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Baseball PIAA Playoffs Class 6A Championship Friday’s schedule Souderton vs. Central Bucks South at Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, 10:30 a.m. Class 5A Championship Thursday’s result Red Land vs. Lampeter-Strasburg, ppd. Friday’s schedule Red Land vs. Lampeter-Strasburg at Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, 7:30 p.m. Class...

A couple of major league teams called during Day 2 of the MLB Draft, but they decided to pass on Connor Perry. More calls came during Day 3. Still, nothing. Perry’s nerves were tested, but during the 28th round, he got a call from the Detroit Tigers. The conversation went...

Laurel: To sweet, sweet music for the community. SummerSounds kicked off its 20th anniversary season on June 7 with a packed St. Clair park for its 7 Bridges — an Eagles tribute band — concert. According to series chairman Gene James, more than 8,000 people filled the Maple Street park...

Authorities have identified a man and woman, both 18, who died Thursday afternoon in a lightning strike at Mammoth Park in Mt. Pleasant Township. Brendan A. McGowan of Eastview Drive, North Huntingdon, and Kaitlyn E. Rosensteel of Chestnut Street, Donora, were pronounced dead at the scene about an hour after...

When her older brother, Jack, and good friend Hannah Price started playing hockey, Lexi Jones got plenty of exposure to the game at an early age. By the time she was 7, she had gone from spectator to player. Eight years later, Jones is a national champion. Jones, a rising...

Fawn officials say landslides caused by the season’s heavy rains on Thompson and Sun Mine roads are an emergency situation and they’re shifting money from another planned project to make the repairs. A portion of Thompson Road is closed because of a slide there and traffic on Sun Mine Road...

In April, PennEnvironment and Pennsylvania House Democrats announced a set of proposals that would tackle litter and pollution issues by charging a 2-cent non-reusable plastic bag fee, creating a 5-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program and restricting the availability of plastic straws. Millvale business owners Danielle Spinola of Tupelo...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Fans of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter are waiting up to 10 hours in a long, slithering line as Universal Orlando opened its new roller coaster — Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure — to the public for the first time Thursday morning. Potter fans and coaster...

The family of Jeffrey Eisenman, a 65-year-old passenger on the Carnival Sunshine, alleges in a lawsuit that the world’s largest cruise company wouldn’t let him off of the ship after suffering a heart attack last December. Eisenman died on the way to another port. A representative for Carnival said the...

The Allegheny Land Trust is working to permanently protect 40.5 acres of vacant green space off of Library Road in Bethel Park that already is home to several well-kept trails. The nonprofit is under contract to purchase the land from owner Pittsburgh Terminal Corp. and is working to raise the...

On June 7, Brentwood Borough High School’s Class of 2019 walked across the stage at the stadium to receive their diplomas....

A weekend closure on northbound Route 65 (Ohio River Boulevard) in Emsworth Borough will occur Friday night through Sunday night, weather permitting. PennDOT District 11 said the northbound lanes of Route 65 will close to traffic from 8 p.m. Friday continuously through 8 p.m. Sunday at the intersection with Hazelwood...

Jim Fitzroy is attempting to give away his recipe for something called hot honey as his friend Michelle Wright tries hard (with a wink) to keep the ingredients a closely guarded secret. Wright is a WTAE-TV news anchor, as well as a beekeeper who shares a love of all things...

The reasons why socialism is superior to capitalism are obvious: • Because the government’s control of production and wages to eliminate income inequality results in a higher standard of living for everyone. • Because a system where people are rewarded by convincing bureaucrats of their need is better than one...

As the one-year anniversary approaches of Ireland overturning its restrictive 1983 ban on abortion with a 66% vote, Catholic Irish women jumped for joy at the right to terminate their unwanted children. The Catholic women of Ireland have spoken, but they know not what they have done. That is what...

Numbers can be made to look any way you want. That’s what the Department of Corrections did recently in testimony before the state House Judiciary Committee. DOC testified to lawmakers that the prison officer-to-inmate ratio is 5-to-1. This simply isn’t true, because it assumes that all officers work every day,...

Hello, Sewickley, Want to beautify the area? Join the 2019 River Sweep Cleanup from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. Volunteers will meet at the Kilbuck Fish Commission boat ramp in Glenfield, 340 E. Beaver St., to clean up the river bank. Garbage bags, gloves and water will be provided. Volunteers,...

Chartiers Valley School District is taking steps to improve safety and security in its schools. Board members on June 11 unanimously approved the hiring of longtime law enforcement officer Edward Joyner to serve in the district’s newly created administrator of safety and security/school police officer role. He will earn a...

Nick Lachey has been television host, a reality television star, a dance contest competitor, an actor, a teen pop star (with 98 Degrees) and a music solo artist. Wearing many hats suits him well. “I’d like to think I’m kind of hard to label. I enjoy being diversified,” Lachey said...

A summer weekend filled with cool jazz by hot local and national artists is on tap for audiences at the ninth annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival. Produced by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center and presented by Citizens Bank, this year’s festival June 20-23 will feature traditional jazz and...

Prior to the start of this season, Elizabeth Forward softball coach Harry Rutherford approached athletic director Tim Guffey with three goals for his team: Win a section title, a WPIAL championship and state gold. The veteran coach has crossed two of those goals off his list. And he and his...

Before every practice this season, the Frazier softball team takes a lap around Commodore Park. As they circle the field, they touch the banners on the outfield fence. On Wednesday morning as they prepared for the Class 2A state championship game, the Commodores made their run for the last time...

Baseball PIAA Playoffs Class 6A Championship Friday’s schedule Souderton vs. Central Bucks South at Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, 10:30 a.m. Class 5A Championship Thursday’s schedule Red Land vs. Lampeter-Strasburg at Penn State’s Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, 7 p.m. Class 4A Championship Friday’s schedule Selinsgrove vs. Beaver...

SAN FRANCISCO — In a first-of-its kind experiment, San Francisco prosecutors are turning to artificial intelligence to reduce racial bias in the courts, adopting a system that strips certain identifying details from police reports and leaves only key facts to govern charging decisions. District Attorney George Gascon announced Wednesday that...

SAN DIEGO — The wife of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter is planning to change her not-guilty plea in a federal corruption case alleging the couple spent more than $250,000 in campaign funds on vacations and other personal expenses, setting up the possibility she will testify against her husband, a close...