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Dear President Trump: The residents of Pennsylvania recognize your recent repeated visits to our state for what they are: a last-ditch attempt to use energy issues to sow division among us for your own election. Betting our economic future on petrochemicals and production of plastics would send us back to...

Is your church or organization going to host a free Thanksgiving Dinner? Send information to The Stroller at least a week in advance to vndnews@tribweb.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Annual Red Kettle 5K and Fun Run planned Nov. 14 Allegheny Valley Salvation Army Corps and Community Center will...

Frazier coach Greg Boggs knew his team had to play mistake-free football for a chance to win Friday at Washington and secure a playoff spot. Instead, the Commodores had two turnovers that resulted in touchdowns, helping the Prexies earn a playoff spot from the Century Conference with a 43-6 victory....

Top performers for Week 7 high school football in Western Pennsylvania. Passing 316 - Naman Alemada, South Fayette (19 of 32) 311 - Chandler Thimons, Highlands (7 of 9) 294 - Collin Dietz, Fox Chapel (16 of 30) 237 - Zion White, Elizabeth Forward (7 of 13) 228 - Cole...

High school football Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Canon-McMillan 35, Norwin 7 Central Catholic 49, Baldwin 6 Mt. Lebanon 28, Seneca Valley 27 (OT) North Allegheny at Hempfield, ppd. Class 5A Allegheny Six Moon 30, Bethel Park 7 Peters Township 23, West Allegheny 7 Upper St. Clair 36, South Fayette...

Two of the top teams in WPIAL Class A kicked off a Big Seven finale Friday night. On Saturday, they’ll get to finish it. The matchup between No. 2-ranked Shenango and Rochester was suspended because of lightning with 1 minute, nine seconds left in the third quarter with Rochester leading...

Josh Jenkins threw for 171 yards and three touchdowns and added two rushing TDs to lead playoff-bound Sto-Rox to a 49-22 Class 2A Three Rivers Conference win against Brentwood (3-4, 2-3) on Friday night. Zay Davis chipped in 125 rushing yards and a touchdown for Sto-Rox (6-1, 4-1). Jase Keib...

John DiNapoli threw for 170 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 101 yards to lead No. 4 East Allegheny to a 41-8 victory over Valley (2-4, 1-4) in Class 3A Allegheny Conference play Friday night. Michael Smith caught three passes for 128 yards and a touchdown for East Allegheny...

Rodney Gallagher threw for 160 yards and two touchdowns, ran for 77 yards and a TD and scored on interception returns of 75 and 72 yards to lead Laurel Highlands to a 34-33 victory over Trinity (3-4, 2-4) in the Class 4A Big Eight Conference on Friday night. Tyson Brophy...

In a season unlike any other, it stands to reason that WPIAL football playoff brackets would be filled out in an unusual fashion. Because all teams in playoff contention didn’t play the same number of regular season games, the WPIAL football committee will chose wild cards when traditional tie-breakers don’t...

Julian Dugger threw for 174 yards and two touchdowns as playoff-bound Penn Hills doubled-up Shaler, 42-21, in the Class 5A Northeast Conference on Friday night. Dugger added a rushing touchdown while Dylan Schlagel caught five passes for 102 yards and two TDs for Penn Hills (4-3, 4-1). Shaler finished the...

Adam Obrin threw for 211 yards and two touchdowns as No. 3 Central Catholic earned a 49-6 victory over Baldwin (2-3, 1-3) in Class 6A Conference play Friday night. Eddy Tillman ran for 89 yards and two touchdowns for the Vikings (4-2, 4-2), who led at halftime, 35-0. The Vikings...

Student receives grant for pollinator garden Aquinas Academy sophomore Liam Ellis received a $250 grant from the North Area Environmental Council for his pollinator garden. The pollinator garden at Aquinas Academy, a private K-12 school in Gibsonia, is a student-initiated project created to establish an educational pollinator habitat on the...

A Freeport apartment building was evacuated as several fire departments responded to a gas leak Thursday night, according to Armstrong County 911. The leak inside the building on the corner of Fifth Street and Market Street was reported just before 11:30 p.m. Further details were not immediately available....

With his team trailing by three points with just over five minutes left in the fourth quarter of a win-and-in game in Week 7, second-year Upper St. Clair coach Mike Junko elected to go for it on a fourth-and-12 from the South Fayette 45-yard line. Senior quarterback Ethan Dahlem scrambled...

The final two and a half minutes of Friday night’s showdown with Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most stressful of Matt Miller’s coaching career at McKeesport. Trailing by six, the Jaguars started their possession on the Tigers’ 30-yard line before, after seven plays, eventually getting down to the 9 while...

TribLIVE’s sports reporters have you covered from Friday’s Week 7 high school football action. GAMES OF THE WEEK • MT. LEBANON 28, SENECA VALLEY 27 Blue Devils junior Joey Peters blocked an extra point in overtime, letting teammate Casey Sorsdal kick the game-winner a few plays later. • PENN-TRAFFORD 56,...

The Connellsville football team did not play poorly in terms of mistakes and effort during Friday’s homecoming game against Gateway. The problem for Connellsville is Gateway is exceptional, and despite a strong effort by the Falcons, they were no match for the visitors as the Gators cruised to a 43-12...

For a program that has celebrated plenty of milestones, Clairton added another Friday night. The Bears won the 700th game in school history with a 45-10 victory over Springdale at Neil C. Brown Stadium. Top-ranked Clairton improved to 6-0, with all the wins coming in Eastern Conference play. It marks...

When Southmoreland scored a touchdown with 10 seconds remaining in the first half to pull within one of conference champion Elizabeth Forward, the Warriors could have been content to take the slim lead to the locker room. “That’s not my style,” coach Mike Collodi said with a big smile. Warriors...

If the seeds hold, WPIAL field hockey will see repeat champions across the board when the playoffs begin next week. The defending champs — Pine-Richland in Class AAA, Penn-Trafford in Class AA and Shady Side Academy in Class A — received top seeds when postseason pairings were announced Friday. In...

Municipal leaders weighed in Friday on a lifeline Gov. Tom Wolf proposed for the bar and restaurant industry a day prior, with some saying it might help businesses but also could take away from revenue at a time when every little bit helps. “Losing any money right now is big,”...

After Baldwin-Whitehall School District superintendent Randal Lutz asked parents what the district could do to help with remote learning, the biggest request was for desks to make a more conducive workspace at home. So, the district has implemented a desk loan program, which will provide desks to students who need...

“Honey, should we fix the natural gas leaks in our home?” “No, sweetheart, we just won’t light any matches and put up signs saying, NO SMOKING ALLOWED.” Does this conversation between spouses sound like a responsible course of action? This is exactly the course of action that our commonwealth has...

A West Mifflin man will serve at least 13 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to killing a woman in 2018 and leaving her body in a wooded area of Westmoreland County. Dale Terence Cooper, 37, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder before Judge Beth A. Lazzara in the death...