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If you received an envelope in your mailbox this month with “2019 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY VOTER GUIDE — URGENT OPEN” in place of the return address — beware! This mailing from “Conservative Friends” is misleading voters into thinking it came from the Murrysville Export Republican Committee. The committee is not endorsing...

Refreshing sports notes? You want some, come get some! But they’re not all elite, and I’m certainly no young buck. • John Daly riding a cart in the PGA Championship isn’t debatable. It’s the law. Daly has osteoarthritis in his right knee, which makes him eligible to use a cart...

A pair of two-RBI hits and strong pitching propelled the Washington & Jefferson baseball team to a 4-1 victory over host Salisbury in the opening game of an NCAA Division III regional in Maryland. Mullen Socha hit a two-run single in the third to give the Presidents a 2-0 lead....

The fastest growing part of the nuclear industry in the U.S. involves a small but expanding group of companies that specialize in tearing reactors down faster and cheaper than ever before. After Entergy Corp. shut its Vermont nuclear plant in 2014, the utility planned to wait until 2068 to dismantle...

Tesla’s Autopilot system was active in a Model 3 that collided with a tractor-trailer during a fatal crash in March, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The crash in Delray Beach, Fla., that killed the Tesla driver is at least the third deadly collision in the United States involving...

Tom Stefano fought back tears as he stood at the top of his Baptist Road driveway in Whitehall Borough. The gravel on the driveway is gone in some parts, shifted in others, due to water from heavy rains that swells up from underneath. There are drainage issues along the street....

Everybody loves getting a raise. You might wait all year, have your review, get a gold star and be told, yes, you are valuable. You are worth another 3% in your paycheck. After Gov. Tom Wolf was re-elected, some of his staff got a taste of that experience. About a...

MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday the state isn’t prepared to handle vague Trump administration plans to send some 1,000 undocumented immigrants a month from the southern border to South Florida. “We cannot accommodate in Florida the dumping of unlawful migrants into our state,” DeSantis said during a...

Garth Brooks will play in front of the largest Heinz Field crowd ever Saturday night when the county music superstar brings his tour to Pittsburgh’s North Shore. Ticket sales for the concert could top 75,000 and police, firefighters and emergency medical personnel are preparing for huge crowds of tailgaters and...

The TribLive High School Sports Network’s Jess Levo captured all of the action of the 2019 WPIAL Track and Field Championships on Thursday from Slippery Rock University....

Aleppo Kelly Ann Conrad Jones sold property at 306 McCoy Place Road to Robert and Melissa Lynn Taylor for $295,500. Brenda Nagel sold property at 1005 Sewickley Heights Drive to Logan Hammerschmitt for $147,500. Bell Acres Marianne Legoullon sold property at 117 Grouse Lane to J Darwin King Jr. and...

Still stunned by outrageous property assessment challenges by the Hempfield Area School Board targeting individual homeowners, I thought that there is no better time to revisit the topic than now. Hempfield homeowners were set upon by bounty hunters (actually attorneys, but why argue semantics?) hired by a majority of the...

I have a novel idea. Instead of donating to a politician, why don’t we donate that money to a charity? This way the politicians will be able to do their jobs instead of prostituting themselves for campaign donations. If we donate to charities, maybe cancer could be cured or the...

I suppose I should be encouraged that the county would be so concerned with the quality of my well that they will spend $250,000 in federal money to establish a “baseline” for private wells throughout the county (“Westmoreland County could be region’s first to get water wells tested by feds,”...

There was a definite spark the first time Sara Zebley and Hayley Amour performed together inside the Pleasant Hills American Legion. They knew they had something special. Fast forward a few years, and the two were packing up their bags and moving to Nashville to form Steel Blossoms, an Americana...

The success of a miniature race car designed and built by a team of Brentwood High School students is taking them to Abu Dhabi in November to compete in the world finals of F1 in Schools. “It’s kind of insane. We’re always used to this small town vibe where everybody...

Just before the start of the 2018-19 indoor track and field season, Carlynton coach Nate Milsom was approached by DeQuay Canton, and the junior caught the coach off-guard with a question: When are workouts starting? Milsom was pleasantly surprised by the inquiry. Canton had been a standout in track as...

Beth Samuel Jewish Center The center is at 810 Kennedy Drive, Ambridge. For information, visit bethsamuel.org or contact the center at beth samueloffice@ comcast.net or 724-266-5238. • Noon May 19 – PJ Library program • 6 p.m. May 19 – Wandering Women Nature Walk • 9 a.m. May 25 –...

The Sewickley Heights Borough zoning hearing board has made a decision in an ongoing dispute between the owners of the 32-acre Dundee Farm and Fields property and the borough. But Theresa Fetterolf, who co-owns the farm with her husband, said the dispute is not over. Sewickley Heights had served the...

Hello, Sewickley, Sewickley Public Library will host the first Friday Night Yoga for Kids today at 6:30 p.m. Kids in kindergarten through eighth grade are invited to bring a mat and do their best downward dog. To register, call the library at 412-741-0937 or stop by the children’s department. —...

Shaler Area High School soon will have a rain garden installed on its property thanks to a $6,793 grant awarded to Girty’s Run Watershed Association from the Allegheny County Conservation District’s Conservation, Leadership and Innovation Program. Shaler Area High School partnered with Girty’s Run Watershed Association to develop a conceptual...

Twelve years ago, I was lucky enough to visit Rome with my wife, celebrating our 25th anniversary. We had never traveled internationally before, so the mysteries of a different country and language were both thrilling and daunting. I knew there were gardens at the Vatican and wanted desperately to see...

Pirates INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 20-17) lost 7-4 to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Yankees). RHP Dario Agrazal (2-1, 2.84) went 32/3 innings, allowing five runs on five hits with three strikeouts and three walks in the loss. 1B Will Craig (.248) went 2 for 4 with a home run and three RBIs. LF J.B. Shuck...

High Schools Baseball WPIAL Playoffs Class 6A First round Thursday’s results Butler 5, Peters Township 3 Norwin 10, Mt. Lebanon 2 Seneca Valley 2, Connellsville 0 Upper St. Clair 6, Hempfield 3 Byes: Penn-Trafford (16-3), Pine-Richland (15-4), Bethel Park (14-3), North Allegheny (15-5) Class 5A First round Thursday’s results Laurel...