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Florida family may spend life in prison after ‘church’ sold bleach as covid-19 cure
MIAMI — A federal grand jury brought charges against members of a Bradenton family nearly a year after they were arrested for selling bleach that they claimed to be a cure for the covid-19 virus. Mark Grenon and his three sons — Jonathan, Jordan and Joseph — face several charges...
The end of U.S. mass vaccination is coming sooner than laterVideo
After three months of vaccination across the United States, a majority of American adults have gotten shots, and the effort will soon shift from mass inoculation to mop-up. As of Saturday, 138.6 million people in the U.S. have received at least one covid-19 vaccine shot. About 1.3 million more are...
Why it’s dangerous that workers in Pa. prisons, covid-19 hot spots, aren’t getting vaccinated
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 — A delayed upgrade to the state Department of Corrections’ dashboard on covid-19 rates in prisons has revealed that only...
Relief for child sex abuse survivors revived in Pa. Senate after Wolf administration error
Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan 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 — A key state Senate committee on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation to temporarily allow survivors of decades-old child sexual abuse...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Churchill Silas Watkins sold property at 3857 Greensburg Pike to Matthew Zamba and Alexandra Hay for $151,965. Delmont Lee Adams sold property at 138 Freeport St. to James Tobin for $99,900. Edgewood William Weaver sold property at 1109 E End Ave. to Dane Brody for $363,000. Nicholas Gasparro sold property...
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Pine Douglas Hall sold property at 118 Lyndhurst Circle to Frank Kowalkowski Jr. and Yuliya Kowalkowski for $799,000. NVR Inc. sold property at 724 Mulkerrin Court to Stephen and Kristina McNees for $691,090. Richland Charles Pastva sold property at 3700 Centerview Road to Jacob and Erica Schurer for $51,100. Real...
The Herald area real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Aspinwall Shlomo Taasan sold property at 105 Lexington Ave. to Mary Heinauer for $305,000. Jillian Barnet sold property at 415 Virginia Ave. to Linda Schmidt for $400,500. Blawnox Donna Kolody sold property at 710 Carla Drive to Mak Wong and Kenny Zhan for $157,000. Fox Chapel Christopher Doughton sold property...
Hampton area real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Hampton David Lindell sold property at 3030 Apache Court to Robert Alan and Peya Robinson for $405,057. Glenn Miller sold property at 4571 Bucktail Drive to Sandra Burns for $274,000. Robert Ostryniec sold property at 2128 Grandeur Drive to Richard and Patricia Kwiatkowski for $834,500. Catherine Harshman sold property at...
Brian Dellinger: Power, Parler and the problem of Big Tech
Over the course of 2020, the previously minor social media application Parler rose to national prominence. The site served as a smaller, right-leaning mirror to Twitter, attracting an audience that included (among others) both U.S. senators and QAnon conspiracy theorists. Where Twitter forbade referring to a transgender person by biological...
Letter to the editor: Questions to ask politicians
Residents of the swamp are noted for grabbing the nearest media horn and feeding the flock a diatribe of crap about current issues. What gets my dander up is that we have no chance to question them on anything they say. Here are some questions I would ask: 1. How...
Letter to the editor: We should support our police
God bless the women and men who risk their lives on a daily basis to keep an orderly society. We need to support the local police forces, not take the police away. If we don’t have a police force all over the USA, we will have chaos. You wouldn’t not...
Letter to the editor: Spiritual warfare
Are you at the precipice yet? Whether Christian or not and regardless of your political party, we are in a spiritual warfare against the forces of evil within our government, Hollywood and the media. Like sheep led to slaughter, so many have bowed down to the deceitful powers of government...
Letter to the editor: DeNunzio’s best for airport
I read with some dismay the article “DeNunzio`s cries ‘politics’ as county leaders press to open restaurant lease at Arnold Palmer airport” (April 13, TribLIVE). It seems the county commissioners.have deemed it necessary to open up the airport restaurant lease to any and all bidders. The question must be asked:...
Letter to the editor: Jesus asks us to welcome the stranger
One of the primary requirements to get into heaven, according to Jesus himself (Matthew 25:35), is to “welcome the stranger.” Contextually, historically and morally, the “stranger” refers to aliens, immigrants and refugees. This biblical imperative is all the more poignant when we consider that the refugee crisis on our southern...
Letter to the editor: Election reform must happen
I was happy to read James Kvitkovich’s letter “Mail-in voting good enough for Trump” (April 17, TribLIVE) in support of Westmoreland County Commissioner Doug Chew’s position on embracing election reform changes with some caveats. My wife and I traveled to Greensburg to vote the week before the election because we...
Letter to the editor: Problems with high-tech vehicles, solar
Modern technology is amazing, and in the future will become the norm. However, that time is not here yet. I do not believe there is a safe self-driving vehicle yet. I will not buy an electric car. My house does not have solar panels on the roof. My problem with...
Pittsburgh police seek woman accused of running down paramour in deadly hit-and-run
Pittsburgh police are searching for a woman they allege ran down her paramour after an argument in the city’s Homewood section last week. Ausha Dakisha Brown, 25, is charged with homicide, homicide by vehicle, reckless endangerment and multiple traffic violations. The charges stem from the April 19 hit-and-run death of...
Letter to the editor: What ‘gentrification’ means
I am a retired city planner in my 70s. During the entire time I worked as a planner, I never saw a definition of “gentrification” that resembled the positive explanation you offered in your editorial “Keeping a community intact when ‘gentrification’ beckons” (April 10, TribLIVE). The American Planning Association’s “Planners...
Letter to the editor: Georgia not denying voters water
The letter about denying voters water (“Georgia voting rule not Christian,” April 21, TribLIVE) perpetuates that lie and has nothing to do with someone being or not being a Christian. David Leuthold Unity...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Aleppo Kenneth Justin Thomas sold property at 707 Sewickley Heights Drive to Dylan Soller and Sydney Biggins for $185,000. Linda Grace Shortz sold property at 303 Timber Lane to Michael and Rhonda Moats trustee for $217,000. Leet Daniel Miller sold property at 301 N. Chaucer Court to Kamala Property 2020...
Bethel Park real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Estate of Robert Graeser sold property at 5940 Barnes Ave. to Daniel Halaszynski for $160,000. Estate of John Kraves sold property at 2662 Broad St. to Laura Devine for $260,000. Michael Constantin sold property at 7132 Dumbarton Pl to Birkha Thapa for $265,000. Max William Caldwell sold property at 2516...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Bellevue David Roberts sold property at 515 Teece Ave. to Amy Barrett for $90,000. Rosborough Dixon LLC sold property at 304 Thomas Ave. to Lauren Marie Dombrowski for $172,500. Bradford Woods John Jeffries sold property at 601 Lincoln Road to Andrew and Ivonne Gourlay for $775,000. Franklin Park David Coyle...
Bridgeville, Carnegie area real estate transactions for the week of April 25
Bridgeville Jarred Yohe sold property at 915 Edna St. to Cynthia Miklos for $141,000. Mary McAdams sold property at 684 Elizabeth St. to David Bojanac for $156,000. Vineyard Christian Fellowship SW Pittsburgh sold property at 202 Liberty St. to One Church Pittsburgh for $140,000. LS & RT Deklewa LLC sold...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 25
Baldwin Borough Dennis Magera sold property at 5404 Broad St. to Citylife South 2 LLC for $40,000. Krista Abboud sold property at 4729 Gardenville Road to Jeffrey William Radcliff for $204,160. Charles Rader trustee sold property at 564 Jenne Drive to John Doleno Jr. and Stephanie Doleno for $200,000. Estate...
Letter to the editor: Convenient timing for no Norwin tax hike
How convenient that the Norwin School Board voted to not have the first tax increase in a decade. Hmmm. Isn’t this an election year? Voters should not consider this apparent self-serving decision when we vote. Joe Dykta North Huntingdon...
