Place LLC sold...

Hampton Matthew Feroce sold property at 2889 Harts Run Road to Maurice Spencer for $13,100. Paul Sweeney sold property at 5055 Harvest Lane to Renee Foy for $127,000. Cartus Corp. sold property at 4801 Stonebridge Drive to Roman and Svetlana Kharkovski for $829,000. McCandless Tara Kunkle sold property at 176...

Aspinwall Stephen Maxwell sold property at 116 Fifth St. to Runtian Wang and Xiong xin Dong for $300,000. Blawnox Estate of Richard Stoss sold property at 217 Walnut St. to Cassandra Kwiecinski for $166,500. Etna Alaina Invest Co. LLC sold property at 40 Oakland St. to Pluto Holdings LLC for...

Penn State football held its 12th practice of the spring Saturday afternoon in Beaver Stadium, with 7,521 in attendance — a mixture of player, coach and staff guests and first-year students. The practice included warmups and a controlled scrimmage with no score-keeping, and gave reps to a vast majority of...

As I read about the perpetual political wars over the concerns of having a vaccine passport, my solution (to please both Democrats and Republicans) is to just print the vaccine passport on one side and the voter ID on the other side. Simple, everyone is happy and the country is...

Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s much more than a paraphrase of Rahm Emanuel as Obama White House chief of staff, or an oft-attributed aphorism of Sir Winston Churchill. It’s more like a political law of nature. Whole wedges of government have been created to address a...

Don Grasser in his letter “Our rights are for everyone” objected to the observation that “more guns mean more shootings.” He asked, “Guns were bought at a record pace last year, and how many mass shootings were there?” Well, this is something he could easily have looked up: Do gun...

Medical freedom and informed consent have always been fundamental principles in the American health care system. Requiring “vaccination passports” (documented evidence of vaccination) not only intrudes on the privacy of health information and frustrates the principles of medical freedom and informed consent, but its most nefarious infraction is that it...

Timothy Peckyno sold property at 836 Boulder Drive to Muzaffar and Azizakhon Tukhtasinov for $305,000. David Unglaub sold property at 5991 Boyer Ave. to Jorge Zarate for $161,200. Matthew Hammer sold property at 6444 Churchill Road to Jacqueline Marie Rodwick for $170,000. Colby Myers sold property at 988 Fairview Drive...

Bellevue Robert Recker Jr. sold property at Farragut Ave. to Crecker LLC for $5,000. Robert Recker Jr. sold property at 8 Farragut Ave. to Crecker LLC for $7,000. Young Mens Christian Assn. sold property at 629 Lincoln Ave. to Franklin Square L.P. for $900,000. Brian Wisniewski sold property at 638...