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Oakmont Erin Trease sold property at 380 College Ave. to Brian and Rachel Crooks for $225,000. William Beard sold property at 390 Hulton Ln to Justin Clawson and Nina Hockenberry for $132,475. James Moore sold property at 25 Riverfront St. to Brian and Carolyn J Merl Hoyt for $725,000. Estate...

Leetsdale Thomas Calhoun sold property at Oak Drive to Vacant Land Now LLC for $12,000. Sewickley Robert Kocis sold property at 544 Academy Ave. to Lisa Sue Wren for $1,195,000. Los Payasos LLC sold property at 541-545 Beaver St. to Slipp North LLC for $1,300,000. David Brooks sold property at...

Monroeville Estate of John Connelley Jr. sold property at 4412 Burma Road to PNC Bank NA for $60,000. Brandon Cunningham sold property at 418 College Park Drive to Bertram Burrell for $130,000. Mark Cartieri sold property at 3752 Evergreen Drive to Killians LLC for $5,000. Michael Blake sold property at...

Pennsylvania will have a another place in legal history after this week. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the legal suit Trump v. Pennsylvania. It pits the president’s administration and the Little Sisters of the Poor against the legal minds in the office of state Attorney General...

During this viral catastrophe, our recognized heroes have been nurses, doctors, first responders, delivery people and many, many others who brave the danger of infection to help and protect us all. Also included on that list are the millions of Americans who are practicing social distancing and wearing masks when...

Pennsylvania’s fight against the covid-19 pandemic has upended its economy and rendered one in four workers jobless, all while putting our seniors in care homes at greater risk because of a serious policy flaw by Gov. Tom Wolf. In mid-March, the governor issued an executive order — he has run...

I think Bob Serena’s letter “Trump is protecting our country” (April 9, TribLIVE) is bunk. Truth is not an exercise in myopic partisanship. If Serena had followed his own advice to “do your research before you write,” he might have read The Wall Street Journal or Christian Science Monitor, or...

In early February, the World Health Organization praised China’s government for its response to the covid-19 virus. While China was able to decrease the number of new cases rather quickly, the protocols the country put in place may have lasting effects on its citizens’ basic human rights. The government was...

Gov. Wolf: It appears you refuse to deliberate with the General Assembly, or hear constituents, concerning covid-19 and instead make decisions alone. You decide what we do — if we go to church, school or work; if we go bankrupt, stay in business, feed our family, or survive things more...

On April 26, CNN aired New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus press briefing from noon to 1 p.m. In that one hour the governor, very clearly and in detail, described where the city of New York and the state stood in fighting the pandemic and the recent progress that’s been...

Sitting at home all day, many of us are asking ourselves how we can help others during this pandemic. Read The Stroller daily for announcements of how everyone can ease the pressure and stress of others, even while maintaining social distancing. Information for The Stroller should be emailed to vndnews@tribweb.com....

LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Bryant has filed a claim against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department over deputies sharing “unauthorized” photos of the scene of the helicopter crash that killed her husband Kobe Bryant, their daughter and seven others. According to the claim filed Friday, Sheriff Alex Villanueva “personally assured...

The Sewickley Heights Civil Service Commission will hold a special public meeting at 2 p.m. Monday. Due to the pandemic, the meeting will be conducted through the Zoom app and by phone. During the meeting, the Civil Service Commission will designate examiners for the borough’s agility and oral examinations. Join...

An explanation for the Ahmaud Arbery killing became shakier on Friday. The two Georgia men who were caught on video shooting the unarmed jogger to death in February claim they were chasing a suspect behind a series of burglaries in the area. But a local police official said the last...

Roy Horn, the dark-haired half of Siegfried & Roy, the flamboyant, German-born illusionists whose lavish stage productions and trademark disappearing white tigers and lions made them one of the biggest draws on the Las Vegas Strip, died Friday. He was 75. Horn, who suffered a severe wound to his neck...

Everyone couldn’t wait to get to yellow. It has been weeks since Gov. Tom Wolf announced a color-coded path from a full coronavirus lockdown to a more moderate restriction. On May 1, he signaled the first rope to drop with northwest and north-central counties enjoying the slightly relaxed rules of...

Catholic churches in both the Greensburg Diocese and Pittsburgh Diocese will be permitted to reopen their doors for private prayer beginning May 15, diocese officials have announced. Pittsburgh Diocese officials also eased restrictions on weddings and funeral Masses from having no more than 10 people in attendance to no more...

Universities that bring thousands of students to Southwestern Pennsylvania every fall are offering reassurances that they hope to reopen shuttered classrooms and dormitories in August. Although the region is scheduled to begin reopening on May 15, colleges and universities are not yet permitted to resume face-to-face operations in classrooms and...

Paul Finkelman, Ph.D., is president of Gratz College and a former law professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The novel coronavirus has ravaged Pennsylvania, forcing more than 1.5 million of our neighbors to the unemployment line. This represents 23% of the Keystone State’s workforce. The devastation far...

Candace McKinley is the lead organizer for the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, which is working to end cash bail in Philadelphia. The mission of the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund is to end the use of cash bail in Philadelphia and, until that day comes, post bail for as many of...

Officials in Westmoreland and Allegheny counties applauded Gov. Tom Wolf’s decision Friday to move most of Southwestern Pennsylvania to a phase of eased coronavirus restrictions, though many said the decision was overdue. “It’s a step in the right direction,” Westmoreland County Commissioner Sean Kertes said. “This should’ve happened a week...

This morning on the news I was listening to our governor and thought, “Gee, he looks well trimmed and coiffed.” His beard was very nicely trimmed and his hair was cut, and it made me wonder why or how can he get a barber and I’m not allowed to see...