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Shaler Area is hosting An Evening of Holocaust Remembrance & Education in commemoration of the Tree of Life synagogue from 6 to 9 p.m. March 28 at Shaler Area High School. The event will combine three elements — Holocaust education, observance of the Tree of the Life synagogue victims, and...

Bethany Presbyterian Church, 740 Washington Ave., Bridgeville, has opened a supplemental Diaper/Wipes Bank on the fourth Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon. A WIC card, name and address must be provided. Call 412-221-5132 for more details. • Thai Massage & Spa has opened at 423 Chartiers St.,...

HOUSTON — Federal authorities say a United Airlines flight declared an emergency when an engine shut down as the plane was descending into Houston. Flight 1168 was carrying 174 passengers and six crew members when engine trouble began late Sunday as the plane neared George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston....

PHILADELPHIA — A Bucks County man told police he was so upset that his roommate left an empty Chick-fil-A bag in their apartment late Saturday, he initiated a violent argument that turned fatal. Gregory Hylton, 40, has been charged with criminal homicide and possession of an instrument of a crime,...

After back-to-back Class A Penguins Cup championships, Franklin Regional exited the postseason earlier than they hoped last season, bowing out in the quarterfinals to eventual Double-A champion Armstrong. Fast forward to 2019, and the Panthers are one step away from the Class AA title game. That’s because Franklin Regional recorded...

High Schools Basketball Boys PIAA playoffs Second round Class 6A Wednesday’s schedule Abington (28-1) vs. Pennridge (23-4) at Bensalem, 7:30 p.m.; Boys Latin (23-5) vs. Methacton (21-7) at Harriton, 7 p.m.; William Allen (18-9) vs. La Salle College (24-3) at Geigle Complex, 6 p.m.; Lower Merion (25-3) vs. Roman Catholic...

The Road to Hershey shares the postseason winter spotlight with the Penguins Cup hockey playoffs this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN continues our postseason hoops coverage with second round and quarterfinals action of the 2019 PIAA boys and girls basketball playoffs. Trib HSSN also has...

“America would be more secure and stronger economically if we recognized that we have largely achieved our objectives in Afghanistan and moved aggressively to bring our troops and tax dollars home,” Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) write in an op-ed article. “Today, despite vast investment in training...

A month ago, the Burrell hockey team skated into Connellsville looking to wrap up an undefeated regular season. Instead, the Bucs got a reminder of what could happen if they don’t play what coach Max Rickard calls “the Burrell way.” The Falcons frustrated the Bucs on Feb. 12 and put...

Bethel Park improved to 22-3 and defeated a district champion in the opening round of the PIAA playoffs, earning Trib HSSN Girls Basketball Team of the Week It has been another successful season for coach Jonna Burke at her alma mater. The Black Hawks finished the regular season 20-2 and...

Every Sunday during the PIHL hockey, the Trib Live High School Sports Network releases the weekly Power Rankings. These rankings have no classification boundaries. This is our final Top 10 of the season. Next week, we will rank the eight finalists in the PIHL playoffs. Here are the rankings for...

Mackenzie Amalia School: Blackhawk Class: Junior This has been a unique season for the Blackhawk girls’ basketball team. Right before the start of a highly anticipated campaign, it was announced assistant coach and the father of one of the top players, Bob Amalia, was in a fight for his life...

The Road to Hershey is open, and the fun has begun. Only one round into the PIAA girls basketball playoffs and five teams were bounced from the Trib HSSN rankings. Warren, Springfield-Delco, Scranton Prep, Penns Manor and Lancaster Country Day are eliminated from the postseason and out of the rankings....

AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kyle Busch made it a weekend sweep at ISM Raceway in the Arizona desert. Just like he nearly did last week at Las Vegas. Busch tracked down Ryan Blaney over a long green-flag run before passing his Team Penske rival for the lead with 16 laps to...

Volleyball always has come naturally for Penn State freshman Cal Fisher. Between his mother, Charlotte, who played at Eastern Kentucky and then professionally in Spain, and two older sisters, Hannah (Wheeling Jesuit) and Arden (Robert Morris), who also played collegiately, he has been around the game his entire life. Fisher,...

If the 2019 baseball season if a journey, Greensburg Central Catholic expects to spend the trip in the passing lane. The past couple of excursions for the Centurions lasted into June, each ending in the PIAA Class A semifinals. Along the way, GCC won one-run games, defeated out-of-district teams and...

Two things were missing from Greensburg Central Catholic softball last season: players and possibilities. The Centurions occasionally fielded only nine players for games, and they never had more than 11. The lack of depth led to a difficult season for a program that qualified for the WPIAL playoffs in each...

Watch out. Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley have locked their sights on the next targets of a frightening free speech-squelching purge: independent citizens who dare to raise questions online about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. I’m vaccinated. My children are up to date. There’s no dispute that vaccines have...

He played the Steelers like a fiddle. Then he beat them like a drum. What was the deciding factor? Was it the blue hair and the blond mustache? Or was it the videos he appeared in with the blue hair and the ‘stache, speaking semi-coherently and looking like he was...

100 years ago Local veteran back from France Paul Heilman, who enlisted in the 18th regiment some time ago, has arrived back home on Sixth Avenue in Parnassus. Heilman carries two wound stripes and was cited for bravery during the battle of the Argonne forest. 75 years ago Bus drivers...

Daylight saving time is upon us again. So are complaints about the hour that gets lost when clocks jump ahead an hour. The grumbling is as sure a sign of spring as the first robin and more reliable than that rodent in Punxsutawney. We wonder why we do it. What...

Having lived on both sides of our criminal justice system, through my own incarceration to now assisting re-entrants back into society as the founder of Breaking the Chainz Inc., I’ve seen multiple stumbling blocks to success: access to safe housing, family reunification, job readiness, substance abuse treatment, anger management, financial...

I would like to clarify a few things for Wayne Campbell (“Keep Sunday hunting ban,” Feb. 23, TribLIVE). He thinks the public should have had more time to discuss lifting the ban on Sunday hunting, but this argument has been around for years. He doesn’t reveal that Pennsylvania legislators have...