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Assault, drugs among charges filed recently by Monroeville police
Monroeville police filed the following charges in October and December with District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst. Charges were filed by Monroeville police: • Keira Linsenbigler, 29, of Pittsburgh with recklessly endangering another person, criminal mischief, carrying a firearm without a license and two counts of aggravated assault. Charges were filed...
How Dionne Warwick, the Queen of Smooth Pop, has become the Queen of Twitter
Dionne Warwick: first Black female solo pop star who rose to prominence in the ’60s, Queen of Smooth Pop and a living legend. Nowadays, you can refer to her as Dionne The Singer (her words she posted, hehe), but her newest honorific title is our undisputed Queen of Twitter. Here’s...
Man acquitted in Wilkinsburg mass shooting pleads to gun charge
Darnell Mahone logged in to the federal court hearing Tuesday to watch the man he believes killed his daughter in a mass shooting plead guilty to a gun charge. It isn’t as much as he’d hoped for — the plea agreement Cheron Shelton reached with the U.S. Attorney’s office calls...
Congress takes steps to curb unexpected medical bills
Most Americans tell pollsters they’re worried about being able to afford an unexpected medical bill. Late Monday, Congress passed a bill to allay some of those fears. The measure is included in a nearly 5,600-page package providing coronavirus economic relief and government funding for the rest of the fiscal year....
Police find body wrapped in plastic in Brighton Heights, woman detained
Police following up on a tip in a missing persons case found a body wrapped in plastic at a home in Pittsburgh’s Brighton Heights neighborhood, authorities said. Police discovered the body about 8:15 a.m. at a home on California Avenue, said Maurice Matthews, a spokesman for the Department of Public...
Michael Carnahan: Mill 19 solar project step toward clean air — if expiring tax credit is renewed
When the switch flipped on for Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green last month, I felt a rush of gratitude for the union workers who had stood on netting hammocked between steel beams 85 feet off the ground. Slow, steady and with great skill, they’d clamped on each of the 4,968...
Assault, harassment, trespassing among charges handled recently by Bridgeville, Carnegie, Scott judges
District court judges in Bridgeville, Scott and Carnegie handled these criminal cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in appropriate district courts or the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Judge Maureen McGraw-Desmet, Bridgeville • Michael Waite, 31, of Carnegie on charges of simple trespassing, theft from a vehicle,...
Letter to the editor: Lies will lead to disaster
If important actions occur because of believing lies, consequences could be devastating. To often, we take lies as fact without thinking and make stupid mistakes that are hard to correct. We need to be very careful when our country’s future is at stake. Dave Bastl Manor...
Santa makes an appearance in Leet
Santa Claus brought some Christmas cheer to residents of Leet Township on Dec. 19 with the help of Fair Oaks Volunteer Fire Department. He rode around on a firetruck to the neighborhoods of Olde Sewickley Highlands, Leet Acres, Quaker Heights and more....
Letter to the editor: Reschenthaler should resign or apologize
Rep. Guy Reschenthler took an oath to abide by and defend the Constitution. I think he should resign immediately for breaking that oath: He was willing to be a party to subverting a fair election merely to keep his favored candidate in office. His support for Texas’ lawsuit is outrageous...
Letter to the editor: Proving election fraud difficult
When at the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked if we had a republic or monarchy and replied, “A republic, if you can keep it,” he probably was not thinking of election fraud. But I believe that’s exactly what happened during the recent presidential election. Hundreds of sworn affidavits possessed...
Living with Children: Teaching emotional resilience
A journalist asks, “What is the biggest challenge facing today’s children?” “The real world,” I said. For the last 50 years or so, good parenting has been defined as protecting one’s children from frustration, defeat, difficulty, stress, loss, deprivation, negative consequences, mistake and just about every other real-world experience. The...
Letter to the editor: ‘Locking Down’ — a covid carol
“Locking Down” (Sung to the tune of “Silver Bells”) Empty sidewalks, vacant sidewalks dressed in pandemic style. In the air there’s a feeling of covid. Children homeschooled, Parents drinking, Meeting mask after mask. And on every street corner you hear. Shutting down, closing down, It’s lockdown time in our city....
Editorial: Learn from the 1st covid relief package
As leaders in Washington come to a new coronavirus relief plan, it would seem the old one had been exhausted. The money allotted to help people through the pandemic was long since spent, right? Wrong. While some of the most obvious chunks — such as the stimulus checks sent in...
Letter to the editor: What now for America?
We have a president who won’t admit he lost the election. President-elect Joe Biden boasted about how much he can do for the country; he needs to get his ducks in a row so after he is sworn in and can make decisions, he’ll get his rear end in gear....
Police seek tips in search for missing Brighton Heights man
Pittsburgh police are asking for the public’s help locating a Brighton Heights man who has not been in contact with his family since Dec. 14. Deric Bryan Davis, 53, is bald and has brown eyes, stands 6-feet, 3-inches tall, weighs 200 pounds. Police add “he walks with a gait motion...
The Stroller, Dec. 22, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Is your non-profit organization going to have a fundraiser? Send information to The Stroller at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Santa schedules visits to New Kensington The New Kensington volunteer fire companies got a call from Santa over the weekend to see...
Sacked data scientist Rebekah Jones sues Florida over police raid on home
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Rebekah Jones, a fired covid-19 data manager for the state of Florida, is suing the Florida Department of Law Enforcement over a police raid on her house. Jones’ lawsuit alleges that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement violated her constitutional rights, as well as state law,...
Editorial: The hopeful light of Scarlett’s Sunshine
Scarlett Lillian Pauley should be building snowmen and chattering about the holidays. She should be struggling with pandemic homeschooling. She should be asking a million questions. But in 2017, the Pittsburgh toddler died at just 16 months old. There was no obvious disease to blame or tragic accident to hold...
Appeals court rejects lawsuit over Georgia absentee ballot signatures
ATLANTA — The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Republican Party effort to reject more absentee ballots in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs by changing how election officials check absentee ballot signatures. A three-judge panel ruled unanimously on Sunday against the lawsuit brought by the political campaigns of...
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly asks Supreme Court to rule against mail-in voting before primary
Even with the arrival of vaccines, the pandemic is all but certain to continue to grip Pennsylvania when voters go to the polls for the municipal primary on May 18. U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, who himself suffered from covid-19 in the spring, does not want mail-in ballots to be available...
From Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ to James Brown’s ‘Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag’: Why Christmas classics never get old
Why do we love Christmas music? We know all the obvious reasons: It conjures treasured memories of holidays past; it allows us to revel in the season’s spirit simply by listening; it gives us a sense of peace through familiarity — we’ve heard these songs a thousand times before. But...
Rich Americans who fear higher taxes hurry to move money now
Rich Americans are rushing to make large transactions before the end of the month, trying to get ahead of any moves next year by President-elect Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress to raise taxes or close loopholes. Some advisers say they’re busier than ever in the last weeks of 2020,...
Glenn Marsch: Triumph of the vaccine — the swift rescue
In the first month or two of 2020, we had the first hint of a new, strange disease that originated in Wuhan, China. By March, we were locked down in our homes and have lived unprecedented disruptions of normal life since then. All along we have looked to science for...
Letter to the editor: On emissions, we must catch up with the EU
With the European Union agreeing to much more aggressive greenhouse gas emission reductions, 55% by 2030, the United States must quickly take similar actions or risk losing access to the second-largest economy in the world. And we really have no choice. Part of the EU “green deal” includes a border...
