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Christ the Divine Teacher Catholic Academy will host a bingo March 6. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and games start at 7 p.m. in the gym, 306 Maple St., Aspinwall. Tickets cost $30. The event is for people 21 and older. Pittsburgh Concert Chorale to present ‘Carmina Burana’ The Pittsburgh...

Northern Allegheny County Senior Softball League is holding registration for the 2020 season. Games are played primarily at the North Park Senior Complex at the Lodge at North Park. The league was founded in 1987 and has grown and is still going strong after 33 years. This is a competitive...

On Feb. 19, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., the Depreciation Lands Museum will host a program about George Washington. The lecture is called “Eager to Serve: The Indomitable George Washington His Seven Trips to Western Pennsylvania.” The trips (1753-1794) contributed greatly to weaving the fabric of western Pennsylvania history. Pre-paid...

Going into the final two weeks of the PIHL regular season, there is only one remaining unbeaten team. That team resides in Class B and is the defending champion in the Co-Op Division. Ringgold’s victory last week is not the only reason it remains undefeated. There were two unbeaten teams...

With a Jan. 13 loss to defending WPIAL Class 2A champion Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, the South Side girls basketball team dropped to 7-5 overall. Then something kicked in and the team won nine of its next 11 games, including a Class 2A first-round playoff triumph. “We really...

High-scoring nights are nothing new to Burrell senior Gio Palombo. He has missed games this season because of injury, but he has been very good in a multitude of roles in the games he has played. The Bucs have needed Palombo to play defense — something he has done with...

High schools Basketball Boys WPIAL playoffs Class 6A First round Tuesday’s schedule Hempfield (12-10) vs. Peters Township (13-9) at Mt. Lebanon, 8 p.m. Pine-Richland (14-8) vs. Connellsville (8-14) at Fox Chapel, 8 p.m. Central Catholic (12-10) vs. Penn-Trafford (14-8) at Norwin, 8 p.m. Bethel Park (13-8) vs. North Allegheny (11-11)...

There were only 34 WPIAL girls basketball games played last week: 30 on the final night of the regular season and four playoff games Friday. In two of those games, Ellis School junior Natalie Jasper was a dominant force. “Natalie has been one of our leaders this season both on...

Here are the PIHL standings through Sunday, Feb. 16. Exclusive coverage of the 2020 PIHL Penguins Cup hockey playoffs can be heard and viewed only on the TribLive High School Sports Network. In Class AAA, the top eight teams qualify for the playoffs. In Class AA, the top two teams...

Last week around the PIAA was a lot like the classic movie “All Quiet on the Western Front,” except you could add on the Central Front and the Eastern Front. It was the week when the regular season ended and most district playoffs began, however the elite teams in each...

The Path to the Pete continues with more opening-round and second-round WPIAL basketball postseason play this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. HSSN has exclusive coverage of the WPIAL boys and girls basketball playoffs with the final three days of the first round followed by three days of...

West Allegheny scrambled last season to make the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball playoffs and was seeded No. 13 in a 13-team playoff field. The Indians put a scare into No. 4 Woodland Hills before the Wolverines pulled away and advanced to the quarterfinals. Fast forward a year, and once...

There were a lot of changes to the WPIAL basketball championships over the last 10 years. They expanded from two days to three days and from eight boys and girls finals to a dozen championship games. The district also switched venues, moving from the Palumbo Center at Duquesne to the...

A group of protesters blew their tops — literally — as Sen. Bernie Sanders was campaigning Sunday in Carson City, Nev. The Democratic presidential hopeful had just finished introducing his wife Jane O’Meara Sanders as “the next First Lady” when a woman walked up to the mic and started rambling...

In the aftermath of President Trump’s impeachment trial and in light of the scathing attacks on both Trump and potential Democratic candidates as the 2020 election approaches, the celebration of Presidents Day is a good time to rise above the current political recriminations and rancor by reviewing the character and...

A guidance counselor at Sto-Rox School District said she’s been touched by the generosity people have shown since she tweeted about a paper shortage in the district. “I was so surprised at how quickly this could all happen. This is a perfect example of kindness and generosity, and it is...

People love to see a great house. HGTV is popular for a reason. People want to see what other people’s houses look like, and what their houses could look like, and whether they should think about buying another house or remodeling the house they already have. That old adage is...

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has seven days to apologize to two men over blocking them on Twitter, according to the attorney who is representing them. Sean M. Guay, of Hummelstown, and Jason Lindemuth, of Harrisburg, hired Marc Scaringi to represent them. They say they have a First Amendment Right...

Both political parties showed the worst of already loathed politicians during the impeachment debacle. It never had a chance of succeeding. It really boiled down to Nancy Pelosi running out of options. It then became a Mitch McConnell show. Thus we saw the absolute worst of both Pelosi and McConnell....

Regarding Bob Bauder’s article “Draft plan calls for more bike lanes in Pittsburgh” (Feb. 11 TribLIVE): Dogs pee on trees and those alert bicycle enthusiasts and their clever strategists here in Pittsburgh have copied this primal territorial approach. They got hold of some white paint and cute abstract stencils of...

Lori Falce’s column “The black and white of guns” starts out lumping seven hot topics with gun rights/control as having “gray area” that must be understood before both sides of any issue are settled. When it comes to gun rights/gun control, it is black and white. Because the “gray area”...