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Gallery: Photos from July 15, 2025
Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Tuesday, July 15, 2025. From the rustic landscapes of Western Pa. to diverse corners of the globe, experience the shared moments of humanity....
Trump touts $90B in energy, AI deals announced during Pittsburgh summit
Tech and energy investors announced a flurry of multibillion-dollar development deals across the state Tuesday during the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University. U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, serving as host of the inaugural summit, said the deals — totaling more than $90 billion combined — will create...
Northside Music Festival returns to rock this weekend
The Northside Music Festival has become a mainstay of local music lovers’ summer calendars after just two years. Now in its third year, the festival boasts around 100 musical acts over three days, in the Deutschtown neighborhood of the North Side. Festival organizer Ben Soltesz also helped to organize the...
Fox Chapel area student achievements for the week of July 15, 2025
Shady Side Academy student Evan Xiang competed in the 2025 USA Biolympiad National Finals at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., from June 22 to July 4. “CEE’s USA Biolympiad program encourages excellence in biology education and challenges students and their teachers to reach the gold standard in science,” said Joann...
Letter to the editor: Speeding on Route 30 must be stopped
Regarding the article “As traffic grows, Route 30 crash hot spots a concern for motorists, property owners, police and PennDOT” (June 29, TribLive): I agree that improvements need to be made on this dangerous state highway. In the article, speed is mentioned several times. All the improvements can be made...
Letter to the editor: Trump has plenty of his own money
The writer of the letter “Does Trump enjoy causing pain, chaos?” (July 10, TribLive) states that Trump is “using the presidency to enrich himself, earning potentially billions so far.” I wonder if the writer is aware that President Trump purchased Mar-a-Lago (1985) long before becoming president. Trump also purchased and...
Former Pitt star let go by Fox Sports: ‘Fired on my day off’
Former Pittsburgh Panthers and Philadelphia Eagles star running back LeSean McCoy has been let go by Fox Sports. The Athletic reported Monday that “The Facility,” which McCoy co-hosts, is being canceled. McCoy reacted to the news Monday evening on X. “, fired on my day off. WELL put me on...
Letter to the editor: Deporting veterans is a disgrace
While politicians claim to “support our troops,” reports of U.S. military veterans and their families being targeted by ICE suggest otherwise. Jermaine Thomas, born on a U.S. military base to a veteran father, was deported to Jamaica — a country he had never even visited. Purple Heart recipient Sae Joon...
The Stroller, July 15, 2025: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Tarentum Summer Concert series...
Editorial: Faith in 911 system needs to be maintained
We take some things for granted. Turn a faucet, and water will pour out. Flip a switch, and lights will come on. Those can be interrupted by circumstances. Don’t pay a bill, and the water or electricity can be cut off. But there are some services we rely on so...
Letter to the editor: A coverup on the Epstein files?
Is it just me or do others find it strange that Attorney General Pam Bondi just announced that there is no client list or evidence of child sexual abuse that can be prosecuted in the Epstein case? Back in February the information was that she had mountains of evidence and...
Pair of Pitt Panthers picked by Padres on 2nd day of MLB Draft
A pair of Pitt baseball players were chosen by the San Diego Padres on the second day of the MLB Draft on Monday. Left-handed pitcher Ryan Reed was selected in the 15th round (460th overall) and first baseman Luke Cantwell went in the 20th round (610th overall) Reed went 5-4...
U.S. home prices are losing steam with most big markets below peak
The U.S. housing market is close to stalling out, with prices in more than half the country’s top 100 housing markets now below their peak, according to the latest data from Intercontinental Exchange. The annual nationwide price increase slowed to 1.3% in June, the slowest pace in two years and...
Fox Chapel’s David Fuhrer II gets off to blistering start at WPGA Amateur
Fox Chapel graduate David Fuhrer II got off to a blistering start to his opening round, making birdie on five of the first eight holes, to take the lead after the first day of the WPGA Amateur Championship on Monday at Sunnehanna Country Club in Johnstown. Fuhrer went out in...
Gov. Josh Shapiro, DNC chair Ken Martin say Sharif Street should step down as state party leader while running for Congress
Gov. Josh Shapiro and Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said this week they think State Sen. Sharif Street should consider stepping down as Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party chair as he runs for U.S. Congress. The comments from the two top Democratic heavyweights come as Street this month announced his campaign...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will build gigawatt-size data centers
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building several massive data centers to power its artificial intelligence efforts with the first one expected to come online next year. “We’re calling the first one Prometheus and it’s coming online in ‘26,” Zuckerberg said in a post...
Huntington acquires Dallas bank Veritex in deal valued at nearly $2 billion
The stock of Veritex Holdings soared 20% on Monday, after the Dallas-based bank agreed to a nearly $2 billion buyout by Huntington Bancshares, a Midwest regional banking powerhouse with ambitions to deepen its Texas footprint. Veritex has over 30 branches across Texas, including Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. Columbus, Ohio-based Huntington...
Lisa Jarvis: When an HIV scientific breakthrough isn’t enough
A landmark breakthrough in HIV prevention — a scientific feat decades in the making — received final approval from the Food and Drug Administration last month. Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir is so effective that global health leaders had started to cautiously talk about the end of an epidemic that continues to...
Ted Kopas and Jeff Balzer: Pa. opioid settlement fails to fund full cost of crisis
The opioid epidemic has left few communities in Pennsylvania unscathed. It has stolen lives, fractured families, overwhelmed emergency services, and put unbearable pressure on county and municipal budgets. Westmoreland County is certainly no exception. So when the opioid settlement funds began to flow as part of a national reckoning with...
Catherine Thorbecke: We’re losing the plot on AI in universities
An artificial intelligence furor that’s consuming Singapore’s academic community reveals how we’ve lost the plot over the role the hyped-up technology should play in higher education. A student at Nanyang Technological University said in a Reddit post that she used a digital tool to alphabetize her citations for a term...
Gallery: Photos from July 14, 2025
Embark on a visual journey around the Western Pennsylvania region with TribLive’s latest collection of captivating images for Monday, July 14, 2025. From the rustic landscapes of Western Pa. to diverse corners of the globe, experience the shared moments of humanity....
The 25 best movies of the 21st century, so far, from Spike Lee to ‘Spider-Man’
A quarter of the way into the new century and we’ve seen triumphant artistic highs from filmmakers both new and old. Our 20th-century masters — Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino — continue to work at a very high level, while mixing with filmmakers who got their start around the...
Letter to the editor: What would Jesus think of all these clearances?
The Catholic church requires clearances to do anything short of attending Mass. What would Jesus think? My church welcomes people in, and if they want to do anything, a packet is given to them of things to do to protect children. This packet includes an FBI fingerprint-based criminal history background...
DillCathlon 2025: Crowning champions of pickle juice drinking, bobbing for pickles and pickle eatingVideo
Picklesburgh, a one-of-a-kind summer festival that celebrates all things pickles, crowned champions Sunday in competitions like the Pickle Juice Drinking Contest, Bobbing for Pickles and Pickle Eating. The city’s annual ode to dill drew massive crowds in Downtown Pittsburgh over the weekend. Food and craft vendors lined Sixth Street, Fort...
Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms and Blues Traveler rock it old school at Pittsburgh Brewing Co.
On Sunday night, Pittsburgh Brewing Co. in Creighton got a lineup that would’ve completely packed Star Lake in 1995. You can just imagine a sea of tie-dye-clad hacky-sackers rocking out to three of the moment’s hottest bands. Considering it’s 30 years later, the bill of Spin Doctors, Gin Blossoms and...
