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District 3 champion Wilson scored twice in the bottom of the fourth inning and held off Penn-Trafford’s rally in the fifth en route to a 6-5 win in the first round of the PIAA Class 6A baseball playoffs Monday afternoon in Fredericksburg. Wilson opened a 4-0 lead in the third...

Harold Hamm, 73, is a multibillionaire, a major Republican donor and a pioneer in shale drilling in the Bakken formation (located in North Dakota, Montana and adjacent parts of Canada). Hamm has a big appetite for the stock of Continental Resources Inc. (CLR), the oil-and-gas company he runs. He snapped...

Here is the Valley High School Class of 2019: Hayley Ruth Albright, Evan Michael Anderson, Megan Estelle Anthony, Matthew L. Ashbaugh, Joseph Louis Ayala, Jadyn Lee Baker, Sam Patrick Barca, Shaolin Ameris Barr, Tess Elizabeth Bartlett, Tyler Jamar Bassett Seandale Beckom-Barron, Preston Bradley Berecin, Noah Rayshawn Blanchard, Skye Lynn Bonzani,...

DuBois Central Catholic came into Monday’s PIAA Class A softball opener with a reputation of an offensive juggernaut. The Cardinals proved it Monday afternoon with a 14-4 victory over Leechburg at Heindl Field in a game terminated during the sixth inning when DuBois Central built its lead to 10 runs....

Emma Boettcher, a 27-year-old University of Chicago librarian, unseated Naperville, Ill., native James Holzhauer as “Jeopardy!” champion on Monday’s episode as Holzhauer came close to beating the $2.52 million Ken Jennings earned during his 2004 winning streak. According to her LinkedIn profile, Boettcher has worked at the University of Chicago...

FORT MADISON, Iowa — Authorities say a man died after saving his 5-year-old daughter from a dog attack in southeast Iowa. Lee County Sheriff Stacy Weber says 33-year-old Robert Quick, of Dallas City, Ill., was one of three people attacked Friday by the boxer outside a home in Fort Madison....

It was not a good week to be a favorite in the district finals. In fact, only one team ranked No. 1 in the Trib HSSN state softball rankings from a week ago is still on top this week. Undefeated District 11 champion Pine Grove is the only top-ranked team...

Hello, Virginia Beach. Welcome to the club no one wants to join. Like widows and parents who have lost children, cities that have experienced mass shootings are survivors that must learn to navigate in a new world while muscle memory tries to walk them through the layout of the old....

Allegheny County police are looking for more information about a McKeesport shootout Monday that led to criminal charges against at least three people. A 22-year-old man was shot multiple times in the leg, and is in stable condition, according to police. The man was arguing with James Scott, 17, outside...

There may be no sadder commentary on the changing way we consume information than the demise of a local library. A library is one of those touchstone places that speaks to how a community comes together. Move to a new town and you have a list of things you need...

I went to vote after work on Election Day. I could have gone straight home or to Sheetz (“Not voting squanders basic birthright of America,” May 22, TribLIVE), but I had a chance to make a change in our government and our school board. As I gave my name to...

There seemed to be both good and bad news in your recent story “Report: Number of drilled but uncompleted oil and gas wells in U.S. continues to rise” (May 3, TribLIVE) about the number of unfinished wells in the United States. The good news is that the number of unfinished...

It’s hard to know where to begin with Ron Raymond’s letter “Obama vs. Trump.” Like so many other right-wing parrots, he directs us to see the effects of socialism in Venezuela. Funny, I never hear these people speak of Norway, Canada or Finland, to name a few. The only reason...

Several chunks of concrete fell from the Tarentum Bridge on Monday morning, but no one was hurt and no damage was reported below, according to officials. The pieces appeared to fall shortly before 9 a.m. from the eastern edge of the bridge, which carries about 30,000 vehicles a day across...

Two real estate investors have purchased the 408,000-square-foot 79 North Industrial Park, a seven-building light industrial complex located along Interstate 79 in Aleppo Township. ASB Real Estate Investments and an affiliate of Endurance Real Estate Group purchased the industrial portfolio in a joint venture for $38 million, according to a...

Hello, Sewickley, Friends of the Sewickley Public Library Book Sale returns this weekend. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, and 9 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. From 1 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, fill up a bag for $5. All proceeds benefit the Sewickley Public Library of the Quaker Valley...

Editorial cartoons for the week of June 3....

Mike Ditka, the former Pitt All-American and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, grew up wanting to be a dentist. “That didn’t work out, you can tell,” he told Gus Frerotte in the first part of this week’s “Huddle Up with Gus” podcast. Ditka tells the story of...

High Schools Baseball PIAA Playoffs Class 6A First round Monday’s schedule Neshaminy vs. Hempfield (District 3) at Widener University, 4 p.m.; Hazleton Area vs. Downingtown East at Pittston Field in Hughestown, 4:30 p.m.; Liberty vs. Plymouth Whitemarsh at DeSales University, 4:30 p.m.; La Salle College vs. Souderton at Archbishop Wood,...

Mallard Fillmore cartoons for the week of June 3....

Seth MacFarlane, creator of the irreverent animated show “Family Guy,” once likened the barrage of blistering attacks on the program — and him — from the Parents Television Council to “getting hate mail from Hitler.” The conservative nonprofit railed against MacFarlane and his Fox network cartoon for more than a...

Shoppers will have a variety to choose from — whether they’re looking for produce, candles or even moonshine — as the Carnegie farmers market returns to the East Main parking lot June 9. Now in its second year, the market will feature more than a dozen vendors offering a wide...

Longtime Carnegie resident Mary Ann Steranka celebrates her 100th birthday on June 5. Mary Ann Semianczak was born in a house on Cubbage Hill in June 1919 and has lived in Carnegie all but 15 of her years. She is a member of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church where she...

Go beyond the typical tour and get really down-to-earth with a trip under Fawn Township. Dubbed the “Coalest” Pittsburgh attraction, Tour-Ed Mine and Museum in Fawn offers educational underground coal mine tours 160 feet below ground. Dating back to the 1850s and formerly the once-active Avenue Mine, its workers provided...

Rory McIlroy drilled a spectator in the head with a tee shot in the PGA’s Memorial Tournament on Friday. Perhaps golf should border the fairways with protective netting. The subject of more protective netting became sadly relevant last Wednesday when a foul ball hit by the Chicago Cubs’ Albert Almora...