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Claudia Conway, the daughter of former White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, revealed on TikTok Sunday that she has coronavirus. “Hey guys currently dying of covid,” Conway captioned a video on the social media platform. Kellyanne Conway announced she tested positive for coronavirus Friday night and was experiencing some symptoms including...

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 weekly newsletter. The super-rich Milton S. Hershey School for poor children, which has faced criticism over how few students it helps, has...

A Northern Cambria-area man was killed Friday when he was run over by heavy equipment at the Indiana County used car dealership where he worked, authorities said Saturday. Randall Scott Mack, 39, whose listed address was in the 1400 block of Tipperary Road, Northern Cambria, died of blunt force trauma,...

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 weekly newsletter. SCHELLSBURG, Pa. — It was a bit after 11 p.m. in late August when Frank Nitty and a group of...

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 weekly newsletter. This article is a collaboration with The Appeal. HARRISBURG — Since 2017, Pennsylvania State Police has seized $608,000 in cash...

Voting by mail does not undermine election integrity. Fraud associated with mail-in and absentee ballots is incredibly rare, occurring at a rate of 0.000003% of all ballots cast in the U.S. Nonetheless, there has been nothing but hysteria and a tidal wave of deliberate lies and misinformation from this administration...

A comment on Don Walko’s letter “Backing Biden for president” (Sept. 24, TribLIVE): When you, his soldier, take to the battlefield, will Joe Biden need a teleprompter to tell him when to say “Charge!”? Judy Torbin Fawn...

Pennsylvania is struggling with a long-standing issue of unlimited, unaccountable gifting to its legislators by special interest lobbyists. Gifts can be given as long as a specific exchange is not happening. This makes it very hard to document and prove, resulting basically in legalized bribery. In 2019 the grassroots organization...

I must take offense and exception to Duquesne University School of Education interim Dean Gretchen Generett’s comment on the reason for suspending Duquesne professor Gary Shank (“Duquesne professor placed on leave for using racial slur during lesson,” Sept. 11, TribLIVE), and Tribune-Review’s editorial for agreeing with her (“Duquesne prof’s slur...

The letter “History lesson on Republicans vs. Democrats” motivated me to do my own research on the topics discussed. Yes, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, but my, how the GOP has changed! Although I believe that Eisenhower was a productive and respectable president, he did not “integrate the military.” Harry...

A letter to Sen. Pat Toomey: You conveniently and repeatedly frame your decision about approving a new justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a way that is untruthful. Stating the circumstances are different now, as the Senate and the presidency are controlled by the same party, does not change...

Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham once famously told NBA star and activist LeBron James to “shut up and dribble.” I believe Black professor Walter Williams is just as bigoted. Williams has made a lucrative career demeaning members of his own race. In “Diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense” (Sept. 4, TribLIVE),...

In 2005, President George W. Bush warned our nation of the danger of a pandemic — either manmade or natural. He had read about the Spanish flu pandemic and it terrified him. Bush asked Congress for $7.1 billion to initiate an anti-pandemic federal agency to prepare our nation. Congress cut...

A front-page story in the Sept. 21 Tribune-Review with the headline “Sweden spared virus surge, but many questions remain” caught my interest. It seems Sweden has not shut down schools, bars, restaurants, hair salons, gyms and other businesses, yet its average covid-19 death rate per capita is about the same...

To the person or persons who removed my Trump signs recently: While I was away caring for an ailing relative, two Trump signs and (sadly) a “We Support our Police” sign were removed from the front of my property. Have you by your actions illustrated the difference between Trump supporters...

All of what I find as President Trump’s disgusting behaviors have been exposed through recent books, cable news and even this very opinion page of the Trib — beyond his lack of caring and intelligence and constant stoking of division. In my opinion, covid-19 has been one of the most...

The consequences of the upcoming election may be more far-reaching than anyone could imagine. If the Democratic Party wins, the rules for future elections could be changed dramatically. Some Democrats have been pushing for voting rights to be extended to convicted felons and illegal immigrants and lowering the voting age...

A number of America’s cities, which have been run by Democrats for decades, are being wrecked by anarchists while those responsible for law and order do nothing to stop it. Some administrations direct the police to stand by and watch, further encouraging the destruction. Looting and burning are rampant, monuments...

With all the attention that is given to the presidential election every four years, we seem to forget about the importance of the local and state elections. These elections provide us with representation in Harrisburg. The decisions made in Harrisburg affect our lives on a daily basis. There is no...

My grandparents came across the North Atlantic to vote. They lost their first child after two weeks in a lifeboat and then raised six other children. John Derda, my grandpap, worked in the coal mines in Herminie. No thanks. I’ll walk to the polls for them. Then thank everybody working...

For many reasons, tens of millions of taxpayers file their federal income tax returns the old-fashioned way, on paper. Based on my own research and inquiries to our representatives in Washington, there are literally many millions of these paper returns stored in trailers outside of the IRS processing centers and...

I was born and grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Catholic schools there, first grade through college, and though I left the city for good in 1968, I still keep up with the news there. I was extremely disappointed to read about Bishop David Zubik’s letter to his flock relative...

When viewing history, it is important to use a “wide-angle lens.” No political party has a monopoly on virtue. The last segregated units within the armed forces were disbanded in 1954 under President Eisenhower. But the process began with Executive Order 9981 under President Truman. The vote by congressional Republicans...

I remember when, during one of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s illnesses, Democrats under President Obama urged her to retire so he could appoint a liberal to take her place while they had all three branches of government, and she refused. The liberals should blame this on her for not retiring when...

We are at a critical point in the fight for the heart and soul of this country. There is a lot at stake in this upcoming election. Maybe more than you can appreciate. If you vote for Joe Biden, I think you will be voting for the loss of your...