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Mister Rogers Family Days featured a series of events held each day last week in downtown Latrobe. On June 2 an open house at the Fred Rogers Institute in Unity and Greater Latrobe High School featured Fred Rogers themed exhibits Daily activities included a farmer’s market, night market, children’s book...

Lorne Peachey of Scottdale has ridden across the United States and on almost every rail-to-trail path imaginable on his way to 200,000 miles on a bicycle. Peachey, 86, celebrated his achievement with about 150 family, friends and bicycling acquaintances Saturday afternoon at the West Overton Village events barn near Scottdale....

President Donald Trump is pursuing a path that is actively destabilizing the guardrails of our Constitution. Unless he changes course, our nation — the world’s oldest continuing democracy — risks a crisis where the president is no longer beholden to the rule of law. Americans will suffer the consequences. America’s...

Antioch Baptist Church 332 Elizabeth St., Sewickley. 412-741-7688. antiochfwbaptistsewickley.org. Morning worship and praise service is at 10:45 a.m. First Sunday Sunday School is at 9:30 a.m. First Friday virtual Bible study is at 7 p.m. A link is available via Pastor Dean’s Facebook page. Beth Samuel Jewish Center 810 Kennedy...

Nutting has an obligation to do better A message to Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting: Mr. Nutting, as an owner, you have a moral obligation to the fans, the city, the region and the MLB to field a winning team. Reinvest your MLB earnings to pay Paul Skenes real money...

This week has been a carousel of action and information for a program that serves low-income youth and young adults. It started when news broke that the U.S. Department of Labor was hitting the pause button on Job Corps. Job Corps provides residential and nonresidential job training and GED programs...

A look back at the nine previous U.S. Opens held at Oakmont Country Club: 1927 The good: The U.S. Open makes its debut at Oakmont. The bad: There are only two under-par rounds in the tournament. The ugly: Somebody had to win: Tommy Armour and Harry Cooper go to a...

Oakmont Country Club finally had done it: exposed Angel Cabrera as a pretender rather than a contender. Cabrera held the halfway lead during the 2007 U.S. Open but shot 76 in the third round, and, suddenly, his chances of winning a major championship seemed slim. Not that anyone in attendance...

Sen. John Fetterman, given his wardrobe and trash talking vocabulary, may appear different, but unfortunately he has proven to fit right in when it comes to those in Congress, who have become a class unto themselves when it comes to pay and benefits. Despite what I see as the rampant...

The letter “Rantings about Trump” (May 15, TribLive) mentioned “deep personal hatred” for President Trump. The hatred is for what he and his propaganda minister Steven Miller are doing to our country and democracy. Let’s talk about rantings. I will stop the war in Ukraine and conflict in Israel in...

Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Leechburg Borough to celebrate...

The Seven Wonders, a Fleetwood Mac tribute band, opened the SummerSounds concert series in Greensburg’s St. Clair Park. The concert series amassed a combined attendance of 28,500 people and drew more than $1 million in economic impact to Greensburg last season, co-founder Gene James said. SummerSounds has focused on best...

Some Western Pennsylvania hospitals could see an increase in uninsured patients and corresponding drop in reimbursements from Medi­caid if the U.S. House-approved $723 billion in funding cuts to states is enacted, health advocates and state officials say. Ultimately, that could cause a reduction in services, officials said. “They’re (hospitals) going...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 33-26) lost 4-1 to Memphis (Cardinals). RF Billy Cook (.249) went 3 for 4 with a double and a run scored. LF Ronny Simon (.365) went 2 for 4 with his fifth stolen base in his Indianapolis debut after being claimed on waivers from Miami. LHP Hunter Barco...

A group of 18 leading U.S. research universities, including Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins, asked a federal judge for permission to file legal arguments in support of Harvard University in its high-stakes showdown with the Trump administration over more than $2 billion in...

A federal judge signed off on arguably the biggest change in the history of college sports on Friday, clearing the way for schools to begin paying their athletes millions of dollars as soon as next month as the multibillion-dollar industry shreds the last vestiges of the amateur model that defined...

As Pitt football begins a big weekend of hosting prospects on official visits, two of the WPIAL’s finest have made verbal commitments to the Panthers. Pine-Richland offensive lineman John Curran III and North Allegheny defensive lineman Lincoln Hoke announced their decisions via social media Friday. Curran is a 6-foot-3, 295-pound...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let him resume dismantling the Department of Education, seeking to lift a lower court order that requires the reinstatement of as many as 1,400 workers. The emergency request Friday challenges a federal district judge’s conclusion that Trump’s effort to...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a fresh gun-rights appeal, refusing to question the District of Columbia’s ban on large-capacity ammunition-feeding devices. The justices on Friday rejected arguments from four firearms owners who said the ban violates the gun-rights protections in the Constitution’s Second Amendment. On June 2,...

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge in Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual assault retrial denied his motion for a mistrial Friday after a juror said he was being bullied and berated by other members of the panel. Jurors ended the day without a verdict and are scheduled back in Manhattan...

DETROIT — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a rule Friday that Biden-era fuel economy standards for gas-powered cars and trucks are illegal and moved to reverse them, paving the way for a likely reset of rules. Combined with Senate language in the pending budget bill to eliminate penalties for...

High schools Baseball PIAA tournament Semifinals Monday’s schedule Class 6A Neshaminy (16-7) vs. North Penn (21-5) at Villanova Ballpark, 3 p.m.; Cedar Cliff (19-6) vs. Bethlehem Liberty (22-6) at Wenger Field, Fredericksburg, 4:30 p.m. Class 5A Upper Dublin (16-5) vs. Elizabethtown (16-9) at Muhlenberg, 11 a.m.; Shaler (19-6) vs. Lampeter-Strasburg...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the DOGE team that had been led by Elon Musk to examine Social Security records that include personal information on most Americans. Acting by a 6-3 vote, the justices granted an appeal from President Donald Trump’s lawyers and lifted a...

Tim Wagner’s family was getting ready to watch him graduate from Franklin Regional Senior High School on Friday night when stormwater began rushing into their Murrysville basement. “We’ve never seen it like this before,” Bonnie Rockette-Wagner said. Thunderstorms roared through the region late Friday afternoon, and flash flooding hammered northern...

STATE COLLEGE — James Franklin and defensive line coach Deion Barnes were understandably solemn when discussing the impact of losing redshirt freshman defensive end Max Granville to a “long-term” injury. Not only was he poised to be a top two or three contributor at his position for a team with...