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Police: Remains found near VA Hospital in Oakland
Pittsburgh police are investigating after remains were found Thursday morning in Oakland, officials said. Officers received a call just before 10 a.m. about possible remains found on Brackenridge Street near the Oakland VA Hospital, said Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz. Detectives arrived and found bone fragments in the street, Cruz...
Baker Mayfield ‘almost’ certain he saw a UFO flying over Texas
Count Baker Mayfield among those who “want to believe.” The Cleveland Browns quarterback decided to go to the one place all people seemingly go to after an encounter with the third kind — Twitter — to let the world know he is “almost” certain he saw a UFO on Wednesday...
‘Pink hat lady’ indicted on charges stemming from Capitol insurrection
A Mercer County woman charged with breaching the Capitol during riots there on Jan. 6 has been formally indicted. A federal grand jury sitting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday returned eight counts against Rachel Powell, 40, of Sandy Lake, including obstruction; destruction of government property; entering a restricted building with...
Cast from 1st ‘Real World’ returns, 30 years older, to have their lives taped … againVideo
In 1973, PBS broadcast a documentary series called “An American Family,” featuring the very real, very unscripted lives of the Loud family, who invited cameras into their suburban home to film for several months, capturing the texture of their relationships with one another. It would take nearly 20 more years...
Cynthia Fisher: Patients should know actual, not estimated, prices
Beginning this year with the implementation of a new Health and Human Services rule, American consumers won the right, upheld by a U.S. Court of Appeals, to access real hospital prices. The new rule requires hospitals to post their actual prices, including their discounted cash and secret negotiated rates. Armed...
Food Podcast: Pittsburgh Marathon encourages participants to ‘Run for a Reason’
Cara Group has loved running for many years. “I ran track in high school and that was when I decided I really enjoy running,” she said. “I played tennis in college, but running distance came later when I thought it was going to be an inexpensive sport to participate in...
Letter to the editor: Government needs fresh air to get U.S. back on track
I am sure many Americans haven’t any idea as to where we go from here. There is such turmoil in the Capitol that makes for a heads-up for our senators and representatives. They are the bodies of strength that are to hold the country together. Each one of them is...
Letter to the editor: Letter-writers should educate themselves
I resisted writing this opinion for a few weeks. As I read more letters, I realized I had to speak out. Thank God we have the First Amendment. And this page is just what it says it is, opinion. (We can write or say almost anything in this country.) One...
Letter to the editor: Knowing right from left
Regarding Dr. Joel Last’s letter “Capitalism is on the right side” (Jan. 30, TribLIVE): I didn’t read Larry Josephs’ letter “Socialism vs. fascism” (Jan. 16, TribLIVE), which he was responding to, but fascism is on the far right. Fascism is far-right, authoritarian ultra-nationalism with dictatorial power of strong autocratic control....
Editorial: At Springdale basketball, the agony of default by covid
Sports can be a passionate proposition for some people. Communities can tie their identity to their local mascot. A school district can live or die with its football team’s record as much — sometimes more — than their standardized test scores or graduation rate. If you have been to a...
Letter to the editor: Destruction of the left
Columnist S.E. Cupp’s position on political accountability (“The new nihilism — actually, almost everything matters,” Feb. 21, TribLIVE) is truly a distorted account of current political reality. If you juxtapose the policies/actions of the divergent positions and actions of the sides, you simply cannot objectively make such a case. Cupp...
Letter to the editor: Westmoreland commissioners must show leadership
As a Westmoreland County resident, I was not surprised by the article “Commissioners dash calls for Westmoreland health department, trumpet broadband upgrade” (Feb. 18 , TribLIVE). More than 11 months into a pandemic, Westmoreland lacks a countywide plan for testing, contact tracing and vaccine distribution. And with no health department,...
The Stroller, March 4, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
The Valley News Dispatch will publish a list of community Easter egg hunts and activities. To have an event listed online and in the print edition, send the information as soon as possible to The Stroller, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Fourth Ave., Tarentum PA 15084 or email Carol Pinto-Smith; email...
Neighbor Spotlight: Deborah Holtschlag takes gardening to a new level
Editor’s note: Neighbor Spotlight is a monthly feature that aims to let our readers learn more about the people in their communities who are working to make them a better place, who have interesting stories to tell or who the community feels deserve “15 minutes of fame.” If you would...
High school scores, summaries and schedule for March 3, 2021
High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A First round Quarterfinals Friday’s schedule Seneca Valley (11-9) at Upper St. Clair (16-1), 8 p.m.; Butler (11-8) at Penn-Trafford (13-5), 6 p.m.; North Allegheny (15-6) at Fox Chapel (17-2), 6 p.m.; Pine-Richland (11-5) at Hempfield (12-5), 6 p.m. Class 5A First round...
High school roundup for March 3, 2021: Reynolds, Chartiers Valley heat up, move on
Brayden Reynolds scored 33 points and No. 1 Chartiers Valley turned it on after trailing by two at the end of the first quarter to earn a 74-56 WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball first-round victory over No. 17 McKeesport on Wednesday night. Socrates Boulis added 17 points for the Colts...
Latrobe shows toughness, knocks off seventh-seeded Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson head coach Dom DeCicco called a timeout with 10 seconds remaining in Wednesday’s WPIAL playoff opener to devise an appropriate offensive strategy. With TJ trailing Latrobe by two points, the veteran mentor scripted up a pair of play calls: A shot inside for 6-foot-6 senior forward Ethan Dunsey...
Biden blasts Abbott for ‘big mistake’ and ‘Neanderthal thinking’ in lifting Texas’ covid-19 restrictions
WASHINGTON — A day after Gov. Greg Abbott announced an end to all pandemic-related precautions in Texas, President Joe Biden slammed him Wednesday for putting lives at risk by clinging to “Neanderthal thinking” rather than heeding advice from the nation’s top scientists. “I think it’s a big mistake,” Biden told...
Mars grinds out win over Franklin Regional in Class 5A first round
In this unpredictable and unorthodox season, Mars boys basketball coach Rob Carmody is set to savor every victory that comes along. The Planets took the lead midway through the first quarter and hit a big basket every time Franklin Regional cut into their lead to post a 54-45 victory Wednesday...
Belle Vernon boys set to meet Freeport in playoff game that almost wasn’t
Thursday night’s WPIAL Class 4A first-round playoff game between top-seeded Belle Vernon and Freeport almost didn’t happen. Belle Vernon (11-1) had its last two games postponed because of covid-19 and has not played since Feb. 20. Coach Joe Salvino decided last week not to hold practices, and it might turn...
Appellate court reinstates federal discrimination lawsuit against Pittsburgh police
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reinstated a lawsuit filed by a candidate for the Pittsburgh police who says he was not hired for the job because he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Christopher Gibbs filed a discrimination complaint under the Americans with Disabilities Act against the...
McKeesport Council meeting postponed amid complaints that it locked out public
A McKeesport City Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening has been postponed following allegations that the municipality has violated the state Sunshine Act. The meeting can be rescheduled, Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John McVay found Wednesday, once council makes arrangements to allow public participation. Four community members filed a...
Former cop in North Braddock, Blawnox will serve a year of probation for theft
When the state police suspected in 2019 that a Blawnox police officer was stealing money from vehicles he was sent to investigate, they set up an “integrity test” for him. Trooper Jonathan Eberhardt put $225 of marked money in a pill bottle in the cup holder of a car, entered...
Democrats agree to narrow who gets $1,400 checks in covid-19 relief bill
WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders and President Joe Biden have agreed to more narrowly target which Americans would be eligible for a $1,400 stimulus payment in the latest covid-19 relief measure, a Democratic source familiar with the negotiations said Wednesday. To ease the bill’s way with moderate Senate Democrats, the...
Coroner IDs woman, 88, killed in Hempfield crash
An 88-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Hempfield on Wednesday afternoon. Elizabeth R. Anderson, of Hempfield, was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., according to the Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office. The crash occurred at about 1:50 p.m. at Racetrack and Wilson Fox roads, near Hempfield’s border with...
