TribLive stories, Page 2019

Carlynton administrators will hold an informational meeting on July 24 about the new Carlynton School District Cyber Academy that will launch for the 2019-20 school year. The new online instructional program is being offered to students of the district who are enrolled in a cyber or charter school. The meeting...

Chartiers Valley School District residents will be paying more in real estate taxes in 2019-20. In a 6-2 vote, board members approved the district’s $67.4 million 2019-20 budget, that includes a .4885 mill increase. This takes the millage rate up to 17.5595 mills for 2019-20. Board members Jeff Choura and...

Alice Cooper is 71 years old. And while there are those who may cling to the idea that it’s better to burn out than to fade away, the man born Vincent Damon Furnier has no intention of doing that. He recently released a live album, “A Paranormal Evening at the...

A couple of years ago, Stephan Jenkins, frontman of Third Eye Blind, announced that the group would no longer make full-length albums. It’s a thought that’s occurring to plenty of music acts these days, given the way the major-label music industry emphasizes singles and how streaming encourages putting out music...

Hootie & the Blowfish could easily have made their return after a decade-long hiatus with a tour on which they simply played their hits and fan-favorite album cuts from the five albums the group made during their initial 20-year run. Instead, the group will have a new studio album to...

If the idea of combining yoga with adorable puppies sounds like a perfect way to spend an hour, you’ll want to be at North Park on Aug. 3. Paws Across Pittsburgh is once again teaming up with Allegheny County Parks to bring Puppy Yoga to the park. There, yoga practitioners...

For the third straight year, parent volunteer Heather Killmeyer headed something at Hampton’s Poff Elementary School she didn’t have to. Killmeyer, 40, coached the Girls on the Run team, although her daughter is too young to be a member. Fifteen students from fourth and fifth grade participated in the spring....

Richland Township officials have bid farewell to Sara Knapp Sims, the township’s environmental compliance and sustainability coordinator. Knapp tendered her resignation, effective July 19, citing a relocation to Destin, Fla, to be with her husband. Township manager Dean Bastianini shared the resignation letter at the Board of Supervisors’ July meeting....

Apple Hill Playhouse revisits one of Stephen Sondheim’s classic Tony Award-winning musicals with its production of “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” running July 25-Aug. 4. Set in ancient Rome, the musical focuses on the efforts of a slave named Pseudolus (Nathaniel Yost) to win the...

The force is definitely with John Williams. His scores for the “Star Wars” series of films are among the most popular music for orchestra of our time. Excerpts from Williams’ film music have figured prominently at Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concerts for decades now. Williams himself has led the local orchestra...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 47-48) lost 15-5 to Syracuse (Mets). RHP Eduardo Vera (5-8, 6.64) gave up seven runs in four innings, including two home runs, to earn the loss with three strikeouts, four walks and nine hits allowed. LF Darnell Sweeney (.292) went 2 for 3 from the plate with a...

Scott and Patricia Smith were looking for a new furry friend at a Middletown, N.J., pet store when they found Chase, a fluffy white Maltese. It was June 2018, five months after their last dog died, and they quickly fell in love with the pup who curled up in Scott’s...

U.S. sales of plant-based foods grew 11% last year as retailers increasingly put them on shelves next to their animal-based counterpart. The annual numbers show where the plant-based market has matured, such as alternative milks, and where it is just getting started, like plant-based eggs. The sales update, published by...

Principal William Latson of Spanish River Community High School in Palm Beach County, Fla. was removed from his position and reassigned to a different position in the Palm Beach County school district after refusing to admit that the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event.” It is not that he personally...

The streak is over. The second-longest championship run in WPIAL history quietly ended in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAA boys team tennis playoffs when Sewickley Academy lost to Upper St. Clair, 3-2, in May. The loss ended a 15-year WPIAL championship run by the Panthers, second only...

A detour has been implemented for a closed section of Camp Meeting Road between Beech Ridge Drive and Fern Hollow Road in Bell Acres Borough. That part of the road has been closed since July 12 due to a landslide caused by storms the previous day, according to the Allegheny...

The Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear reactor shutdown, which is set to begin no later than Sept. 30, will take nearly 60 years and $1.2 billion to complete. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is outlining Exelon Generation’s plans to decommission TMI Unit 1, whose closure was announced in May after...

Sewickley’s business privilege tax has existed for decades. But business owners who attended a recent meeting said they did not know about it until recently. The Sewickley Chamber of Commerce hosted a public meeting July 16, when business owners said the borough didn’t inform them about the tax. An audit...

“Our Independent Voice.” That’s how a Bucks County congressman’s official website describes him. It takes digging on Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick’s website to uncover his GOP affiliation. You can find that he’s a former FBI agent and an attorney, a CPA and an EMT. It shows he is on his second...

Pittsburgh police Officer Calvin Hall died doing what he was most passionate about — protecting and serving the people, the slain officer’s family said Wednesday night. Hall died at UPMC Presbyterian hospital in the city’s Oakland neighborhood earlier in the day, three days after he was shot three times in...

GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — After 10 kilometers of open-water swimming in the sea, world championship organizers needed a photo finish to determine the winner of the Olympic qualifier on Tuesday. Florian Wellbrock of Germany edged France’s Marc-Antoine Olivier by two-tenths of a second to take the gold medal. The...

Work on Mt. Nebo Road between Arndt Road and Lowries Run Road in Ohio Township will begin at 6 a.m. July 29. The work, which is expected to last until late September, includes paving, drainage repairs and safety improvements. The Allegheny County Department of Public Works said crews will perform...

Those looking to add a furry friend to the family should head to Animal Friends this weekend, when all requested adoption donations will be waived. The Ohio Township facility says it’s filled to capacity because of an extremely active kitten season and the recent rescue of 31 cats from a...

The Penn Hills School District is in debt to the tune of approximately $175 million. Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office said that investigators found gross financial mismanagement. What is the district doing to erase this massive debt? The answer is to allow the government to bail it out using your...