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High school scores, summaries and schedules for Feb. 5, 2021

Basketball Boys WPIAL Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Pine-Richland 87, Butler 72 Seneca Valley 73, North Hills 71 Section 2 Baldwin 64, Canon-McMillan 52 Mt. Lebanon at Peters Township, ppd. Section 3 Norwin 69, Greensburg Salem 20 Fox Chapel 47, Penn-Trafford 46 Hempfield at Central Catholic, ppd. Class...
South Hills student news for the week of Feb. 6, 2021

Dean’s list The following students from the South Hills area were recognized for their academic achievement during the fall 2020 semester by being named to the dean’s, president’s or provost’s list at the college or university they attend: • Chatham University: Angelica Campano of Jefferson Hills, Christopher Brinkley of Brentwood....
Student news: high school tutoring, deans list and more in Pine, Richland

High school tutoring Pine Township is offering in-person tutoring sessions every other Tuesday through April 20 for students who attend Pine-Richland High School. The free sessions will be limited to four students and four tutors in each room while following covid-19 safety precautions. Sign up online for the various sessions...
New York Times covid-19 star writer is out following reports he used slur

NEW YORK — Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times science reporter whose fame grew during the covid-19 pandemic, is stepping down following allegations that he used the N-word during a company-sponsored student trip to Peru in 2019. “We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent,” Executive Editor...
Ghislaine Maxwell attacks Justice Department, Epstein’s victims and their lawyers

NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell has unleashed a sprawling attack on her criminal case, slamming the Justice Department, victims, their lawyers and the media. The British socialite filed seven motions late Thursday seeking to dismiss her indictment for grooming victims of Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-1990s and lying under oath....
Class 4A No. 1 North Catholic fends off Knoch upset bid

For three quarters, the Knoch Knights looked to upset No. 1 North Catholic on the road. But the defending WPIAL champion Trojans scored the first 15 points of the fourth period and pulled away to a 67-55 victory in Section 1-4A play. After trailing by as many as seven points...
Robert Morris to join ASUN in men’s lacrosse

Robert Morris men’s lacrosse will join the ASUN conference for the 2021-22 season, the school announced Friday. The Colonials will compete along with Air Force, Bellarmine, Cleveland State, Detroit Mercy and Utah in the league formerly known as the Atlantic Sun. Because it has six members, the conference will receive...
Republican group pressures GOP senators to convict Trump in impeachment trial

WASHINGTON — A Republican group plans to run ads in the home states of nearly two dozen GOP senators during next week’s impeachment trial, pressuring them to vote to convict former President Donald Trump and bar him from holding office again. The Republican Accountability Project is spending a half-million dollars...
Penn State football gets blistered on Twitter for Super Bowl tweet

The offseason is proving to be every bit as brutal for the Penn State football program as the 2020 season was. Only this time, instead of an 0-5 start and a 4-5 finish, this pain is self-inflicted — by the program’s own Twitter account. The official Penn State football Twitter...
David Osborne: Union policies force all teachers to strike at Keystone Oaks

Students in the Keystone Oaks School District didn’t attend classes this week, thanks to the strike just initiated by the local teachers’ union — and not every teacher in the district is happy about it. Given the pandemic’s effect on schools, this is already a difficult time for students, parents,...
Penn State football names new TE coach; Terry Smith gets new title

Penn State has named Ty Howle its new tight ends coach, the program announced Friday morning. Howle, who served as an offensive analyst for the Nittany Lions last season and was a four-year letterwinner as an offensive lineman with the program from 2009-13, will take over the position for recently...
Port Authority asks to stay injunction permitting Black Lives Matters masks while it seeks appeals

The Port Authority of Allegheny County on Friday filed a motion seeking to stay a federal court injunction while it appeals the decision that found prohibiting employees from wearing Black Lives Matter masks was unconstitutional. In the filing, the agency wrote that the court “disregarded Port Authority’s interest in protecting...
End of an era: Last 2 Kmart stores in Pa. to close

It appears to be an end of an era. Kmart, the store known for its discount prices and its “blue light specials” is closing its last two stores in Pennsylvania. The last two Kmart stores in the state including the last Kmart in the midstate will be closing in Transformco’s...
‘Pink hat lady’ from Mercer County arrested for alleged involvement in Capitol riot

A Mercer County woman being sought by police for her involvement in the U.S. Capitol riot last month has been taken into custody. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Rachel Marie Powell, 40, of Sandy Lake, was arrested Thursday night in New Castle. She is charged with obstruction, depredation of...
Letter to the editor: For covid vaccine, how can we tell who’s a smoker?

Apart from one’s thoughts on whether smokers should be placed at the head of the line for covid-19 vaccines, as Gov. Tom Wolf has done, how is the determination to be made on who is a smoker ? It is like saying everyone who has a headache gets prioritized. Keith...
Letter to the editor: Grading ‘facts’ on the election

Let’s “grade” some facts. Grade A facts have official records; a Grade B fact is someone’s interpretation of a Grade A fact which can be questioned. Grade A facts: • A sworn affidavit is a written statement signed under penalty of perjury. • Hundreds of sworn affidavits were given by...

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