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Feeling out of place would be natural for Glenshaw native Spencer Platt. Seeking a path to college hockey, Platt decided to move 1,800 miles from home to Cody, Wyo., to play for the Yellowstone Quake of the North American 3 Hockey League. The NA3HL is an American Tier III junior...

As the Bishop Canevin girls soccer team prepared to open the season, coach Pat Egan was sure of two things: His group of returning players would be motivated by last fall’s first-round playoff loss, and they would need help from younger players to be a factor in the 2019 postseason....

Baldwin Borough leaders want to ensure that chickens do not run afoul in the neighborhood. Council members on Sept. 17 established parameters for residents who want to own the birds on their land. The newly-adopted ordinance limits residents to having no more than four chickens on their residential property. Those...

Tranquil music echoes through the main hallway of Thomas Jefferson High School’s athletic wing during the middle of the school day. Roughly 20 students lay on the turf floor, bending and stretching in meditative yoga poses. In the gymnasium next door, it’s much louder, as students compete in a competitive...

Lizzo is having a year that has moved so readily from peak to peak that sometimes it feels scripted. She appears destined to win a bunch of artist-of-the-year accolades in a few months, a case of a talented if highly unconventional innovator arriving on a bigger stage at just the...

Pine-Richland High School operated on Thursday under heightened security measures following the discovery of a nine-millimeter bullet in the cafeteria on Wednesday. “Our detectives are still currently working the case,” said Northern Regional Police Department captain John Sicilia on Thursday afternoon. He confirmed that increased police presence on campus will...

Let’s work together to stop partisan gerrymandering. Gerrymandering puts power in the hands of a few — the politicians — at the expense of the rest of us — the citizenry. We can stop this crooked process by telling our state reps that we support House Bills 22 and 23....

Impeachment inquiry: Disgusting, deceitful, deranged, demented Democrats. ‘Nuff said. Frank Novotny Unity...

For hateful rhetoric like Robert Jedrzejewski’s letter “NRA’s terroristic ways” (Sept. 10, TribLIVE) to be spewed out on your pages on 9/11 — a day reminding us that we are victims in the face of oppression unless we mass and fight to overcome our assailants, as those on Flight 93...

Regarding two prominent topics in the Sept. 20 edition (“Vaping defense is up in smoke”; “Greensburg joins in Global Climate Strike”): Our youth are not educated, enlightened and mature enough to grasp the fact that sucking an unknown foreign substance directly into their little pink lungs is dangerous (basic anatomy/physiology),...

In the news this week 40 years ago: • At its meeting last week, Sewickley Borough Council voted to hire its first director of public works at an annual salary of $17,500. Only one council member, Marie Guy, dissented, saying “$17,500 is an awful lot to put on our taxpayers....

Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby, once known as “America’s Dad,” marked his one-year prison anniversary touting his new paternalistic role behind bars, his spokesman said Wednesday. “He’s doing very well regarding this unwanted anniversary,” spokesman Andrew Wyatt told the New York Daily News. “I just ended a visit with him. He...

Sharpsburg Activities at Sharpsburg Community Library can be registered for by calling 412-781-0783. • Green Grocer, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 30. Buy fruits, vegetables and herbs from the truck that visits weekly. It will be in the library parking lot at 1212 Main St. • Homework Help, 3:30 to 5...

While there are more than 100 Vocelli Pizza locations across six states, the pizzeria’s roots are local. Founder Varol Ablak and his father opened their first restaurant in 1988, and in less than five years, opened 20 restaurants in the Pittsburgh area. In 1993, the first franchise was sold. Now,...

Vendors at the Farmer’s Market in Hampton will be closing shop for the season with their last day on Oct. 16. The event was a first for the township, and program director Bill Ryder said the response was very good. “Overall, our first season was successful and we are grateful...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham spent Wednesday spreading words of unequivocal support for Donald Trump as the president embarked on the first 24 hours of life under official threat of impeachment. Shortly after the White House released the rough transcript of a phone call congressional Democrats say could be...

Cross country Boys Wednesday’s results WPIAL Division I Section 6 Canon-McMillan 20, Peters Township 35 Canon-McMillan 15, Trinity 50 Peters Township 15, Trinity 50 Girls Wednesday’s results WPIAL Divison I Section 6 Canon-McMillan 15, Trinity 48 Peters Township 15, Trinity 38 Peters Township 20, Canon-McMillan 36 Football Thursday’s schedule District...

Emma Bundy scored her second goal of the game in overtime to lead North Allegheny (9-1-1, 7-0) to a 3-2 victory over Pine-Richland (6-3, 4-3) in a matchup of top girls soccer teams in Section 1-AAAA on Wednesday night. Tulasi Sayamala also scored for North Allegheny. Peters Township 1, Bethel...

Two Trib 10 teams from a week ago lost in Week 4, one dropping a spot while the other dropped out completely. While the top three teams remain the same, Penn-Trafford lost to Ohio power Massillon Washington last week, dropping from No. 4 to No. 5. The Warriors flip-flopped with...

History can be made Thursday at the 2019 WPIAL Class AA boys’ individual golf championships. Skylar Fox may become the most decorated boys golfer in district history as he shoots for a fourth WPIAL title. Last year, the Riverside senior captured his third district championship in three years when he...

Headlines from around the world increasingly reinforce a sobering point: Climate change is the defining crisis of our time. A new poll shows the number of Americans who see climate change as a crisis is growing — just after the strongest hurricane on record. For the sake of the planet...

Conversion therapy is a grab bag of practices that utilize psychological, emotional, spiritual or physical techniques to try and remake someone who is gay or bisexual into a heterosexual. The practice also has been used on people identifying as transgender. Subjects are often minors. So kudos to the Allegheny County...

Overall Record: 40-14 Last week’s record: 9-3 Before heading into the office on Monday, the Birdie was playing catch with a stringer in the parking lot. After several drops, the stringer gave up on the big yellow bird. “As good as you are with picking games, you sure can’t catch...