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Nobody is off to a better start in WPIAL boys basketball this season than 6-foot Steel Valley guard Camden Polak. The senior has scored 260 points in his team’s eight game thus far, a mind-numbing average of 32.5 points per game. Steel Valley went 2-1 this past week with a...

Approximately 20 students at Gateway High School who belong to this year’s Chick-fil-A Leader Academy provided lunch for workers within the school they felt were underappreciated. In attendance were cafeteria workers, custodians, secretaries, police officers, technology staff, the school nurse and administration....

The 2019 high school sports season is nearly in the books. While we anxiously look ahead to 2020, let’s reflect on the district high school sports scene over the last 12 months. Here is a look back at the top 19 stories from around the WPIAL in 2019. HSSN Top...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A paramedic from Gaston County is accused of using Visine eye drops to kill his wife last year for a hefty life insurance payout, according to the North Carolina Department of Insurance. The eye drops can cause heart failure when ingested in large quantity, which is what...

Real estate taxes will remain the same for Jefferson Hills residents in 2020. Borough council on Dec. 9 approved the municipality’s spending plan that includes a $10.7 million general fund. The real estate tax rate will stay at 5.66 mills. Property owners with a home assessed at $100,000 will pay...

A family of four was displaced and a firefighter was transported by ambulance when a Monday afternoon blaze destroyed an Export garage and extensively damaged an adjoining home. The blaze was reported just before 1:30 p.m. on Arthur Street. The garage was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, according to...

Santa Claus made a stop at the Baierl Ice Complex in Warrendale on Dec. 22. Kids of all ages had the opportunity to meet, talk and Skate with Santa....

If you got an air fryer this holiday season, you’re in for a treat. These $60 to $250 machines have been the next best way to get dinner on the table (after the Instant Pot, of course) for two years now, and its fans are more like devotees, spreading the...

While I appreciate that the Tribune-Review accepts divergent opinions, I believe Frank A. Novotony Jr.’s letter comparing the impeachment to the crucifixion (“Impeachment like crucifixion,” Dec. 18, TribLIVE) goes beyond the pale, and especially during the Holy Season is blasphemous. Unlike Jesus, President Trump was not tortured, beaten and put...

President Donald Trump told an audience of Pennsylvania union workers last August that his 25% tariff on steel imports was reinvigorating the country’s steel industry, and leading companies such as U.S. Steel to expand. That upbeat assessment is now in question following United States Steel Corp.’s announcement last week that...

An open letter to Steelers coach Mike Tomlin: Do you know which teams do not run the ball up the middle for the huge majority of first- or second-down plays? It’s the Super Bowl teams. Oh well, the only people who question your calls are the fans in the stands,...

Jacob Kaltz smiles as a small train chugs through the heart of Carnegie. The train display, set up in the center of Miniature Main Street — a small replica created to look like the town in the 1940s and ’50s — brings added charm to the Historical Society of Carnegie...

Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of Dec. 23....

Thomas Jefferson High School students will be recording beats in a professional sound studio built by their peers within the next year. It will be a place where students can learn the ins and outs of the sound industry, from microphone placement to instrument isolation and how to bring it...

Peoples Library seeking tutors for elementary students Peoples Library in New Kensington is seeking adult volunteers to tutor elementary students in its afterschool program. Adult tutors work one-on-one with at-risk students from the New Kensington-Arnold School District from 4 to 5:20 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at the New Kensington library,...

In an effort to do some much-needed paving, Springdale Council will vote this week on a 6.5% property tax increase. Council unanimously agreed last Tuesday to raise taxes by a half-mill in order to pave either Colfax Street or Rosslyn Avenue in 2020. The vote on the tax hike will...

Editorial cartoons for the week of Dec. 23....

In the final meeting of 2019, the Richland board of supervisors voted to adopt the 2020 budget for the township set at $6,878,200. No one came forth with comment during the public hearing at the start of the Dec. 18 meeting, and the budget, along with several other measures, was...

The Shaler Board of Commissioners approved a Compass Self Storage development at the former Shaler Self Storage location at 422 Elfinwild Road. “The facility existing is approximately 25,000 square-foot of single-story self-storage, all drive-up units. And the planned expansion is 28,500-square-feet; and it’s (in) three buildings. One is a climate-controlled...

A workshop in the art of paper folding, Origami, was so popular last week at the Penn Hills Library that organizers have decided to make plans for a return engagement after the new year. Tiny Christmas trees, star ornaments, penguins and Santa Claus were magically created from squares of brightly...

Shaler resident Chastity Menner will start the new year approximately 5,200 miles away providing free medical access to people in Ghana, West Africa. She co-founded Freedom for Health Asuogyaman — named for the more than 930-mile Asuogyaman district her organization covers — to bring medical treatment to a population of...

100 years ago 5,580 youngsters get Christmas sweets New Kensington city hall on Fourth Avenue was the site of Community Christmas tree exercises where 5,850 boxes of candy were distributed to children. The Moose Lodge 53 band entertained at the holiday program. 75 years ago Rural school still snowbound West...

An editor for the conservative National Review magazine is calling for President Trump to be removed from office. Senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru wrote an opinion piece over the weekend called “Four Tests for Impeachment” that said Trump exceeded each tenet to be removed from office. Ponnuru’s piece comes days after...