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Crise leads Highlands past Harbor Creek in 1st round of PIAA Class 4A playoffs
Harbor Creek’s strategy is to keep the score low and pull out a close decision. The plan worked for more than three quarters Friday night before WPIAL Class 4A champion Highlands pulled away late to earn a 50-40 victory in an PIAA first-round game at Kiski Area High School. Leading...
Belle Vernon earns long-awaited PIAA tournament victory
For the first time since 1981, the Belle Vernon boys basketball team will play in a PIAA second-round game. The Leopards finished with four players in double figures and held on for a thrilling 65-60 win over District 9 champion Clearfield on Friday night at St. Marys High School. After...
Everett takes down Riverview girls in PIAA 1st round
JOHNSTOWN — The difference in Friday night’s PIAA Class 2A first-round game between Riverview and Everett was in the shooting. The Warriors used strong shooting from the floor while the Raiders struggled. The Warriors also used timely rebounding to bounce Riverview from the state playoffs 69-33. “They shot lights-out,” Riverview...
Why shutting down schools to prevent coronavirus spread could actually make it worse
SEATTLE — The University of Washington announced Friday it was moving all instruction online for the next two weeks, keeping more than 50,000 students out of classrooms as the death toll from COVID-19 continued to rise. At least 16 public elementary and secondary schools in the state have also closed,...
Trump defends administration’s coronavirus approach in CDC visit
ATLANTA — President Donald Trump almost didn’t make the trip to Atlanta to address his administration’s response to the coronavirus. But when he arrived at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s main Atlanta campus, he didn’t seem to want to leave. After initially scrapping the trip, the president...
Burrell’s Corrado, Oswalt to wrestle for PIAA Class AA gold
HERSHEY — Burrell will have two wrestlers competing for gold medals Saturday at the PIAA Class AA championships at Giant Center. Ian Oswalt punched his ticket to the 132-pound final with a 3-1 win over Anthony Glasl of Brockway on Friday night. Shortly thereafter, AJ Corrado claimed his spot in...
Kiski Area’s Blumer dominant in PIAA wrestling quarterfinals victory
HERSHEY — Jack Blumer of Kiski Area is making his last wrestling trip to Hershey a memorable one. Blumer scarcely was challenged in a 7-1 win over Susquehannock’s Colby Ramjue in the Class 3A 160-pound quarterfinals Friday afternoon at Giant Center. The only point Blumer (38-2) allowed was because of...
Coronavirus concerns hurting Asian restaurants in Pittsburgh, some owners say
Asian restaurants and markets across Pittsburgh are hurting because of misinformation surrounding how the new coronavirus spreads, community leaders and officials said Friday. To combat the anti-Chinese sentiment, local politicians gathered for lunch at Oakland’s Night Market Gourmet to encourage patronage of Asian restaurants and quash myths. “In the Marines...
Landowner wants to sell nearly 110 acres to Upper Burrell for a park
Upper Burrell supervisors are looking into an offer from a Florida man to sell almost 110 acres of wooded property near the township’s Lincoln Beach Park. Supervisors held off discussion of the offer this week to investigate further. “It’s a very interesting offer,” Supervisor Michael Conley said. “We don’t get...
Editorial: Pittsburgh should OK zoo accreditation
If Disney’s “The Lion King” has taught us anything, it’s that everything in the animal world is a vast circle of life. It’s a cycle of prey and predator, birth and death, eat or be eaten. Apparently it’s also about laws and leases, alligators and elephants and accreditation. It started...
Fatal gunfight between Mt. Oliver man, Pittsburgh cops being examined by policeVideo
A Mt. Oliver man was killed after a gunfight with four plainclothes Pittsburgh police detectives Thursday night following a traffic stop on the city’s North Side. Authorities are working to piece together what happened, but as of about noon Friday, Allegheny County police could provide few details about what happened....
Food Podcast: How Apple Castle contributes to ending hunger in Western Pa.
Apple Castle harvests about 10,000 bushels of apples every year. And many of them go to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Steve Johnston, the sixth-generation owner of Apple Castle, joined Brian Gulish on the Food Podcast to discuss his company’s commitment to support Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s mission...
Charges filed in Monroeville from Feb. 24-28
Monroeville police filed these charges Feb. 24-28 in District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst’s office: Dennis E. Mancini, 65, of Delmont with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of marijuana, possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia and failing to stop and yield to signs. Charges were filed Feb....
Freeport Council moves forward on sewage project, without help from South Buffalo
Freeport officials have decided to move forward on a new sewage treatment plant without neighboring South Buffalo, as was once the plan. For several years, South Buffalo officials expressed interest in having Freeport’s plant serve at least part of their township. However, there has been no commitment from South Buffalo,...
Letter to the editor: Wolf favors funding Planned Parenthood — no surprise
Of course Gov. Tom Wolf wants to join other liberal states such as Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey in using taxpayer dollars to fund Planned Parenthood. These governors all have “Ds” after their names — and not surprising at all, since the Democratic Party favors funding Planned Parenthood. How sad!...
Letter to the editor: Billionaires should buy peace instead of elections
I see a lot on the news about Michael Bloomberg and Jeff Bezos spending gross amounts of money to fight climate change. You cannot beat Mother Nature (floods, earthquakes, droughts, etc.). In my opinion, they are buying elections of presidents, senators, governors and attorneys general to do their will and...
Letter to the editor: Homeowners tired of being fleeced by taxes
Letter-writer Dwayne Buffer (“Officials keep sticking it to electorate,” Feb. 19, TribLIVE) was right on. School boards and elected officials across the state fail to balance their budgets and overspend, and just raise our taxes with a stroke of a pen. Not long ago before we had gambling in Pennsylvania,...
Letter to the editor: China & our health care
Experts say China could shut down the American health care system in several months because of our dependence on Chinese production of pharmaceutical and medical supplies. It is estimated that 97% of all antibiotics and 80% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed for domestic production come from China. Generic drug...
Pittsburgh events to carry on, with precautions, despite coronavirus spreadVideo
Events across the country are being canceled because of the growing threat of the coronavirus, but it’s business as usual in Western Pennsylvania. While precautions are being taken at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh and at the Monroeville Convention Center, event leaders are monitoring the spread of...
The Stroller, March 6, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
The Stroller is your go-to place for local meeting notices, charitable events and volunteer opportunities. Information for The Stroller may be dropped off or mailed at least a week in advance to: The Stroller, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084, email vndnews@tribweb.com or fax 724-226-4677. Bowling fundraiser...
Gardeners, trees share inescapable connection
I’m not sure when I first noticed the late afternoon sun illuminating the orange bark of a tall, beautiful Scotch pine that overlooked the vegetable garden, probably about 20 years ago. There’s a chair in the corner of the garden that I would use at the end of the day....
Rick Santelli of CNBC says giving every American coronavirus would settle the marketsVideo
Rick Santelli apparently wants many people to perish so the stock market will stabilize. Santelli, an on-air editor at CNBC, said Thursday on the network’s “The Exchange” that every person in the country should be administered the coronavirus so the “global and domestic economies” would be “better off.” As the...
High school scores, schedules for March 5, 2020
High schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs First round Class 6A Saturday’s schedule Methacton (24-2) vs. Harrisburg (15-10) at Norristown HS, 7:30 p.m.; Abraham Lincoln (13-10) vs. Bensalem (19-7) at South Philadelphia, 2:30 p.m.; Roman Catholic (16-10) vs. Coatesville (20-6) at Cardinal O’Hara, 2:30 p.m.; Wilkes-Barre (16-10) vs. Pennridge (18-8) at...
Thomas Jefferson to bring ‘Peter Pan’ to life on stage
Editor’s note: Because of the coronavirus pandemic, West Jefferson Hills School District announced that “Peter Pan” has been postponed. Thomas Jefferson students will soar to new heights this year, as “Peter Pan” takes flight on the high school stage March 19-21. Inside the new TJ Theater roughly two weeks before...
Chartiers Valley senior named Student of the Month
Logan DeSalle, a senior, has been named Chartiers Valley High School/Rotary Student of the Month for February. Logan is a four-year Spanish Club member, three-year National Honor Society member and a four-year member and the current president of DECA, a club that he has won the state championship with two...
