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The Stroller, Jan. 12, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s fundraiser or community event in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Food drive planned Saturday in Lower Burrell The third annual Fallen Officers Food Drive to benefit local food banks will be from 10 a.m....
Commissioner Gary Bettman says NHL will lose more than $1 billion by playing this season
The NHL will lose more than a billion dollars by staging the 2020-21 season in largely empty arenas, commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday, but owners and players are intent on playing a 56-game schedule to provide diversion for fans and keep hockey on the sports map. The delayed and shortened...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Jan. 11, 2021
Basketball Boys Monday’s results Nonsection Badger (Ohio) 78, Shenango 53 Thomas Jefferson 52, Uniontown 35 Aquinas Academy 66, Riverview 65 Avonworth 68, Valley 60 West Shamokin 56, Indiana 23 California at Beth-Center, ppd. Montour at South Fayette, ppd. Tuesday’s schedule Class 6A Section 1 Butler at North Hills, ppd. North...
High school roundup for Jan. 11, 2021: Ashleigh Connor leads Mt. Lebanon
Ashleigh Connor scored 18 points and Reagan Murdoch added 13 to lead No. 3 Mt. Lebanon (2-0, 0-0) to a 55-44 nonsection girls basketball victory Monday night. Morgan Palmer had 12. Halena Hill led Oakland Catholic (2-1, 0-0) with 15 points. Alexa Washington added 11. Armstrong 71, Jeannette 25 —...
Shaler man who vandalized Pittsburgh police car seeks probation
The Shaler man who pleaded guilty to initiating the destruction of a Pittsburgh police car in May during riots over the death of George Floyd is asking for probation when he is sentenced later this month. The attorney for Brian Bartels said in a sentencing memorandum filed Monday that his...
Coronavirus case found at South Fayette intermediate, school to remain open
A person in the South Fayette School District intermediate school who was at the campus on Friday tested positive for coronavirus. The school will remain open. The person, who was not identified, has been following isolation protocols outlined by the Allegheny County Health Department and close contacts have been notified,...
Judge expects decision on Tuesday in Ziccarelli-Brewster race
The federal judge considering the challenge to Pennsylvania’s 45th District Senate seat said a ruling on the matter will come Tuesday. U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan said over the weekend that his order on the challenge by Nicole Ziccarelli against the state and Allegheny County for counting undated mail-in...
Susan Wild, congresswoman in viral photo from Capitol floor, shares harrowing tale of escaping attackVideo
Susan Wild woke up around 7 on Wednesday morning in her Washington, D.C., apartment. The Democratic congresswoman representing Pennsylvania’s 7th District had a busy day ahead of her — Congress was set to certify the results of the 2020 election. The final step in the election process is usually a...
Cleaning up SolarWinds hack may cost as much as $100 billion
WASHINGTON — American businesses and government agencies could be spending upward of $100 billion over many months to contain and fix the damage from the Russian hack against the SolarWinds software used by so many Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government departments. “Unlike good wine, this case continues to get...
Most-hated stocks trounced most-loved ones in 2020
As a new year gets underway, the four stocks Wall Street analysts love most are Amazon.com, Microsoft Corp., Burlington Stores and Valero Energy (VLO). Should you run out and buy them? No, according to my 22-year study. Analysts’ favorites frequently flop. For example, at the beginning of last year, 15...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: After the Capitol rampage, what now?
So what now? A few things, actually. But before we get to them, we must recognize last week’s insurrectionist rampage at the Capitol for what it was. It is being seen, and not wrongly, as the angry response of delusional right-wingers lied into believing a presidential election was stolen. It...
Trump reportedly considering pardons for rappers Lil Wayne, Kodak Black
When, seemingly out of nowhere, famed New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne, who was born Dwayne Carter, took to Twitter a week before the November election to endorse President Donald Trump, many of his fans were blindsided. “President Carter with President Trump,” read the boastful tweet above an image of the...
Port Authority driver pleads guilty to crash that killed Pitt student
A Port Authority bus driver who struck a Pitt student last year in Oakland pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter. Shavonne James, 34, will serve three years probation. She also pleaded guilty to one count of recklessly endangering another person. According to Deputy District Attorney Stephie Ramaley, James was driving...
Unfiltered: Tim Benz and Mark Madden wrap up Steelers’ playoff loss to BrownsVideo
Tim Benz and Mark Madden return for this week’s edition of “Unfiltered” on TribLive’s Facebook page to wrap up what happened in the Pittsburgh Steelers loss to the Cleveland Browns in the Wild Card round game on Sunday night at Heinz Field. The Browns eliminated the Steelers from the playoffs...
Supreme Court denies fast-track hearings for remaining GOP challenges to Pa. election results
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to fast-track remaining legal challenges to Pennsylvania’s election results on Monday, underscoring the justices’ reluctance to wade into widely discredited Republican arguments for reversing the outcome of the 2020 vote. The decision did not dismiss the election challenges outright and kept them alive...
Editorial: Make electronics disposal cheap and easy
We live in a very garbage-heavy world. People throw away everything and do it without thinking much about it. Paper plates and plastic straws and the boxes and bags that package them. The jars and cans that hold food. Baby diapers and cardboard and banana peels and coffee grounds and...
Letter to the editor: Questioning Pens’ CARES loan
I don’t think the media has made a big enough deal about the Penguins borrowing almost $5 million under the CARES Act to help cover expenses. At the same time, co-owner Ron Burkle was buying Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California. Quite obviously, many small businesses are struggling to say...
Letter to the editor: Infectious leftist populism
The center-left populism was exhibited for all to see in burning cities and still the “educated” voters in the Pittsburgh suburbs voted for the clearly addled, seemingly semi-competent Joe Biden, who never renounced the mayors of these kindled Democrat-run cities. That’s the inexorable Exhibit A that shows just how infected...
Man fatally struck by tractor-trailer on I-70 while working on disabled vehicle is ID’d
An Ohio man working on a disabled vehicle was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on I-70 eastbound in Fallowfield Township on Monday morning, according to Washington County 911 and the coroner. The crash happened just after 7:20 a.m. near mile marker 37, before the exit to the Mon–Fayette Expressway....
Letter to the editor: We’re citizens, not ‘subjects’
I think too many of us have forgotten we are citizens, not subjects. This year has emphasized that exponentially. Too many state governors have forgotten their role as leaders, not rulers. While leadership has a responsibility to give us guidance, resources and precautions in dangerous situations, leaders still have the...
News briefs: Traveling glass recycling event, charity blood drive, road paving bids and more in Hampton
Hampton sets weeklong event to collect glass for recycling Residents who no longer have glass picked up at the curb as part of their municipality’s recycling program can make sure it stays out of a landfill by dropping it off at a weeklong glass collection event in Hampton. Between Jan....
News briefs: School district registration open in Plum, meetings on tap, library pickup service available
Plum School District kindergarten and first grade registration opened Jan. 11. Kindergarten registration is for children who will be 5 years old by Sept. 1. Registration is available online at pbsd.net. Questions can be emailed to BauerR@pbsd.net. Oakmont meetings scheduled Oakmont council workshop meetings are scheduled for the first Tuesday...
News briefs: Trib journalism scholarships available, snow-removal reminder
Trib Total Media is now accepting applications for the Scholarship for Diversity in Media and the Jim Borden Memorial Scholarship. The Scholarship for Diversity in Media is open to high school seniors who are culturally, ethnically or racially diverse and are planning to study journalism, communication or English writing at...
News briefs: Trib Total Media scholarships available, Monroeville Public Library offers Browsing Bundles
Trib Total Media is now accepting applications for the Scholarship for Diversity in Media and the Jim Borden Memorial Scholarship. The Scholarship for Diversity in Media is open to high school seniors who are culturally, ethnically or racially diverse and are planning to study journalism, communication or English writing at...
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler, why don’t you resign?
And so my question is for Guy Reschenthaler: What are you doing in Washington, D.C., masquerading as a U.S. congressman from the 14th District of Pennsylvania? Since you and 140 other congressmen and 12 U.S. senators claim the Pennsylvania election was a fraud, you and Joe Biden were on the...
