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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Customers are raving about the new slices at Pizza City in Fort Lauderdale — especially the marinara sauce, which is infused with cannabidiol, aka CBD oil, the trendy but controversial compound commonly found in marijuana. At Foxworth Fountain in Delray Beach you can order ice-cream floats,...

Whose problem is it anyway? President Trump sat in a meeting with Democrats and pushed for a border wall. He did it emphatically and without question. “I am proud to shut down the government for border security,” he said Dec. 11. “I will take the mantle.” And government shut down....

When a person is born, we don’t know what impact their birth will make on the lives of others. When Martin Luther King Jr. was born, it would take a number of years to see and hear the things that would transform the lives of so many who had been...

I do not understand why politics is taking such a toll on the government shutdown. Do the math: Estimates put the cost of illegal immigration at $130 billion per year. The president is asking for $5.7 billion for a border wall. If the wall proves to be over 80 percent...

It’s a shame that the letter-writers fraught with anxiety and seething rage concerning President Trump are wasting so much energy and happiness when most of their stated reasons are, I believe, without basis in truth and fact. It’s also a shame that so many intelligent, reasonable people have been convinced...

With news of the Supreme Court open to hearing gerrymandering cases from North Carolina and Maryland, it’s time to fan the inferno about Pennsylvania’s own redistricting reform. For a long time, I believed that promoting an independent, nonpartisan citizens’ commission on redistricting that is proposed by Fair Districts PA was...

Some Richland residents will soon begin to feel the impact of scheduled improvements both to Hampton Township’s Allison Park Water Pollution Control Plant and the Allegheny Valley Joint Sewer Authority plant. The board of supervisors approved ordinances setting the capital improvement charges that will be felt by customers of both...

As part of the Big Read, Shaler North Hills Library is hosting programming through March focused on Julia Alvarez’s historical novel “In the Time of the Butterflies.” The Big Read, made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, “broadens our understanding of our world,...

SMITHFIELD, R.I. — Josh Williams hit four 3-pointers and scored 15 points as Robert Morris rolled to a 79-65 win over Bryant on Saturday. Malik Petteway added 14 points with nine rebounds and four steals for the Colonials (9-9, 4-1 Northeast Conference). Matty McConnell (Chartiers Valley) had 13 points, five...

I’ve tried a mattress with water cooling and another that sways like a boat. I’ve worn brainwave-measuring helmets and rested on pillows that nudge you when you snore. In the hunt for better sleep, I’ve even snuggled up with a robot. For the gadget industry, sleep is the new exercise...

The last thing consumers should have to worry about is being scammed when they buy or rent a home, or consider refinancing options. Unfortunately, criminals are getting more creative in how they target their victims, leading to major financial headaches for their unsuspecting victims. In 2017 alone, 9,645 victims reported...

NOTICES Outdoors RIFLE/TRAP LEAGUES • In the Pittsburgh and Suburban Rifle League on Jan. 9, Frazier-Simplex (7-0) defeated Murrysville (1-5), 1,483-1,464; and Allegheny (3-5) beat Irwin Post 228 (0-7), 1,440-1,427. Dormont-Mt. Lebanon (6-1) had a bye. Murrysville’s Kevin Dufford and Frazier-Simplex’s John Husk each shot 298 for the high score...

YORK, Pa. — On a recent Monday afternoon, Joie Henney walked into the Glatfelter Community Center at the Village at Sprenkle Drive, an assisted-living development north of York, with his emotional support animal on a leash. He walked by an elderly woman sitting on a bench by a window, reading...

A good job. A good paycheck. A balance between work and home. These are the things most of us want, and the things most of us want for our kids. They aren’t things that have to come with a college degree. Maybe your child really wants to go to college....

My Catholicism, my faith, states that the Catholic Church consists of the people, and the head of the Church is Jesus Christ. Not the pope, the cardinals, the bishops and archbishops, or the priests and deacons. They are administrators of the Catholic organization, and, yes, they are members of the...

Certain politicians have been proposing the idea of Medicare for all. Sounds great, right? What they are not telling the public is that Medicare is not free. Consider Original Medicare 2019 : Part A: Premiums: Less than 30 quarters working (Medicare taxes paid), $437 per month; 30-39 quarters working, $240...

As a decades-long independent, I find the behavior of the Republican and Democratic Party leadership in Washington disgraceful, embarrassing, unpatriotic and dangerous. They, along with their respective cronies in the media, have successfully divided the country into opposing factions who disregard the Constitution, precedent and common sense, whenever convenient. Extremists...

Although I recognize the need for border controls, I wonder how many of us would be here if the Native Americans had constructed walls around our country … . Jim Blahovec Penn Township, Westmoreland County...

Students at Carlynton Junior-Senior High School are scoring above the state average when it comes to state tests, but regular attendance in two subgroupings has given the district a dubious asterisk mark. Carlynton students in grades seven through 12 have scored above the state average on the 2017-18 PSSA (Pennsylvania...

Shaler township officials discussed plans for the former Jeffery Primary School during a Jan. 16 Shaler Area School Board meeting. The school board on July 15 approved the building’s sale to Mt. Alvernia Day Care and Learning Center for $650,000, but the deal did not proceed. Shaler Manager Tim Rogers...

Students at Hampton and across the state are being provided another way to make it safe to report anything that they feel is just not right. The Safe2Say Something is a state-led initiative providing resources for anyone in schools to anonymously and securely report safety concerns “to help identify and...

The Pine-Richland school board is slated to vote on a measure approving a change in school start times at its Feb. 11 meeting. The proposed start times, which would be effective for the 2019-20 school year, are 7:45 a.m. for the high school and middle schools, 8:35 a.m. for Eden...

Pine-Richland High School is welcoming a new member to the administrative team at the high school. Thomas Salopek is joining PRHS in the role of assistant principal. He is coming from North Allegheny School District where he serves as a social studies teacher at the North Allegheny Intermediate High School....

This government shutdown is now longer than any in history. The media keep using the word “crisis.” “Shutdown sows chaos, confusion and anxiety!” says The Washington Post. “Pain spreads widely.” The New York Times headlined, it’s all “just too much!” But wait. Looking around America, I see people going about...

Here are a couple of easy immigration questions — answerable with a simple “yes” or “no” — we might ask any American of any political stripe: Does everyone in the world have a right to live in the United States? Do the American people have a right, through their elected...