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Proclamations demanding war on law enforcement officers echo wide and deep across our country. As community leaders, stakeholders and citizens advocate for police reform, it is imperative that people know decent law enforcement agencies will welcome this opportunity for improvement and regularity. Need for standardization, however, does not vindicate the...

George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis was a terrible tragedy that should never have happened, and the police officers responsible should be punished to the full extent of the law. However, on June 1 in St. Louis, a retired Black police officer was shot and killed by looters while he was...

I respect all races and have Black friends and close friends in the Asian community. I am baffled by the current attitude that everything related to the Black race must change to reach peace. Tearing down Confederate statues, banning the Confederate flag and changing the names of military bases is...

ROME — Vatican prosecutors have ordered the seizure of documents and computers from the administrative offices of St. Peter’s Basilica in an apparently new investigation into financial irregularities in the Holy See. The Vatican said Tuesday that Pope Francis also named a special commissioner to run the basilica, reorganize its...

I have long maintained that the significant per-capita increase in child and adolescent mental health problems since the 1960s is due to the collective embrace of a parenting paradigm that has proven itself to be not only dysfunctional but also dangerous — ironically, to child and teen mental health. This...

With humility I will explain the difference between Black Lives Matter and “all lives matter” as I understand it. It goes without saying that “all lives matter.” Black lives, Mexican lives, white lives and of course police lives all matter. BLM does not deny this or minimize the value of...

Millions of Americans have lost their jobs due to the covid-19 pandemic. There are millions more on the front lines who are putting their lives on the line to keep the rest of us safe and healthy. Congress must act now to protect all working people, keep every community healthy...

President Trump’s supporters say Democrats are haters because we dislike Trump. What’s not to like about your brave president? When Trump saw peaceful demonstrators across the street from the White House, he went to the underground bunker. Oh wait — he went to inspect the bunker in the middle of...

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Baldwin Borough Carla Jo Guttilla sold property at 1148 Camarta Drive to Ethan and Corinne Nulton for $385,000. Kalyani Pentyale sold property at 1126 Cloverfield Drive to Justin and Nicki Landoski for $50,001. Danielle Hirosky sold property at 1235 Cloverfield Drive to Adam Joseph Helfrich for $114,257. Robert Elizeus sold...

Millvale AM Solutions LLC sold property at 529 Spruce St. to SBO Group LLC for $42,500. Paul Charles Kane sold property at 824 Stanton Ave. to Constantine Koehler and Olivia Osborn for $200,000. Shaler Luke Jesser sold property at 207 Verna Drive to Joseph Fennie and Veronica Huber for $182,000....

James Forsyth sold property at 260 Fifth St. Ext. to James and Diane Dandridge for $233,000. William Collins Jr. sold property at 166 Anthon Drive to Evan David Ditty and Mackenzie Leigh Maurer for $74,000. Carolyn Lecce sold property at 1738 Chester Road to Nathan and Catherine Denny for $149,900....

Green did not mean go. At least, it didn’t mean go that much, that far, that fast. Green meant venture, not race. And that is a lesson being learned around the country and in our backyard. Places that have opened the quarantine gates with little restriction are seeing consequences in...

Texas opened its bars and then closed them again. Apple Inc. opened its stores and then re-shut 32 of them. Walt Disney Co. has postponed the reopening of its theme parks. These are just some of the hundreds of ripple effects from the pandemic. In a climate of rampant uncertainty,...

Mark Phillippi, owner of Phillippi’s Family Dining and Pizzeria in Harrison, suddenly feels hamstrung by geography. Come this evening, his restaurant at the northern tip of Allegheny County will be barred from serving alcohol to customers by order of the county. “It makes absolutely zero sense,” Phillippi said Monday. “Tell...

WPIAL STATE CHAMPIONS CROSS COUNTRY INDIVIDUAL GIRLS CLASS A Haley Hamilton, Sr, OLSH GIRLS CLASS AAA Mia Cochran, So, Moon BOYS CLASS AAA Daniel McGoey, Sr, North Allegheny TEAM GIRLS CLASS AA South Fayette GIRLS CLASS AAA North Allegheny BOYS CLASS A Winchester Thurston FOOTBALL CLASS 4A Thomas Jefferson GOLF...

Pine Nichlas Vincent Cannon sold property at 147 Alder Drive to Eliott and Janessa Ann Porter for $558,500. Samantha Goldberg sold property at 649 Baur Drive to Lisa Klein for $285,000. Robert Paolini sold property at 220 Meadowbrook Ave. to Tracey Hilton for $220,000. John Broyles sold property at 123...

Bellevue Anthony Balouris sold property at 120 Kendall Ave. to Eleni Valliant for $140,000. Anthony Balouris sold property at 217 Woodlawn Ave. to Michael Iasella for $145,000. Franklin Park Robert Shepard sold property at 2606 Dogwood Ct to Tao Jin for $430,000. Cathy Nicastro sold property at 2587 Hunters Point...

Monroeville Janet Diehl sold property at 3903 Barbara Ann Drive to Frances Ann Akers-Loub for $162,000. Rocco Abbenante sold property at 1164 Harvard Road to Michael Reese for $170,000. US Bank NA trustee sold property at 212 Noel Drive to Sloan Real Estate Holdings LLC for $77,250. Christopher Kuhn sold...

Oakmont Estate of Susan Pernice Farrell sold property at 640 Fifth St. Unit 207 to Megan Farrell for $145,000. Stuart Epstein sold property at 220 College Ave. to Sandor Katz and Esther Haguel for $467,500. Sandor Katz sold property at 302 College Ave. to Wendy Youell for $427,500. Edgewater Properties...

Bridgeville GDC Investments LLC sold property at 654 Bower Hill Road to Craig Vanzin for $7,500. Darrell Ulbrich sold property at 1001 Grandview Ave. Unit 508 to Thomas and Michelle Williams for $54,900. Collier Kimberly Ann Ablak sold property at 1252 Crest Drive to Brittany Bellovich for $305,000. Maronda Homes...

Aleppo Lisa Sevcik sold property at 210 Timber Ln to Dennis Campbell Jr. for $195,000. Edgeworth W. Daniel Driscoll sold property at 304 Quaker Road to Matthew and Elisabeth Chapman for $850,000. Leetsdale Robert Cobourne Jr. sold property at 14 Ohio River Blvd. to Nealy Maytic for $125,000. Sewickley Bradley...

Baldwin-Whitehall High School’s class of 2020 will have the graduation ceremony that district leaders had hoped for — despite some last-minute changes due to increasing numbers of coronavirus cases in Allegheny County. On July 1 — rain date July 2 — three separate groups of students will receive their diplomas...

Robert Metz killed his lover when she refused to leave her husband. Her body was still there, lying on the floor of Metz’s Ross Township apartment, when police burst in three days later. And Metz, a 69-year-old retired postal worker, was sitting in a bathtub filled with bloody water, holding...