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It’s that time of year, WPIAL bracketology 2020. Don Rebel and Chris Harlan share their thoughts on how the basketball steering committee could pair this year’s postseason tournaments. Sometimes it’s a struggle to choose between what the committee should do and predicting what it probably will do. Those can be...

High schools Basketball Boys Sunday’s results Bash with the Bronx (at Lincoln Park) Central Valley 69, Cornell 46 New Castle 73, Lincoln Park 65 Obama Academy 45, Brooklyn Tech, N.Y. 25 Monday’s schedule WPIAL Nonsection Aquinas Academy at Eden Christian, 7 p.m. Beaver at South Side, 7 p.m. Bishop Canevin...

LOS ANGELES — Netflix’s new series “Gentefied” explores the gentrification battles that have roiled the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles in recent years. But the story of how the series came to be starts a few miles northwest, in East Hollywood. Co-creator Marvin Lemus moved into a studio apartment...

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 Palumbo Center at Duquesne to Petersen Events...

The WPIAL basketball steering committee will meet Monday to begin the process of putting the brackets together for all 12 boys and girls basketball postseason tournaments. But while the games won’t mean anything when it comes to playoff seeding, there are plenty of season finales set in district boys and...

In December, Bethel Park sophomore Emma Dziezgowski drove for a layup and ended up going down with a season ending knee injury. The devastating loss looked like it might derail the championship hopes of the Black Hawks. But thanks to the play of he older sister, Maddie, Bethel Park hopes...

Three weeks remain before the PIAA girls basketball brackets are finalized as the regular season concludes and the district playoffs begin. With teams prepping for the postseason, very few changes were made from last week in the Trib HSSN girls basketball state rankings. Only three teams lost their grip on...

When the regular season’s stretch run began two weeks ago, Penn Hills was below .500 and in the middle of the Section 3-5A hunt. Four sections win later, including victories last week over the top two teams in the section, and suddenly the Indians have a ton of momentum on...

While Lt. Gov. John Fetterman crusades on legalizing recreational marijuana, one poll released last fall suggests Pennsylvanians may not be eager to jump on the bandwagon. They’re right to be cautious. Lost amid the legalization hullabaloo is the chaos unfettered pot will wreak on labor practices, workplace litigation, employer liability,...

At home, if you don’t like how much your monthly bills are, you can cut back. Eat out less. Switch phone plans. Shut off unneeded lights and close the front door because, as parents say, you don’t have to heat the whole outdoors! But when it comes to taxes, that’s...

Police have arrested a Pittsburgh man accused of homicide in connection to the fatal shooting of a 3-year-old girl in a Beltzhoover home early Sunday. Marlin Pritchard, 51, of the city’s Beltzhoover neighborhood faces homicide, child endangerment and gun charges in connection with the death of the child, Chassity Clancy....

A 19-year-old West Mifflin man told police he pulled a gun out Saturday night during a fight with his mother, then during a “tussle” he shot and killed a friend who was trying to “calm the situation,” court records show. Dante Terrell King faces a homicide charge in the death...

Now that the trial of President Trump is over, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the rest of us can consider his legacy. The Constitution provides for a “trial” and “judge ” of the impeachment proceedings. We all know that endemic to the notion of a trial are...

Mitt Romney. What is he? Is he a conservative? Is he a RINO? Is he a liberal in disguise? What I do know about a person like him is that he is a lowlife, and that is why he did not even get close to becoming president. His identity was...

We have had presidential candidates for whom I did not vote and some whom I do not respect much, but how rude was it for one of our high leaders to deliberately tear up President Trump’s speech in multiple sections behind the back of the president of the United States...

Near the beginning of President Trump’s impeachment trial, one of the House managers suggested that senators shouldn’t leave their common sense at the door. That message fell on the deaf ears of most Republicans. Common sense would have dictated that jurors hear witnesses and see documents. Common sense would have...

Pine Villas of English Farms L.P. sold property at Cambridge Ct to NVR Inc. for $182,900. Associates of Huntingdon L.P. sold property at 1205 Deering Bay Ct to William Jones Jr. and Gretchen Jones for $350,000. C. Gregory Heibert sold property at 208 Greenwood Drive to David and Melissa Dettmer...

Monroeville District Court Judge Jeffrey Herbst handled these cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Charges were filed by Monroeville police unless otherwise noted. Held for court • Dijuan Taylor, 18, of McKeesport on charges of receiving stolen property and firearms...

Bell Acres Gail S Craft Brooks sold property at 656 Campmeeting Road to Margaret Ann Rothenberger for $270,000. Edgeworth Matthew Werb sold property at 306 Challis Ln to Zachary and Rebecca Reeder for $239,000. John Zimmerman Jr. sold property at 305 Shady Ln to Matthew and Lucy Werb for $435,000....

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Etna Estate of Anna Catherine Polk sold property at 11 Robertson Pl to Jenna Rochele Scherrah for $105,000. Ronald Benesh sold property at 157 Wood St. to PGH Property Buyer LLC for $46,000. Shaler Edmond Reckhouse sold property at 403 Aleta St. to Erin Sickenberger for $145,000. Gary Ireland sold...

Hampton Leslie Huet sold property at Big Rock Road to Allegheny Land Trust for $2,000. Jeanne Ferguson sold property at Bucktail Drive to Allegheny Land Trust for $2,500. Estate of Anne Kroll sold property at Bucktail Drive to Allegheny Land Trust for $2,500. Mary Beth Rutledge sold property at 4506...

Bridgeville Bank New York Mellon trustee sold property at 615 Baldwin St. to Keylink Global LLC for $3,769. Frank Archie Dempster sold property at 728 Chess St. to Aaron Randolph for $62,600. James Quear sold property at 1361 Pesavento Drive to Certified Investment Properties LLC for $140,800. Estate of Ann...