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• On Sunday, May 5, from 1 to 4 p.m., Children’s Heritage Day will be held. Rain or shine, there will be plenty to do today. Join in for this family-oriented day, filled with stories and hands on activities. For this day, you can go to school in a one-room...

Pirates INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 10-10) lost 10-9 to Charlotte (White Sox). The Indians led 7-2 after six and a half innings before giving up eight straight runs. Indianapolis was unable to make up for the three-run difference despite scoring twice in the ninth. 1B Will Craig (.236) finished 3 for 5...

High Schools Baseball Friday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 1 Central Catholic at North Allegheny, ppd. Section 2 Latrobe at Penn-Trafford, ppd. Class 3A Section 1 Burrell at South Allegheny, ppd. Steel Valley at Freeport, ppd. Section 2 Freedom at Beaver Falls, ppd. Class A Section 2 Avella at Monessen,...

A 23-year-old man who was a former Clairton High School football star was shot and killed in Clairton on Friday evening, according to Allegheny County officials. Police responded to the backyard of home on the 800 block of Vankirk Street in Clairton just after 6 p.m., where they found a...

It was a rough week to be No. 1 in the state as four of the six top-ranked teams in the weekly Trib HSSN state baseball rankings got bounced from their perch. Garnet Valley in Class 6A, Archbishop Carroll in 5A, Lower Moreland in 4A and Montoursville in 3A all...

Yough Senior High School Prom had its prom Friday night. Here is a photo gallery of the highlights from the grand march....

It’s a good time to be a Steelers fan. Finally. The disenfranchised can return to the fold. The lapsed can be born again. The Toxic Twins are gone. As your favorite super genius said when Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown first reached prominence, you don’t win with guys like that....

Two Ohiopyle whitewater rafting guides received Carnegie Medals on Friday for rescuing two women from the Youghiogheny River in 2017. Eric Martin and Patrick Nolan McCarty, both of Ohiopyle, were awarded medals by the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund Commission at a ceremony at the Ohiopyle State Park office. According to...

There was only one change at the top in this week’s Trib HSSN state softball rankings. District 6 power Philipsburg-Osceola dropped to No. 3 in Class 3A after the Mounties suffered their first loss of the season. Undefeated Pine Grove from District 11 takes over the top spot in 3A....

LANCASTER, Pa. — The Amish population in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County is continuing to grow each year, despite the encroachment of urban sprawl on their communities. Some experts are concerned that a planned 75-acre housing and commercial project will make it more difficult for the county to accommodate the Amish. U.S....

With section play complete, the field is set for the 2019 WPIAL boys team tennis playoffs, starting in early May. There will be a 16-team playoff field in both the Class AAA and AA team tournaments. Here are the section winners, followed in order by the second, third and fourth...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s highest court Friday upheld the death sentence and conviction of a sniper who killed a state trooper and wounded another in a nighttime ambush outside their barracks in a heavily wooded area. The state Supreme Court’s decision upholds lower court decisions in the case of Eric Frein,...

Pennsylvanians pay 57.6 cents per gallon in gas tax, the highest in the country. With prices ranging from $2.94 to $3.15, that means about 18% to 20% of what we pay at the pump isn’t paying for what goes into the tank. It goes to Harrisburg, where it’s supposed to...

There are two weeks left in the 2019 WPIAL boys volleyball regular season before the start of the district postseason. Check out the updated WPIAL boys volleyball standings on the Trib HSSN website. The top four teams in each section qualify for the playoffs, although more than four could clinch...

FORT BENNING, Ga. — There’s tough, there’s Army Ranger tough and then there’s the toughest of the tough, the handful named Best Ranger. Earlier this month, 106 elite members of the U.S. military spent 60 grueling hours competing as two-member teams for the Best Ranger title. Sleep-deprived and sometimes soaking...

WASHINGTON — The universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it’s about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says. And that’s sending a shudder through the world of physics, making astronomers re-think some of their most basic concepts. At...

West Jefferson Hills School District leaders are sticking to a seven-year financial plan to help fund the new Thomas Jefferson High School — with a tax increase to the state-issued index slated for year seven of the plan in 2019-20. The district’s finance director, Tracy Harris, presented a first look...

Construction on a 10-classroom addition at Gill Hall Elementary School needed to meet the needs of the booming West Jefferson Hills School District likely will begin in May. School board members April 23 awarded contracts to six companies for the project, totaling $6.3 million. “We’re ready to get going,” said...

The basketball courts at Elm Leaf Park in Baldwin Borough are getting a facelift, a second playground is being added and part of the parking lot soon will be lined and fenced in for dek hockey play. All of this is coming by the spring of 2020, as the second...

Aleppo Harry Caravaggio III sold property at 709 Sewickley Heights Drive to Sally Tomana for $190,000. Leet Mark Duquette sold property at 108 William Penn Circle to Shannon and Tara Klingensmith for $243,000. Leetsdale Arthur Holman sold property at 88 Broad St. to George and Diane Frederick for $30,000. Kathleen...

Does anyone else look around and think that Make America Great Again is more like Make America Hate Again? Does it seem like somebody against somebody and nobody standing with nobody? Isn’t it exhausting and sad? Think how lucky babies are when they are born. They don’t hate, and they...

Bernie Sanders and his ilk apparently can’t believe that middle-class people are satisfied with a modest life; a job to provide a modest dwelling to own and enjoy; being able to pay necessary bills; eating as well as they desire; accessible health care; a little left over for fun and...

I agree with letter-writer Mary Ann Buffer (”Let’s cancel cable,” March 5, TribLIVE). Two years ago, I bundled my phone, TV and internet with Comcast and was told it would cost $122 per month. I have never been billed, or paid, only $122 per month. My first monthly bill was...

Contract talks between New Kensington-Arnold School District and its teachers union are scheduled for Monday. The district’s 167 teachers have been working without a contract since Aug. 31, 2017. Superintendent John Pallone said the state Department of Labor and Industry has assigned a mediator, and negotiating sessions must include the...

A former Canon-McMillan wrestler who was shot by police this month was released from a hospital Thursday and arraigned on aggravated assault and related charges, according to court records. Family of Logan B. Macri, 19, posted $100,000 bail for him, said his attorney Casey White. “He is now addressing any...