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The 2019 WPIAL track and field team playoffs are set, with the semifinals set for Tuesday and the finals May 6 at Peters Township High School, here are the section winners and runners-up that qualified for the district postseason. The section champion is listed first with the runner-up second. Boys...

“Avengers: Endgame” doesn’t open in U.S. theaters until Thursday evening, but the superhero film is already a blockbuster internationally. The 22nd movie from Walt Disney Co.’s Marvel Studios has collected $169 million from 25 countries where it opened this week, led by a record-breaking start in China, according to studio...

Laurel: To party being less important than community. The Murrysville-Export Republican and Democratic clubs have worked together this year to garner 85 signatures necessary on a petition filed in Westmoreland Common Pleas Court seeking an order to redraw the Sardis and Newlonsburg precincts. The community hopes splitting each of those...

An 11-year-old Fayette County boy was killed Thursday afternoon when the pickup that his father was driving collided with a tractor-trailer between the New Stanton and Donegal exits of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, officials said. Westmoreland County Coroner Kenneth A. Bacha identified the victim as Hayden M. Field of Connellsville Township....

DALLAS — United Parcel Service Inc. reported Thursday that first-quarter profit fell 17% as revenue was flat from a year ago and the package-delivery company ran into higher spending to cope with a series of winter storms. The results fell short of Wall Street expectations, and the shares tumbled in...

Allegheny senior runner Emily Forner entered the week with the top time in NCAA Division III in the 5,000 meters: 16 minutes, 33.01 seconds. In the winter, she won the the indoor 3,000-meter national title. But just a couple of years ago, she thought her best days as a runner...

A preliminary planned residential development of Windmont Farms to be located off of S. Pioneer Road in Hampton Township was unanimously approved with conditions at the Hampton Township Council’s April 24 voting meeting. Developer Crossgate Inc., located in McMurray, is set to develop 63 acres of the former property owned...

The National Rifle Association is gathering for its 148th annual meeting, which begins Thursday in Indianapolis. What started in 1871 as a group devoted to hunting, shooting sports and gun safety has evolved into one of the most powerful forces in American politics. Up until the late 1960s and 1970s,...

The Democratic Party has no one who can match President Trump. The man has done more as president than any other president except Ronald Reagan. Joe Biden is a big joke. How was he ever elected to Congress? Do we need people like Maxine Waters and Biden? Over the years...

Regarding the articles “Storm water strategies to be shared in Latrobe” (April 11, TribLIVE) and “Public hearing scheduled to discuss flood plan for Westmoreland County” (April 14, TribLIVE), about controlling rainwater runoff: It doesn’t matter what local paper I read, the suggestions from experts from various organizations are all the...

As I read and hear the news, I find several items to be perplexing. Can anyone help? Instead of passing legislation to address important issues, Congress is passing nonbinding “resolutions.” Why are they wasting time and money on resolutions and not legislating? There is a lot of opposition to a...

Hello, Sewickley, Heritage Valley Health System will host a free chronic acid reflux and heartburn seminar from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 30. Dr. Eric Boyle, a surgeon at Heritage Valley Medical Group Surgical Associates, will provide an overview of the latest advances in diagnostics and treatment for gastroesophageal reflux...

Nicholas Tusick is always willing to help. Whether it’s determining what’s wrong with a classmate’s computer at Quaker Valley High School, designing an innovative learning hub in the heart of the school’s library or flying a drone over the site of the proposed new high school to capture footage for...

In the news this week 93 years ago: • Local organizations were preparing for the 14th annual National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign, a good citizenship effort that took place in different weeks of the year throughout the country. Participants, aided by local scouting troops, garden clubs and veterans’...

Food Heals, it’s a source of restoration, and when one prepares a meal for another, it is even more healing. Joyce Gibb, a nurse practitioner working in The Medicine Shoppe, in Oakmont knows just how this works. Ever since she was a little girl, her mother would make her favorite...

Pirates INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 10-8) lost 7-6 to Gwinnett (Braves) after falling one run short of a five-run comeback as the Curve trailed 7-2 after seven innings. RF/LF Patrick Kivlehan (.220) started the rally in the eighth inning with a three-run homer. Kivlehan finished 2 for 4 with three RBIs and...

MINNEAPOLIS — Even if he was startled by a loud noise, the Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond two summers ago would not have been justified in using a Taser or pepper spray — much less his gun — a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday. “The use of...

Only two teams left and two debuted in the TribLive High School Sports Network weekly Power Rankings for baseball, and there are no changes to the teams in the softball Top 10 this week. However, this week’s rankings have new No. 1 teams in both baseball and softball. These rankings...

High Schools Baseball Wednesday’s results WPIAL Class 6A Section 2 Hempfield 5, Plum 0 Penn-Trafford 3, Connellsville 0 Class 5A Section 1 Franklin Regional 11, Armstrong 8 Gateway 6, Penn Hills 5 Section 3 Laurel Highlands 16, Carrick 1 (5 inn.) Class 4A Section 1 Greensburg Salem 6, Highlands 2...

No. 2-ranked North Allegheny scored five runs in the first inning en route to a 7-4 victory over No. 3 Norwin in a Section 2-6A softball game Wednesday evening. Lauren Haywood knocked in three runs, and Regan Brodine had two RBIs for the Tigers (11-3, 9-2). Alexandra Brentzel had two...

There is a problem in the Westmoreland County Sheriff’s Office. For the second time, authorities have conducted a raid on the agency. It happened Wednesday morning when state police investigators swooped in, collected documents, questioned people and left two hours later. “It’s not about me this time,” Sheriff Jonathan Held...

Lower Valley pickleball enthusiasts had a chance last week to receive instruction from professional player Sarah Ansboury, a four-time medalist at the USA Pickleball Association (USAPA) National Tournament. Ansboury, 35, a former tennis instructor from Portland, Oregon, is the pickleball pro at Palmetto Dunes in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Her...

Snap Inc.’s fortunes rise and fall on the size of Snapchat’s user base. When the user numbers started to decline in early 2018 because of a tumultuous redesign and flabby Android app, its stock price began a long slide to less than $5 a share. Executive churn followed, and a...

The article “Pennsylvania congressman aims to expand immigrant worker program to dairy farms” (March 19, TribLIVE), which describes the bill to extend H-2A agricultural guest-worker visas to year-round jobs on dairy farms, does not discuss the downsides of the proposal nor a reasonable alternative. The H-2A temporary foreign agricultural worker...