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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jupiter police released documents Thursday detailing reasons the agency requested a “sneak and peek” search warrant that allowed them to set up surveillance cameras covertly inside the Orchids of Asia Day Spa. That comes a day after attorneys for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft,...

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has all the latest crime-fighting tools: body cameras, algorithms, even drones. But it is now widely deploying a far simpler technology, a 5½-foot (1½-meter) piece of rope, to help officers deal with one of the diciest kinds of calls. The department this...

Last month, Eli Lilly and Co. announced with some fanfare that it was manufacturing a generic version of its own best-selling insulin brand, Humalog, which it would sell for half off — $137.35 versus about $275. David Ricks, the chief executive of Lilly, said the company was making this seemingly...

Now in his third season as coach of the Bishop Canevin boys volleyball team, Pete Barakat isn’t quite ready to declare he has a “program” in place. At Bishop Canevin, as is the case with many small schools, students are involved with multiple sports — not to mention other activities....

Laurel: To healing with those who understand. Parkland to Pittsburgh is a program that will bring together survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School shooting with the local Jewish community. While many people have said they empathize and understand and offered prayers and tears, the two groups are the...

Businesses within Freeport Area School District can get a tax break for donating to the district’s foundation. The Freeport Area Education Foundation recently received state approval for an Education Investment Tax credit. That means a business can get a credit against business taxes. Businesses can claim 75% on any donation...

Nearly two decades after founding the Pittsburgh Doula Network, O’Hara resident Heather Bradley is fostering a similar network for families who need a different type of compassion. She launched Pittsburgh Bereavement Doulas in 2018 as a group devoted to perinatal loss support for families who lose an infant at birth....

A soon-to-be vacant school building could become the new home to a community center in Jefferson Hills. At a West Jefferson Hills School Board meeting March 26, representatives from Core Architects suggested using a portion of the existing Thomas Jefferson High School for the proposed community center. “What intrigues us...

Tom Purcell’s column “Time to embrace cursive again” (Feb. 4, TribLIVE) poses an important question. Along with strong indications of value to be had, he points out that cursive instruction is being reconsidered by many educators. Rather than alphabet preference, consider ways handwriting instruction can help to improve language skills....

Letter-writer George A.West (“Ignoring facts,”) stated that most opioids are manufactured in the United States. While many legal prescription drugs are manufactured here, most illicit fentanyl — a major cause of fatal overdoses in the United States — is produced in China and transported through Mexico. Most of the world’s...

Article 1 in our Constitution ensures that the Senate and Congress keep the separation of powers intact. A president trying to become authoritarian is courting fascism. When the majority of the people state that a border wall is not the answer, and it’s not wanted, and even the Senate has...

Hello, Sewickley, The Sewickley Borough Shade Tree Commission will plant trees for the 2019 Spring Tree Planting beginning at 9 a.m. April 27. Volunteers should meet at 8:45 a.m. at the Public Works location on Washington Street, behind the Municipal Building, 601 Thorn St. All are welcome to participate. —...

In the news this week 89 years ago: • The Glenfield Volunteer Fire Department was granted a charter, though the company had been organized in 1915 in the private home of W. M. Robinson. The current membership numbered 33, with six original members continuing to serve. The company had spent...

The Pittsburgh Steelers Footballers Basketball team will take on the LLS Stompers in a basketball game fundraiser April 26 at La Roche University in McCandless to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Chapter. The game will be held at the La Roche University Kerr...

Recently near my office at George Mason University I ran into a student of mine who was showing his friend around campus. The friend is thinking of transferring from Radford University to George Mason. The friend — call him “Jack” — wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the famous image of...

Franklin Park resident Liam Ellis, an eighth grader at Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh, located in Hampton, placed second at Carnegie Science Center’s Covestro Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair in the category: Medicine/Health/Biochemistry – Junior Division. His project was titled “The Bacteria Among Us: Do bathrooms have more germs than...

Last month, the Bridgeville Area Historical Society presented a workshop on George Washington’s visit to Western Pennsylvania in 1784 as part of its “Second Tuesday” series. Following the cessation of hostilities in 1783, Washington returned to civilian life at Mt. Vernon. The estate there was an extremely valuable property, 8,000...

Freeport coach Sam Ross was hoping Emily Schmidt would come through with a big hit, just as she did last year in a section game against Deer Lakes. Schmidt obliged, hitting a two-run double to deep right center with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning. The big...

On this week’s show, Kevin helps teach the cast what a $250 bottle of beer tastes like (spoiler: not worth $250!), and the guys dig into a bracket-busting upsets in the Penn State Creamery’s Flavor Madness Tournament. Bracket-themed contests abound, as Champs in downtown State College battles to be named...

It’s April 4 again, but that doesn’t matter to Frances Kelly. Something each day takes her back to this date in 2009. Something makes her think of her son, Eric Kelly, and reminds her that he’s gone. Little inconveniences — getting a flat tire or needing to get the car...

Chris Shelton and Shawn Howering had never heard of Stanton Heights or the terrible events that happened there on April 4, 2009, when they moved to Pittsburgh from Baltimore in 2011. They had no idea when they started shopping for a house three years later that the one they picked...

For the first time in the 2019 WPIAL baseball and softball season, the TribLive High School Sports Network presents the weekly Power Rankings. These rankings have zero classification boundaries. Here are the rankings for the week of April 1 with overall records included. BASEBALL TRIB 10 1. Moon Tigers (4-0)...

High Schools Baseball Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 3 Bethel Park 15, Brashear 0 (4 inn.) Canon-McMillan 12, Upper St. Clair 0 Peters Township 7, Baldwin 0 Class 5A Section 1 Fox Chapel 9, Kiski Area 1 Franklin Regional 11, Armstrong 1 (6 inn.) Gateway 21, Woodland Hills 6...