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The New Kensington-Arnold School Board has agreed to refinance four existing bond issues to save the district about $250,000. The school district will issue up to $25 million in new bonds that will pay off the district’s four outstanding bond issues. School board President Bob Pallone said the issues include...

Students and the community helped make North Allegheny’s TigerThon a success as the event was held to raise money to fight pediatric cancer. The fifth annual student-run dance marathon not only surpassed the $50,000 fund-raising goal, it more than doubled it by raising $100,925 to benefit Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh...

Dear Mayo Clinic: Is there any harm in trying CBD for anxiety? It seems to have helped my co-worker, but I am hesitant to try it without knowing more about it. Answer: Cannabidiol, also known as CBD, has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat...

You’ve heard the uplifting stories: Passersby dropping scads of cash into charity collection buckets or anonymous donors paying off hospital bills for strangers. And people helping victims during storms and natural disasters. These acts of kindness make everybody feel good. There’s a science behind that phenomenon called “loving kindness.” And...

Nick Bogacz is happiest when he’s wearing his official work uniform: a black T-shirt covered in flour. “This is my passion,” says the Hampton resident, who runs Caliente Pizza & Draft House with his wife, Angie. Since 2012, the couple has turned one, small shop into a Pittsburgh pizza empire....

Ensuring everyone has access to UPMC’s nonprofit hospitals should be a no-brainer, yet both Pittsburgh City Council and the mayor have failed in recent years to hear their constituents out, or use their powers to protect them. Now, tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians face the prospect of being shut out...

Advocates from six communities presented their challenges and goals related to improving pedestrian and cyclist access and mobility during the second annual North Hills Communities Bike/Ped Summit. Walk Bike Shaler and the Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization hosted the March 20 meeting at Etna’s Fugh Memorial Social Hall. The Triboro Ecodistrict, composed...

Margo Cicci Wisniewski of South Fayette Township has always been an “animal person,” growing up with dogs, horses and barn cats. However, as she grew up, she learned how mistreated and disregarded cats were. People would be concerned about dogs eating from a dumpster or a pregnant dog living behind...

It’s National Library Week April 7 to 13 and Hampton Community Library is celebrating with a variety of things to do, find, read and eat, according to Suzanna Krispli, director of Hampton Community Library. “National Library Week is a chance to make people aware of just how special their library...

With a Democratic House majority in place, we see more clearly than ever how Republican docility enabled President Trump’s lawlessness for the first two years of his presidency. When “normal” congressional behavior appears to check the executive branch — e.g. oversight hearings, subpoenas, use of the bully pulpit — we...

High Schools Baseball Monday’s results WPIAL Nonsection Bentworth 18, Geibel 0 California 6, Beth-Center 4 Carmichaels 11, West Greene 1 (5 inn.) Freedom 4, Western Beaver 0 Fox Chapel 5, Deer Lakes 4 Frazier 13, Mapletown 1 Gateway 8, Butler 4 Highlands 11, Apollo-Ridge 5 Latrobe 5, Peters Township 3...

Hunter Boyan tossed a four-hitter with five strikeouts to help Class 5A No. 5 Shaler score a 2-1 win over Class 6A No. 1 Seneca Valley in a nonsection baseball game Monday afternoon. The Titans (3-2) smacked 10 hits, including a 3-for-4 effort from Boyan, who also had an RBI....

Isabella Farmer School: West Mifflin Class: Senior Last year, West Mifflin softball broke a three-year postseason drought by finishing fourth in Section 2-4A and posting an 11-9 overall record. While the Titans’ playoff stay didn’t last long after losing to Indiana, 11-9, in the first round, they hope that was...

The Trib HSSN Softball Team of the Week started strong this season with six wins at the Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and has continued winning after returning home to Glassport — the South Allegheny Gladiators. The magic number for the South Allegheny softball team is 11. For three...

Biogen Inc. and Walgreens Boots Alliance head my Casualty List this quarter. The list is for stocks that have been slammed in the latest quarter, and that I think have potential to regain their losses and then some. Over the years, the Casualty List has averaged a 17.3 percent gain...

Tax season is upon us, which gives us a choice: Laugh or cry. I choose to laugh. Dave Barry offers useful advice for getting through this trying time: “It’s income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and...

Julius Caesar was told to “beware the ides of March.” But the Penguins faced problems the whole darn month. Injuries mounted: Kris Letang played three games; Evgeni Malkin missed the last seven; Olli Maatta the first 14; Bryan Rust the first nine. Slumps pervaded: Patric Hornqvist and Phil Kessel had...

An empty threat might seem like a good middle ground. It could give all the weight of a hefty penalty without any of the responsibility for the follow-through. It could seem strong while not actually being prepared to show strength. The reality is that it is a frustrated mother telling...

Maddie Sneddon collected more than 400 books from the Thomas Jefferson community to donate to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Taylor Myers raised nearly enough money to donate two wagons to the hospital to allow little children to get out of their rooms and explore the hallways while getting treatment. Alaina...

The feud between Jeff Bezos and the National Enquirer took another stunning turn over the weekend when a personal investigator for the Amazon.com chief executive officer accused Saudi Arabia of accessing Bezos’ phone data before the tabloid exposed his extramarital affair. Gavin de Becker, a security consultant for Bezos, made...

Here are the latest Sewickley area real estate transactions: Haysville Curtis Schurman sold property at 1 Ohio River Blvd. to T Shawn Harkins for $165,000. Leet JLB Diversifield Investments LLC sold property at 66 Orchard St. to Karl Messner for $39,000. Sewickley S. Scott Schober sold property at 319 Bank...

Hampton High School hosted its first Talbot Thon on Friday, March 29, at the high school and it was a huge success, raising $55,909.23. The event replaces what was previously known as MiniTHON. A bevy of fun-filled events and activities were held to help raise money for the Children’s Hospital...

ERIDU, Fla. — The National Weather Service says a bright flash across the Florida night sky over the weekend was likely a falling meteor. News outlets report people in southern Georgia and the Big Bend area of northern Florida reported seeing a flash shortly before midnight Saturday. The National Weather...

The spring musical at North Hills High School “Tuck Everlasting” was a huge hit over the weekend as the students brought their version of the story to the high school stage....