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For the first time in program history, the Pitt-Greensburg women’s soccer team is a conference champion. The Bobcats (19-0-1) defeated D’Youville, 1-0, in overtime in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference semifinals Nov. 6 before beating Penn State Behrend, 3-2, in the championship game. With the tournament crown, Pitt-Greensburg earned an...

When the first WPIAL championship football game at Heinz Field kicks off at 11 a.m. Saturday, the Class A title will be up for grabs between programs with very different stories. One side will house third-seeded Sto-Rox (11-1), a team that did not make the postseason last year and has...

Each Friday throughout the high school football season, the Valley News Dispatch will take a look back at the games, players and events that are part of local scholastic history. In a game delayed a week because of rain and snow, Richland won its first WPIAL title, 30-0, over New...

During his days as a football player at Chartiers Valley, Dave Marquis, by his own admission, didn’t apply himself perhaps as much as he should have. That revelation might be surprising considering his background. Marquis’ father, Gus, was the football coach (1988-94) and athletic director (1988-2006) at Chartiers Valley, so...

The only numbers that count on championship Saturday are the final digits posted on the giant scoreboard at Heinz Field. But here are some numbers and historical facts that won’t mean a thing come kickoff time. Listen to all four title games on the TribLive High School Sports Network. •...

Welcome to Week 12 of the high school football season. By the time we reach this point of the season each year, Chick’s Picks’ crystal ball is running out of gas. As much more prognosticating power is required to accurately predict postseason games, needless to say, the crystal ball is...

Buffalo Township residents would not pay more in township real estate taxes next year under a preliminary budget approved Wednesday. Supervisors approved a preliminary $2.5 million budget that would keep the tax rate at 5.5 mills. Spending would increase by about $196,000, according to the budget. A homeowner with the...

The Pittsburgh Pirates have had one of the more curious manager searches in recent baseball memory. The Pirates fired Clint Hurdle on the last day of the season. General manager Neal Huntington then began interviews for Hurdle’s successor. Yet after he talked with six candidates, Huntington was fired Oct. 28....

Sewickley council approved the release of a proposed 2020 budget that keeps real estate taxes at 6.25 mills during their Nov. 12 meeting. The current millage rate of 6.25, or $6.25 for every $1,000 of assessed real estate value, is broken down into four components, as per the 2019 borough...

A train car derailed Thursday in Upper Tyrone, flipping off the track and landing in a small tributary of Jacobs Creek, according to Fayette County 911. No injuries were reported. An estimated few hundred gallons of a flammable industrial solvent, known as HF1000, leaked into the stream, according to Jim...

DETROIT — A security guard testified Thursday that Allegheny County Controller Chelsa Wagner grappled with a Detroit police officer during an incident eight months ago at a hotel and warned him, “You don’t know who you’re messing with.” Wagner is accused of interfering with Detroit police officers March 6 as...

Shaler Hampton EMS executive director Eric Schmidt said that he “would have bet a large sum of money” that he and other emergency rescue personnel would have orchestrated recovery rather than rescue efforts when a man crashed his vehicle into Pine Creek on Halloween. Paul Skerl, 76, was driving on...

The article “Where have the wild birds gone? 3 billion fewer than 1970” (Sept. 19, TribLIVE) should have grabbed everyone’s attention. I noticed a decline in the bird population many years ago. About 70 years ago, when I was just a kid, I used to see and hear the bobwhites...

President Trump’s actions with Ukraine for personal political gain should trouble us all. Worse is the fact that he sees nothing wrong with getting dirt on a political opponent from a foreign country, even after having said as much openly in an interview in June. But worst of all is...

Imagine you’re on a walk. You have your headphones in to distract you from the rest of the world. You come to a stoplight. You look. No one is coming. You start to walk, but you aren’t aware of the immediate changes in the world around you; you don’t hear...

Only in America because of the liberals would the legal gun owners have to jump through hoops while the thugs roam the streets armed with no problems. The liberals are the ones who ended “stop and frisk,” which I doubt any legal gun owner would object to. Clem Zahrobsky Delmont...

South Fayette Township administration presented a 2020 budget that calls for a $1 million increase in spending, but officials believe they can do it without a tax increase. Township Manager John Barrett said the township has been conservative with revenue projections in the past and he thinks administrators will hit...

Thanks to my friend, Gary Davis, I recently had the opportunity to participate in a workshop dedicated to the federal trials at the end of the Whiskey Rebellion. Gary is an attorney obligated to earning continuing education credits in jurisprudence each year in order to maintain his license to practice...

In the news this week 26 years ago: • Sewickley native Hilary Edson was set to appear in “Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7,” a forthcoming CBS Movie of the Week, playing the daughter of actress Lindsay Wagner. Edson, a Sewickley Academy alumna, previously appeared in regular...

With two big playoff victories in the hopper already, Riverside isn’t playing like a typical No. 14 seed. The Panthers (9-3) have defeated No. 3 Burgettstown in overtime and No. 6 seed McGuffey last week. But Avonworth coach Duke Johncour knows a team doesn’t win games at this time of...

A man implicated in a string of nine robberies between Oct. 18 and Nov. 11 in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas told police he was on a downward spiral and was sorry for committing the crimes, according to criminal complaints filed against him. Sean Randy Beach, 48, told Pittsburgh police he...

Two people were fatally shot Wednesday night in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, according to police. The woman who died was Kierra Eddisha Harris, 26, of McKees Rocks, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office said Thursday. The medical examiner said Harris died of gunshot wounds to the neck and chest. Her death...