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Letter to the editor: We must oppose Pa. electric car fee bill
Beware: House Bill 1392, imposing annual fees on electric vehicles of $275 or $175, depending on size, and $75 on gasoline hybrid cars, is headed for the lame-duck session of the Pennsylvania state Senate (“Pa. House votes to impose fees on electric cars,” Nov. 21, TribLIVE) after passing the Pennsylvania...
Westmoreland events include tree sale, light up night, live Nativity
Fundraiser • Boy Scout Troop 284 will sell Fraser fir Christmas trees Friday-Sunday and again Dec. 12-14 at the Norwin Busy Beaver, 8800 Norwin Ave., North Huntingdon. Hours are 5-9 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sundays. Maximum price will be $65. Live Nativity • Union...
Letter to the editor: Government’s restaurant restrictions are absurd
Our restaurants and bars are suffering financial hardships, and many will not recover. They have been suffering since March, when Gov. Tom Wolf declared them nonessential and hotbeds for coronavirus. And he’s at it again, with random checks of said establishments to make sure they are complying with the latest...
Letter to the editor: Schools making life-critical decisions
The Norwin School Board has decided to go from in-person to remote learning. This is not an educational, social developmental, convenience or economical decision, but a life-critical decision. All life-critical decisions have four things in common: They are time sensitive, requiring immediate action; they come with limited information and multiple...
The Stroller, Dec. 2, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Is your church or organization going to host a community holiday event? Send information to The Stroller as soon as possible to vndnews@tribweb.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Pajama Project seeks pajama donations The Rotary Club of Leechburg and Interact Club of Leechburg Area High School are sponsoring the...
A different kind of holiday season at the Carnegie Free Library
Anyone who’s worked at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall for any of the last six Decembers will tell you about the magic and conviviality of our traditional holiday collaboration with the borough, known as “Carnegie Celebrates the Season.” For three special hours, Carnegie families share in the...
DuBois man killed when trucks collide on icy Indiana County road
A motorist from DuBois was killed when a tri-axle truck slid into his pickup truck Tuesday afternoon on Route 56 in Indiana County, police said Joel Edward Bundy, 58, died at the scene near the United School District campus in East Wheatfield Township, according to Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman...
Motorist injured as car goes over hillside in Jefferson Hills
At least one person was injured when a car fell about 100 feet over a hillside in Jefferson Hills Tuesday night. Allegheny County officials said the crash took place around 10:45 p.m. along the 1400 block of Route 885. A portion of the state road has been closed. The crash...
High school scores, summaries and schedules for Dec. 1, 2020
Hockey Tuesday’s results Class AA Penn-Trafford 6, Latrobe 5 (OT) Shaler 6, Armstrong 4 Mars 3, Meadville 2 West Allegheny at Franklin Regional, (n) Class A North Hills 7, Fox Chapel 0 Class B Wilmington at Neshannock, (n) Ringgold 6, Avonworth 0 To report scores, email ptrsports@triblive.com. Visit TribHSSN.triblive.com/scores for...
High school roundup for Dec. 1, 2020: Penn-Trafford hockey wins OT thriller
Xavier Solomon scored the game-winning goal to lead Penn-Trafford to a 6-5 overtime victory over Latrobe in a PIHL thriller Tuesday night. Fletcher Harvey scored his first goal of the season with less than 10 seconds left in regulation to tie it for Latrobe (2-2-1). Nico Martucci had two goals...
Georgia election official says Trump, U.S. senators complicit in potential violenceVideo
ATLANTA — A top Georgia election official Tuesday said President Donald Trump and the state’s two U.S. senators are complicit in threats against election workers and urged them to speak out against the behavior of some of the president’s most irate supporters. Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting system manager, cited threats...
Leetsdale’s Hussey Copper charged with environmental crimes
A Leetsdale copper processing company is expected to plead guilty in federal court for multiple violations of the Clean Water Act over a five-year period, including making false reports and failing to report oil sheens on the Ohio River. Hussey Copper was charged on Monday with three felony counts, and...
Missing Tarentum teen returns home
A Tarentum teen who had been reported missing Tuesday has been found, according to his family. Ronald Ratliff, 16, had not been seen since 4 a.m. Tuesday. According to his family, he returned home around 11:30 p.m. Tarentum police had issued a missing person alert on the department’s Facebook page....
Florida’s covid-19 total surpasses the million mark with 8,847 new casesVideo
MIAMI — Florida has now confirmed more than 1 million cases of covid-19. The state hit the milestone Tuesday when the Florida Department of Health confirmed 8,847 additional cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the state’s known total to 1,008,166. That makes Florida the third state in the country to...
Sephora to open hundreds of beauty shops inside Kohl’s stores
Sephora will open hundreds of beauty shops inside Kohl’s department stores starting next fall, the retailer said Tuesday, just weeks after Ulta Beauty and Target announced a similar partnership. The 2,500-square-foot Sephora shops will replace Kohl’s current beauty department at the front of the store and carry makeup, skin care,...
Charges recently filed in Bridgeville, Scott, Carnegie district courts
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 • Zacary Tay Hesselgesser, 19, of Chicora, Pa., on charges of prohibited acts, possession of...
Pa. posts highest single-day covid-19 deaths since May
Pennsylvania on Tuesday reported the most covid-related deaths in a single day since May. There were 180 new deaths attributed to covid-19 — surpassing any single-day mark since 275 were posted May 14 — according to the Health Department. Hospitalizations continue to climb as well. According to the state’s covid-19...
Pa. Supreme Court hears argument in case against Bill Cosby
An attorney for actor and comedian Bill Cosby argued to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday that five women called to testify about prior bad acts by the man led to “unquantifiable prejudice” against him. During oral argument, Cosby’s attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, asked the court to find that the prior...
Legendary 1959 Braddock football team to be featured on big screen
One of the WPIAL’s most storied football teams will soon have a cinematic presence. Plans are in the works for a movie about the 1959 Braddock Tigers, who won their sixth consecutive WPIAL football title with the backdrop of a four-month, nationwide steelworkers strike that affected the small town and...
Westmoreland County eclipses 200 total deaths attributed to covid-19
Westmoreland County on Tuesday surpassed 200 deaths attributed to the coronavirus — more than half of which were reported since Nov. 1. The county reported five new deaths and 199 additional cases of covid-19, according to the state Health Department. Since Nov. 1, Westmoreland County has reported 101 covid-19 deaths,...
Living with Children: Don’t be afraid of your children
“Are you afraid of your child/children?” I query folks who testify to children who frequently engage in flagrant antisocial behavior — tantrums, brazen disrespect and belligerent disobedience being the top three. I cannot recall an exception to parents — hundreds and counting — answering “Yes.” Therefore, it seems that fear...
Allegheny County reports 603 new coronavirus cases, 5 new deaths
The number of coronavirus cases in Allegheny County jumped Tuesday after a slight lull over the holiday weekend, according to the county Health Department. The county reported 603 additional cases of covid-19 on Tuesday and five additional deaths. That’s compared to 920 cases — 400 on Monday and 520 on...
Burglary, assault, drug charges among those handled recently by South Park, Brentwood judges
District court judges South Park and Brentwood handled these criminal cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in district court or Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Judge Michael W. Thatcher, South Park • Victoria Alyssa Devlin, 19, of Clairton on charges of prohibited acts. Charges were filed by...
Letter to the editor: Mark Madden and sports viewership
Poor Mark Madden. He can’t figure out why sports viewership is down (“Sports consumers dwindling during pandemic,” Nov. 18, TribLIVE). Blames it on the pandemic. Actually, viewership should be up, but decent Americans were pushed away by lectures from people extolling the character of felons. Poor MM. He’s no Mickey...
Letter to the editor: Psychological terrorism
The degree to which psychological terrorism is being perpetrated upon the world has never been seen before. The depth and breadth of this plan is a feat that could not have been devised by man alone. For those with eyes to see, it’s a prophetic warning. It’s always been that...
